Welcome Project: Recent Episodes
Welcome Project at Valparaiso University
Collecting stories to make a difference. These first-person stories are part of the Welcome Project, an audio and video collection at Valparaiso University. Visit us as welcomeproject.valpo.edu.
“I'm a man. I'm a trans man. I also want to do gender the way, like, butch lesbians do.”
Find a transcript for this story at welcomeproject.valpo.edu and listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and co-host Willow Walsh. This week's stories are "I Know Dirt" and "Eliminated by Technology."Find these stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and co-hosts Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's story is "We Were Them," and we'll be listening to the story with Valpo mayoral candidate Hannah Trueblood.Find "We Were Them" and the transcript at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and co-hosts Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Game Changer" and "That Fear Creeping Up."Find these stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and co-hosts Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Residential Segregation and Racial Inequality" and "Black Mecca."Find these stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and co-hosts Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's story is "I Get Food from the Food Bank" and we're also talking about a TikTok clip from Jack Corbett of Planet Money, "There are so many houses, and that is someone's fault."Find "I Get Food from the Food Bank" and many other stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and co-hosts Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week we're doing something new – Allison is interviewing Reagan about her effort to unionize a Starbucks store in Valparaiso.Find our stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and co-hosts Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Because I Can Forgive" and "Hold My Boundaries."Find these stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“I can understand him so much more now as an adult but as a child it was very hurtful.” Edited by Rebecca Werner.Find a transcript for this story at welcomeproject.valpo.edu and listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
"Most of my childhood that I actually really remember is in the United States, so I am still struggling to find a home."Edited by Nick Ladeau.Find a video version of this story and its transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
"...they wanted to fit in… they loved the idea of community… I mean, I think everybody wants that sense of belonging."Edited by Rebecca Werner.Find a transcript for this story at welcomeproject.valpo.edu and listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project co-hosts Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Responding to a Report" and "Barrier Number One."Find these stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project co-hosts Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Outside In Instead of Inside Out" and "To Have a Yacht in Valpo."Find these stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project co-hosts Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Shocked" and "Assimilating to a New Culture."
Find these stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
"I'm not living in any subdivision, never."
Edited by Nick Ladeau.
Find this story and its transcript at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“I think one of the greatest things about coming into a new culture and assimilating to it is the fact that you actually understand your culture better.”
Edited by Nick Ladeau.
Find this story and its transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project co-hosts Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "It's Not You, It's Your Gender" and "I See Myself as a Bridge."
Find these stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“We had this huge exodus and the population went from majority white to majority black.”
Find this story and its transcript at welcomeproject.valpo.edu and listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's story, "The Concerned Latins Organization," is of historian Emiliano Aguilar sharing the history Latinx communities in Northwest Indiana.
Find these stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-directors Allison Schuette and Liz Wuerffel along with our guest, Jp Avila. This week's stories are "Remember Where You Came From" and "My Father Had to Take on Two Jobs."
Find these stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Kept Quiet and Nodded" and "Not Something that You Force."
Find these stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Some of the Best Ground in the World," "Division Road," and "Home for Good, I'm Sure."
Find these stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week, Allison is bringing in a text into conversation, along with a story from our Invisible Project initiative – Made Us Feel Low.
Find these two stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“That whole transition from having a nice house to being homeless – it was a shock.” Edited by Amanda Yonushatis.
Part 1 of this story comes from our Invisible Project collection, which aims to make visible the experiences of homelessness in our community. Find this story and its transcript at welcomeproject.valpo.edu. Tune into our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“They just get thrown out on the streets.”
Edited by Amanda Yonushatis.
This is part 3 of a 3-part story for our Invisible Project collection, which aims to make visible local experiences of homelessness. Find this story and its transcript at welcomeproject.valpo.edu and listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“That’s what will kill you quick – that ground temp will pull the heat away from your body.”
Edited by Amanda Yonushatis.
This is part 2 of a 3-part story; it's part of our Invisible Project collection, which aims to make visible local experiences of homelessness. Find this story and its transcript at welcomeproject.valpo.edu and listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This weeks stories are "Bicultural in a Deaf Home" and "Words Have Power."
Find these two stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
"Living in your car... it's not a home."
Story by Connor O'Hagin; edited by Amanda Yonushatis.
This story comes from our Invisible Project collection, which aims to make visible the experiences of homelessness in our community. Find this story and its transcript at welcomeproject.valpo.edu. Tune into our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh, along with two guests – Dana Darr and Libby Middendorf! This week, the crew is responding to a street protest following the Supreme Court's Roe v Wade decision, and shares audio from that as well as excerpts from two Welcome Project stories:
Find these two stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
"Today and tomorrow are going to be frigid – zero degrees again." A story by Eric Beaubreau. Edited by Amanda Yonushatis.
Find this story and its transcript at welcomeproject.valpo.edu Listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. In celebration of Pride, Allison and Willow are diving into their own stories and the many friends and role models who helped them better understand themselves.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs, along with a guest – Welcome Project co-director Liz Wuerffel! This week we're celebrating Pride month by listening to "Let There Be Cake." Please excuse the quality – we were traveling so had to record over Zoom.
You can find the transcript for "Let There Be Cake" at welcomeproject.valpo.edu. It was produced by Lisa Zandy. Thanks, Lisa!
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "We Are a Unit" and "Very White Looking."
Find these two stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Please, God, Let It Rain" and "Still Working on the Revolution."
Find these two stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh! This week's stories are Never Felt Pressured to Wear It and Hijab is Not Just This Cloth.
Find these two stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“I remember having to make a distinct choice of who I was going to hang out with.”
In this week's story, the storyteller describes what it was like growing up Mexican-American, looking white, and choosing to identify with her white peers during middle school and high school.
Find this stories and its transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Not Just Another Student" and "Fall through the Cracks."
