StoryCorps in New Orleans

For four weeks, an Airstream trailer will be parked outside of the New Orleans Museum's Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, inviting the public to come inside and tell their stories. 

StoryCorps, an initiative founded in 2003 by Dave Isay, is a national oral history project that collects interviews about every day Americans of diverse backgrounds in all fifty states. As part of its Mobile Tour, StoryCorps is partnering with WWNO-New Orleans Public Radio to collect stories of New Orleanians as the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches. 

To participate, community members must register online for forty-minute interview sessions, which will be guided by a StoryCorps facilitator who will create a safe space for sharing. Participants will receive a digital recording, which will also be archived in the Library of Congress for future generations. And a selection will be aired as part of special programs with WWNO. 

Learn more at storycoprs.org/wwno.