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StoryCorps in the North Country
North Country Public Radio has sponsored two North Country visits by StoryCorps. This national oral history project gives everyone the chance to record the stories of family and friends. Participants interview someone they know and love, get a CD to keep, and send a copy to the Library of Congress for future generations. With permission, selections are broadcast on local stations, and on national programs produced by NPR. The StoryCorps mobile recording booth visted Saranac Lake in June 2008 and Glens Falls in July. StoryCorps Interviews from NCPR
Today is StoryCorps' National Day of Listening. We listen to one of the conversations that took place this past summer when the StoryCorps Mobilebooth visited the North Country. Sara Cutshall-King interviewed her husband, Joseph, in Glens Falls on July 5th. Joe's father owned a pharmacy in the small village of Fort Edward. More than 50 years later he still has vivid memories of the people and activities centered around the store.
Joe Marocco and Doug Haney
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Since the StoryCorps Mobilebooth visited the North Country this summer, we've been spending a little time each Friday introducing you to some of the participants who got to document their stories by interviewing each other. On June 20th, in Saranac Lake, Doug Haney interviewed his friend Joe Marocco. They talked about a lot of things, including Joe's battle with cancer, which he won, and his somewhat distant relationship with his father. And it was this subject that prompted Doug to ask Joe about his reluctance to become a father himself.
Forrest "Dewdrop" Morgan and Dermott Morgan
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Since the StoryCorps Mobilebooth visited the North Country this summer, we've been spending a little time each Friday introducing you to some of the participants who got to document their stories by interviewing each other. Today, we'll hear an excerpt from June 19, when Dermott Morgan of Saranac Lake interviewed his father, Forrest "Dewdrop" Morgan. Forrest is a lifelong resident of the Adirondacks and has fond memories of the Winter Olympics coming to Lake Placid. No, not the 1980 games, but the 1932 games when he was ten years old. It was there that he met an Olympic champion who would go on to become an historic figure in World War II.
Sunny Buchman and Rena Bernstein
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Since the StoryCorps Mobilebooth visited the North Country this summer, we’ve been spending a little time each Friday introducing you to some of the participants who got to document their stories interviewing each other. Today, we’ll hear an excerpt from July, when Sunny Buchman, of Glens Falls, interviewed her friend Rena Bernstein from Brooklyn. Rena spent her very early years in southeastern Poland in a cabin hiding from the Nazis. Her parents were also in hiding, but they were in a grave-sized bunker under the basement of a workshop in the small town of Lesko. They remained there for two years. Eventually, Rena and her parents made their way to the U.S. and her mother wrote about life in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Jane Jacobs and Ellen Butz
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Each Friday this summer we've been introducing you to a different pair of participants from StoryCorps' visit to the North Country. The StoryCorps mobile booth was in Saranac Lake and Glens Falls earlier this summer, and it was in Glens Falls that Ellen Butz interviewed her friend, Jane Jacobs. Jane's father was a professional violinist and she recalled how he got started playing, and the joy of watching her dad perform.
Wanda Armstrong and her father, Russell Leigh
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The StoryCorps mobilebooth spent nearly a month here in the North Country this summer. During its time in Saranac Lake and Glens Falls dozens of people got to share their stories by interviewing each other. In Glens Falls, Wanda Armstrong chatted with her 91-year-old father, Russell Leigh.
Sarah Thomas and her father, David Zimmer
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Each Friday this summer we’re introducing you to a different pair of participants from StoryCorps’ visit to the North Country. The StoryCorps mobile booth was in Saranac Lake and Glens Falls earlier this summer, and it was in Glens Falls that Sarah Thomas interviewed her father, David Zimmer. A couple of years ago David faced a serious medical problem and the prognosis wasn’t good. But he defied his doctors’ expectations and continues to get stronger every day.
Babette and Walter Sonneborn with their niece Ellen Bettmann (left).
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A summer job…a lifelong love. Walter and Babette Sonneborn tell the story of their Adirondack romance to StoryCorps, as broadcast on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Natalie Leduc and Mary Woodhouse
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The StoryCorps mobilebooth spent nearly a month here in the North Country this summer. During its time in Saranac Lake and Glens Falls dozens of people got to share their stories by interviewing each other. In late June, Natalie Leduc, of Saranac Lake, visited the booth with her friend Mary Woodhouse. Natalie is a lifelong Adirondacker and a skier almost from birth. And on this opening day of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, we wanted to bring you a bit of her memories of the opening ceremonies of the Winter Games in Lake Placid 28 years ago.
Nancy Fitzpatrick and Tom Gervais
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The StoryCorps mobile booth captured slices of North Country life during almost a month in the region. Thomas Gervais told his wife, Nancy Fitzpatrick, stories of "camp," where West Mill Brook joins the Schroon River near North Hudson. He started spending summers there as a boy in the 1930s. The camp at Pepper Hollow now hosts its fifth generation of the family.
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At the MobileBooth, people participate in pairs - oftentimes friends or loved ones - and one interviews the other. A trained facilitator guides the participants through the interview process and handles the technical aspects of the recording. At the end of a 40-minute session, the participants walk away with a CD of their interview. With their permission, a second copy will be sent to the American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress to become part of a high quality digital archive. This collection will eventually grow into an oral history of America. The project is sponsored by NPR (National Public Radio) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. |
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