StoryCorps
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Updated: April 17, 2007
StoryCorps allows people to record and preserve their life stories in sound.
The theme of the StoryCorps project is interview someone you love, either a relative or a friend...the two people climb inside an airstream trailer, and have 40-minutes to talk about their life.
Former U.S. Senator David Pryor participated in StoryCorps first interview session in Northwest Arkansas.
Roy Reed, a former New York Times reporter and Pryor`s close friend of almost 50 years, asked the questions.
"I really enjoyed reminiscing about my childhood in Camden, about how things have changed in many ways," Pryor says.
The StoryCorps trailers have sound-proof recording studios inside. Anyone can participate in the mobile storybooth tour and participants get a CD of their interview when they`re through.
Eventually all the interviews will be archived at the Library of Congress.
"For far too long we have let these wonderful stories and this wonderful history go to the graves with people who have never told their story," Pryor says.
"I can only imagine how valuable those things will be to historians and scholars in the future," Reed adds.
