StoryCorps / The Conversation of a Lifetime
The StoryCorps oral history project visited Bellefonte in the summer of 2010. Listen to the stories recorded in central Pennsylvania.
This national oral history project gave central Pennsylvanians the chance to record conversations with family and friends. The interviews recorded last summer are now part of an archive at the Library of Congress. Excerpts of these interviews can also be heard on WPSU-FM and here at WPSU.org.
05-28-2012
WPSU is traveling to towns across central and northern Pennsylvania to collect oral history recordings. In March, we stopped in Huntingdon. Mary Ann Buckley talks with her uncle and aunt, Dean and Betty Grove. They talk about growing up in the Huntington area, and how they met in the local grange, which is an organization for…
05-23-2012
Douglas Stiffler, a Chinese history professor from Juniata College talks with Mao Xiaoyu who is a student from China. Mao is interested in politics, and has discovered an admiration for a 1950’s Chinese student leader named Lin Zhao. The day before coming to America, Mao even took a trip to visit her grave.
05-21-2012
WPSU is traveling to towns across central and northern Pennsylvania to collect oral history recordings. In March, we stopped in Huntingdon. Herman Nagle talks with his son Roy Nagle. They talk about Herman’s experience growing up in Altoona during World War II.
05-16-2012
WPSU is traveling to towns across central and northern Pennsylvania to collect oral history recordings. In March, we stopped in Huntingdon. Robert Wagoner talks with his former student Sarah Worley. They talk about Wagoner’s years of teaching and his close encounter with medieval Russian icons.
05-14-2012
WPSU is traveling to towns across central and northern Pennsylvania to collect oral history recordings. In March, we stopped in Huntingdon. Eugene Goshorn talks with his wife Alberta Goshorn. They talk about Goshorn’s childhood memories with his grandfather, who died of silicosis after years of working in a local brickyard.
03-09-2012
WPSU is traveling to towns across central and northern Pennsylvania to collect oral history recordings. The first stop was in Bradford, in McKean County. Justin Willoughby talks with his friend Josh Hatcher. They talk about Willoughby’s long struggle to lose weight, about 600 pounds so far.
03-05-2012
WPSU is traveling to towns across central and northern Pennsylvania to collect oral history recordings. The first stop was in Bradford, in McKean County. Dick McDowell, the President of Pitt-Bradford from 1973 to 2002, talks with his long time colleague Jim Evans. Evans is currently the Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs at the university.…
02-29-2012
WPSU is traveling to towns across central and northern Pennsylvania to collect oral history recordings. The first stop was in Bradford, in McKean County. Christina Siewe, who was born in Cameroon, talks with her friend Tammy Haley about their experiences volunteering at a health clinic in Siewe’s hometown. Siewe helped create the clinic and it’s run…
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Presentation of WPSU’s StoryCorps Bradford is made possible in part by grants from: American Refining Group
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