2012 JANUARY Happy New Year!
STORY CORPS Never heard of it ? Neither had I until my diughter Laura Barrow called to proposition me to be interviewed by her for this national non profit oral history project. Since 2003 more than 30,000 interviews have been collected form all over the U.S. to be preserved at the American Folk Life Center in the Library of Congress. Story Corps' mobile taping booth is in Austin, TX for this month. So Laura and I made an appointment and went to the Bob Bullock State Museum where the Story Corps sound proof, state of the art recording booth is located in a tiny air stream trailer. For 40 minutes I answered her questions about growing up in Austin during World War II and about advice I might pass on to my grandchildren that included marriage, family, God and country. She directed and I rambled. Our photograph was taken by one of the two Story Corps staff persons and we were given a C.D. like the one to be archived in the Library of Congress. It was fun, painless and a really go