WUOT Features Local StoryCorps® Conversations

 

WUOT was proud to host StoryCorps’ MobileBooth on Historic Market Square from Oct. 4-Nov. 15, 2010, as part of the station’s 60th anniversary celebrations. It was WUOT’s gift not only to listeners but also to the entire East Tennessee community. 

WUOT thanks StoryCorps’ local corporate sponsors—The City of Knoxville, Jupiter Entertainment, and Pilot Corporation—for their support of this wonderful community outreach initiative.

StoryCorps’ mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of their lives. East Tennesseans recorded a conversation with a loved one and received a broadcast-quality CD. StoryCorps will archive another copy at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

You can hear excerpts from some of the conversations recorded while StoryCorps was in Knoxville on WUOT during NPR’s Morning Edition each Monday at 5:35 and 7:35 a.m. After they air, we’ll post links to the excerpts and photos of the participants here on our website:

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Community Outreach Partners
Diversity is an integral part of StoryCorps’ mission. The following individuals and organizations partnered with StoryCorps to help ensure that people from all walks of life in this region were represented during StoryCorps’ visit to East Tennessee.

• 91.9 Inc. 
• African American Appalachian Arts, Inc. 
• Amputee Coalition of America
• Appalachian Community Fund
  
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee
• Boys & Girls Clubs of Tennessee Valley  
• Bridge Refugee and Sponsorship Services
• Cancer Support Community East Tennessee
• Center of Oak Ridge Oral History 
• Cerebral Palsy Center
• Child and Family Tennessee 
• Community Television of Knoxville
• Family Promise of Knoxville
• Foothills Land Conservancy  
• Friends of Literacy  
• Highways and Byways Ministry
• Individuals connected with the Highlander Research and Education Center
• Individuals representing the LBGTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning) community
• Knoxville College
• Market Square District Association (MSDA)
• Patricia Robledo 
• Project 2000, Inc.  
• Race Relations Center of East Tennessee
• Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
• Sevierville Chamber of Commerce  
• Spectrum Cafe
• Statewide Organization for Community eMpowerment (SOCM)
• Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church (TVUUC)   
• Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning
• Tennessee Clean Water Network
• Tusculum College Center for Civic Advancement

 

StoryCorps is a project of Sound Portraits Productions in partnership with:

 

 

If you have locally-related questions about StoryCorps’ visit to Knoxville, please contact Cindy Hassil at chassil@utk.edu or (865) 974-6167.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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