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Jan 7, 2008
"There is a universe in the sound of every voice, and if you're a patient listener, you can often sense the heartbeat in the long silences between the words." --Neenah Ellis
If I Live To Be 100
In 1999 and 2000, veteran radio producer Neenah Ellis spent a year traveling the country, recording interviews with people who've lived past age 100. She listened to their stories about coming of age in the early 1900s, about the Great Depression, about the second World War -- and she listened, she says, "just to the sound of their voices." Her work became a yearlong Morning Edition series, One Hundred Years of Stories. And now the interviews in the series have been collected in a book, If I Live to Be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians. This NPR page has an audio interview with Ellis, as well as a reflection by her.
BE THE CHANGE
To see photos and stories from Ellis' book, visit the "If I Live To Be 100" Web site. More ...
