This edition of Narrative features an interview from StoryCorps, an oral history project based on the idea that the stories of everyday people are the most important and interesting of all. When StoryCorps visited Charleston in 2012, Mary Alice Mack talked with her friend Christine O. Jackson , who was the Executive Director of the Charleston YWCA for decades. Jackson had just taken on the role when the organization’s Charleston locations integrated in the 1960s.

This edition of Narrative features an interview from StoryCorps, an oral history project based on the idea that the stories of everyday people are the most important and interesting of all. When StoryCorps visited Columbia in 2016, Charles Philips interviewed his friend Gary Jackson about his experience in the Vietnam War as tank gunner. Here, Jackson talks about what happened to him in March 1971 when he was involved in Operation Lam Son 719 .

This edition of Narrative features an interview from StoryCorps , a unique oral history project that collects the voices of our times. When StoryCorps visited Columbia in 2016, George Kessler and his wife Monica Kessler talked about their journey to open an authentic Italian restaurant in Columbia. Here, George Kessler shares how he first learned to cook.

This edition of Narrative features an interview from StoryCorps , an oral history project where friends and loved ones interview each other. At the StoryCorps mobile booth in Charleston in 2012, Millicent Brown and her sister Minerva Brown King talked about their experience growing up during the Civil Rights era. When they were children, their father, J. Arthur Brown, was president of the Charleston chapter of the NAACP and later the statewide branch.

This edition of Narrative features an interview with John and Karri Scollon of the Columbia Marionette Theater . John’s mother, Allie Scollon , began creating puppet shows in the sixth grade, which grew into a lifetime of traveling the country, putting on shows with her husband and children. Allie is a contemporary of Jim Henson, and the family started one of world’s largest companies producing walking character costumes. Almost 30 years ago she opened the Columbia Marionette Theater and has

This edition of Narrative features an interview from StoryCorps, an oral history project based on the idea that the stories of everyday people are the most important and interesting of all. When the StoryCorps mobile booth visited Charleston in 2012, Corie Hipp interviewed with her friend and colleague Earnest Parks. As a Civil War re-enactor, Earnest has played the role of a soldier in the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, a union infantry made up of African American soldiers. Here, Earnest explains

This edition of Narrative features an interview from StoryCorps , a unique oral history project that collects the voices of our times. When StoryCorps visited Columbia in 2016, WWII Veteran Vernon Brantley shared his story with his friend Shannon Poteat. As a driver in the Army, Vernon fought in the Battle of the Bulge, Hitler’s last major campaign. Here, Shannon asks Vernon about his memories of the battle, which began on December 16, 1944.

This edition of Narrative features an interview from StoryCorps , a unique oral history project that collects the voices of our times. When StoryCorps visited Columbia in 2016, Sally McKay sat down with her father, Bud Tibshrany, to talk about her grandparents, who both emigrated from Lebanon and met in the US.

This edition of Narrative features an interview from StoryCorps, an oral history project where friends and loved ones interview each other. In 2016 at the StoryCorps mobile booth in Columbia, Kimberlyn Hicks and her daughter Taylor Hicks talked about an experience that strengthened their relationship and made them determined to succeed.

This edition of Narrative features an interview from StoryCorps, an oral history project where friends and loved ones interview each other. When StoryCorps visited Charleston in 2012, Madeleine McGee interviewed her father, Joseph H. McGee. In honor of Father's Day, South Carolina Public Radio's Haley Kellner presents a selection of this father-daughter interview. Throughout his 88 years, Joseph McGee has served the city of Charleston in many ways, including more than five decades as a lawyer