Archive for the ‘Storytelling’ Category

A Country of Women

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Photo credit: MORE Magazine

An incredible story about a hardy community of women who’ve made a home in Chernobyl’s desolate, radioactive surroundings.

Why Tell Your Story?

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Stories are those late hours in the night when you can’t remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story. – Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried

Telling True Stories

Saturday, February 19, 2011

This is a great resource about the researching, interviewing and writing process.

Support StoryCorps

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived more than 30,000 interviews from more than 60,000 participants. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind, and millions listen to our broadcasts on public radio and the web.