Stories: Recent Episodes
Jack Kiryk and Louise Celestin
Everyone has a lifetime of stories that are rarely shared beyond close family and friends. Stories brings on individuals each week to share tales from their lives, typically prior to 2000, that left an impact on them, changed the way they see themselves or the world, or stand out as an exciting and captivating story from a different time.
Lewis shares a story with the team about his time in the US Air Force, his various roles, his conflicted feelings, and his experiences with protesting from within the ranks. He tells of the political climate and the harsh response to service members who did not want to be drafted. From D.C. to Ohio, Pennsylvania to San Francisco, Lewis tells of the Cold War climate.
Lewis tells the team about how war felt present from the 40s until the 60s as a boy growing up in Pennsylvania. He offers us a story of his experience in Philadelphia with antisemitism and then takes us across the Atlantic to Gabon, where he tells a story of learning more about the world and developing his own opinions about the looming Vietnam War.
Paige tells the team about her experience in Berlin as the Berlin Wall was being taken down. She compares the realities on the East and West sides and discusses her interactions with a West German medical student and an East German Soldier. She then takes us to Warsaw, where she lived years before the fall of the Berlin Wall. An intimate experience of a historical turning point.