StoryCorps: We Love Athens
Though each of us have our own tastes in music, food, and activities, this StoryCorps special is about the one thing we can all agree we love: Athens! You’ll hear from all kinds of members of our community from recent transplants to life-long residents. This station is proud to present StoryCorps Athens, a collection of interviews as part of a national initiative to record and preserve the stories of everyday people. These stories were recorded in Athens in the StoryCorps mobile booth during the Fall of 2018. This program is the final episode in our Athens StoryCorps project. All episodes are archived on wuga.org.
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These stories were recorded in Athens in the StoryCorps mobile booth during the Fall of 2018. -
This conversation comes from some of Athens’ newest residents who share that moving is often an adjustment. Karl and Halo Smart talk with their children… -
Though our experiences sometimes lead us through difficult times in life, Reverend Paul Baxley and Rabbi Eric Linder discuss their interfaith work in… -
Though she had a much different experience hundreds of miles away from Athens, immigration advocate Leeidy Soliz joined her friend JoBeth Allen to talk… -
Kris Tanner brought her daughter Camryn Tanner, a teenage activist for gun control, into the StoryCorps mobile booth to talk about the heart-breaking… -
This conversation comes from domestic violence victims advocate Sherri Tanner and her friend Becky Parker who talk about how Sherri became a public… -
Athens non-profit Project Safe is an organization that offers services to survivors of domestic violence. These next two stories come from women who were… -
Books and children are extremely important to friends and children’s librarians Jackie Elsner and Evan Michael Bush, who speak about their love of… -
Our next story comes from Books for Keeps Executive Director Leslie Hale and former director Melaney Smith, who came together to talk about the… -
Executive Director Shea Post and Board member Mary Kelly with the Athens Area Homeless Shelter talk about how they got involved with social work and the…