Find these two stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh, along with a guest – Beth Schuette! This week's stories are "Racial Segregation and Racial Inequality" and "The Strike at Froebel."
Find these two stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“I tried to make it as much about love, and the fact that I love you so much, I'm going to call you out on your bullshit.”
This Welcome Project story was edited by Nick Ladeau.
Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Here’s a link to the transcript: https://welcomeproject.valpo.edu/2022/04/12/i-didnt-want-to-be-the-stigma-anymore/
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week we have a guest in the house! Our stories are "Naming Can Be Powerful" and "We're Not That Far Along."
You can find these particular stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“I don’t always like to make my identity so easy for people.”
Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Find the transcript here: https://welcomeproject.valpo.edu/2022/03/29/never-felt-pressured-to-wear-it/
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh, along with a guest – Beth Schuette! This week's stories are Curious in a Very Positive Way and Seeking Some Level of Normalcy.
Find these two stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are Remember Where You Came From and Hitting Home. You can find the video version of these stories and transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh and special guest Kat Peters. This week's stories are How We Ended Up Coming to Gary and Not Newcomers.
Find these stories and more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh. This week's stories are We Were Them and What It's Like to Be in that Position.
Find these stories and more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
"As I got older...my freedom to be outside was definitely different."
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Edited by Olivia Brown
Find the transcript here: https://welcomeproject.valpo.edu/2022/01/25/starting-to-change/
Listen or watch more stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or tune into our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
We wrapped up 2021 with a End of Year Show where co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs chat about spirituality and the holiday season.
Find us at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "You Pay for It in the End" and "Fascinated by the Steel Mills."
Find these stories and more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“Nowadays, most of these farms have ripped all the fences out and they can take the 40-acre fields and they make them into 200 and 300.”
~ Edited by Nick Ladeau for the Welcome Project ~
You can find the transcript to this story here: https://welcomeproject.valpo.edu/2021/12/15/some-of-the-best-ground-in-the-world/
“That's a really big catalyst for the competition that we see in the region – because everybody's so close together, they don't want to be associated with the other one.”
Edited by Chris Gere for the Welcome Project.
Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Here’s a link to the transcript: https://welcomeproject.valpo.edu/2021/12/07/the-region-is-a-puzzle/
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Why Do You Look Like Such A Little Boy" and "Threatened By My Expression."
Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are Watching Fires and War Zone.
To find transcripts of these stories, or to find more stories, visit welcomeproject.valpo.edu
"I don't understand the experience of other minority groups. But I do understand the experience of being unsure and being scared, because you have to come out as being gay, lesbian, bi, transgendered... you never stop coming out." Produced by Lisa Zandy for the Welcome Project. You can find this and other stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast. The transcript to this story is on our website: https://welcomeproject.valpo.edu/2021/11/16/let-there-be-cake/
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "No Interest in Seeing Our City Progress" and "I Wanted More for My Kid."
Find these stories (and their transcripts) and many more stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“At 13, I started waitressing...I was making more money than anybody I knew.”
~ a Welcome Project story ~ Produced by Amanda Yonushatis. Find the transcript here: https://welcomeproject.valpo.edu/2021/11/02/you-pay-for-it-in-the-end/ Find more stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week they're joined by special guest Dana Darr. And this week's story is "In My Own Skin."
Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Enamored with Those Beautiful, Young Faces" and "You're Not White."
Find these stories and more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
"We tried to come to an understanding that there wasn't any intent, there wasn't any ulterior motive, you know, on behalf of the officers." from an interview with Michael Brickner, City of Valparaiso Chief of Police, 2013 ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
This episode was recorded on 9/11/2021.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Muslims Are People's Neighbors" and "Bound to My Safety."
Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week, we invite co-director Liz Wuerffel on the show to reflect on 10 years of the Welcome Project and our one-year Welcome Project Radio anniversary.
Find our stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are We're Not that Far Along and Strong Female Leader. You can find both these stories and many more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu
"If we can communicate with people then, you know, I think some of these other fears and reservations may subside a little bit." from an interview with Michael Brickner, City of Valparaiso Chief of Police, 2013
~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
~ a Welcome Project story ~
Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week we're joined by Reagan Skaggs, and we share some listener mail (hi, Marc!) and the story "Corrupting the Moral Fiber."
Find Corrupting the Moral Fiber and more stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh, along with guest Reagan Skaggs. This week's story is about the Mexican Repatriation.
You can find "Mexican Repatriation" and other Welcome Project stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are "Going By My Initials" and "Oh, Wait a Minute."
You can find these stories and more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week they are joined by filmmaker Carmen Vincent to talk through two stories: "Bicultural in a Deaf Home" and "Living with Mental Illness."
Find these stories and more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app. Find Carmen Vincent at carmenvincent.com and keep your eye out for her upcoming documentary, Teacher of Patience.
“These communities have been erased.” An interview with Nicole Martinez-LeGrand, Multicultural Collections Coordinator, Library and Archives Division, Indiana Historical Society.
Find this video story with archival material and more stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“From 1929 to 1939 the United States and communities across the United States engaged in a repatriation movement of Mexican nationals.” - Historian Emiliano Aguilar, doctoral student Northwestern University
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are "Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin" and "Moral Barriers Between Us."
You can find these two stories and more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are Fascinated by the Steel Mill and Here on Earth to Help Each Other.
Find these stories and more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
"It’s those kinda questions that people are asking and...you have to have a little patience...because they don’t know."
~ a Welcome Project story ~
Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
"The premise of the academic environment made it worth considering."
~ a Welcome Project story ~
Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are Fences and Not Something That You Force.
