StoryCorps in New Hampshire

Listening In: A StoryCorps in Berlin Special
Interviews at the StoryCorps Mobile Booth begin with a question, but the exciting part is the answer. Because, whether it’s from someone we know and love, or from someone we’ve just met, the answer tells us something we didn’t know.

NHPR brought the Mobile Booth to Berlin in summer 2009. We’ll listen in to a few interviews based loosely on the theme of commitment.

StoryCorps booth in Berlin

The StoryCorps Booth in Berlin.
(Courtesy Erik Eisele)

StoryCorps in Berlin
summer 2009

Tess George
"I said, 'I want you to know that it’s OK with me if you need to go.' So she said, 'I don’t ever want you to think of me as a quitter.'"
Nashua’s Tess George stopped by the StoryCorps Mobile booth last June with her friend Sandy Bothmer. Tess’s mother was confined to her bed in the final months of her life, and Tess provided care during that time. Tess remembers the months being fraught with meaning.

Suzanne and Alan Moberly
"I was working as a rural carrier...when there had been a mis-delivery of a special delivery letter. That’s when our lives began to intersect once again..."
Suzanne and Alan Moberly of Littleton, New Hampshire recall their early relationship as professor and student, the obstacles that kept them apart, and the chance encounter that, years later, brought them together.

Sr. Monique Terriault
"My sister was the first, after graduating high school, to enter the Sisters of Mercy. And I guess I must have really liked what I saw, because I followed 14 months later."
Berlin's Sister Monique Terriault stopped by the mobile booth this month with her friend, Catherine McDowell, to discuss her experiences with the Sisters of Mercy.

StoryCorps booth in front of the New Hampshire State House.
StoryCorps Mobile Booth at the State House in Concord. (Cheryl Senter, NHPR)

StoryCorps in Concord
summer 2007

Norma Price
"When we were getting married I had to fill out a 65-page questionnaire, and he had to sign a letter of conditional resignation..."
Keene's Norma Price stopped at the mobile booth with her daughter, Karen House, to talk about about what it was like living with the secret she and her husband had to keep.

Louis Emond
"They had found a WWII bomb that had missed the bridge and had not detonated..."
Louis Emond spent some time in Italy before moving to Nashua - and running into someone else who'd spent some time in Italy.

Kathy Bates and Lynne Vachon
"Life stops when my personal care stops..."
Somersworth's Kathy Bates explains to her friend Lynne Vachon some of the challenges she faces on a daily basis.

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