New project seeks US Latinos' oral histories

Gus Hernandez and his family spent two nights sleeping in their car before Siddiqi Hansoti gave them three weeks' stay in his motel and then, even better, a job.

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StoryCorps: Ordinary folks telling tales a big hit

Patsy Lawson and her husband, Herman, grew up in a patch of Appalachia with "no railroad, no airstrips, just subsistence farming." There she learned from her father — a "great natural storyteller" — how to turn everyday events into compelling tales.

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William Jacobs had a private conversation with his grandson that was overheard by millions of people.

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