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Archive
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Kessler: Things that Scare Me! | June 24, 2014 | ||
| Dale : Things that Scare Me! | June 24, 2014 | ||
| Brian W: Things that Scare Me! | June 24, 2014 | ||
| Virginia Knowlton : Good Sport | June 11, 2014 | Stories about winning, losing, and everything in between Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of riding the bench, winning the gold, and why there is no “I” in | |
| Shodekeh: Good Sport | June 11, 2014 | Stories about winning, losing, and everything in between Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of riding the bench, winning the gold, and why there is no “I” in | |
| Molly O’Donnell : Good Sport | June 11, 2014 | Stories about winning, losing, and everything in between Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of riding the bench, winning the gold, and why there is no “I” in | |
| Michael Ziccardi: Good Sport | June 11, 2014 | Stories about winning, losing, and everything in between Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of riding the bench, winning the gold, and why there is no “I” in Cross country team finds a shark carcass, runs with it over their heads through town and drops it off in the girls’ locker room | pranks |
| Lionel Foster: Good Sport | June 11, 2014 | Stories about winning, losing, and everything in between Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of riding the bench, winning the gold, and why there is no “I” in | |
| Kevin Van Valkenburg: Good Sport | June 11, 2014 | Stories about winning, losing, and everything in between Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of riding the bench, winning the gold, and why there is no “I” in | |
| Josh Fruhlinger: Good Sport | June 11, 2014 | Stories about winning, losing, and everything in between Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of riding the bench, winning the gold, and why there is no “I” in | |
| Joe Challmes: Good Sport | June 11, 2014 | Stories about winning, losing, and everything in between Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of riding the bench, winning the gold, and why there is no “I” in | |
| Dave Zang: Good Sport | June 11, 2014 | Stories about winning, losing, and everything in between Storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of riding the bench, winning the gold, and why there is no “I” in | |
| Rosalie Eck: Hair! | April 24, 2014 | a girl tells about her autistic brother’s hair fascination | |
| Patty Archuletta: Hair! | April 24, 2014 | a girl shaves her armpits for a job interview | |
| Meg Adams: Hair! | April 24, 2014 | being a victim of her older sister’s desire to “play with her hair” | |
| Mark Bilezikjian: Hair! | April 24, 2014 | Armenian hair experiences — too standup-y | |
| Lauren Jackson: Hair! | April 24, 2014 | a girl inherits a penchant for bad haircuts from her mother. | |
| Krista Ragaini: Hair! | April 24, 2014 | ||
| Judy Irvine: Hair! | April 24, 2014 | when she turned 25, her parents rented a bar for to have a party. 40 people came and there were 2 kegs. she gets very drunk, spent night in hotel, | |
| Joe Awamtong: Hair! | April 24, 2014 | A guy with a Cameroon dad and Wisconsin mom dreaded haircuts when he was a kid and refused to get them. Grew a big Afro. Had to cut it to | |
| Jacqueline Bryacz: Hair! | April 24, 2014 | A girl clips in extensions and goes to a housewarming party. a cute boy tries to do a reach in and finds her clips. | |
| Jack Neill: Hair! | April 24, 2014 | A redhead lets his hair grow long to rebel against the nuns. Then he gets a really bad haircut and his hair grows in brown. | |
| Don Palmer: Hair! | April 24, 2014 | start at :30 I don’t like people touching my hair. But he ends up having sex with a woman who touches his hair. | |
| Dave Manogian: Hair! | April 24, 2014 | Armenian dude with vignettes about hair. Standup-y | |
| Cija Jefferson: Hair! | April 24, 2014 | An African American girl vows not to get her hair wet with her frenemies in a water park. | |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorian Gray: O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | |||
| Dorian Gray: War Stories | November 15, 2010 | |||
| Doug Donovan: 21 Club | January 13, 2016 | |||
| Doug Donovan: Kitchen Confidential | ||||
| Doug Donovan: The Stoop Says “I do!” | June 9, 2011 | A couple wants to get married in the catholic church but has to take a compatibility test in order to do so | catholic, compatibility, marriage | |
| Doug Hayes: O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | |||
| Doug Kington: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | |||
| Doug Powell | February 21, 2026 | |||
| Doug Powell: Keep Calm and ____! | February 23, 2018 | A 40-year-old man struggles to fit with the social norm of having a career. Drops out of college, goes to Marines, does standup, then becomes an electrician. Don’t conform. Trust | college, dropout, growing up, school | |
| Dovile Mark: My Theme Song | November 5, 2007 | a story about a women’s love for excitement leads her to a career as a stuntwoman where one man’s actions trying to “save” her helps her understand the true meaning | fear | |
| Dr Christy Chang: A Movement in Every Direction | November 3, 2022 | |||
| Dr Obed Norman: A Movement in Every Direction | November 3, 2022 | |||
| Dr Raj: These are the People in Our Neighborhood | June 23, 2023 | |||
| Dr. Albert Chi: A World Inside a City, III | April 4, 2013 | |||
| Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa (Dr. Q): A World inside a City, II | May 4, 2012 | |||
| Dr. Graham Redgrave: A World Inside a City, III | April 4, 2013 | |||
| Dr. Harriette Wimms | March 19, 2026 | |||
| Dr. Janice Campbell | September 27, 2025 | |||
| Dr. Jason Ramirez: On Drugs | April 19, 2018 | The son of two heroin addicts grows up to become a docter | addiction, boot straps, children, cons, drug deals, heroin, medical school, overcoming poverty, overdoes, success stories, suicide | |
| Dr. Joanne Martin: Every Body Has a Story | February 6, 2023 | One of the founders of the National Great Blacks in Wax museum tells the story of how and why her and husband started the museum in Baltimore | Black History, founders, museum | |
| Dr. Lawrence Egbert: Beginnings and Endings | October 7, 2015 | |||
| Dr. Leana Wen – Baltimore City Health Commissioner: The Stoop Turns Ten! | February 10, 2016 | Story about a women’s stuttar who has spent her life covering it up and how she accepted herself | insecurities, speaking, stuttering | |
| Dr. Marc Maurer: Oh, pioneers! | February 9, 2015 | |||
| Dr. Patrick Byrne: A World Inside a City, III | ||||
| Dr. Vivian Pinn: A Tribute to Barbara Mikulski | October 12, 2017 | Story about how Mikulsk advocated for funding for woman’s health research at NIH | community organizing, lipstick, pioneer, women | |
Barbara DeCesare: Family Secrets
Story Date: February 11, 2008
Women’s father accidentally eats one of her brother’s pot muffins....Read More