StoryCorps

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.

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.