StoryCorps

Thursday, December 29, 2016, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

For the last meeting of the year, we will get away from the depressing news and listen to inspiring stories by common people from StoryCorps, which won the 2015 TED prize. The winner of the TED prizes gets to address the influential TED audience and make a wish, which is often granted. Here are the links:

• StoryCorps' TED Talk
• StoryCorps' YouTube Channel

If you get a chance to browse the StoryCorps channel and find a good story, let me know so we can share it during the meeting.

Here is an UPDATE of our meeting room renovation in January; the room will not be ready until 1/23/17. This means that our first meeting for 2017 has been pushed back to 1/26/17; so we will actually have a chance to discuss Trump's first week in office for our first meeting of next year.

----------------------------------- Updated 12/24/16 -------------------------------------

HERE is a follow-up on the StoryCorps TED Talk. You can find more stories on the StoryCorps website.

----------------------------------- Updated 12/30/16 -------------------------------------

Here are the StoryCorps animated stories shown at the meeting:

• Lessons her grandmother taught her in the kitchen
• Traffic Stop
• Intro to StoryCorps
• The Bookmobile
• Eyes on the Stars