Hosted by Karen Courtland-Kelly, Olympian and Chef de Mission of Education and Sport for World Figure Sport Society. The stories featured in this episode were collected at the 2023 World Figure and Fancy Skating Championships. They illustrate the lives touched by this artistic sport.

This podcast is sponsored by OurStoryBridge, a nonprofit organization that supports the collecting and free sharing of digital short-form oral histories using community crowdsourcing and curation. Their mission is to preserve the stories of older generations before they are lost, support younger generations to become engaged community members and develop post-secondary/career readiness, and strengthen communities that are underserved across geographic, cultural, socioeconomic, racial, and organizational strata. They strive to improve civic life across the generations through the sharing of stories and their digital preservation.

To hear more stories collected from communities across the United States, visit www.ourstorybridge.org. And to learn about World Figure Sport, go to worldfiguresport.org.

Music Interludes © 2022 Martha Gallagher. All Rights Reserved.

The stories collected in this fifth episode share the memories, inspirations, and creative processes of the amazing children’s book authors who participated in the Adirondack Family Book Festival, sponsored by John Brown Lives!, in its first three years. Heritage, childhood experiences, and innate passions have shaped both the writing and worldview of these authors, and through their writing they share their unique perspectives with children, and here, with us.

Freedom Story Project is a national OurStoryBridge project that collects and shares personal narratives recounting the activism and engagement of everyday people working for justice and for human and civil rights, not only here at home but around the world. Freedom Story Project is made possible by a 2022 AARP Community Challenge grant.

Visit www.freedomstoryproject.org to hear more stories and www.ourstorybridge.org to learn more about how to start your own community or issues-based story project using the OurStoryBridge methodology.

In our fourth episode, you will hear a sampling of stories that represent some of the themes that Freedom Story Project covers. Each story is an example of the issues addressed by these diverse storytellers and can be found within this powerful oral history project. You will hear inspirational and educational stories about individual’s experiences with immigration, Indigenous history, disabilities, LGBTQI+ issues, and African American history. Listen to these storytellers share their unique, personal stories, and how their experiences shaped who they are today.

Freedom Story Project is a national OurStoryBridge project that collects and shares personal narratives recounting the activism and engagement of everyday people working for justice and for human and civil rights, not only here at home but around the world. Freedom Story Project is made possible by a 2022 AARP Community Challenge grant.

Visit www.freedomstoryproject.org to hear more stories and www.ourstorybridge.org to learn more about how to start your own community or issues-based story project using the OurStoryBridge methodology.

In our third episode, you will hear stories centering on women and gender. These stories will take you on a chronological journey from women’s suffrage all the way to today's fight for bodily autonomy. Listen to storytellers share their personal experiences dealing with gender and what they feel it means to live life authentically as women.

Freedom Story Project is a national OurStoryBridge project that collects and shares personal narratives recounting the activism and engagement of everyday people working for justice and for human and civil rights, not only here at home but around the world. Freedom Story Project is made possible by a 2022 AARP Community Challenge grant.

Visit www.freedomstoryproject.org to hear more stories and www.ourstorybridge.org to learn more about how to start your own community or issues-based story project using the OurStoryBridge methodology.

Our second episode focuses on freedom and justice and the many ways people have gathered together and taken up causes to make the world a better place for everyone.

Freedom Story Project is a national OurStoryBridge project that collects and shares personal narratives recounting the activism and engagement of everyday people working for justice and for human and civil rights, not only here at home but around the world. Freedom Story Project is made possible by a 2022 AARP Community Challenge grant. 

Visit www.freedomstoryproject.org to hear more stories and www.ourstorybridge.org to learn more about how to start your own community or issues-based story project using the OurStoryBridge methodology.

In our first episode you will hear stories centering on music and activism, and the way these two endeavors can become indivisibly merged when guided by the desire to create impact and make change.

Freedom Story Project is a national OurStoryBridge project that collects and shares personal narratives recounting the activism and engagement of everyday people working for justice and for human and civil rights, not only here at home but around the world. Freedom Story Project is made possible by a 2022 AARP Community Challenge grant. 

Visit www.freedomstoryproject.org to hear more stories and www.ourstorybridge.org to learn more about how to start your own community or issues-based story project using the OurStoryBridge methodology.