Following on my StoryCorps post, KUT reported this morning that the first half of the slots for the Austin booth filled up in nine minutes yesterday, which is apparently the fastest any of the booths has been booked. I was a dumbass and forgot to do it. If you forgot too, another set of slots will open up on April 7th at 10am. You’d better be fast though.

StoryCorps is coming to Austin for a stay from 4/6 - 4/30. It’s a partnership between NPR and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The idea is to preserve oral histories of Americans through interviews recorded in the booths. There’s a suggested donation of $10. You take an hour to record an interview with someone whose story you’d like to preserve. At the end, you get a CD for yourself and the interview will be added to all of the other StoryCorps interviews and archived at the Library of Congress.

This is the perfect opportunity to get stories out of your grandparents and get them on record. Very cool. I really regret not having done this with my grandparents. I wish the few remaining relatives that I do have from the WW II generation lived locally because I’d have them over there in a heartbeat. As it is, I’m signing up for something anyway.

You can reserve a spot to record your own interview starting tomorrow morning at 10am.