Four years after recording New Orleanians' post-Katrina stories in Jackson Square (early 2006), StoryCorps returned to New Orleans, hosted by WWNO. Using its Mobile Recording Booth, located at the National World War II Museum in the Warehouse District, StoryCorps staff recorded 140 interviews from March 18 to April 17.

StoryCorps is an independent, nonprofit, oral history project whose mission is to honor and celebrate one another's lives through listening. Criss-crossing the country in two mobile units year-round, recording the stories, life experiences, and conversations of everyday people, StoryCorps preserves these recordings in the National Folk Life Center archive at the Library of Congress. Selected stories are also broadcast each Friday on NPR's Morning Edition.

StoryCorps New Orleans interviews were recorded by StoryCorps staff. The complete recordings will be available locally at the Earl K. Long Library at the University of New Orleans. The interview excerpts here have been selected and produced by WWNO producer Eileen Fleming, with support from the WWNO Productions Fund and Villere & Co., managing the investments of New Orleans families for almost 100 years.

(Photo by Rusty Costanza/TheTimes-Picayune)
StoryCorps staff member Sara Culver readies husband and wife Jim Atwood and Patti Adams for their interview on March 19, at the beginning of StoryCorps' New Orleans visit.

Want to know more?

Listen to WWNO 89.9 FM
or KTLN 90.5 FM
Thursdays at 7:33am or 6:55pm.
-
Listen to Katrina stories from 2006.
-
Read every Thursday in
The Times-Picayune, or
anytime at nola.com/storycorps.

Organized by WWNO and

Presented with support from

Collaborators