Lehman Robinson converted to Islam when he was a teenager working at a secular Michigan summer camp. In this episode of StoryCorps Detroit, he tells his roommate what prompted him to do so.
In the mid-1990s, a Detroit artist brightened up the boarded-over display windows of the Hudson Building with chalk drawings of monsters. His renderings were on the iconic structure when it was blown up.
Detroiter Roy Sims was diagnosed with a serious heart condition that doctors told him would be his demise. “It got to the point where I was placed under hospice care. That itself is quite difficult, because the idea there is to accept death, your imminent death.” recalls Sims.
Detroiter Carlena Murdy tells her daughter Holly Gist-Richer about being one of the first machine repairwomen at a Detroit auto-parts factory in the 1970s.
One new Detroiter tells of the dramatic welcome gift she received from a woman in her 90s, now her "best friend" here.
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About StoryCorps Detroit
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StoryCorps seeks to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. StoryCorps Detroit features interviews…
recorded in the StoryCorps MobileBooth when it stopped in at the Detroit Institute of Arts in the summer of 2017. Sascha Raiyn is the host. Laura Herberg is the executive producer. StoryCorps Detroit is a production of WDET 101.9 FM and supported by the Detroit Historical Society.