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Inspired Lives

Inspired Lives

Airs Wednesdays at 7:35 a.m. on NHPR

Inspired Lives, produced in conjunction with  Story Preservation Initiative™,  is a series of first-hand accounts of influential individuals who have taken their inspiration from their time in New England.

Mary Kuechenmeister started work on Story Preservation Initiative™ in 2010. Unofficially, Mary says she’s  been at it her whole life. Story Preservation Initiative represents the culmination of everything she’s ever done and everything she loves doing: writing, editing, and broadcast. And, of course, the added bonus she says, is meeting truly remarkable people.

Mary attributes her abiding interest in people’s life stories to many things, but mostly to two men who struck a chord in her very early on: Charles Kuralt, the quintessential On the Road reporter; and John Steinbeck, vis-à-vis "Travels with Charley" and "Log from the Sea of Cortez." Both men subscribed to the notion that everyone has a story. Mary says that she has never lost sight of that simple truth.

In her own words:



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