Oral History | The Memoir Revolution

June 3, 2009

Turn economic hardships into stories of strength

Associations/Training, Boomers, Lifelong Learning, Retire, Storytelling

Aging, boomer, career change, Encore Career, hero, Marc Freedman, memoir, Oral History, reinvention, retirement, story, volunteer, write

One way to improve your perspective is to develop as quickly as possible the story of these hard times. Stories let you grasp the whole situation, letting strength dominate worry. Through stories you can find courage, poise, and make better sense of your choices. And stories have one more benefit. They let you share your…

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Jerry Waxler

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…

Written by

Jerry Waxler

Tag: Oral History

Turn economic hardships into stories of strength

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

StoryCorps – a national initiative to gather oral memoirs