Find these stories and more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
The Coronavirus pandemic has clearly thrown up barriers to our ability to gather physically together, one key condition that can facilitate the connective tissue of belonging. But in the face of our need, have we found workarounds to those barriers? Of course. In the following conversation, you’ll hear from two working artists—Sinéad Rushe, award-winning Irish director and Senior Lecturer in Acting and Movement at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, and Margaret Laurena Kemp, multi-disciplinary performing artist and Associate Professor of Theatre & Dance at UC Davis—each of whom forged strong bonds to family and culture in the midst of active conflict in their neighborhoods and cities growing up.
~ a Welcome Project interview ~
Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week includes a conversation about pride flags being taken down from a local school, and Deb Porter, a local teacher, joins us to talk about it. This week's story is Barging in with Our Rainbow Flag.
Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
"...there’s a legacy around the capacity to stand one’s own ground and say, 'No, this is who we are. And this is what we stand for. And this is what we can do.'"
This interview was recorded using Zoom.
~ a Welcome Project story ~
Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“I was very fortunate because… people had gone through it already, you know, my brothers.” (Bleeped version.)
~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“I was very fortunate because… people had gone through it already, you know, my brothers.” Warning: contains racial slur. (We have a bleeped version, if you prefer.)
~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are "Reach Out to Our Neighbor" and "Should Play Nicer."
Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
"The potential in Gary was and still is tremendous."
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“I always want to make my city proud.”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are Pulled Over Probably Twenty Times and White Privilege.
You can find those two stories and many more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
"And so they had to negotiate both of those worlds. That’s what black people have always done."
~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. Dr. Larry Baas joins Allison and Willow to talk about his work tracking bias incidents in Northwest Indiana. (Please excuse a bit of muffled voices due to masking.)This week's story is Totally Safe Unless You're Brown.
You can find this Welcome Project story at welcomeproject.valpo.edu and/or subscribe to our weekly podcast.
“No other part of their humanity could be seen beyond the color of their skin.”
This interview was recorded over Zoom.
~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are Dodged a Bullet and People Have Their Attitudes.
Find these stories and more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“As a parent sometimes you just overthink things.”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is Memory in the Light of These Sources. You can find the video of this week's story at welcomeproject.valpo.edu
Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“No light, no engagement; no light, no understanding.”
~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“The Latinx communities have been instrumental both as workers, as community members, as beacons of cultural institutions.”
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you stories along with discussion of those stories from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories dive into the history of the Latinx community in Northwest Indiana.
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"It was really a grim reaper for jobs...sweeping away thousands at one time."
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“The tradition of the mutual aid society dates all the way back to the earliest days of the Mexican colonies in Indiana Harbor and Gary, Indiana.”
In 1956, two groups, the Benito Juarez Society and the Cuauhtemoc Society, merged to form the UBM, the Unión Benéfica Mexicana.
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
"We don't ever want the kids to be able to say we weren't there."
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is from Flight Paths, a 5-part audio documentary about Gary, Indiana. Find more stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu
"Anybody who was not well-connected, you go to the Patch."
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is Bad Things, Good People.
The stories featured today are from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center, and Porter County Museum.
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“Whether you’re white or black, once you hit the bandstand, then you’re on your own... If you can play, you can play. If you can’t, you can’t.”
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"But I think the subtleties are still there.”
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“I was pulling a suitcase down the sidewalk going from one friend’s house to another friend’s house to a staircase in an apartment complex.”
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is Nowhere to Go.
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"If you can live in Gary, you can live anywhere."
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is a 3-part series called We Beat Statistics.
These stories are from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center, and Porter County Museum.
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"The fire and the smoke, because it was in the coke plant where we went, and it was smoky, and stunk, and dirty, and these people walking around like a Flash Gordon movie, you know, shoveling in these furnaces."
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are "Lived Between Two Physical Barriers" and "Didn’t Want Us To Grow Up Thinking the World Was Terrible."
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“Something in me that I didn’t know I had.”
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Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is
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“It takes a lot for our hearts and our minds and our eyes to get there, where we start viewing groups that look different than us not as groups but as individuals.”
~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“If I wasn’t at home or at school, I was in East Chicago hanging out with my grandparents.” - Nicole Martinez-LeGrand, Multicultural Collections Coordinator, Library and Archives Division, Indiana Historical Society.
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“If you are a good neighbor, your neighbor’s going to be a good neighbor.”
Fun news! Every other week, we’ll drop into the lineup a 30-minute episode of Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio. In addition to one of our stories, you’ll also hear discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is Neighboring in Kouts.
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“The Latinx communities have been instrumental both as workers, as community members, as beacons of cultural institutions.” - Historian Emiliano Aguilar, doctoral student Northwestern University
Find a longer, video version with a transcript here: https://welcomeproject.valpo.edu/2020/09/07/not-newcomers/
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“I don’t think a lot of people understand how hard it is.”
Transcript (English): Once I actually started looking around when I first got here I noticed that there was not a lot of, um, minority students, and I almost felt like an outsider because of that. Um, not because I felt uncomfortable with being around people that were different than me. In fact, I think that you can easily relate to someone who doesn’t have the same ethnic background as you do.
I was never open with sharing that I was an immigrant or that my parents came here illegally. But I remember one time I was with a friend. She was someone who was always really nice. One night we were studying and were tired, and we started talking about our families. One thing lead to another, and I told her that my parents came here when I was little and that they brought me here illegally.
It’s a sensitive subject for me to talk about. It’s something powerful. I don’t think a lot of people understand how hard it is to start a new home here with your family. You don’t know the language. You don’t know the culture. You don’t know how to express yourself. Where do you find a job? It’s very difficult.
But when I started to tell her, I began to cry. I was surprised that even though she was from a different culture she started to cry as well. It made me feel good because I had not shared that with anyone here prior to telling her. I felt that she understood where I was coming from.
Besides having the barrier of like ethnic background or a lack of in on campus here, another time I felt like I didn’t belong was when I started learning the economic backgrounds of some of the people that come here.
