http://storycorps.org/listen/stories/ken-morganstern-priya-morganstern-and-bhavani-jaroff/
I chose
this clip for both the content and the method of presentation. The clip is part
of an ongoing NPR series called StoryCorps, a nonprofit oral history project
that allows anyone to record brief personal interviews of a friend or relative.
The stories people tell range from traumatic to romantic to philosophical, and
they give a brief sense into the lives of people with a wide range of
experiences and who have lived through different historical settings. Over
40,000 different interviews have been recorded and archived in the Library of
Congress since 2003. I think StoryCorps gives people today glimpses into
different times and experiences from their own, in brief, easily-accessible
packages. The emotion carried through the human voice cannot truly be represented
in print journalism, and I also love that this mode of presentation (audio)
allows for listeners to form their own pictures of the people/scenes being
described and truly engage with the interviewee’s story.
In this
particular clip, a father with Alzheimer’s talks about his immediate family
history and his overall satisfaction with life, even though he cannot remember
facts like where he met his wife or his son’s name. I love this clip because it
helps people who haven’t had experience with a person with Alzheimer’s better
understand people with the disease: especially how, even with their amnesia,
they can still enjoy and appreciate life, and how friends and family members can
still love and appreciate the person with Alzheimer’s for who they are.
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