Mark Gaskin suddenly lost his job and home after an injury, but his situation didn't stop him from stepping in to care for an elderly relative in need. He shares why he became his aunt's caregiver.

Steve and Patti Erickson offered their young neighbor a safe haven. Decades later, their quiet act of kindness helped her reclaim childhood memories she thought were lost forever.

Justin Leonard and Matthew Kurvink, who are serving sentences for armed robbery, share what it's like to train wild horses at Four Mile Correctional Facility in Colorado.

Mary Lee McNelis suffers from a speech impediment. But her mother and grandmother never gave up on her. They reminisce with StoryCorps about Mary's long journey to finding her voice.

In this StoryCorps, Emeline King, the first Black woman to design cars for the Ford Motor Company, remembers her inspiration: her father.

While the Baltimore Orioles compete on the field, another battle takes place in the stands: the fight to be top vendor. StoryCorps brings a conversation with "Fancy Clancy," a vendor who's been selling beer at Baltimore Orioles games since 1974.

In this StoryCorps, a New Orleans man remembers the harrowing moments when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast nearly 20 years ago.

In 1968, Nathaniel Estes started his own plumbing business in Denver's Five Points neighborhood. As his company grew, he became a pillar of the local Black community. His son, Eddie Estes, and daughter, Cathy Lane, remember their now 94-year-old father, and what it was like growing up as the plumber's kids.

Rayford Junior Miles — a World War II veteran from Alabama — came across as a classic tough guy. But to his granddaughter Melanie Harrison, he was just 'Papa.' Melanie spoke with her father, Jim Miles, to remember a grandfather with a soft heart and a comical communication style.

Van Harris and his wife, Shirley, grew up a block away from each other in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. In this 2012 conversation they remember how they first met in the 1930s.