One bad experience I had was when it came to the difference in money. I’m already here and doing something that is difficult for my parents enrolled here...I don’t want to ask them for anything else. I don’t want to tell them I need something for school. I’d rather not ask. But, I had a friend. This friend had traveled all over the world. Often times she wanted to go out. She’d tell me she was bored, and let’s go shopping. Or let’s go do this or that. Many times I would tell her I couldn’t go.
I believe there are many like her at this school. They have everything they want. They can ask their parents if they don’t have something because their parents have an education, and they can afford anything they would need. I believe they don’t understand the big difference there is economically with some of the students that attend here.
There are students like myself whose parents needed to take out loans themselves to pay for their child’s education when students like her receive a trip to Europe for graduation. I told my parents I didn’t want a party for my graduation. I want something simple. We can have a meal at home, I’m fine with that. It’s not important. The good is that they could at least do something. I say, they can do that because without them I would not be here.
“There has to be an element of trust there, and that doesn’t exist right now.”
Fun news! Every other week, we’ll drop into the lineup a 30-minute episode of Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio. In addition to one of our stories, you’ll also hear discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is To Be a Good Neighbor.
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“Just ’cause someone’s homeless doesn’t mean they’re worthless.”
CONTENT WARNING: “Don’t Know How I Survived” contains sexual abuse and violence.
These stories are from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center, and Porter County Museum.
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“Yo quiero hacer un ejemplo.” “I want to be an example.”
~ a Welcome Project story ~
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“If all of us who received inspiration move, who’s going to inspire the next generation?"
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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"...the Mexican-American community in the United States – it wasn't really taught in high school."
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story with historian Emiliano Aguilar ~
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“My voice was so little, nobody heard it. I started screaming.”
A Welcome Project oral history interview with Captain Hanadi Al-Hindi, Saudi Arabia’s first female pilot.
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“They had to sneak to the park to play with us.” Warning: story contains racial slurs. Racial slurs are bleeped in this version.
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“They had to sneak to the park to play with us.” Warning: story contains racial slurs.
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“It’s not a life choice; being poor is just a life circumstance.”
~ a Welcome Project story ~
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"I felt, 'Wow, this is scary,' because I want to be in there with him... and 'Can I do that? Am I capable of that?'"
~ a Welcome Project story ~
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Produced by Rich Elliott with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives: www.storycorps.org
“Her income changed just the slightest bit and… it just kicked the underpinnings right out from under us.”
Three audio stories from a couple’s experience of family, work, health, and homelessness These stories are from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center, and Porter County Museum.
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"You have a delightful mix of people starting over fresh and I think the notion was that, 'We are Mexican. We will always be Mexican first and maybe American second.'"
A Welcome Project Flight Paths oral history story from an interview with Nicole Martinez-LeGrand, Multicultural Collections Coordinator, Library and Archives Division, Indiana Historical Society.
The video version of this story includes visual archival material provided by the Indiana Historical Society and can be found at welcomeproject.valpo.edu
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“If you are a good neighbor, your neighbor’s going to be a good neighbor.”
~ a Welcome Project story in collaboration with StoryCorps ~
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Produced by Rich Elliott with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives: www.storycorps.org
“I am 100% committed to changing the fabric of our city.” Part 4 of an oral history story from an interview with Mayor Jerome Prince, Gary, Indiana.
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“Marine Corps was a decision based on my desire to want to provide for my family.”
Part 3 of an oral history story from an interview with Mayor Jerome Prince, Gary, Indiana.
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story from an oral history interview with Mayor Jerome Prince of Gary, Indiana ~
Part 2 of 4
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~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story from an oral history interview with Mayor Jerome Prince of Gary, Indiana ~
Part 1 of 4
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“Pierogies are the Eastern European version of empanadas, you know?”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story from an interview with Nicole Martinez-LeGrand, Multicultural Collections Coordinator, Library and Archives Division, Indiana Historical Society ~
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“Had it not been for this gentleman here, I would have much easier graduated from reform school than high school.”
~ a Welcome Project story in partnership with StoryCorps ~
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Produced by Rich Elliott with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives: www.storycorps.org
“You can make positives out of situations and we did that as an all-black school in an all-black community.”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“...because they don’t have access to the language like everybody else does. They don’t get that incidental learning from just overhearing something and pairing that to their experiences.”
~ a Welcome Project story ~
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“They put a spirit of justice in me.”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“With athletes, it was just a whole different kind of bonding.”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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"I fled Gary also, but it wasn’t entirely because of fear, it had nothing to do with anyone’s skin color…"
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“I will call some agents out there and see what’s available, but I want to let you know what times we’re living in.”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“You kind of adjusted… we didn’t like it. We just, we kind of adjusted.”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“I would have been so normal if I grew up anywhere else.“
~ a Welcome Project story ~
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"I wanted to [write] a book where people would say, 'Oh, man, I loved that book, I want to go see where it took place...'"
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Produced by Rich Elliot
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"We used to say this was 'up South,' and, you know, the other places were 'down South.'"
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“History is a pattern of life… something that happened then and is continuing now or has an effect on what’s happening now.”
~ a Welcome Project story ~
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“It was a lonely life. But there were woods and creeks and meadows and places where you can just sit on a hill under a tree and let the sun shine on you…”
~ a Welcome Project story ~
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Produced by Rich Elliott
“It was the dirtiest place in the mill. But I guess they made a decent salary. So he encouraged my father to leave Florida and move to Gary.”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“We had a village out there in Small Farms.”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“We saw the writing on the wall, we knew it was coming.”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“I got to watch that. This was big for me. It was something that I just dearly loved…”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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Produced by Rich Elliott.
“I wouldn’t want to live any other place.”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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"It was love at first sight."
