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StoryCorps

WPLN’s StoryCorps: Casting a First Vote

Bradley George

July 30, 2012

Listen Now: For the last few weeks, we’ve been bringing you stories recorded in Middle Tennessee, during StoryCorps’ recent visit to Nashville. Today, we close out the series with the story of Remziya Sulyeman. She cast her first vote in America, in 2005. But it wasn’t on a US ballot.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Arts and Life, Elections, Immigration, StoryCorps

WPLN’s StoryCorps: A Father’s Legacy

Bradley George

July 16, 2012

Listen Now: Andy Downs loves airplanes. He’s a licensed pilot and even owned a charter service at one point. It’s a love he inherited from his father, who he never got to know.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: StoryCorps

WPLN’s StoryCorps:Books Provide an Escape from Poverty

Bradley George

July 9, 2012

Listen Now: 67-year-old Loney Fred Hutchins grew up dirt poor in the mountains of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. He was the middle child in a family of eight. Loney Fred talked with his son about what it was like to grow up in a family where neither of his parents could read or write.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: Audio News Features, StoryCorps

WPLN’s StoryCorps: Becoming a Family

Bradley George

July 2, 2012

Listen Now: Kate Clarke’s mother died when she was six. After that, she went to live with her aunt and uncle, Chris and Maryanna. The couple wanted to adopt Kate, but they were hesitant because they needed permission from Kate’s estranged father. That’s when Kate says she took matters into her own hands.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Audio News Features, StoryCorps

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