黑料吃瓜网 teamed up with the StoryCorps Mobile Tour to remotely record interviews of people from all across our state. Meet the people behind the mic in this selection of interviews edited by 黑料吃瓜网.
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In this conversation, lifelong friends Maerie and Roberta honor the memories of their mothers, Mildred and Alberta, the deep bond between all four of them, and what amazing women they were. -
Sandra and Doreen both immigrated from Barbados to the U.S. in their youth and share two share very different experiences of coming to North America. Doreen also explains how she never felt confident putting roots down here.
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Andrea Rapacz talks with Lydia Mele about her parent's love story and the impact Lydia's mother, Olga Mele, had on their family and the Hispanic community in the Hartford area.
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Lynn and Gerard have spent over four decades together. In this conversation, they recall the early days of their relationship and what their experiences were like coming out to their families.
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Kristin and Ken met through an online dating app. Ken was a former PGA Tour golfer who lost his right leg and more in a tragic accident. In this conversation, Kristin shares what attracted her to Ken and how amazed she was at his deep relationship with his friends.
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Sally and Sam Roudebush had been married for 43 years when they recorded this interview. Together they talk about how Sam鈥檚 job in the U.S. Coast Guard allowed them to meet so many wonderful people.
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Two sisters tell the story of their maternal grandmother. She is Native American and was forced to live in an Indian Residential School in British Columbia when she was five.
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Bryan Sayles's twin daughters showed interest in learning music at a young age. Despite challenging times he and his wife always found ways to support Molly's drumming and Emma's trombone playing and music composition. The family talks about how music has brought them together and created lasting memories.
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Endia DeCordova talks with her mother, Gem DeCordova, about how her late father was introduced to the West Indian community in Harford after immigrating to the States from Jamaica. Gem shares how the West Indian Social Club was born out of those early community gatherings and the legacy of kindness and inclusion her husband left behind.
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黑料吃瓜网 artist Ricky Mestre talks with friend and New Haven Pride Center Executive Director Patrick Dunn about the role art plays in their lives. They explore queer art as a genre and how art has the power to reflect a community.
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Randy Mott in Bloomfield, CT, talks with her 92-year-old mother, Jackie Brown, about the many ways she鈥檚 reinvented herself. Jackie shares a funny story of the catalyst for how she became a successful artist and painter at the age of sixty. Jackie still paints today.
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Dawn Ennis shared an intimate conversation with her child, Leif, who was known as Liam when they recorded this StoryCorps conversation. The two talk about what it was like for Dawn to come out to her children as transgender, the loss of Leif鈥檚 mom to cancer, and how their family supports each other unconditionally.
' mission is to preserve and share humanity's stories to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. In the summer of 2021, 黑料吃瓜网 teamed up with to remotely record interviews of people from all backgrounds across our state. Excerpts were edited and produced locally by 黑料吃瓜网 for radio and digital.
The StoryCorps Mobile Tour resulted in 91 interviews recorded with over 190 participants who signed up to share their stories. 黑料吃瓜网 chose 24 full-length interviews that have been edited into 4-minute stories for broadcast on 黑料吃瓜网.
黑料吃瓜网 would like to thank , a community-based independent record label out of Hartford, CT for connecting us with Niamh. Niamh also known as songwriter, producer, and 黑料吃瓜网 native, (they/them), provided music for our StoryCorps CT radio edits and podcast trailer.
StoryCorps CT is supported locally by with funding from , the and the State Legislature.
StoryCorps is a non-profit organization that provides people across the country with the opportunity to record and preserve the stories of their lives. Since 2003, StoryCorps has recorded over half a million people of all backgrounds and beliefs, preserving them in the StoryCorps Archive, housed at the in Washington, D.C. The archive comprises one of the first and the largest born-digital collections of human voices, featuring tens of thousands of conversations recorded across the United States and around the world.
To learn more about StoryCorps and discover stories from across the country visit,
Funding for StoryCorps and the StoryCorps Mobile Tour is provided by the .
