[Reader-list] The StoryCorps Project: Celebrating lives through listening

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Excerpts from http://www.storycorps.org/about

StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit project whose mission is to honor and
celebrate one another’s lives through listening.
By recording the stories of our lives with the people we care about, we
experience our history, hopes, and humanity. Since 2003, tens of thousands
of everyday people have interviewed family and friends through StoryCorps.
Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to take home and share, and is
archived for generations to come at the Library of Congress. Millions listen
to our award-winning broadcasts on public radio and the Internet. StoryCorps
is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind, creating a growing
portrait of who we really are as Americans.



Listening is an act of love.

The heart of StoryCorps is the conversation between two people who are
important to each other: a son asking his mother about her childhood, an
immigrant telling his friend about coming to America, or a couple
reminiscing on their 50th wedding anniversary. By helping people to connect,
and to talk about the questions that matter, the StoryCorps experience is
powerful and sometimes even life-changing.

Our goal is to make that experience accessible to all, and find new ways to
inspire people to record and preserve the stories of someone important to
them. Everybody’s story matters and every life counts.

Just as powerful is the experience of listening. Whenever people listen to
these stories, they hear the courage, the humor, the trials and triumphs of
an incredible range of voices.