Listening as an Act of Love

What a great idea, recording the oral histories of normal people, "listening as an act of love"..

"DAVE ISAY: Story Corps is a project that started about 2 1/2 years ago in Grand Central Terminal. It is a very simple idea. We built a booth in grand central. And you bring anyone you want to the booth. Your grandmother, a friend, the person who brings you eggs in the morning at the diner every day. Anyone who you want to get to know. You are met a at the time booth by someone called a facilitator. Someone who works with us. For a few minutes the facilitator talks to you about how to do an oral history and then brings you inside the booth and closes the door. We have designed it as a sacred space. It is very dark and perfectly quiet in the middle of grand central terminal."

"the idea is that the stories of every day people are just as interesting and important as the stories of Martha Stewart and Donald Trump and all this nonsense we are fed all the time."

The project home : http://storycorps.net/
Read the whole interview here

You can hear the stories of former slaves on the Library of Congress website Voices from the Days of Slavery