Story Archives of 'Berlin'

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.

That’s the basic mission of StoryCorps, to travel around the country in a mobile recording booth and chronicle the answers, those things that we didn’t know.

NHPR brought the Mobile Booth to Berlin in summer 2009. More than 200 people turned out and recorded over 100 interviews. We’ll listen in to a few interviews based loosely on the theme of commitment.

Mary Wilkinson-Greenberg of Jackson had a special affinity for children, which led her to become a teacher. And the highlight of her life, she says, was the day she first held her son, Tim.

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.

Gordon Adams and Priscilla Guitard both grew up in Berlin. Though they didn’t meet until they had joined the ranks of New Hampshire’s seniors, the many common threads in their lives led them to become good friends.

Randolph's Rebecca Boothman shared some of of her family's experiences in the hotel business with her son Jeffrey Parker.