The Stoop Story Archive contains the true, personal tales shared by thousands of everyday people on our stages since 2006. We’re proud of this amazing collection and invite you to listen, browse by topic or storyteller, check out past shows — and share, share, share.
Archive
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marvin Pinkert: It’s STILL Complicated | May 5, 2015 | After last year’s SOLD OUT show The Stoop returns to Bolton Street Synagogue. Join us for this second annual fundraiser that includes festive food and drink, a silent auction, Ravens | |
| Marc Hartstein: It’s STILL Complicated | May 5, 2015 | After last year’s SOLD OUT show The Stoop returns to Bolton Street Synagogue. Join us for this second annual fundraiser that includes festive food and drink, a silent auction, Ravens | |
| Jennifer Mendelsohn: It’s STILL Complicated | May 5, 2015 | After last year’s SOLD OUT show The Stoop returns to Bolton Street Synagogue. Join us for this second annual fundraiser that includes festive food and drink, a silent auction, Ravens Frida is a 95 year old Holocaust survivor from Poland who had once thought she had lost all her relatives in the war — her granddaughter-in-law was able to tell | ancestry, cousins, family, genealogy, Holocaust, reunions, world war two |
| Evan Serpick: It’s STILL Complicated | May 5, 2015 | After last year’s SOLD OUT show The Stoop returns to Bolton Street Synagogue. Join us for this second annual fundraiser that includes festive food and drink, a silent auction, Ravens | |
| Mike Pecella: And Then I Got High | April 22, 2015 | 3-minute true, personal audience stories | |
| Martha Thomas: And Then I Got High | April 22, 2015 | 3-minute true, personal audience stories | |
| L G: And Then I Got High | April 22, 2015 | 3-minute true, personal audience stories | |
| Kim Le: And Then I Got High | April 22, 2015 | 3-minute true, personal audience stories | |
| James Ladd: And Then I Got High | April 22, 2015 | 3-minute true, personal audience stories | |
| David Linden: And Then I Got High | April 22, 2015 | 3-minute true, personal audience stories | |
| Chris Yeiser: And Then I Got High | April 22, 2015 | 3-minute true, personal audience stories | |
| Brian Weitzner: And Then I Got High | April 22, 2015 | 3-minute true, personal audience stories | |
| Angela Guss: And Then I Got High | April 22, 2015 | 3-minute true, personal audience stories | |
| Alex: And Then I Got High | April 22, 2015 | 3-minute true, personal audience stories | |
| Peter Bruun: Unquiet Minds | April 6, 2015 | Tales of mental health, mental illness, and the mysteries inside our heads. Due to a technical catastrophe, our recording of this show was corrupted. Please check back — we will | |
| Matt Manning: Unquiet Minds | April 6, 2015 | Tales of mental health, mental illness, and the mysteries inside our heads. Due to a technical catastrophe, our recording of this show was corrupted. Please check back — we will | |
| K L Parr: Unquiet Minds | April 6, 2015 | Tales of mental health, mental illness, and the mysteries inside our heads. Due to a technical catastrophe, our recording of this show was corrupted. Please check back — we will | |
| Jonathan Scott Fuqua: Unquiet Minds | April 6, 2015 | Tales of mental health, mental illness, and the mysteries inside our heads. Due to a technical catastrophe, our recording of this show was corrupted. Please check back — we will | |
| Jessica Murphy Garrett: Unquiet Minds | April 6, 2015 | Tales of mental health, mental illness, and the mysteries inside our heads. Due to a technical catastrophe, our recording of this show was corrupted. Please check back — we will | |
| Janice Hayes-Williams: Unquiet Minds | April 6, 2015 | Tales of mental health, mental illness, and the mysteries inside our heads. Due to a technical catastrophe, our recording of this show was corrupted. Please check back — we will | |
| Hope Marshall: Unquiet Minds | April 6, 2015 | Tales of mental health, mental illness, and the mysteries inside our heads. Due to a technical catastrophe, our recording of this show was corrupted. Please check back — we will | |
