Sacramento StoryCorps

Aired August 26, 2008
Jo Chandler loved her daughter Crista. So did the students and teachers of T.R. Smedberg Middle School in Elk Grove, where Crista taught English. But Jo didn’t realize just what an inspiration her daughter was until after Crista's death, as she tells stepdaughter Kristine.
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Aired August 19, 2008
The bombing of Pearl Harbor was a world-changing event. As 78-year-old Manteca resident Roger Falge recalls, it also marked his coming of age. A few days shy of his twelfth birthday, he was living in Lanikai, Hawaii when the attack took place.
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Aired August 12, 2008
Rebeca “Riki” Friedman and Dorothy Finkbeimer are widows in their 80’s who love taking nature walks. They met at their retirement lodge and became fast friends. That's remarkable since as young women they faced World War II from opposite sides.
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Aired August 5, 2008
Many people believe commitment is the key to a successful marriage. The same could be said of friendship. Every day over the past 12 years, best friends Maxine Barish-Wreden and Elizabeth Bell have tested their commitment with a morning phone call.
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Aired July 29, 2008
Julie and Cynthia were once ruled by their addictions. But with the love and support of their families — and their own resolve — they turned their troubled lives around. Now they devote much of their time and energy helping other women find hope.
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Aired July 22, 2008
More than six decades have passed since Alice Hayashi, her husband Akio and their young family were forced to move to a World War II internment camp. But the memories remain. Alice Hayashi shares some of those memories with her granddaughter Leslie Miyamoto Huffman and with us.
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Aired July 15, 2008
Jennifer Hayes first met her biological father Bill Boudier in 1990, when she was in her 20’s. Today, they have a rich and supportive relationship, but their first encounter was quite a shock...especially for Jennifer.
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Aired July 8, 2008
Auzy Clark was born in Missouri and had sixteen brothers and sisters. As the 79-year-old West Sacramento resident tells his own adopted son David, his greatest influence growing up was the grandmother who took him in and raised him.
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Aired July 1, 2008
In the first installment of KXJZ’s series companion to the national oral history project, meet 82-year-old Chester Cheung. Born in the delta town of Locke, south of Sacramento, Chester Cheung received important educational training as a youth in China.
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Listen to more interviews, view pictures and read blog entries as you discover the story behind StoryCorps, the award-winning oral history project created by veteran radio documentary producer David Isay.

And be sure to check out NPR’s StoryCorps website.