StoryCorps

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in 2024, we hear Finzo Hall and his mother Marcia Robinson talk about immigrating from Jamaica to the U.S, Finzo’s determination to follow his dream of becoming a pilot, and helping other young people achieve their dreams through the powers of faith and resiliency.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in 2024, we hear husband and wife Siddharth and Dharani Sridharan talk about how they met through an arranged marriage, their relationship, and building a life together in the U.S.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in Feb. 2024, lifelong friends Karen Hurst and Cathy Goodacre Smith share childhood memories of growing up on Fort Myers Beach in the 1950s and 60s.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in March 2024, we hear Samantha Garcia interview her mother Luzcelina “Lucy” Garcia, about her experience coming to the U.S. from Mexico as an undocumented immigrant when she was just a young teen, earning a master’s degree on her career path in social work, and what led her to create her own non-profit organization OILE, also known as “Healing Stitches.”

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in March 2024, we hear Ernesto Lasso de la Vega speaking with his former boss, who would later become the first Calusa Waterkeeper, John Cassani, about Cassani’s early ground-breaking research that created a tool for managing severe aquatic plant overgrowth without the use of pesticides, and how that tool became an industry standard.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in March 2024, we hear Vic and Candie Delnore talk about falling in love in their 40s, their volunteer work, and being busier in retirement than when they were working.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in March 2024, we hear hear Joy Gugliuzza speaking with her granddaughter Ella Gugliuzza about favorite memories, fears, aspirations, God, gratitude, and living in Florida with her Gigi and Poppy.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in March 2024, we hear Sunny Lubner interview her very good friend Ella Nayor about her career in journalism, her life-long interest in Holocaust studies and her passion for anti-hate work.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in March 2024, we hear Dr. Martin Price and his wife Bonnie Price talk about how their faith led them to the ECHO Global Farm in North Fort Myers.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in March 2024, we hear former CEO of the Dr. Piper Center Melissa Bonner and Shavon Chester, a member of the Center’s Board of Directors talk about the remarkable life, work and legacy of Dr. Ella Mae Piper, and the center’s ongoing social services outreach.