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“We are located right in the middle of Gary, Indiana for a reason.”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“Most people of color… don’t see the value in staying.”
~ a Welcome Project story ~
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"...They were like, ‘What are you?’ And I’m like, ‘Well..." ~ a Welcome Project story ~
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"I think it's the exact opposite. I think those are the reasons I can do it." ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
"Didn't you want to take a stand...or was it just an inevitability, 'Man, we can't stay here any longer?'" ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
"We should all be allies to each other for mental health, and for everything else." ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
"Just leave me alone. I'll leave you alone. We'll be good." ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“It’s just changed. It’s a bigger town feeling than it used to be.”
~ a Welcome Project story ~
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~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
Part two of a two-part biographical story in which our 101-year-old storyteller remembers her move to Gary, IN, and her impressions of the mill and its impact on the environment.
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~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
Part one of a two-part biographical story in which our 101-year-old storyteller remembers part of her family's journey prior to the Emancipation Proclamation up to her birth.
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“People are so afraid of change.”
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“You’ve given status to people who would ordinarily not have it… thus giving them power and ability to make change.” - Rev. Dr. Greg Jones
~ a Welcome Project story ~
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~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“I’m talking about people in my neighborhood who have been in their homes for forty years—they believe in the city and believe that it can work.”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“I thought I was going somewhere else. I was planning on going somewhere else. But I didn’t.”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“You can’t come in with your history book and bang people over the head… It’s going to be more dialogical than that." - Dr. Heath W. Carter
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“You learn how to trust each other, you learn to assume responsibility for each other, you develop relationships… It’s something that happens in the course of time.” - Rev. Dr. Greg Jones
~ a Welcome Project story ~
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“You know, it was a national trend back then for people to leave urban areas and move to the suburbs.”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“Why don’t you come to Gary and see what Gary really is?”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“Don’t give me this disillusioned, glossy effect of who we are. This is who we really are.”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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“These were good people who honestly believed that there was a real problem in terms of the difference between the races.”
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“The guy who was over the department… said that I might have some problems because they had never had anybody black in the office.”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
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"We were in school one day, the next day when we went back, the entire white population of students were gone."
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“What happened with the steel industry is foreign steel.”
~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“You can never forget who you are.” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“So these are things that I kind of learned that I didn’t realize I was learning.” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
“My mother said, ‘Always leave a job to where maybe you could go back to it.’” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly Welcome Project podcast on your favorite app.
“I realized that my little Wonder Bread existence in Miller was not quite what I thought it was.” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite podcast app.
“I was starting to grow up and see things the way my parents were seeing them.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu Podcast listener? Find us by searching for "Welcome Project" on your podcast app.
“As terrible as it kinda sounds, it made me realize that life sucks.”
~ a Welcome Project story ~
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“I don’t have the time to just lock myself in my room for three days…”
~ a Welcome Project story ~
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“I’m sitting in my car and I just hear a–I feel like an impact–I hear a crumple and next thing ya know, I’m out.”
~ a Welcome Project story ~
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“We were good workers, and we did our job quite well, but we didn’t have a passion. You have to have a passion in life.”
~ a Welcome Project story ~
Former Gary resident the difficult labor in the steel mills and the role of passion in work.
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“The use of the car, I think, has dramatically changed the way people live.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite podcast app.
“There should be an allegiance to Gary to build it up and make it prosper once again.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite podcast app.
A storyteller who identifies as bisexual shares how it would be a lie to "just pick one" even though it's what her family wants and what the gay community expects. ~ a Welcome Project story ~
Former Gary resident discusses church life from the '50s and how community dissipated in the face of prejudice. ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite podcast app.
“If you can find, as the individual, security in where you are, then you can open up your ability to be vulnerable.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite podcast app.
“I have learned some amazing, life-changing thoughts and ideologies from inmates.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite podcast app. To hear more from this storyteller, check out "You're Not White" and "Military Vibe."
"You realize the strength of your mind...just by convincing yourself how strong you are." ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite podcast app.
"It was like something switched in my head..." ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast by searching for "Welcome Project" on your podcast app.
“It’s just a vehicle for your soul; it’s what you’ve been given.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast on your favorite podcast app.
“Now, we talked about the white flight; we didn’t talk about what really made it worse in Gary.” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite podcast app.
"I was thinking black power was a good thing." ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast by searching for "Welcome Project Valparaiso University" on your favorite podcast app. Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives: www.storycorps.org
“Sometimes I feel like I’m in the middle of two worlds, four worlds, and sometimes I feel like I’m not a part of any of them.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast by searching for "Welcome Project Valparaiso University" on your podcast app.
"I don’t know any other way to operate. I can’t just sit around and say, ‘Oh, well. That’s the way it is.’" ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast by searching for "Welcome Project Valparaiso University" on your podcast app.
"If you don’t have access to the information, you don’t know what your potential is." ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast by searching for "Welcome Project Valparaiso University" on your podcast app.
"Like a priest to a church, I wanna do my part... I want to serve my country." ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast by searching for "Welcome Project Valparaiso University" on your podcast app.
"To see somebody else struggling and to be able to lend a hand or lend an ear—that’s living a diaconal life." ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast by searching for "Welcome Project Valparaiso University" on your podcast app.
"'Dad’s going to play Army.' That’s what they would say." ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast by searching for "Welcome Project Valparaiso University" on your podcast app.
"I remember watching this church being built." ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find the video with photographs of St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in Gary, Indiana, at welcomeproject.valpo.edu
“I had a mother tell me, 'Bring my boy home safe.'" ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe for a weekly dose by searching for "Welcome Project Valparaiso University" on your podcast app.
"Like I really enjoy this life thing, so I want to give it a shot, and part of that is accepting who I am." ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast by searching for "Welcome Project Valparaiso University" on your podcast app.
