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NPR's StoryCorps Project To Collect Interviews In Tampa

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By CHRISTIAN M. WADE | The Tampa Tribune

Published: December 8, 2008

TAMPA - Got a story to tell? National Public Radio wants to listen.

StoryCorps, a nationwide initiative to document everyday history and the stories of average Americans, will spend the next month in Tampa's historic Ybor City, collecting interviews and recordings for broadcast on public radio and for the Library of Congress.

The StoryCorps mobile recording booth will be parked in the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office parking lot at 1900 Eighth Ave. from Friday to Dec. 22 and again from Jan. 5 to 17.

Participants walk away with a CD of their interview. With their permission, a second copy will be sent to the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress to become part of a digital archive. This collection will eventually grow into an oral history of America.

Selected segments will also air nationally on NPR's "Morning Edition."

StoryCorps, created by NPR documentary producer Dave Isay, is the largest oral history project ever undertaken, with plans to collect more than 250,000 interviews over the next decade. The project is sponsored by NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

A reception will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. in the Ybor City Museum State Park Gardens on 1800 E. Ninth Ave. The mobile recording booth will open on Thursday for information and registration. Interviews will begin Friday.

For information, contact the Ybor City Development Corp. at (813) 274-7917 or visit www.storycorps.net.

Reporter Christian M. Wade can be reached at (813) 259-7679.

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