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Posts Tagged ‘Storycorps’

Call for Submissions: Miner’s Story Project

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

I almost feel like a liar labeling this blog a “Call for Submissions” as I have pretty good sense that the the intersect of SMITH readers and coal miners is on the slim side. But hey, everyone has a story…even coal miners.
The Miner’s Story Project is a project that aims to take a very specific [...]

Tell Stories Till You Drop: NPR’s “National Day of Listening”

Friday, November 28th, 2008

“We’ve known each other for 20 years … yet we don’t really know each other. That’s sort of stupid when you think about it,” says Frank Deford to Jenni Lipa, his travel agent in an example of NPR’s National Day of Listening, perhaps the perfect antidote to Black Friday. The project comes from the [...]