Warning: story contains an ethnic slur. “You see the movies, and they’re going in there gung-ho, but it’s a lot different...you shoot them, but they’re going to shoot back.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast by searching for "Welcome Project Valparaiso University" on your podcast app.
“It’s hard to argue with the values of a diverse population.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast for a weekly dose of Welcome Project stories. Search for "Welcome Project Valparaiso University" in your podcast app.
“The Marine Corps was like, ‘We’re gonna fix you… but it’s not gonna be fun.’ I was like, ‘I’m down for that.’” A grandfather and grandson talk about their time in the Marines. ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast by searching for "Welcome Project Valparaiso University" on your podcast app.
Black alumni, born and raised in Gary, talks about positive and negative experiences with white faculty / authority figures in Valparaiso while attending college there.
Produced by Dan Funderburg. Thanks to the Office of Multicultural Programs for organizing a story collection day during the Black Alumni Reunion. To find more stories, go to welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast by searching for "Welcome Project Valparaiso University" on your podcast app.
"Never, ever look the other way." ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast by searching for "Welcome Project Valparaiso University" on your podcast app.
"We often don’t think about how the little things build up to create that relationship that you want with people you live around."
~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast.
This story was produced by Marc Boas from an interview conducted by Emily Neuharth.
"You know, there’s no normal with us. I couldn’t even tell you what normal is." ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast.
"I feel safe on campus, but the fact that there were people willing to oppress minorities and make them feel like they shouldn't be here, were moments where I was like, 'Ummm, maybe I shouldn't be here?'"
Produced by Megan Martinez from an interview she conducted for the Welcome Project.
“If you’re not voting, that’s as if you don’t want any voice in your own government.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Hear more from our collection at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast.
“I’m not from Miller. I’m not from Chicago. I’m from Gary.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ This story is from our Flight Paths collection. Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu and subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcast or Stitcher.
“Sometimes I have meltdowns and sometimes I say, ‘OK,’ and go on.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ This story is from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center, and Porter County Museum. Find more Invisible Project stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu
“I’ve been down, believe me... I've lost my kids, I've lost my possessions...” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ This story is from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center, and Porter County Museum. Find more Invisible Project stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu
“Because you’ve developed a relationship, you’re willing to meet that neighbor’s needs.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ This story is from our Flight Paths initiative. Find more stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu Subscribe to our podcast at Apple Podcasts or Stitcher
"If you could make it through the wobbles and the buckles in the floor at the Neighborhood House, you could skate anywhere." ~ a Welcome Project story ~ This story is from our Flight Paths initiative. Find more stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu
"It really made me question, like, 'Is this a place that I should be?'" ~ a Welcome Project story ~ welcomeproject.valpo.edu Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. storycorps.org
“Well, you’re here, too, so I guess you’re in the same boat I am.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ This story comes from The Invisible Project, a collaboration with non-profit homelessness and affordable housing organizations in Porter County. Find more at https://welcomeproject.valpo.edu/category/invisible-project/
"It became my mission to change the way people saw Gary, how people saw people of color, and the knowledge they had of people of color because it was hurtful."
~ a Welcome Project story ~ find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org
“I don’t want to be a failure. I don’t want to let my people down.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ find a longer version of this story at welcomeproject.valpo.edu
“Labels started to get way too complicated.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher
“I walked in and I was just in awe ‘cause you’d walk in and it was like a city.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast
"And the fact that people always, like, write off Gary as this horrible place made me feel like I just had to have this conviction to like, change people’s minds, and to be there, and make a difference."
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org
"...the roles growing up, it was a little bit more difficult for me than my younger siblings cause I was the one that knew both languages fluently." ~ a Welcome Project story ~ find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast
“It was a decision I made on my own and that’s what made it all the more valuable to me.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast
“They didn’t understand the whole concept of why you have to travel all the way to Gary just to get your hair cut.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast
“If we don’t put the work in to help them pursue their vision, what’s going to happen next? That’ll be another person that we’ll lose to the streets.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast – just search for "Welcome Project"
“I don’t like being around one culture… How else are you going to learn?” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast through Stitcher or Apple Podcasts
“Now we have a voice, we can talk, and we can say it, loud and clear.” Part four of Spirit of Challenge. ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu
“I trust you. Just do what you learned.” Part 3 of Spirit of Challenge ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher.
“Oh my God, what trouble did I put myself in?” Part 2 of Spirit of Challenge ~ a Welcome Project story ~ find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcast or Stitcher
Part 1 of Spirit of Challenge “My voice was so little, nobody heard it. I started screaming.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to us at Apple Podcasts or Stitcher
“You were proud you were part of the organization that was part of your city.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast on Stitcher or Apple Podcasts
“As adults, we’ve forgotten what we came from or where we came from.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcast or Stitcher.
“You want to know you have a place where your kids can come.”
~ a Welcome Project story ~ This story is from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center, and Porter County Museum. Find more from this collection at: https://welcomeproject.valpo.edu/category/invisible-project/
"... we were in school together, but we were separated."
~a Welcome Project story~ Find more stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher.
"You’ll hear, 'They just didn’t work hard enough.'" For more stories, go to welcomeproject.valpo.edu
"Until you change inside, all the laws you can pass ain’t gonna do a bit of good." Produced by Emmanuel Higgins. Thanks to Mr. Allison for sharing his story.
"...people bought into this notion that no one wants to live in Gary..." This is a Welcome Project story from our Flight Paths initiative. Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu
"That period of time—growing up in Gary, Indiana, I would not want to be anywhere else in the world."
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps (www.storycorps.org), a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. Storytellers in Veiled Racism are volunteers with Gary's Miller Spotlight Project (http://millerspotlight.blogspot.com/), which was the first coordinating organization to host StoryCorps in Indiana.
