Lamar Van Dyke, Paula Lewis and Traci Lewis have a special bond. Lamar gave birth to Traci but was unprepared to have a baby, she gave Traci up for adoption. Paula Lewis adopted her. Traci sat down with her moms to talk about their family.

Before Laurie Brookner adopted Kate, she knew her as only as a photocopied photograph. Fifteen years later, Kate and Laurie came to the StoryCorps booth in San Francisco. Kate wanted to ask her mom what it was like when she saw her for the first time.

If you've ever visited the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park on the Richmond waterfront, chances are you have heard of…

MaritzaHurtado Torres has been cooking for as long as she can remember.Her daughter, Cheryl Bonilla, has been eating that food her whole life. At the…

As a musician, you have to know how to deal with different types of crowds. Sometimes people aren't paying much attention to you, and they even talk while…

Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the tragedy at Jonestown. More than 900 people died, most by suicide, coerced by the cult leader Jim…

Shortly after World War II in Eastern Europe, Slobodan Dan Paich was just a boy – and he says life felt void of color. He remembers the moment light came…

It’s not always easy to pass down family traditions, especially when they don’t match mainstream American culture. But that’s what Maria Sanchez and…

Jessica Stillman and Amanda Abud are counselors at the Verity crisis center in Santa Rosa. The Tubbs wildfire, the most destructive the state has seen,…

Tracy Grubbs grew up fascinated, curious and also afraid of death. Her curiosity, plus her interest in Buddhism led her to volunteer at the Zen Hospice…

Patricia Chin was born in San Francisco’s Chinatown. She had never left the neighborhood when she auditioned to be a chorus girl. It was quite a leap for…

In 1996, when San Francisco's Presidio was decommissioned as an army base and turned into a national park, a man named Eric Blind came to work there as an…