StoryCorps in SLC: Photos from Opening Day

With the help of local NPR affiliate KCPW and its StoryCorps sponsors (including Calanan Photography) the StoryCorps in SLC team kicked off their 6-week stay with a recording of local businessman/celebrity Ken Sanders and his interviewer, Scott Carrier:



A crowd (including a class on a field trip from Realms of Inquiry) gathered to hear speeches from KCPW's Ed Sweeney:



...from SLC Mayor Ralph Becker



...and from the StoryCorps team of Whitney Henry-Lester, Anna Walters and Jeremy Helton. Here is StoryCorps MobileBooth Site Supervisor Whitney Henry-Lester being interviewed by Salt Lake's local Fox affiliate:



StoryCorps in SLC's second recording was of Anna Zumwalt, Gretel Zumwalt and Troy Hart - here they are waiting for their turn in the MobileBooth with KCPW's Andrea Ashbridge:



...and here are Gretel and Anna in the booth, sharing a moment just before their recording began:



Here's the StoryCorps MobileBooth:



Here's a slideshow of my ongoing photo gallery of the StoryCorps stay in SLC - I'll be adding more to this over the course of their 6-week stay:



Finally, the Deseret News has a story on this event at "StoryCorps adding Utahns' tales to touring collection".