Saving Stories

This week marks the fifth anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti that killed more than 300,000 people. The Nunn Center's Doug Boyd talks about a major oral history project surrounding that disaster, the ongoing rebuild, and the challenge of translating many of these eyewitness accounts from Haitian-Creole into English.

A new documentary being aired in Kentucky will introduce viewers to the colorful characters who craft bourbon. The documentary draws from oral history interviews conducted by the University of Kentucky's Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History. In this special edition of Saving Stories Alan Lytle talks with Center Director Doug Boyd about " Kentucky Bourbon Tales: Distilling the Family Business."

On this Veterans' Day, we get a rare first-hand account of life in the trenches during the "War To End All Wars" fought a century ago.