Adriana Gallardo

stop #8: Tulsa, OK Bible Belt learning, rural poetry, and the reconstruction of a community after the 1921 decimation of one of the wealthiest Black communities in the country.

St. Louis Public Media shared their new Public Media Commons at our first outdoors listening session. We recorded in Ferguson, MO 50+ days after the murder of Mike Brown & lead a workshop on StoryCorps at a local high school. The Native American Women’s circle were frequent visitors to the booth and quickly became friends of ours.

Stop #6 Grand Rapids, Michigan. Serious taco and beer city. Family and friends came by to record and visit. Summer ended well in Michigan.

Also found thriving circles of people invested in community and the arts. Spent a day recording on site in Troy, Ohio with a partner focused on giving it’s community a voice to express the vast reach poverty has on families and mental health.

Includes a conversation with two StoryCorps facilitators Chaela Herridge-Meyer and Adriana Gallardo. We also hear four stories recorded in Durham.

Stop #4: Durham, NC Easily as diverse as Rogers Park in Chicago or Brooklyn, NY but in The South. Great food and community on top of that. Less travel pics here because we spent most of our free time making friends and eating.

Stop #3: Huntsville, AL  We made rocket scientist friends, other wins included the music and food in nearby Nashville, TN. The South seemed the coldest and most segregated there, learned that progressive means very different things through each region we travel.

Stop #2: Gainesville, Florida. While in the norther part of Florida, we traveled to St. Augustine, FL. As the oldest city in the country, you can see the first Spanish armed castle in U.S., the first open air slave market, and Fort Mose.

Spent January in the St. Petersburg, FL area.

Congratulations to our newest graduates of the Vocalo Storytelling Workshop!