StoryCorps is an oral history project based on the idea that the stories of everyday people are the most interesting of all. In December, the StoryCorps mobile booth set up shop in Jacksonville, and dozens of interviews were recorded. Over the next several months we’ll bring you excerpts from these interviews.
The StoryCorps Project: First Coast Reflections
In the winter of 2009 the StoryCorps Initiative came to Jacksonville to record the memories and thoughts of First Coast residents. The following is a one-hour compilation of some of the moments from those interviews.
Eshe I-Nesbit
Eshe I-Nesbit speaks with her mother, Celeste Havis.
Carol Alexander
Carol Alexander and Lydia Stewart.
Shameem Siddiqui
Shameem and Jaleel Siddiqui speak with their son, S.A. Siddiqui, about adapting to life in America.
Amy Crane
Amy Crane reminisces with her sister, Andrea Spencer.
Minda Hatfield
Minda Hatfield speaks with her
adoptive mother, Milanie...
Beverly Hall
Beverly Hall talks with her daughter, Neeka Nicole Grafton...
Keith Green
Keith Green talks with his friend Al Letson about his years in the Navy...
Janice Ancrum
Janice Ancrum speaks with her friend and co-worker, Brandi Hill...
Patricia Williams
Patricia Williams reminisces with her brother, Carl Presha (PREE-shay)…
Barbara Abelhauser
Barbara Abelhauser speaks with her boyfriend, John Maycumber, about her job as a bridge tender…
Debbie Toro
Debbie Toro speaks with her husband Angel, whom she calls Sammy, about him being wrongfully convicted of murder in 1983, and her crusade to free him from prison…
Jerod Powers
Jerod Powers and his wife Frances talk about the early days of their courtship…
George Hamilton III and Becky Greenberg
Becky Greenberg speaks with her brother, Bill Hamilton, about the importance of traditions in their family – particularly around Christmas…
Tommy Dunham
Tommy Dunham speaks with his sister Nancy Smith and friend Valsan Pulikidan about growing up with autism…
Rick and Pat Bell
Rick and Pat Bell remember their son, Evan…
Gen Fields
Gen Fields muses on a memory of her mother and sister with her daughter, Tricia Fields...
Alton Yates
Alton Yates : Jacksonville Civil Rights pioneer Alton Yates talks with his daughter Toni about an incident that occurred shortly after he got out of the military in 1960
Frances Bartlett Kinne
Frances Bartlett Kinne: Frances Bartlett Kinne (Kinney) talks with her friend Mary Beth Wharen (WAR-on) about her experience as a university student in post-war Frankfurt, Germany.