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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.

Story Title	Story Date	Story Description
Caitlin Barnett: Live and Learn	February 17, 2017	A fundraiser to benefit Strong City Baltimore’s Adult Learning Center. Story about thinking she was above working at a McDonald’s but she kept messing up the cash register
Sharon Gorenstein: Just Married!	September 17, 2017	The Stoop and The Jewish Museum join forces to celebrate the wonder and wackiness of our wedding rituals with an afternoon of Mystery! Drama! Nail-biting tension! Romance! Catastrophe! All with a
Rachel Levitan: Just Married!	September 17, 2017	The Stoop and The Jewish Museum join forces to celebrate the wonder and wackiness of our wedding rituals with an afternoon of Mystery! Drama! Nail-biting tension! Romance! Catastrophe! All with a Rachel Levitan, an art and production coordinator for Mid-Atlantic Media (the JT’s parent company), talked about her mother’s rarely discussed, short-lived first marriage. When Levitan’s mother had a stroke, she
Marc Young: Just Married!	September 17, 2017	The Stoop and The Jewish Museum join forces to celebrate the wonder and wackiness of our wedding rituals with an afternoon of Mystery! Drama! Nail-biting tension! Romance! Catastrophe! All with a When Young coaxed his sobbing bride into revealing the root of her distress, he was stunned to learn it was over a pair of forgotten orange candles. “I’m thinking, ‘I’m
Marc Steiner: Just Married!	September 17, 2017	The Stoop and The Jewish Museum join forces to celebrate the wonder and wackiness of our wedding rituals with an afternoon of Mystery! Drama! Nail-biting tension! Romance! Catastrophe! All with a talk about several weddings: his 1970 wedding to his first wife, which was boycotted by his father because the bride was black, and by her father, because the groom was
Louis Blank: Just Married!	September 17, 2017	The Stoop and The Jewish Museum join forces to celebrate the wonder and wackiness of our wedding rituals with an afternoon of Mystery! Drama! Nail-biting tension! Romance! Catastrophe! All with a spoke of his wedding to his husband, Dan. Because it was a small wedding, he called people beforehand to let them know they would be invited — and also called
Esther Weiner: Just Married!	September 17, 2017	The Stoop and The Jewish Museum join forces to celebrate the wonder and wackiness of our wedding rituals with an afternoon of Mystery! Drama! Nail-biting tension! Romance! Catastrophe! All with a Esther Weiner spoke of her June 16, 1946 wedding that, due to clerical complications, was legally recorded as taking place on June 17 because of a possibly drunk official submitting
Erica Rimlinger: Just Married!	September 17, 2017	The Stoop and The Jewish Museum join forces to celebrate the wonder and wackiness of our wedding rituals with an afternoon of Mystery! Drama! Nail-biting tension! Romance! Catastrophe! All with a
Betsey Kahn: Just Married!	September 17, 2017	The Stoop and The Jewish Museum join forces to celebrate the wonder and wackiness of our wedding rituals with an afternoon of Mystery! Drama! Nail-biting tension! Romance! Catastrophe! All with a
Adam Stone: Just Married!	September 17, 2017	The Stoop and The Jewish Museum join forces to celebrate the wonder and wackiness of our wedding rituals with an afternoon of Mystery! Drama! Nail-biting tension! Romance! Catastrophe! All with a Adam Stone, a freelance writer from Annapolis, spoke of a strained relationship with his father-in-law, who questioned the need for his blonde, Protestant daughter to marry Stone in a Jewish
Sam Carwin: Healthy Teen		What it’s like to be the black mother of white foster children in the suburbs
Rhoda Smith: Healthy Teen		Being discouraged from attending a 4-year college as a teen mother of 2 in the early 80s
Elizabeth Baker: Healthy Teen		Not wanting to focus on gender with her pregnancy or birth
Maisha Drayton: Healthy Teen		“Super mega ultra diamond black woman”who compained about a young teen’s rude service to her at a gas station. When she went to ask for the manager, she couldn’t believe
Jaspreet Chowdhary: Healthy Teen		Judging a young mother for not cleaning her newborn, only to find that the mother was scare of hurting her baby
Toni Polin: Friends and Frenemies	March 9, 2017	This open-mic Stoop show features 3-minute true, personal tales about our most intimate comrades — and their unique and powerful ability to support or destroy. Telling off rabbi – “Your mother would be proud”. Told story at Immigration show
Stewart Stack: Friends and Frenemies	March 9, 2017	This open-mic Stoop show features 3-minute true, personal tales about our most intimate comrades — and their unique and powerful ability to support or destroy. Friend who stole buried gold dollars
