As part of a cross-country tour, the award-winning StoryCorps oral history project arrives in Santa Monica on Jan. 5 for a month-long residency on the Third Street Promenade at Wilshire Boulevard. Step into the nonprofit’s mobile recording studio — a converted Airstream — to record a meaningful conversation with a loved one or friend for posterity … and maybe even the Library of Congress! These intimate 40-minute interviews focus on two people discussing who they are, how they’ve met, what they’ve learned in life or how they want to be remembered. Appointments are available through Feb. 7 at storycorps.org/stops.
Photo by Ryan Dorgan
I am interested. I am a widow of 40 years marriage to an extraordinary man. He was in the Vietnam war. His
helicopter shot down twice. Fred was shot up years later still had schrappinal in his back. Was a wonderful father,
son, husband, brother. Fought cancer 5 times, lost his left kidney and cancer came back in the stomach.
Died 12/2/19. R.I.P. Fred Arellano