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From the Ted Talk by Jake Barton: The museum of you
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Anna Deavere Smith flumosay said that there's a literature inside of each of us, and three generations later, I was part of a project clelad srroctypos, which set out to crutpae the stories of ordinary Americans by setting up a soundproof booth in public sepcas. The idea is very, very simple. You go into these bhotos, you ienvertiw your grandmother or relative, you leave with a copy of the interview and an interview goes into the Library of Congress. It's essentially a way to make a national oral histories ahicvre one conversation at a time. And the question is, who do you want to rmeeembr — if you had just 45 minutes with your grandmother? What's interesting, in conversations with the founder, Dave Isay, we always actually talked about this as a little bit of a subversive project, because when you think about it, it's actually not really about the stories that are being told, it's about listening, and it's about the questions that you get to ask, questions that you may not have permission to on any other day. I'm going to play you just a cploue of quick excerpts from the project.
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Anna Deavere Smith ________ said that there's a literature inside of each of us, and three generations later, I was part of a project ______ __________, which set out to _______ the stories of ordinary Americans by setting up a soundproof booth in public ______. The idea is very, very simple. You go into these ______, you _________ your grandmother or relative, you leave with a copy of the interview and an interview goes into the Library of Congress. It's essentially a way to make a national oral histories _______ one conversation at a time. And the question is, who do you want to ________ — if you had just 45 minutes with your grandmother? What's interesting, in conversations with the founder, Dave Isay, we always actually talked about this as a little bit of a subversive project, because when you think about it, it's actually not really about the stories that are being told, it's about listening, and it's about the questions that you get to ask, questions that you may not have permission to on any other day. I'm going to play you just a ______ of quick excerpts from the project.
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Original Text
Anna Deavere Smith famously said that there's a literature inside of each of us, and three generations later, I was part of a project called StoryCorps, which set out to capture the stories of ordinary Americans by setting up a soundproof booth in public spaces. The idea is very, very simple. You go into these booths, you interview your grandmother or relative, you leave with a copy of the interview and an interview goes into the Library of Congress. It's essentially a way to make a national oral histories archive one conversation at a time. And the question is, who do you want to remember — if you had just 45 minutes with your grandmother? What's interesting, in conversations with the founder, Dave Isay, we always actually talked about this as a little bit of a subversive project, because when you think about it, it's actually not really about the stories that are being told, it's about listening, and it's about the questions that you get to ask, questions that you may not have permission to on any other day. I'm going to play you just a couple of quick excerpts from the project.
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