Human Interest

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in March 2024, we hear sisters Jan Doetsch and Karla Doetsch Wheeler share memories of their parents who both served in the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II, and how they met in 1945 after the war ended.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in March 2024, we hear Sue and Curt Dunham talk about their more than six decades-long relationship, raising children, and their shared adventurous love of boating, which eventually led them to set down roots in Southwest Florida.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in March 2024, we hear Joan and Dick Jones talk about how the influence of their parents fostered a life-long curiosity about the world, and how that shaped their lives traveling the world together, in large part due to Dick’s work with the American Diplomatic Corps.

In this Halloween installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in February 2024, we hear author Kim Cool recount her experience of bringing psychics into the Sarasota winter home of circus mogul John Ringling and his wife Mable Burton Ringling in search of ghosts.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in March 2024, we hear Cornelius “Neil” Cahill and his wife, Linda Cahill, share remembrances of their late friend, Harry Snyder, including a story from Harry’s time as a U.S. combat veteran during World War II.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in March 2024, we Gene Dole share lessons he learned from Afar tribesmen while on paleoanthropological expeditions in Ethiopia more than 50 years ago.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in Feb. 2024, we hear friends Kiana Garius and Belinda Jones talk about their friendship, racial bias, and the importance of empathy, openness and paying it forward.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in Feb. 2024, we hear Lacey Martin interview her young daughter Zuzu about family, superpowers, dreams, and what Zuzu might do when she grows up.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in Feb. 2024, we hear Martha Bireda, Ph.D. talk with her son Jaha Cummings about perceptions of their own childhoods, the importance of family and community for POC during the Jim Crow era.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in Feb. 2024, we hear John Coopman and his wife Trudy Krintz-Coopman talk about their stories of loss, love, gratitude, and finding each other after they’d both lost spouses of more than four decades.