Fearrington StoryCorps
Interviews
In her StoryCorps narrative, Wendy O’Keefe relives her youth in the Caribbean islands of Puerto Rico, St. Croix and St. Thomas. She tells of hotels that her grandfather managed and of adventures with her parents and their friends. Wendy and...
In this proud and heartfelt narrative for StoryCorps, Peter Cook takes us from his youth in 1950s Westchester, N.Y., where he met Colleen, to their settling in Fearrington 70 years later. Along the way they became teachers in West Africa...
Steve was inspired by his own near-death experience and by the early loss of family members to cardiac disease to embrace life and seek renewal in the outdoors. He found long distance hiking and solo paddling brought him the health...
If you have enjoyed the Chatham Artists Open Studio tours, you’re likely to be acquainted with Vidabeth Bensen as a talented screen print artist. What you may not know is that she avidly pursued her art and taught her craft...
At a time when very few women were taken seriously as public policy professionals, Rose Krasnow broke new ground in suburban Washington, D.C. A native of Memphis, Rose earned a graduate degree in urban and regional planning while she and...
Karen Shectman shares that her work as a mental health professional was influenced by her personal experiences in family development. For Fearrington StoryCorps she tells about the almost magical predetermined romance—beshert in Yiddish—that brought together not only her grandparents and...
Her French parents were living on the Caribbean island of Martinique when Anne-Marie was born in 1943, and they soon moved for 12 years to Caracas, Venezuela. From there, Anne-Marie’s education, family and teaching profession took her to Paris, West...
Throughout his professional work as a lawyer and educator, Alan Ziegler says his observance and appreciation of societal change instilled in him the disposition of a futurist. At age 83, he remembers events that occurred to him more than 82...
As he approaches his 100th birthday, Rolf Lynton observes that his career in the social sciences taught him“it doesn't matter what the experience is as long as you experience it, because, lo and behold, it leads on to other strange...
After growing up in a small Alabama town—with no running water until he was 6 years old—Don Harris joined the U.S. Army and flew military reconnaissance operations over China, Korea and Vietnam, completing his tour in Hawaii. He earned college...
Brigitte was born in Algeria at the time of Algerian War. The conflict forced her family's move to France. Later, choices and opportunities led her and her family to North Carolina. As an adult, she found fulfillment as a compassionate...
As an attorney, Chris Bell was one of the primary authors of the American’s With Disabilities Act (known as the ADA). Chris brought not only his legal expertise and his personal insights as a blind person to the task -...
Judy Fitzgerald met her husband, John, around 1968, when they worked together in the advertising department of Warner Bros. Films in Los Angeles. The day they met, John was looking for the tastes he had just left behind in New...
Early in their relationship, Cathy Clare and Howard Fifer agreed that they wanted to be parents. Their decision led them to adopt. After careful study, they chose to adopt a newborn from Chile. When their application was approved in 1988,...
John Eckblad is a social psychologist who distinguished himself in business management and industrial relations. While his “culturally diverse, blended family” has roots in Sweden and early English settlement of North America, he grew up in Minnesota and Pennsylvania. As...
In 1966, well before he pursued a career in computer science, Gerald Haskins turned down a job at a circus and decided instead to ride his Vespa motor scooter from Florida to California planning to finish in New York. But,...
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