We're excited to announce that we're partnering with StoryCorps to record, preserve, and share the stories of communities in Detroit!

StoryCorps' mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. It's one of the largest oral history projects of its kind and with permission, stories are archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. We're bringing their MobileBooth to Detroit from July 9th - August 8th and to Dearborn on August 10th and 11th.

Reserve your spot below!

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• Feb 01

  

  Podcast for Friday, February 1, 2013 - The Craig Fahle Show

  On today's show Lisa D'Amour stops by the studio to talk about her play, "Detroit." New Soul Sunday Host Nick Austin, Fox 2 Reporter Alexis Wiley and Jeff Wattrick of Deadline Detroit sit down with Craig to discuss the week's news in our weekly Friday Follies, WDET's own Pat Batcheller and Craig talk Superbowl XLVII and more on today's Craig Fahle Show.

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• Aug 27

  

  Love - WDET and StoryCorps Present Stories From Detroit

  This special podcast features Detroiters' stories of love - from finding that special someone at a Tiger's game, to making a marriage work for fifty years - recorded in the StoryCorps MobileBooth during its visit to Detroit.

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• Aug 17

  

  StoryCorps: Alan & Ronald Amen - StoryCorps

  America’s largest oral history project just wrapped up a month in Metro Detroit. Story Corps was an amazing success thanks to you, the storytellers, your friends and neighbors. The mobile booth spent time outside the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park – Paradise Valley district and the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. Today’s story comes from Alan and Ronald Amen. The brothers share their stories on how they learned activism from their mother who sued and won a victory over the City of Dearborn’s deceptive urban renewal practices in the southeast section of the city during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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• Aug 16

  

  StoryCorps: Chuck, Haider & Eide Alawan - StoryCorps

  America’s largest oral history project just wrapped up a month in Metro Detroit. Story Corps was an amazing success thanks to you, the storytellers, your friends and neighbors. The mobile booth spent time outside the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park – Paradise Valley district and the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. Today’s story comes from three brothers: Chuck, Haider and Eide Alawan. They talk about working in their father’s grocery store in the 1940s and 1950s and some culture clashes that took place in the west side Detroit neighborhood.

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• Aug 15

  

  StoryCorps: Marsha Music  - StoryCorps

  America’s largest oral history project just wrapped up a month in Metro Detroit. Story Corps was an amazing success thanks to you, the storytellers, your friends and neighbors. The mobile booth spent time outside the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park – Paradise Valley district and the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. Today’s story comes from Marsha Music. She tells of her father, Joe Von Battle – a record store owner and producer who recorded Detroit music luminaries such as John Lee Hooker, the Reverend C.L. Franklin and Aretha Franklin in their early years. Music says segregation and urban renewal not only destroyed her father’s business but helped create the conditions that sparked the events of 1967.
  

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• Aug 14

  

  StoryCorps: Lila & Suehaila Amen - StoryCorps

  America’s largest oral history project just wrapped up a month in Metro Detroit. Story Corps was an amazing success thanks to you, the storytellers, your friends and neighbors. The mobile booth spent time outside the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park – Paradise Valley district and the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. Today’s story comes from Lila and Suehaila Amen. Lila shares stories of how her daughter started wearing the hijab - a head scarf worn traditionally by many Muslim women.

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• Aug 13

  

  StoryCorps: Max & Kirstan Elliott - StoryCorps

  America’s largest oral history project just wrapped up a month in Metro Detroit. Story Corps was an amazing success thanks to you, the storytellers, your friends and neighbors. The mobile booth spent time outside the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park – Paradise Valley district and the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. Today’s story comes from Max Elliott and his mother, Kirstan. They talk about Max’s cerebral palsy, growing up and dealing with the public.

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