Baltimore’s street corner astronomer. A man who sold more than a million beers to baseball fans during his 43-year career as a vendor at Orioles games. The Baltimore artist Amy Sherald, whose portrait of Michelle Obama sits in the National Portrait Gallery.
These are a few among many Baltimoreans who have had their life stories captured by StoryCorps, a nonprofit organization that has created the largest collection of human voices ever recorded. Starting next month, Baltimore residents will have the chance to record even more.
StoryCorps is returning to Baltimore from April 28 to May 29, and for the first time, people can record their stories in a “virtual recording booth” that helps story-tellers in distant locations to connect remotely, joined and guided by a StoryCorps facilitator – who will also be remote.
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