Newsletter
February 2012
Story Preservation
Initiative, a nonprofit corporation
All signs point to 2012 being a year
of positive change and growth. The latest
news: Story Preservation Initiative has
become a nonprofit corporation.
We are at work readying our application to
be filed with the Federal gov’t to obtain
501 (c) 3 status. When complete, we will
be eligible to apply for and accept taxexempt grants and donations from
individuals and foundations. We will also
be able to partner with other nonprofits
looking to create oral history collections.
We are very pleased to have made this
change. It brings with it the possibility for
significant growth of Story Preservation’s
oral history collection, which is deemed to
be an educational, historical, and cultural
resource.
Featured RecordingS
Artist  Eric Aho
Eric Aho has quickly become one of
the nation’s top artists working today.
His work is represented in collections
throughout the country including the
Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY; the
Fleming Museum; the Federal Reserve
Bank of Boston; the Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco; the Boston Public Library;
the New York Public Library; the Ogunquit
Museum of American Art and the Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston.
Recording date: February 23, 2012.
THE ARTIST AND THE ASTRONAUT
Pat Musick and Jerry Carr are a husband and wife team:
unstoppable as individuals, downright extraordinary together.
These recordings will be available in March 2012
Artist  Pat Musick
Astronaut & SkyLab Commander
Jerry Carr
Pat Musick’s work is in the permanent
Colonel Carr was one of the 19
astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966.
collection of more than 50 museums and
sculpture parks nationwide.
Jerry Carr
A Place Where They Cried, Crystal Bridges Museum of
American Art, Bentonville, Ark.
Through her work as both a painter and a
sculptor, she seeks reconciliation between
the forces that mankind exerts upon nature
and the opposing forces that nature wields
on our earth. Her art offers a message of
harmony, balance, and peace.
He served as CAPCOM for the Apollo 8
and 12 flights, and was involved in the
development and testing of the lunar
roving vehicle that was used on the lunar
surface by Apollo flight crews.
Carr was commander of Skylab 4.
Artists
Eric Aho
Wolf Kahn
Pat Musick
Naturalists
David Carroll
Philanthropists
WomensTrust
Starfish Children’s Fund
POETS
Donald Hall
Maxine Kumin
Wesley McNair
Astronaut
Jerry Carr
If you would like a full-length disk of any SPI
recordings, please forward a note with your
name and mailing address to:
Story Preservation Initiative
PO Box 280
Andover, NH 03216.
There is a $12 charge per disk. Please
enclose a check in the proper amount and
indicate which recording(s) you would like.
Please note: This covers the cost of replication and
mailing only. We do not charge for the recording
itself.
Story Preservation Initiative’s mission is to
create and make available to the general
public a diverse collection of oral histories
of people who have exhibited a talent,
passion, commitment, or way of living that
has served to enrich the human experience.
The sole function of the collection is to
serve as an educational, historical, and
cultural resource.
Story Preservation Initiative continually
strives to create broad and easy access to
this collection via broadcast media, library
and digital archiving, podcasts, websites,
and other such technologies and means of
communication that shall evolve over the
course of time but are not yet known.
To aid with research and general interest,
all recordings are categorized by subject,
made available in part or whole on the
Story Preservation Initiative website, and
disseminated to external sites and locations
where they can easily be found and
accessed.
We welcome your comments and
suggestions.
Best Wishes, Mary