Melissa Terry
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The Artist Behind Atlanta's Tiny Doors
If you've ever been on the BeltLine or in one of the intown neighborhoods, you might have noticed a tiny… door. They're less than a foot tall, eye-catching and surprisingly detailed. They're part of an art project called Tiny Doors ATL. The creator behind it is Karen Anderson. She recently shared the StoryCorps → Read More
2 Years Later: Looking Back On Horror Of Pulse Shooting
June 12 marks the two-year anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. Last year, as part of a partnership with the Family Equality Council, StoryCorps recorded the stories of survivors and first responders. Today, we’ll hear from survivor Chris Hansen as he recounts that day – which began June → Read More
StoryCorps Atlanta: 2 Sisters Find Out More About Dad's Childhood
In this episode of StoryCorps Atlanta, two sisters, Katie Mercier and Jane Upton, invited their father into the booth. The two wanted to discuss his childhood. As a boy, their father, Mark Whittaker, moved from rural Appalachia to Cincinnati. This story was recorded in partnership with the Atlanta History Center, → Read More
'We Were The First Women Police Officers'
When June Garrow was growing up in Alabama in the 1930s and 40s, her father was the Chief-of-Police. She had many jobs as a young woman, even as a school c → Read More
StoryCorps Atlanta: Congressman John Lewis Remembers Martin Luther King Jr.
Wednesday -- April 4, 2018 -- marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. At the StoryCorps Atlanta booth, Congressman an → Read More
StoryCorps Atlanta: Sharecropping Life In Rural, Mid-Century Georgia
For the final week of Black History Month on StoryCorps Atlanta, we bring you the story of 73-year-old Ruby Cunningham who grew up in a sharecropping famil → Read More
StoryCorps Atlanta: A Millennial-Style Proposal For The Ages
Claire and Antonio Bush met at Howard University in 2005 and have been together almost since then. In the StoryCorps Atlanta booth, they talk about the day → Read More
A Jewish Army Officer Remembers A Christmas Dinner In Germany
In 1963 after basic officer training, Murray Friedman was stationed in Germany. Like us on Facebook As a Jewish man, he was hesitant about how he would be → Read More
A Tour Bus Driver Looks Back On A Life On The Road
Like many people, Phines Bell, Jr. started out small and gradually worked his way up. In his case, he started behind the wheel of a school bus before becom → Read More
From Street Food In Mali To Thanksgiving In America
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees Ryan Novak and Leah Moriarty met around three years ago in a briefing room the night before they were → Read More
A Photographer On The Front Lines Of Opposing Viewpoints
Brandon English, 28, is a visual artist and freelance photojournalist. Like us on Facebook In the StoryCorps Atlanta booth, he tells former colleague Ed Ha → Read More
Warm Memories Of Overseas Modeling Work During The Cold War
Jacqueline Chester, 79, was a teenager when she realized she had model potential. Like us on Facebook She participated in several fashion shows in her nati → Read More
She Gave Her Mom The Ultimate Gift: A Kidney
In June of 2013, then-38-year-old Sabina Agha was diagnosed with a degenerative auto-immune kidney disease. Eight months later, she began receiving a less → Read More
From An Early Age, Her Fight For Gender Equality 'Persisted'
Seventy-year-old Jan Pratt was born in 1947 and raised in small mill towns throughout Lancashire, England. She had no interest in what traditional careers → Read More
Self-Proclaimed 'Geeks In Crime' Discuss Dragon Con
Labor Day in Atlanta means a lot of things to a lot of people. For about 80,000 of those people, it means Dragon Con. Today on "StoryCorps Atlanta," we’ll → Read More
A Mother Talks Openly About Tough Times
Emilia Roman-Torres was 20 years old when she had her first child. Like us on Facebook The father was not in the picture, and she would be a young, single → Read More
Woman Remembers Moving From The Farm To ‘70s Atlanta
Cindy Gilmore was born the youngest of five children in the small farm town of Prattville, Alabama in 1964. She lived there until the mid 1970s when her → Read More
Atlanta Woman Finds 'Opportunity No. 3' In A Letter
Audio File Edit | Remove 81-year-old Anna Belle Illien is admittedly “not one to pass up opportunities." She has had several careers throughout the decades → Read More
94-Year-Old Native Atlantan Remembers Old Downtown
Margaret Jacobs was born in a small hospital on Mitchell Street in Downtown Atlanta in 1922. Like us on Facebook Now 94 years old and with a razor-sharp → Read More
Atlanta Man Remembers The Start Of A 63-Year-Long Romance
On Sunday families across the country celebrated moms near and far, both present and those that have passed. In the StoryCorps Atlanta booth, Bill Hagan → Read More