Ties That Bind

Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps
Ties That Bind - Books by Dave Isay - Penguin Group (USA)


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"Ties That Bind": Tales of Love and Gratitude from the Past Decade with StoryCorps Founder Dave Isay -
DemocracyNow interview transcript 

In a Democracy Now! special, we look back at a decade of stories from the oral history project StoryCorps. The first StoryCorps recording booth opened in 2003 in New York City’s Grand Central Terminal. Some 100,000 people have since recorded interviews with their loved ones in StoryCorps booths across the country. Their voices are recorded onto a CD for the storytellers and preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. We spend the hour with StoryCorps founder Dave Isay and play some of his favorite stories from the past decade, including many we’ve never aired before. We hear about Yelitza Castro, a housekeeper who cooks dinner for homeless people, and Ronald McNair, an African-American astronaut who died in the 1986 Challenger explosion. When he was nine years old, McNair refused to leave a racially segregated library, even after the librarian threatened to call the police.