‘I wanted to make her feel special like it was a limousine’
Posted on | August 26, 2005 |
Driving home the other night I was bowled over listening to some of the stories taken from the Storycorps project. It’s an oral history initiative taking place in little booths across the US where people can interview loved ones about everyday events and memories. The aim is to create an archive of contemporary American life - the biggest collection of ‘ordinary’ voices ever assembled. Wouldn’t an Australian version be fantastic. We might find out that our country has room for more stories than Simpson and his poor ol’ donkey.
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August 26th, 2005 @ 10:48 am
Wow, thanks mel, right up my alley
August 26th, 2005 @ 6:22 pm
Yeah, I’d heard about this - thanks for the link, I’d been meaning to check it out. I’m a complete sucker for that tugging at the heartstring stuff! Everyone knows happy stories don’t sell (trust me, I worked in a bookshop for years!) and so much life writing is about overcoming obstacles, battling through, which is great, fine - but it is nice to just get a glimpse into a singularly, fleeting nice moment in someone else’s lives. And no, I don’t include the routine feelgood story at the end of the news here - there’s something so dysfunctional about that…
I wonder what kind of editing these stories go through? Would swearing or anti-American sentiment be permissible?
August 26th, 2005 @ 6:24 pm
Oh, and I was referring to the “Limousine” story particularly - I’m sure a very goodly portion of these stories also necessarily deal with the harder stuff o’ life!