StoryCorps

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.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in February 2024, Jen Hayes interviews her mother, Sherry Hayes, about Sherry’s early childhood in foster care, the loss of Sherry’s adoptive mother at an early age, and the importance and power of forgiveness.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in Feb. 2024, married couple Alex Saiu and Nazma Niles talk about their relationship, graduating college amid the Great Recession, and building their lives and careers in Southwest Florida over the past ten years.

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 Feb. 2024, Sunny Lubner interviews her good friend Stephanie Davis about her childhood troubles, including the stigma of having a lesbian mother and an escape attempt from a camp for troubled girls.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in Feb. 2024, we hear Jennifer Fallon speaking with her partner Robert Conk about how they met, their decision to move to Southwest Florida, their relationship, and the importance of laughter.