“He looked up at me and said, 'Hamzah,' and then grabbed hold of me and gave me this tight hug and wouldn't let me go.”

Homeless New Yorker Larry Chamberlain tells his friend Tobias about his many names.

Recorded in New York, NY.

“Poppy used to say, 'Don't ever let me find out that you took one rubber band from the five-and-dime.”

Rita Giordano tells her daughter, Teresa, how she would like to be remembered.

Recorded in New York, NY.

StoryCorps Sampler: Volume 1

StoryCorps founder Dave Isay shares stories that helped inspire the project, as well as pilot interviews recorded prior to the project's launch in October 2003.

Released May 2003. Produced by David Miller