StoryCorps

Catching memories at the Silver Club

by CarolynRose Stone

posted 10/27/2008

In September the national StoryCorps visited the U-M’s Silver Club enrichment program for folks with dementia. The corps’s goal: recording people’s stories before the memories fade. A Georgia-born great-grandmother recalled an object older than herself: “The same iron skillet made cornbread by three cooks, mother-daughter-daughter.” And she described her

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