StoryCorps San Joaquin

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Stories from the heart of California's San Joaquin Valley. Produced by Valley Public Radio.

Episodes

  1. 05/07/2021

    StoryCorps San Joaquin - A Male Impersonator Recalls Her Heyday As An Entertainer

    And now to StoryCorps San Joaquin, a series based on our collaboration with the personal history project, StoryCorps. In this edited conversation from February's 2020 mobile tour in the Valley, 23-year-old Emalee Farley interviews 75-year-old El Daña about her life as a male impersonator entertaining in Fresno and beyond.

    5 min

  2. 03/06/2021

    StoryCorps San Joaquin - Life Partners On Finding Home In Fresno And A Love For The Community

    And now to StoryCorps San Joaquin, a series documenting the stories of Valley residents, based on our collaboration with the personal history project. In this conversation, Gabe Mora interviews his life partner, Don Simmons, a Fresno State professor and historic preservation enthusiast. They talk about building their life together in Fresno. For Don, he didn’t expect to grow to love this city, especially after a life-changing tragedy on 9/11. But his work in the community led him to find meaning in its history and its people. Don Simmons starts.

    6 min

  3. 03/05/2021

    StoryCorps San Joaquin - A Mother Tells Her Daughter About Living Through The Hiroshima Bombing

    And now to StoryCorps San Joaquin, a series based on our collaboration with the personal history project, StoryCorps. In this edited conversation from February's 2020 mobile tour in Fresno, 64-year-old daughter Nadine Takeuchi asks her 88-year-old mother Harumi Sasaki about her experience as a Japanese-American teenager living through the Hiroshima bombing.

    7 min

  4. 02/13/2021

    StoryCorps San Joaquin - A Best Friend Shares Her Father's Story: A Trip To Hiroshima During WWII

    In this StoryCorps San Joaquin segment, 53-year-old Joan Yamate Taketa talks with her lifelong friend Celeste Johnston, 54, about what she has learned of her paternal family history. The two also talk about their decades-long close friendship. Joan calls Celeste the “repository of a lot of her memories” and shares a story about her father. When Joan’s father was a young boy in the United States, he travelled with his mother to Japan to retrieve his older sister, who had been going to school near Hiroshima. And then Pearl Harbor was bombed. Joan tells Celeste the rest of the story.

    6 min

  5. 01/30/2021

    StoryCorps San Joaquin: A Fresnan Fondly Recalls Life Lessons From His Pioneering Grandma

    And now it’s time for StoryCorps San Joaquin, edited conversations from the mobile 2020 tour in Fresno and Bakersfield documenting the stories of Valley residents. Today Jeff Bowman tells StoryCorps facilitator Ava Ahmadbeigi about childhood summers spent with his pioneering grandmother, Billy Murphy. At age 46, she became the first woman to operate a fire lookout tower in California, 8,000 feet up in the San Bernardino National Forest. That was shortly after WWII and she did it for the next 23 years.

    6 min

  6. 01/15/2021

    StoryCorps San Joaquin: A Daughter Learns More About Her Grandmother's Social Justice Legacy

    And now to StoryCorps San Joaquin, a series based on our collaboration with the personal history project Storycorps. In this edited conversation from February's 2020 mobile tour in Bakersfield, 15-year-old Emily Gorospe interviews her mother Valerie Gorospe about her grandmother, Teresa De Anda.

    7 min

  7. 12/18/2020

    StoryCorps San Joaquin: Giving Voice To Community, Tracing The History of CMAC

    Now to StoryCorps San Joaquin. This series is part of our collaboration with the personal history project. We’ll be airing segments over the next year based on recorded conversations from February’s 2020 mobile tour in Fresno and Bakersfield. In today’s feature: Giving voice to the community. You’ll hear from the team behind non-profit Community Media Access Collaborative about how it all started and its mission to serve the public through media access.

    6 min

  8. 11/06/2020

    StoryCorps San Joaquin: Practice What You Preach, Two Sisters Commemorate Their Loving Father

    And now it’s time for another StoryCorps San Joaquin. As part of our collaboration with the personal history project, we’ll be airing segments over the next year based on recorded conversations from February’s 2020 mobile tour in Fresno and Bakersfield. Today you’ll hear from two sisters, Diane Flowers and Marilyn Harris. They share stories about their beloved father, a man dedicated to peace and practicing what you preach. Diane starts the conversation.

    6 min

  9. 10/30/2020

    StoryCorps San Joaquin: Mother And Daughter Trace Their Roots In El Salvador, Talk Food And Family

    And now it’s time for another episode of StoryCorps San Joaquin. As part of Valley Public Radio’s collaboration with the personal history project, we’re airing segments based on recorded conversations from February’s 2020 mobile tour in Fresno and Bakersfield. Today, we’re going to hear from mother and daughter, Maria and Jasmine Leiva as they trace their family roots in El Salvador.

    6 min

  10. 10/09/2020

    StoryCorps San Joaquin: Lifelong Friends Talk About Internment Camps, Racism

    And now it's time for another segment of StoryCorps San Joaquin. As part of Valley Public Radio’s collaboration with the personal history project, we’re airing segments based on recorded conversations from February’s 2020 mobile tour in Fresno and Bakersfield. Today, as part of the Yonsei Memory Project, you’ll hear from lifelong friends, 94-year-old Gary Tsudama and 87-year-old Yutaka Yamamoto. They talk about the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II and how they adjusted to life afterward. Tsudama begins.

    6 min

  11. 07/24/2020

    StoryCorps San Joaquin: Two Fresno Religious Leaders Talk Interfaith Work And Friendship

    In February and March, the StoryCorps mobile 2020 tour was in Fresno and Bakersfield documenting the stories of San Joaquin Valley residents. As part of Valley Public Radio’s collaboration with the personal history project, we’ll be producing segments over the next year based on some of these recorded conversations. Today you’ll hear from two religious leaders in Fresno: Rabbi Rick Winer of Temple Beth Israel and Reza Nekumanesh, executive director of the Islamic Cultural Center. Both are board members for Faith in the Valley. They talk about the value of Fresno’s interfaith community, social activism and most especially, their friendship. Rabbi Rick Winer starts the conversation.

    6 min

  12. 03/13/2020

    StoryCorps San Joaquin: Siblings Juan Luis And Berenice Guzman Talk About Home And Kind Teachers

    Valley Public Radio has partnered with the personal history project StoryCorps and its 2020 mobile tour. Since February 12, StoryCorps has been in Fresno and Bakersfield documenting the stories of residents in the San Joaquin Valley. As part of our collaboration, we’ll be airing segments over the next year based on some of these recorded conversations.

    6 min
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Stories from the heart of California's San Joaquin Valley. Produced by Valley Public Radio.

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