Voices from the Archive: Irene Mitchell - Part 1
In this month's Voices from the Archive, we hear from Irene Mitchell. Irene lives in Washington County with her husband Sam. She came to the United States in 1959 after living the first 10 years of her life in Cuba. Today she tells what she calls "the Cuba story." This will be part one, and next month will be part two.
Voices from the Archive is a monthly segment of StoryTown Radio. It shares stories from people living here, just how they told them. You might think of it as a news report that tells you about all sorts of things. From ghost stories to apple butter, you could learn just about anything from the people living here in East Tennessee. Listen in as they tell the stories of their lives here in Appalachia.
StoryTown Radio is a production of the McKinney Center's Story Initiative. Grounded in the belief that stories connect people to each other, the Story Initiative sets out to collect, archive, and share the stories from the region. Broadcast from Jonesborough, Tennessee, the Storytelling Capital of the World, StoryTown Radio is one way these stories are shared with people, nearby and all around.
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Storytellers: Irene Mitchell
Story Collector: Kim Blaine
Editors: Isaac Wood, Skye McFarland, Anne G'Fellers-Mason, Bre Walker-Schadler, Theresa Hammons
Narrator: Isaac Wood
Music:
-Music by audionautix.com
Titles: Rocky Top (trad.), Acoustic Mediation, Thingamajig
-Music: Caribbean Night by Justin Allan Arnold - https://www.ifnessfreemusic.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Sponsors:
Tennessee Arts Commission (https://tnartscommission.org/)
Trivia with Budds
The Silver Raven
Mountain Empire Cremation and Burial Service
The Wild Women of Jonesborough
McKinney Center (mckinneycenter.com)