StoryCorps

Bucking stereotypes, a Black cowboy leads the way in South Central LA

Jey Born

Ghuan Featherstone founded Urban Saddles stables in 2019 to create a safe space where kids could ride horses. At StoryCorps, he tells a young rider a lesson he hopes to impart: a respect for all life.

Philip and Ruth Lazowski, both Holocaust survivors, married over a decade after Ruth's mother saved him from a massacre, Philip said.

A family helped a Holocaust survivor escape death. Then they became his real family

Jo Corona

At 11, Philip Lazowski found himself alone in a Nazi ghetto as Jews were being sent to their deaths during WWII. At StoryCorps, Philip, now 91, remembers a quick decision that may have saved his life.

Bobby Huber and his sister, Fritzi Huber at a StoryCorps interview in Wilmington, N.C., in September.

For their first Halloween, their parents dressed up as the whole neighborhood

Annie Russell

Every day is like Halloween when you're the children of costumed circus performers. Siblings Fritzi and Bobby Huber recount the time that their parents made their first Halloween extraordinary.

Grete Bergman, left, and Sarah Whalen-Lunn at their StoryCorps recording in Anchorage, Alaska, in 2018.

With 3 bold marks, Indigenous women helped revive a once-banned tradition

Jey Born

Grete Bergman was among the first Gwich'in women to get traditional facial markings since colonizers barred the practice. She and markings artist Sarah Whalen-Lunn did it for their daughters.

Anderson and Karen Lawson at their StoryCorps recording in Atlanta in 2015.

Their Dad Transformed Video Games In The 1970s — And Passed On His Pioneering Spirit

Lauren Smith

The late Jerry Lawson helped invent the first video game console with interchangeable games. His children say he brought the fun and games home and showed them they could create their own path.

Annie Perasa and her husband Danny are StoryCorps legends, recounting their love for one another since 2004.

'I'm Walking Out With You Alone': A StoryCorps Love Story

Michael Garofalo

Brooklynites Danny, an OTB clerk, and Annie, a nurse, began chronicling their life together in the early days of StoryCorps — from their first date to Danny's final days with terminal cancer.

He Buried The Unclaimed Dead On A New York Island. He Wants Others To Remember Them

Beau McCall (left) and Julaina Glass spoke for a StoryCorps interview in 2017 about how their relationship has blossomed over the years — from distant neighbors to close friends.

It Wasn't Friendship At First Sight. 35 Years On, They Found A 'Forever Love'

Jey Born

Young and on her own in New York, a bright-eyed Julaina Glass arrived in Beau McCall's Harlem apartment building. Though it took time, Glass endeared herself to McCall. "You're a part of me," he said.

When Jade Rone, left, was first taken into Stacia Parker's care, she kept her feelings to herself. At their StoryCorps interview in Philadelphia in June 2019, Parker told her, "I was trying to develop your voice."

'Searching For A Mom': A Foster Daughter Finds One – And A Voice Of Her Own

Kamilah Kashanie

When Jade Rone was placed in Stacia Parker's care, she kept her feelings to herself: "I just felt like I didn't matter." But Parker had different expectations for her.

Angela and George Ju spoke about their early days together at their StoryCorps interview in Spring Hill, Fla., in October 2018.

'We Mesh Together Like One': A Miami Love Story

Jey Born

When Angela walked into George's restaurant in 1971, he was immediately smitten. They married not two weeks later. At StoryCorps, George and Angela Ju remember those early days.