Sign up with StoryCorps to share a life story for posterity, The Gainesville Sun, by Jeff Schweers, January 22, 2014.
From February 26 to March 7, StoryCorps will be interviewing North Central Floridians about their lives as part of a cross-country tour. StoryCorps is national oral history project devoted to recording brief conversations between private citizens, many of which are then broadcast on NPR’s Morning Edition. Its funding comes from private, government and corporate foundations. UF will be a local repository of the StoryCorps archive, with interviews available on the UF Digital Collections library. The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program is working with StoryCorps to identify student groups and outlying, rural, Spanish-speaking communities around Alachua County to be interviewed.
To make a reservation for the StoryCorps MobileBooth Tour, call 1-800-850-4406 or visit storycorps.org.
“These stories are going to tell us more about who we are as multilingual, multicultural people,” [Dr. Paul] Ortiz said.
Starting at 10 a.m., people can sign up for reservations to record their oral histories when the MobileBooth comes to Gainesville for a five-week stand next month by calling StoryCorps’ toll-free line or jumping online.
