With the new year, we are on a new journey across the United States. In 2017, StoryCorps’ MobileBooth will travel more than 4,000 miles from the Gulf Coast of Florida to Michigan\u2019s Great Lakes, then down the Mississippi River finishing the year in Southern Texas along the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n
Follow us on Facebook<\/a> or Twitter<\/a> and be the first to know when appointments open up.<\/p>\n We are excited to work with the following NPR<\/a> affiliated radio stations to bring the iconic Airstream trailer to their communities…<\/p>\n January 5 \u2013 February 3<\/strong>, Fort Myers, FL,<\/span> in partnership with WGCU<\/a><\/p>\n February 9 \u2013 March 10<\/strong>, Mobile, AL,<\/span> in partnership with Alabama Public Radio<\/a><\/p>\n March 16 \u2013 April 14<\/strong>, Lexington, KY<\/span>,<\/span> in partnership with WUKY<\/a><\/p>\n April 20 \u2013 May 19, <\/strong>Cincinnati, OH<\/span>,<\/span> in partnership with Cincinnati Public Radio<\/a><\/p>\n May\u00a025 \u2013 June 23<\/strong>, Bloomington, IN<\/span>,<\/span> in partnership with WFIU<\/a><\/p>\n June 29 \u2013 July 28<\/strong>, Detroit, MI<\/span>,<\/span> in partnership with WDET<\/a><\/p>\n August 3 \u2013 September 1,<\/strong> Des Moines, IA<\/span>,<\/span> in partnership with Iowa Public Radio<\/a><\/p>\n September 7 \u2013 October 6<\/strong>, Minneapolis\u2013Saint Paul<\/span>, MN<\/span>,<\/span> in partnership with Minnesota Public Radio<\/a><\/p>\n October 12 \u2013 November 10<\/strong>, Shreveport, LA<\/span>,<\/span> in partnership with Red River Radio<\/a><\/p>\n November 16 \u2013 December 20<\/strong>, Corpus Christi, TX<\/span>,<\/span> in partnership with KEDT<\/a><\/p>\n Along the way, our iconic Airstream trailer and a crew of facilitators will stop in 10 cities for a month at a time each, recording meaningful conversations and preserving them in the StoryCorps archive in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nSince 2005, the StoryCorps MobileBooth Tour<\/a> has visited more than 200 cities and traveled nearly 100,000 miles. In each city StoryCorps works with station partners, cultural institutions, and community based organizations to help spread the word, and encourage people to record a conversation with someone they love to be preserved for future generations.<\/p>\n As StoryCorps works to become an enduring institution that touches the lives of every American, the MobileBooth Tour continues to provide an authentic StoryCorps experience to individuals across the country who may not otherwise have access to one of our permanent StoryBooths in Chicago<\/a>, San Francisco<\/a>, or Atlanta<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: SNPR Story Corps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the new year, we are on a new journey across the United States. In 2017, StoryCorps’ MobileBooth will travel more…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radio","tag-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2017\/02\/CA-Filter-Icon-Defaults-v1-Rd.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-6P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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