The Nice Pay attention encourages individuals of all ages to create an oral historical past of our instances by recording an interview with an elder, mentor, good friend, or somebody they admire. As we collect for the vacations, we hope these tales encourage you to attach deeply, share laughter, and create lasting reminiscences with those that matter most. Study extra about how one can document your personal story for #TheGreatListen.
Intergenerational Conversations
Is there a particular household reminiscence or legacy that you simply need to protect? Is there an vital query that you simply’ve at all times needed to ask an elder? Be impressed to protect the voice and knowledge of a liked one for future generations.
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Discover A Manner Again to Every Different With The Nice Thanksgiving Pay attention
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Discover A Manner Again to Every Different With The Nice Thanksgiving Pay attention
StoryCorps conversations with relations are a robust strategy to discover our approach again to one another. Now greater than ever we have to hear and perceive. We have to imagine in one another to remind us of what’s actually vital. StoryCorps invitations you to take part within the annual Nice Thanksgiving Pay attention — an initiative that encourages individuals to honor somebody of their lives by recording their story for future generations. Members can document an interview with somebody in the identical room utilizing the free StoryCorps App or document with somebody in a special location utilizing StoryCorps Join.
A Knock on the Door
One late October night, Juliet Jegasothy was residence alone along with her child when her doorbell began ringing. Terrified, she hid in her room and known as her husband, Brian, who was working late. The newlyweds had simply moved to Brooklyn, NY from Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka, and have been nonetheless getting used to life in a brand new nation. At StoryCorps, she recounts a spooky night time in her new residence.
The Males Who Fed America
Johnny Itliong grew up within the California grape fields within the Nineteen Sixties. His father Larry Itliong was a migrant farmworker and a frontrunner of the Delano Grape Strike. As a child, Johnny spent his days lending a hand to his father and the lads who labored within the fields. Johnny introduced his son, Aleks, to a StoryCorps recording sales space to honor the reminiscence of his father and the lads who helped feed America.
Lola’s Work
To Crescenciana Tan, household meant all the pieces. A hardworking girl, she labored in rice fields and as a servant, survived the Japanese Occupation, and left college to generate profits for her household. After years of labor within the Philippines, she got here to California to assist increase her grandkids, who known as her Lola.
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“It is as much as you to information this miracle that you’ve got been entrusted with.”
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A Mom Like No Different
Folashade Alao remembers presenting her personal Invoice of Rights with amendments stating what she thought was honest and unfair. Her sense of assertion got here from her mom, Margaret Powell, who developed a toughness and discovered how one can get up for herself at a younger age. At StoryCorps, Margaret and Folashade discuss parenthood and their relationships with each other.
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“I discovered: In case you give up, you are accomplished”
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32 Years of Celebrating Life
At 32 years outdated, Leslie Harris’ life modified perpetually after an accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. Regardless of the sudden, tragic change in circumstances, Leslie maintains a optimistic perspective on life. At StoryCorps, he sits down together with his daughter to speak about his “never-quit” angle.
A Gem of a Man
Rob Rigano at all times liked autos — and the joys of sneakily rolling a automobile down the driveway as a toddler. So when StoryCorps’ Airstream trailer stopped in San Diego, his older brother, Phil, knew it was the proper place to take him. The brothers traveled down reminiscence lane, laughing about excessive jinks from their childhood and celebrating Rob’s fun-loving spirit.
Grandma’s Palms
Facet by facet, hand in hand—Madzimoyo Owusu remembers at all times feeling protected by her grandmother, even once they would simply sit in silence. At StoryCorps, she opens as much as her daughter, Johannah, about how her grandmother’s light, but highly effective spirit—and arms—left an enduring imprint on her life.
The Household Equation
At any time when Dr. William Lynn Weaver wanted assist fixing an issue, he knew he might at all times rely on his father, Ted Weaver, who was a janitor and chauffeur. In highschool, Lynn was certainly one of 14 Black college students who built-in West Excessive College in Knoxville, Tennessee. Throughout this tough time, Lynn was additionally making an attempt to remain on prime of his teachers. At StoryCorps, Lynn instructed his daughter, Kimberly, how his dad confirmed him the way in which ahead.
Labor of Love
Mary Stepp Burnette Hayden was born into enslavement in Black Mountain, North Carolina. She was 7 years outdated when she was freed. She stayed in Black Mountain and have become a midwife, delivering a number of hundred infants together with her personal grandchildren. Her granddaughter, Mary Othella Burnette, got here to StoryCorps along with her daughter, Debora Hamilton Palmer, to honor the household matriarch.
Acts of Kindness
Expensive Mrs. Doyle
It was simply two days earlier than Christmas in 1958 when John Cruitt’s mom died after being significantly unwell with a number of sclerosis. On the time, he was a scholar in Cecile Doyle’s third grade class, and an act of kindness she confirmed him turned stamped in his reminiscence. So, greater than 50 years later, he wrote her a letter. At StoryCorps, John and Mrs. Doyle mirrored on the distinction they made in one another’s lives.
The vacation season is about extra than simply giving items. It’s about extending kindness to associates, household, neighbors — and even strangers. At StoryCorps, we imagine that even merely listening is an act of kindness.
With Love, From Georgia
Personal First Class Roman Coley Davis grew up in a small city in South Georgia. He joined the army after graduating from highschool, and his sergeant gave him the nickname “Peaches” since he was the one service member from Georgia. When he was 20 years outdated, Roman discovered himself 7,000 miles away from residence, within the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan — one of the crucial distant outposts within the U.S. struggle there. Roman felt drained and alone throughout his time in Afghanistan. He sat down at StoryCorps to recollect the day he acquired a package deal from his Mema that reminded him of her love. This animation is part of our Army Voices Initiative.
The Little Issues
Each week, Herman Travis hundreds up a heavy buying cart stuffed with groceries from a meals financial institution to convey to aged neighbors in a low-income housing complicated. Over time, he’s develop into shut with the residents, together with Robert Cochran. Collectively they got here to StoryCorps to speak about how significant this weekly gesture has develop into to them each.
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“I am simply glad for each of us to stay one other day.”
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A Cut up Resolution
In September 2009, the Sweetwater Creek in northern Georgia flooded following a number of days of heavy rain. The unprecedented occasion killed ten individuals and left tens of millions of {dollars} of injury in its wake. That morning, Zack Stephney was working as a store foreman at a big trucking firm situated proper subsequent to the floodplain close to Douglasville. A few months after the flash flood, he got here to StoryCorps together with his good friend Melissa Brooks, 40, to speak about what he witnessed that day, and the break up resolution that saved somebody’s life.
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“I am unable to repair the nation… however I can brighten my very own nook. “
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Discovering a New Manner To Be Grateful in a Pandemic
Again in 1985, when Scott Macaulay’s mother and father have been going by an acrimonious divorce, he discovered himself alone on Thanksgiving. So he determined to begin cooking dinner for different individuals who had nowhere else to go. However in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic compelled him to seek out new methods of connecting with strangers on this vacation. As a substitute he has partnered with a neighborhood restaurant to supply free meals and is handing out groceries from the window of his vacuum restore store, Macaulay’s Home of Vacuums.
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“You have been my needle within the haystack. You have been the one”.
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How To Save A Life
In 2014, Kim Pratt was recognized with septic phenomena. After studying her kidneys have been failing, she spent the subsequent 5 years on dialysis, awaiting an organ donation to avoid wasting her life. Little did she know, a Fb publish would change her life and result in a lifelong good friend. At StoryCorps, Kim sits down with CJ Johnston to recollect this time.
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