"I want to come back, but I don’t want to come back."
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps (www.storycorps.org), a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. Storytellers in Veiled Racism are volunteers with Gary's Miller Spotlight Project (http://millerspotlight.blogspot.com/), which was the first coordinating organization to host StoryCorps in Indiana.
“It was legislated white flight… this was actually extremely deliberate. ”
“Their own coverage began to contribute to what was going on in Gary.” This story is part of our Welcome Project Flight Paths initiative. Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu
"...it is actually possible for something so wrong to go on with everybody just assuming it’s normal."
“If you’ve never been in that situation, it’s hard to understand what it’s like.” In Stepping Stones (part three of "We Beat Statistics"), the storyteller identifies concrete support systems she needed to get fully back on her feet after being homeless.
“She loved us, but she didn’t love herself enough to take care of us the right way.” This storyteller lost her mom, got custody of her brother, ended up pregnant and homeless.
"I think that a lot of the affluent white people here, if you really got inside their heads, they’d just prefer it to be lily-white."
Storyteller describes growing up in Chicago and the culture shock of transitioning into a private school when his parents intervene out of concern for his success as a student.
In this 3-part series, jazz musician and educator Billy Foster examines national and local forces behind the de-urbanization of Gary, shares early memories of musical influences and the jazz scene, and considers how his cancer diagnosis has changed how he lives his life. Part 3 focuses on his outlook after being diagnosed with cancer.
In this 3-part series, jazz musician and educator Billy Foster examines national and local forces behind the de-urbanization of Gary, shares early memories of musical influences and the jazz scene, and considers how his cancer diagnosis has changed how he lives his life. Part 2 focuses on jazz.
In this 3-part series, jazz musician and educator Billy Foster examines national and local forces behind the de-urbanization of Gary, shares early memories of musical influences and the jazz scene, and considers how his cancer diagnosis has changed how he lives his life. Part 1 focuses on deindustrialization and racism.
Professor discusses the impact gender has played in her life, especially her professional life. She reflects on the power of naming to bring injustices to life and to start a deeper transformative process.
Former Gary resident describes neighborhood life growing up and why her mother will never leave.
Gary resident remembers Gary's vibrant downtown and Miller Beach neighborhood, and considers the consequences of ignoring Gary's current plight.
Storyteller reflects on different ways of approaching family and responsibility based on bicultural upbringing. What happens when you're a "hyphenated" American?
Storyteller describes how often the poor are judged and treated differently. She reminds us that poverty doesn't indicate character, only circumstances.
Son reflects on his experience growing up in a deaf home, the assumptions other people had about his family, and his belief that people can be curious about each other's differences.
A first-generation student discusses the impact that her desire to go to college had on her and her family.
Chorus of residents from Kouts, Indiana, talk about their community and what it means to be a good neighbor. Produced by Matt Janke for an NEH Enduring Questions course at Valparaiso University in Spring 2017.
Music excerpted from Clodhoppa’s Bluegrass Lullaby. You can hear other tracks by heading over to blackdogindustries.co.uk/music.
"There can be some tension. But it doesn’t seem to be that way, especially in this northwest area up here."
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org
“You help get his crop in, he helps get your crop in. Never a dime is exchanged.”
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org
“He was surprised. He figured there would be some backlash. He never dreamed it would be that bad.”
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org
“It's hard to be in Gary and not be involved in politics.”
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org
“We’ve always been extremely close... because we know that here in Gary, we have to stick together.”
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org
Residents of Northwest Indiana share through their experiences some of the central history that continues to shape the region.
Residents of Northwest Indiana share through their experiences some of the central history that continues to shape the region.
Residents of Northwest Indiana share through their experiences some of the central history that continues to shape the region.
Residents of Northwest Indiana share through their experiences some of the central history that continues to shape the region.
Residents of Northwest Indiana share through their experiences some of the central history that continues to shape the region.
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org
“You can’t have racial justice and you can’t have social justice if there’s no economic justice.”
“We trained people to go south—to see entertainment, to shop, to eat.”
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org
“Without a good school system, you’re not going to get families.”
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org
“Well, you started the legacy; we’ll just continue it.”
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org
“Grade school was good; y’know, everybody got along, and then they started to have fights in Tolleston park.”
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org
“You know, they kept saying to you, ‘Why are you doing it? Why are you doing it?’ But the two of you said, ‘It’s the right thing.’”
“The type of things my parents experienced, the type of racism was very interesting… it’s something my mother’s never really wanted to talk about.”
“The sight of a ‘For Sale’ sign would just trigger devaluation of the neighborhood.”
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org
"Relationship-building ended up being really the glue that helped sort of bond people together."
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org
“If this is the expectation that have people have of a new pastor coming to Gary, I need to live in Gary.”
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org
“Gary had taught him more about love and hate and life and death than he could have learned anywhere else.”
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org
“In order for us to help the city grow, we have to be here to be a part of the city.”
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org
“As businesses leave, and you patronize businesses outside of your locale, then you’re—there’s no money being put back into your community at all.”
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org
“We worked very hard to really maintain our relationships with our neighbors.”
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org
“There were a lot of strong community events that really kind of glued people together, and then of course, they dissipated over time.”
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org
Produced by Sydney Jarol with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives.
www.storycorps.org
Produced by Sydney Jarol with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives.
www.storycorps.org
Produced by Sydney Jarol with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives.
www.storycorps.org
Produced by Sydney Jarol with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives.
www.storycorps.org
"As far as the mood in the neighborhood, I don’t remember talking or hearing about a lot of people that were steadfast saying, ‘Hey, I’m gonna stay here and stick it out.’"
“Yeah, you’d hear somebody saying something stupid every once in awhile… the few, not the many.”
