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Denise Woodward is a lifelong musician. As a young classical guitarist, she strove for perfection, often waking up at 4:30 in the morning to practice for…
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Growing up in the Bay Area in the 1950s, Sharon Jones would see her father and neighbors get excited about sports, but she was just not interested – until…
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The project StoryCorps is ten years old. What started out as a way for people to talk about the tragedy of 9/11, turned into a national oral history…
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Olin Thomas is a retired army veteran. He says it wasn’t until after he joined the military that he realized he was gay. Despite his fears about coming…
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From time to time, the StoryCorps team goes mobile, and collects interviews at specific sites around the Bay Area. This piece is part of a series of…
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Last week marked the 80th birthday of one of San Francisco’s grandest landmarks: Coit Tower. Inside the iconic structure are several colorful murals…
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Sitawa Natambu Jamaa has been incarcerated for 33 years at the Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City; 23 of them in the Security Housing Unit, also…
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StoryCorps founder Dave Isay joined KALW’sHana Baba live by phone to revisit some memories recorded in San Francisco.First, Ken Hopper and Kerry Davis…
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StoryCorps is a national project that records of conversations between loved ones. Parents and their children, siblings, spouses and friends sit in a…
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Melanie Rowen was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in her late twenties. She remembers the first symptoms, such as bad vision and physical numbness, and…
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Darwin Farrar lived his childhood in a violent area of 1960s Pasadena, CA. Where he lived, the neighborhood paperboy Wilbert had an abusive mother named…
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In 1965, San Jose resident Andrew Montgomery was inspired by Martin Luther King’s march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. Montgomery was deeply…