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May 19, 2009

Interviewing is an Act of Love, Even After Memory Starts to Fail

Aging, Associations/Training, Family Memoirs, Oral History

Aging, Alzheimer’s, interviewing, Oral History, Personal Historian, Storytelling

And so it was with great interest that I recently heard that the StoryCorps is investigating this exact problem, trying to find the stories of those whose memory is starting to fail. The program is called the Memory Loss Initiative. To learn more, I interviewed Dina Zempsky, senior outreach coordinator of the initiative.

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Jerry Waxler
November 20, 2007

StoryCorps – a national initiative to gather oral memoirs

Oral History, Philadelphia Regional

interviewing, life story, listening, memoir, Oral History, story telling, StoryCorps, WHYY

Outside, pulled up on the sidewalk of the WHYY studio was a mobile van with the logo of “StoryCorps,” painted on the side. I had heard about this organization that travels around the country recording oral histories. People come to the StoryCorps van and interview someone they know. The StoryCorps gives them each a copy…

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Jerry Waxler

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