“When Gary flourishes, so does Lake County and so does Porter County and so does Indiana. We’re all connected.”
These stories are from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel's Horn, Dayspring Women's Center, and Porter County Museum.
These stories are from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel's Horn, Dayspring Women's Center, and Porter County Museum.
These stories are from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel's Horn, Dayspring Women's Center, and Porter County Museum.
This story is from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel's Horn, Dayspring Women's Center, and Porter County Museum.
This story is from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel's Horn, Dayspring Women's Center, and Porter County Museum.
“Her income changed just the slightest bit and... it just kicked the underpinnings right out from under us.”
This five-part story of a woman's experience of family, work, health, and homelessness is from the Invisible Project--a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center, and Porter County Museum.
This five-part story of a woman's experience of family, work, health, and homelessness is from the Invisible Project--a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center, and Porter County Museum.
This five-part story of a woman's experience of family, work, health, and homelessness is from the Invisible Project--a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center, and Porter County Museum.
This five-part story of a woman's experience of family, work, health, and homelessness is from the Invisible Project--a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center, and Porter County Museum.
This five-part story of a woman's experience of family, work, health, and homelessness is from the Invisible Project--a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center, and Porter County Museum.
“If we think of it in terms of race, we would not hold a debate over whether it was appropriate for blacks to be pastors.”
"It's not a healthy way to live. It's very, very stressful." This story is from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center, and Porter County Museum.
“Our students will learn to celebrate a broad collection of voices when they start hearing a broad collection of voices.”
“Yeah, maybe I really thought some Disney princesses were absolutely beautiful, but the princes were really cute, too.”
"We play a very integral part in this community, and we want to be recognized for that."
"My first year experience wasn’t very welcoming, and I never really got that initial ‘belonging’ feeling."
"Valpo has a very big responsibility to each student to ensure that they are feeling welcomed."
"Sometimes I feel like I’m in the middle of two worlds, four worlds, and sometimes I feel like I’m not a part of any of them."
"My Hindu friends say I'm a Hindu... my black friends call me 'sistah...' So, no, I don't identify with white."
“I’m ok with identifying myself as a Southerner, but I wouldn’t say that that’s my identity as a whole.”
“They live in igloos… you’re gonna freeze, and they’re not going to give you sweet tea.”
"There isn't a single Syrian family that has not had to deal with loss in Syria..., but humanity in general should be worried."
"I'm used to the idea of being looked at, but I'm not used to actually being looked at."
"There are two billion Muslims in the world, like, that’s two-sevenths of the world population."
"I would teach him something so when he encountered with people from my community, he or she would never get shocked or surprised by my people."
"It was strange to see men and women sitting with each other, discussing economics, politics, sports."
"There are two billion Muslims in the world, like, that’s two-sevenths of the world population."
"I wish that people would take that step back and think about how it would make them feel."
“It takes a lot for our hearts and our minds and our eyes to get there, where we start viewing groups that look different than us not as groups but as individuals.”
"I'll see people down the hallway, and they'll walk out a door because they know who I am. They don't want to 'catch the gay.'"
"We're all fundamentally the same and our differences are trivial--I disagree... We're fundamentally different, and we have an unbelievable amount in common."
"How many people are willing to step out of their comfort zones and learn about different worldviews?"
“It’s not always about the fraternity and sorority Greek letters clashing across campus.”
"Why are you coming up to us when you know that either we can't afford that or we just would never pay that?"
“I come from a diverse background, so I’ve always ben really passionate about Hispanics and immigration.”
"Almost just the thought of going to that event not knowing anyone terrifies the crap out of me."
"I had a lot of preconceptions, or, maybe, misconceptions, about what it would be like..."
"You see things through tunnel vision because society has set it up to where you don't have to see so much."
"The University needs to do more than putting a bunch of different kinds of people in one spot and hoping they interact with each other."
“At the end of the day, most of us want the same things. There should be respect on both ends.”
“Hey you, you look black, stand over there, and hey you, you look gay, stand over there.”
"I slept through my station. It was dark and the trees were out and it was like in a scary movie. I saw one last car."
"The ideal is a gender blind society... but in some quadrants, we're slipping back into patriarchy."
“I’m not Lutheran, so in a sense I brought diversity to the theology department… and more than that I brought new methods.”
"I had a boyfriend on campus. And it was fine. People knew that. He himself wasn't comfortable with being gay."
“Even if the Chinese students couldn’t always understand what was going on… they still felt like a part of our family.”
“I went to Pastor Char and said, ‘Hey. I'd really like to be baptized, but I don't think I'm a Lutheran.’ And she looked at me and said, ‘Okay. What questions do you have?’”
“You have to embrace the differences because it helps you realize who you are and who you're not, who you don't wanna be or who you do wanna be.”
“Not all trans people want a surgery; they just want to be seen as the gender they're presenting as.”
“I feel like the Midwest is very, not old fashioned, but socially conservative; anything that is not normal is either wrong or judged most of the time.”
“I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I was like, ‘Really guys? Really?’”
INCLUDES SOME STRONG LANGUAGE
“They don’t come to us. I want to be in a sorority, but they assume I don’t want to be in there because they’re all white. I feel like they lose out.”
“Religion is the one thing that shouldn’t be compromised... We shouldn’t water down a message to bring in as many people as possible.”
“At first, that seemed to be something that would be totally contradictory to everything I ever believed. . .”
Q: So you didn’t want to eat, or you didn’t like yourself? A: No, it’s a different issue.
“He was a very solitary man and I totally respect that... Having alone time is a necessary thing.”
“People may turn it on people and say, 'You did this because I'm black and you're white,' and 'You're racist.' It hurts you inside.”
“On those really, silly, totally American, almost hackneyed or clichéd topics, you find these commonalities, and then you can just burrow from there.”