StoryCorps project shares lives

Green Valley News and Sun
By Ellen Sussman, Special to the Green Valley News

A nationwide project to record and document individual American stories visited Casa de Esperanza.

Three participants from their Adult Day Health Care Center and three residents from La Posada recorded some of their most poignant memories.

In partnership with National Public Radio and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, StoryCorps is an independent, nonprofit initiative.

Created by award-winning documentary producer Dave Isay, StoryCorps is the largest multi-year oral history project ever undertaken. Since 2003, the project has traveled to all 50 states and recorded more than 23,000 individual stories; in 2006,

StoryCorps launched the Memory Loss Initiative to support and encourage people with memory loss to share their stories.

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