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Liz, 28, interviews Barb, 42, about her archaeological work at the Presidio.

Vice Admiral Nora Tyson (64) and Mr. Bruce Evans (62) discuss their experience serving on Vanderbilt University's Board of Trust during the COVID-19 crisis.

My mother, Joyce Hollobaugh, discusses how her life experiences competing in volleyball and softball and her career in respiratory therapy has made her the person she is today. As she discusses her experiences, my mother describes all the important life...

From this interview, I learned a lot about my dad. He was in the military, then became a police. He is really passionate about teamwork and respect. He tries to show this in his everyday life. He also really loves...

Haiden Ross interviews her godmother, Betty Guyton, about her time as a majorette.

In 1980 Eric Hosek led a group up Mount Kenya. While climbing in the darkness before dawn the expedition could see the sky of both hemispheres. For Eric it was an "ah-ha" moment.

Sarah Gross, Development Assistant Foundation of Providence Mount St Vincent, describes her impression of "The Mount" and beginning her career there.

Neelesh shares stories to his daughter Esha (15) about how he ended up in his line of work. He shares struggles while pursuing his passion of becoming an engineer, why it is his passion, and what he admires most in...

Olivia Kauffman (22) talks with her friend, John Day (23) about his experience playing college baseball at Bradley University and its effects on his relationships. (Visual did not compute on Johns end due to technical difficulties, but the audio is...

Julie Thomspon (54) speaks with her son Tanner Thompson (23) about raising a child with disabilities and ways that involvement in the First Light Community has changed their family for the better.

David Lucchino remembers attempting to climb Denali with a NOLS expedition led by Phil Powers and Jim Ratz in 1994. What he learned along the way was more important than the summit.

An inspiring physics teacher, a lesson on the Copernican Revolution, and an immense awe sparked by the night sky ignited a passion for learning and research for Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Dr. Zurbuchen shares...

In this interview, conducted in November 2017 in Eureka, California, Taryn Sanborn (16) interviews her family friend Douglas Glenn (61) about his childhood and his adventure in the military. Doug shares stories about learning how to deal with getting a...

A Slow Start

In this interview I talked about the influential jobs that made the man my grandfather the man he is today and what he has learned from them

Jaycee Cappaert shares the challenges and lessons from her NOLS experiences on a 30-day Yukon trip.

Claire chats with Scott Christy about her 2015 NOLS Semester in Baja.

In the interview we talked about the ups and downs of cross country. We discussed how it made us better mentally and physically. Hope and I conversed about the trip the team goes on and how the team is like...

Friends and colleagues, Faye Cooper (67) and Genevieve Goss (67), discuss their personal development and involvement in land conservation and easements.

Andrew Burdick and Dave West in their third Storycorps Connect interview. Dave explains the background of Odyssey of the Mind, an organization he has volunteered with for ~20 years. He then recounts some of his favorite anecdotes of moments of...

Peter Roy talks being prepared for a life in business by his NOLS wilderness course. Years later he was able to send his daughter to a NOLS semester in Kenya, and this was an important turning point for his whole...

I interviewed Terence Burnett about his time serving in the Navy during the Vietnam war. We discussed When and why he enlisted and what made him choose his branch of service. I asked him about his bootcamp experience. He told...

Roy Disney worked on a movie called Morning Light where they took kids who had never sailed before and trained them for months so they could sail in one of the toughest races in the world of sailing, the transpac....

Two former Hospice Gorge doctors sharing their experiences and things they learned working in Hospice and Palliative Care.

Rather than following his dad's path as a commercial fisherman, John Pinto became a carrier pilot for the Navy, returning to Plymouth MA 25 years later as a lobsterman.