What’s your story?
StoryCorps, the extraordinary oral history project launched by Dave Isay and Sound Portraits, has taken to the road. (If you don’t know what StoryCorps is, check out Chapter 5 of A Whole New Mind, stroll through Grand Central Station, or listen to this great piece from NPR’s Morning Edition.)
A fleet of Mobile Booths is traveling the country collecting the stories of ordinary Americans, recording the tales for posterity, and eventually housing the recordings at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
My elder daughter, Sophia, and I had a chance to interview each other and record our stories today at the Mobile Booth that was stationed outside the Library of Congress. Here’s a photo from inside the retrofitted Airstream trailer:
If StoryCorps is coming to your town, sign up. It’s worth it.