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In this week's StoryCorps, a 101-year-old immigrant from Mexico talks about becoming a U.S. citizen.
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Chad Machado and his son, Xavier, live in Kekaha — a small town on Hawaii's western island of Kaua'i. Xavier never took to school, but had been obsessed with cooking from a young age. So when Chad lost his job during the Covid-19 pandemic, they decided to take a risk and open up a pizza shop.
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For more than 30 years, a group of friends gathered each week to play Dungeons & Dragons — until politics broke up their game in 2020. Two players talked about it with StoryCorps.
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Today's StoryCorps is about a love that lasted through the seasons. Patrice Hudson was apprehensive about online dating until she met Byron Ball, a high school science teacher who, like her, was a single parent and had been married before.
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As a teenager, Joseph Bond fought in Vietnam. Later he started a family and worked for the city of Philadelphia for 35 years. After retiring, there was something he needed — to finish high school.
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Growing up, Amy Marshall loved her adoptive parents, but always wondered where she came from. Finally, when she was in her late forties with a family of her own, she decided to find out.
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In this StoryCorps, two former Kent State University students remember when National Guardsmen opened fire on Vietnam War protesters 55 years ago this weekend.
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Dan Bigley was on a fishing trip in Alaska when he accidentally came between a bear and her cubs. In this StoryCorps, he talks about the attack that left him blind and about adjusting afterward.
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In this edition of StoryCorps, a father remembers his daughter who was among 186 people killed when a federal office building in Oklahoma City was bombed 30 years ago.
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For 25 years, Francois Clemmons played the role of Officer Clemmons on the beloved children's program "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." Clemmons joined the cast of the show in 1968, becoming the first Black actor to have a recurring role on a kids TV series.
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In this StoryCorps conversation, a woman in her early 70s looking for a new purpose talks about how her life changed when she joined a group called "Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage."
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As a kid, Robert Logan lived right down the street from a fire station. He would watch the fire engine pass by his house, and dream of riding that truck one day. Now, he is a decorated firefighter and he talks with a friend and colleague about what it took to make his childhood dream come true, as a Black firefighter.