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Conversation and storytelling to bridge the partisan divide

By Salena Zito
Published October 29, 2018 6:11pm ET
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Conversation and storytelling to bridge the partisan divide
In this Nov. 27, 2015, file photo, Rhiannon Leonard interviews her boss, Gary Himes in Weverton, Md., for StoryCorps' Great Thanksgiving Listen oral history project. The event calls for high school students to record a conversation with an elder over the holiday weekend using the StoryCorps app. | (AP Photo/David Dishneau, File)

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The great American tradition of storytelling has deep roots in the rolling hills and deep hollers of Appalachia.

The folks in places like this seem particularly prolific at telling stories about their town or village and the people who came before and settled the land, or made it better, prospered, and wove together the tapestry that is the area today.

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