StoryCorps Southwest Florida
Thursdays 8:44am and 5:44pm
Local stories recorded by StoryCorps during its visit to Fort Myers during January 2017. StoryCorps’ mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.
Latest Episodes
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Ninety-year-old Ted Lewis of Fort Myers went into the StoryCorps booth with his daughter Kira Lewis to describe his service during World War Two flying a… -
NFL Panther safety Tre Boston is from Fort Myers. Today we hear from his mother, 43-year-old Iris De Hoyos. She went into the StoryCorps booth with her… -
Today’s StoryCorps subject goes by two names: Michael Clay Johnson and Luigi Pasquale Enfante. The 70-year-old talks with his wife, 73-year-old Margaret… -
David and Jonathan Castano of Fort Myers grew up together without a father figure. The brothers in their twenties have a close bond and they came to the… -
Alberita Johnson grew up in Queens, New York where she was bussed to white schools and says she experienced racial violence in the 1970’s. At the Story… -
Patricia Sala and Larry Aguilar have been together eight years. They are working on growing past the death of her 27-year-old son Evan Shepherd, who was… -
Forty-three years ago - on March 1, 1974 - a grand jury in Washington, D.C., indicted several former aides of President Nixon for conspiring to cover up… -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhtcndTRrUkDr. Robert Hilliard of Sanibel was a 19-year-old Purple Heart recipient serving as a reporter in the U.S. Army…
