When you hear that StoryCorps music start, you know you’re gonna tear up inside a little. Or maybe a lot. Their latest animation is the story of Bryan Wilmouth and his brother Mike who reconnected after Bryan was thrown out of the family home for being gay. And it wasn’t just the two of them who were separated -Bryan was the oldest of eight siblings.
Now celebrating its tenth anniversary, StoryCorps is an oral history project that has archived more than 50,000 interviews from 80,000 participants so far. The stories are shared and also preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. StoryCorps is a non-profit organization that produces segments for NPR’s Morning Edition, and some are animated by the Rauch Brothers. But StoryCorps is not funded by NPR -it is a separate organization. You can make a donation here.
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I do not speak any Korean, but when we had an engineer from Korea visit my department, I was asked to 'translate' for him . . . when he was speaking English! My ability to decipher his accented English was called into play as we worked out a collaborative project.
Typically the waitstaff, and everyone else for that matter, were very helpful and accomodating even when we didn't have our Japanese speaking friends with us. After all, it's not too difficult to point at what you what you want politely, nod and say "hi" with a smile.