Story Corps

As a part of the 2025 StoryCorps mobile tour in Kalispell, Matt Laughlin (Director of the Wachholz College Center) and Jane Karas (President of Flathead Valley Community College) talk about the very first performance at the Wachholz College Center.

Program Director Michael Marsolek speaks with StoryCorps site manager and conversation facilitator Ian Murakami (from the StoryCorps airstream trailer!) about bearing witness to conversations between participants, how many participants get emotional hearing their conversations in public spaces, and more!

Program Director Michael Marsolek speaks with StoryCorps CEO Sandra Clark about the organization’s history, mission, and initiatives. The StoryCorps mobile tour is coming to Kalispell May 30 - June 27, 2025. Honor someone you know by preserving their story. Reserve your spot in the StoryCorps booth during the first round of open reservations, May 10th at 10AM; second chance reservations will go live on June 3rd.

As a part of the 2022 StoryCorps mobile tour, friends and colleagues Honore Bray (former Executive Director of the Missoula Public Library) and Elizabeth Jonkel (Assistant Director of Services at the Missoula Public Library) talk about the impact and importance of libraries and librarians, especially in this time of censorship and extreme political divide.

As a part of the 2022 StoryCorps mobile tour, wife and husband Raurie and Jake Birch talk about what road trips looked like during Raurie’s childhood.

As a part of the 2022 StoryCorps mobile tour, mother and daughter Linda Schmitt and Kierstin Schmitt unearth small but deeply meaningful and rewarding memories.

As a part of the 2022 StoryCorps mobile tour, friends Roger Dunsmore and Josh Slotnick talk about the wild, unlikely circumstances through which Roger ended up shot-in-the-leg.

As a part of the 2022 StoryCorps mobile tour, a mother (Susan Frauenglass Swierc) asks her daughter (Amare Swierc) how she feels when she performs.

As part of the 2022 StoryCorps mobile tour, mother and daughter Carol Sharpe and Tanya Horat reflect on the bountiful joy (and importance) of music and its intergenerational legacy.

As a part of the 2022 StoryCorps mobile tour, mother and daughter Susan Frauenglass Swierc and Amare Swierc discuss the perspective-shifting qualities of growing up in an era with abundant national hazards.