StoryCorps is a national initiative to create an oral history of America. Created by Dave Isay, MacArthur Fellow and founder of an award-winning radio documentary house, Sound Portraits Productions, StoryCorps instructs and inspires Americans to record one another's stories in sound.
Excerpt from interviews, more information about the project and an oral history 'question generator' can be found: www.storycorps.net. StoryCorps will collect recordings and oral histories in Columbia, February 8 - 22nd.
Here is how it works: Visitors to a state-of-the-art air stream mobile recording booth (image attached) record 40-minute oral histories with a loved one with the help of a trained facilitator. A broadcast quality CD of the interview goes to the participants and a second copy goes to the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress to become part of the biggest oral history of America. To date StoryCorps has recorded over 8,000 interviews and many have been aired on various NPR stations around the country.