Mike Kares: Friends and Frenemies	March 9, 2017	This open-mic Stoop show features 3-minute true, personal tales about our most intimate comrades — and their unique and powerful ability to support or destroy. Leaving drunk friend on the street while they went to see a movie
McKenzie: Friends and Frenemies	March 9, 2017	This open-mic Stoop show features 3-minute true, personal tales about our most intimate comrades — and their unique and powerful ability to support or destroy. Drunk friend who thew up in new Nissan Leaf
Martine: Friends and Frenemies	March 9, 2017	This open-mic Stoop show features 3-minute true, personal tales about our most intimate comrades — and their unique and powerful ability to support or destroy. Honest and good story about being a jerk to her friend after she got quickly engaged, married, and divorced
Laura Garcia: Friends and Frenemies	March 9, 2017	This open-mic Stoop show features 3-minute true, personal tales about our most intimate comrades — and their unique and powerful ability to support or destroy. Story about fancy friend with coach bag coming to visit her in Morrocco while in Peace Corps
Kevin K: Friends and Frenemies	March 9, 2017	This open-mic Stoop show features 3-minute true, personal tales about our most intimate comrades — and their unique and powerful ability to support or destroy. Drunk roommate who ate Thanksgiving leftovers
Kalpana Dave: Friends and Frenemies	March 9, 2017	This open-mic Stoop show features 3-minute true, personal tales about our most intimate comrades — and their unique and powerful ability to support or destroy. Supportive friends who both got into med school
Justin O’Donnell: Friends and Frenemies	March 9, 2017	This open-mic Stoop show features 3-minute true, personal tales about our most intimate comrades — and their unique and powerful ability to support or destroy. Read yearly email letter from work-friend who was a narcissist
Jessamy Taylor: Friends and Frenemies	March 9, 2017	This open-mic Stoop show features 3-minute true, personal tales about our most intimate comrades — and their unique and powerful ability to support or destroy. Shit shovels with names

Story Title	Story Date	Story Keywords
Michael Hughes: That’s Incredible!	October 20, 2014
Michael Hughes: Twilight Zone	October 24, 2019	story about creating a book of spells to get rid of Trump	binding spell, election, resistance, trump, viral
Michael Ivan Schwartz: My Secret Weapon	November 8, 2012
Michael Ivan Schwartz: The Stoop Says “I do!”	June 9, 2011	Budding videographer agrees to document a wedding	deadlines, guilt
Michael Klena: Hitched	May 11, 2022
Michael Manolagas: Culture Shock	April 25, 2011	Man recounts the tales of his mother’s foreign exchange students	author, cross culture, gender roles
Michael Paulson: Campfire Tales	June 9, 2008	Three anecdotes about his experience as a teacher at “nerd camp” including the threat of spoilers for the 7th Harry Potter Book.
Michael Ricigliano: Over It	January 10, 2024	Story about meeting Mike Mussina
Michael Rosenbann: My Secret Weapon	November 8, 2012
Michael Sanow: Lies!	March 12, 2015	Story about how a student confessed to him about lying to get out of a project
Michael Sanow: Neighbors	January 8, 2015	Older man. Story about living next to Catholic neighbors in Rochester, NY. While he was a newspaper boy he was attacked by their dog, Heidi.
Michael Teitelbaum: Out of Stigma’s Shadow	May 21, 2019	story about a well-resourced family dealing with a child who has mental health issues	bipolar, depression, high school, resources, support groups, therapy, wealth, work farm
Michael Williams: Modern Love	February 3, 2014	A man meets a woman in Italy and has an amazing night with her even though he knows she has a boyfriend and finds himself as a pawn in their	romance
Michael Ziccardi: Baltimoored	July 11, 2009
Michael Ziccardi: Brush with Fame	March 21, 2024
Michael Ziccardi: Good Sport	June 11, 2014	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
Michael Ziccardi: Password, please!	June 25, 2015
Michael: Stories of Strength	October 10, 2019	story about flaws of foster care system	Abandonment, abuse, foster, social worker
Michele T: Accidents!	January 23, 2014	In fourth grade a girl pees her pants on the playground	childhood, Peeing yourself, playgrounds
Michele T: Accidents!	January 23, 2014	In fourth grade a girl pees her pants on the playground	childhood, Peeing yourself, playgrounds
Michelle Becote Jackson: The Stoop Holiday Hootenanny 2019	December 12, 2019	story about the reason her grandmother waited until Christmas eve to get their tree	boyfriend, christmas tree, elder, poverty, Shame
Michelle Bond: Failing Up	March 6, 2024
Michelle Dwyer: Hair!	April 24, 2014	a girl dyes her hair all differnet colors, cuts her own hair. at age 19 got a buzz cut.
Michelle Dwyer: Mistakes were made	March 31, 2014
Michelle Lloyd: Order up!	January 15, 2013	Very Baltimore accent. Waited on Snoop from The Wire while she worked at Capt. Jacks