Each person has a life story filled with experiences. Whether the stories take the form of a personal journal or a conversation shared at a meal or around a campfire, these are stories that hold an important place in the art of storytelling. It is within these personal accounts that the characteristics of a family member as well as the family as a unit emerges and leaves a legacy to subsequent generations. Within a personal story, day to day real life in a period of time in history is preserved. Often connections will be forged between past and present that otherwise may have been forgotten.  

StoryCorps is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving oral history. Check out this link.
http://storycorps.org/



TimeSlips is a creative storytelling project that provides a wonderful resource for storytellers who work with senior citizens and memory care patients. http://www.timeslips.org/


A story created at the Winter Garden Library/Orange County Library System in Florida:http://www.timeslips.org/stories/1073