StoryCorps Wilmington

Matt and Judy are One Small Step conversation partners.

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One Small Step: "You're nicer than I expected"

Rachel Keith

Cape Fear region residents can sometimes clash with one another over controversial topics. That’s partly why WHQR has partnered with StoryCorps’ One Small Step program.The program brings strangers together across political divides — not to argue, but to learn about each other's lives.Judy and Matt are two such people who had this conversation.

Father and daughter John and Frances Murchison.

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StoryCorps Mobile Tour: Frances and John Murchison on childhood in a different era, and lessons learned there

From StoryCorps Mobile Tour’s stop in Wilmington last year, we bring you a conversation between Frances Murchison and her father John. John describes a childhood during a very different era — when parents trusted family and friends, not smart phones, to keep track of their children. John also reflects on the lessons he’s learned over the course of his long, richly lived life.

The StoryCorps MobileBooth on Sunday, June 24, 2018, in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.

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StoryCorps Mobile Tour Wilmington: Good grammar, love, and the Bean

Last year, the StoryCorps MobileBooth came to Wilmington and recorded rich stories of family, heritage, and personal struggle. WHQR News is thrilled to bring selections from this wonderful catalog of Wilmington conversations to our listeners.

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From the StoryCorps Archives: Katherine Weller to her Twins on their Remarkable Grandmother

Rachel Lewis Hilburn

It was four years ago when twin sisters Frances Weller and Margaret Weller-Stargell came to WHQR to record a conversation while the national StoryCorps…

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Friday Feedback for September 20, 2013

Listener John wrote:Michele Zapple wrote on our Facebook page about our use of StoryCorps archives from their time in Wilmington in 2011.We’d love to hear…