StoryCorps

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.

In this encore installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in Feb. 2024, Dr. Pierre Lorado tells his wife Elizabeth Lorado about his childhood, daring to dream big, defying others’ expectations, and becoming a pediatrician.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in March 2024, we hear best friends Navneet Chaudhary and Elizabeth Loredo talk about Chaudhary’s journey from India to the U.S. and the hard work and sacrifice that led to her building her own business in Fort Myers.

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.