| Fred T Parks: Unquiet Minds | April 6, 2015 | Tales of mental health, mental illness, and the mysteries inside our heads. Due to a technical catastrophe, our recording of this show was corrupted. Please check back — we will | |
| Crystal Guengerich: Unquiet Minds | April 6, 2015 | Tales of mental health, mental illness, and the mysteries inside our heads. Due to a technical catastrophe, our recording of this show was corrupted. Please check back — we will | |
| Thiru Vignarajah: Trials and Tribulations | April 1, 2015 | Stoop and the Citizenship Law-Related Education Program Story about how a shooting lead to retaliation in the form of randomly shooting a group of boys who lived near the original person targeted. Three were shot and recovered. | |
| Michelle Middleton: Trials and Tribulations | April 1, 2015 | Stoop and the Citizenship Law-Related Education Program | |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christina Porter: Workin’ It | May 16, 2019 | story about being a Lyft Driver and making connections through her work | connection, empathy, lyft, mental health, strangers, trauma | |
| Christine Harazim: Every Body Has a Story | February 6, 2023 | Getting women comfortable in their bodies as a boudoir photographer | boudoir, empowering, women's bodies | |
| Christine Sajeicki: Getting It Wrong | October 25, 2018 | story about accidently creating a poop sculpture | art, Halloween, poop, statements, war | |
| Christy Chang: Mother Love | May 8, 2024 | |||
| Christy Villalobos: The One That Got Away | September 14, 2023 | |||
| Christy: Over It | January 10, 2024 | Story about her father taking her into the ocean at night | ||
| Chuck Ochlech: Animal Tales | September 22, 2008 | |||
| Chuck Rutheiser: Postcards from the Stoop | June 8, 2012 | chaperoning kids on an internation fieldtrip | ||
| Cicely Franklin: Public Health Show | September 22, 2022 | |||
| Cija Jefferson: Hair! | April 24, 2014 | An African American girl vows not to get her hair wet with her frenemies in a water park. | ||
| Cindy | June 20, 2025 | |||
| Cindy Walsh: The Stoop Mayoral Show | April 13, 2016 | |||
| Claire French: It’s Complicated | November 15, 2018 | Mom very different from her (opposite end of gender/femininity spectrum); felt like she needed dress like a “woman” at work; after dressing how she actually wanted at work, was passed | jobs, makeup, marketing, promotion | |
| Claire: Moving With Pride | June 18, 2022 | Story about competing in karate as a little girl and the time she had to fight an older boy and they gave him points so he wouldn’t be embarassed even | ||
| Clare L: Brush with Fame | March 21, 2024 | |||
| Clare: Over It | January 10, 2024 | Story about her father helping her during a stressful move prior to his passing | ||
| Clarissa: Stories of Strength | October 10, 2019 | overcoming foster care to get into the military | aunt, challenge, foster, military, social worker, tests, try again, uncle | |
| Clarke Peters: Baltimoored | July 11, 2009 | |||
| Cleo Hirsch: Public Health Show | September 22, 2022 | |||
| Cliff Murphy: The Stoop Holiday Hootenanny 2019 | December 12, 2019 | story about meeting his new girlfriend’s family, who all proceeded to get food poisoning at a buffett | bacon, buffett, cake, car sickness, food poisoning, new love | |
| Coach G: Not Gonna Work for Me | November 9, 2023 | |||
| Conchita Hernandez: See Beyond Disability Narrative | March 15, 2024 | |||
| Congressman Elijah Cummings: Across the Divide | February 22, 2010 | The story about the desegregation of a neighborhood pool and the realization of raciscm as a kid. | race | |
| Congressman Elijah Cummings: Haunted | October 18, 2010 | |||
| Corinne Parks: Animal Tales | September 22, 2008 | Stories from working as wildlife rehabilitator including account of feeding squirrel off side of road to the vulture at the nature center. | ||
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