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Monday, March 28, 2011 -- Later this week, Major League Baseball teams from across the country will open the 2011 season. Opening Day has always held a special magic for baseball fans. It symbolizes the warmth of spring, the promise of summer and the one day in which every team is in first place. It also brings up fond memories for Rosalind Andrews of Knoxville, who grew up in Queens, New York, worshiping the Brooklyn Dodgers. Here, she describes her love for the Dodgers with her good friend Eileen Kogen... >>listen |
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Monday, March 21, 2011 -- This time on StoryCorps, we meet two close friends who were each diagnosed with cancer one week apart. The experience has brought Catherine Barnett and Paula Carver even closer, and it’s given them the opportunity to explore their common interest in fashion… >>listen |
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Monday, March 14, 2011 -- In this installment of StoryCorps Knoxville, Kenneth Honeycutt and his wife Gaye reflect on a day 74 years ago when a natural gas explosion at a school in New London, Texas, killed more than 300 students and teachers. Kenneth was a third-grader living in New London at the time… >>listen |
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Monday, March 7, 2011 -- When Mary Nelle Osborne met David Walker, she was in her 40s, working as a therapist--never-married, independent and not necessarily looking for love. David was a recovering drug addict in his 50s--gruff, also independent, and outspoken. In this installment of StoryCorps Knoxville, Mary Nelle remembers her short marriage to David with her best friend Maria Wolford Hurt… >>listen |
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Monday, Feb. 28, 2011 -- On this segment of StoryCorps, we hear reflections from Dr. Terri Combs Orme. Dr. Combs Orme is a professor of Social Work at the University of Tennessee, but she’s also a breast cancer survivor, one of more than 2 million living in the United States today. She’s being interviewed by doctoral student and protege Tess Lefmann... >>listen |
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Monday, Feb. 21, 2011 -- This week, David Drews and his wife Hilary remember a special trip to a Florida beach--one in which they were accompanied by David’s grandmother… >>listen |
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Monday, Feb. 14, 2011 -- For Valentine's Day, StoryCorps Knoxville listens in on a conversation between video producer Dale Mackey and her boyfriend Shawn Poynter. They've been together since 2007... >>listen |
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Monday, Feb. 7, 2011 -- In this edition of StoryCorps Knoxville, Patricia Fuller and her daughter Cindy Barnard share memories of their favorite times together… >>listen |
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Monday, Jan. 31, 2011 -- Edee Vaughan interviews her friend Courtney Jenkins-Atnip in this installment of StoryCorps Knoxville. The two women share a special bond--they both live with disabilities. Edee was born with the developmental spinal defect known as spina bifida. And Courtney suffers from Crohn’s Disease, a debilitating digestive condition… >>listen |
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Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 -- University of Tennessee Psychology professors Joe Miles and Brent Mallinckrodt reflect on how their personal experiences influence their teaching. This semester, Miles and Mallinckrodt are working together to teach a class on Social Justice... >>listen |
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Monday, Jan. 17, 2011 -- As Martin Luther King Jr. spread his message of non-violent protest across the Southeast in the '50s and '60s, a young Knoxville College student named Robert J. Booker was taking note--and making his own stand against segregation. In this episode of StoryCorps, Booker explains to his friend Jim Burnett why Knoxville was able to avoid the violence witnessed in other Southern cities during that time… >>listen |
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Monday, Jan. 10, 2011 -- Albert Good and his wife Alice Feldman discuss the time in 1956 when Albert's parents took a memorable trip to New York City... >>listen |
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Monday, Jan. 3, 2011 -- Sandra Jácome and her friend and colleague Robert Cruz talk about how his family’s emigration from Cuba changed Robert’s life--and the lives of his parents and siblings… >>listen |
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