Archive

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	Story Tags
Jason Newton: Workin’ It	May 3, 2018	The Stoop Storytelling Series in collaboration with Baltimore Museum of Industry present an evening of true, personal tales about what we do to “get paid” — everything from crazy careers An african american news reporter recounts what it was like showing up to work the day after the Freddie Gray uprising	community, Freddie Gray, glass half full, hope, mama's boy, news, optimisn, WBAL
David Alima: Workin’ It	May 3, 2018	The Stoop Storytelling Series in collaboration with Baltimore Museum of Industry present an evening of true, personal tales about what we do to “get paid” — everything from crazy careers A man gets a job after college in a Kung Fu movie store and kills a rat to please his boss	9/11, ice cream, job, killing, Kung Fu, movies, patience, Rat, samari sword
Tom Hall: Workin’ It	May 3, 2018	The Stoop Storytelling Series in collaboration with Baltimore Museum of Industry present an evening of true, personal tales about what we do to “get paid” — everything from crazy careers A conductor shows up last minute to conduct a piece without having read the music in a tuxedo covered in cat pee	angry pets, break-ups, cat, cat pee, classical, conductor, tuxedo, Wyman Dell
Towanda Carter: Workin’ It	May 3, 2018	The Stoop Storytelling Series in collaboration with Baltimore Museum of Industry present an evening of true, personal tales about what we do to “get paid” — everything from crazy careers A woman gets herself out of generational poverty and works her way up to a management position in Baltimore City Public Schools	cafeteria, children, crossing guard, mother, poverty, projects, teenage pregnancy
Stephanie Murdock: Workin’ It	May 3, 2018	The Stoop Storytelling Series in collaboration with Baltimore Museum of Industry present an evening of true, personal tales about what we do to “get paid” — everything from crazy careers A woman build a skatepark in Baltimore	Baltimore, bowl, females in sports, fundraising, kids, skateboarding, tomboy
Adell Cothorne: Workin’ It	May 3, 2018	The Stoop Storytelling Series in collaboration with Baltimore Museum of Industry present an evening of true, personal tales about what we do to “get paid” — everything from crazy careers A principal who finally got her dream school catches two staff members cheating on the standardized assessment. She becuase a whistleblower and was then blackballed	black, blackballed, cheating, college, cupcakes, DC public schools, education, generational poverty, secretary, standardized tests, whistleblower
Sophie Newman: Workin’ It	May 3, 2018	The Stoop Storytelling Series in collaboration with Baltimore Museum of Industry present an evening of true, personal tales about what we do to “get paid” — everything from crazy careers I truly do not remember what this story was about but I remember enough that it was bad
Greer Verhyeyen: Workin’ It	May 3, 2018	The Stoop Storytelling Series in collaboration with Baltimore Museum of Industry present an evening of true, personal tales about what we do to “get paid” — everything from crazy careers A woman working downtown Baltimore in the 80s was followed home by an aggressive homeless person who got on her bus. The bus driver ended up protecting her, kicking the	aggression, bus, chauffeur, fear, fight, homelessness, public transportation, restaurant, tips
Ann Bracken: On Drugs	April 19, 2018	A woman who was taking a lot of drugs to deal with migraines and depression becomes drug free after working with an energy healer	car accident, energy, essential oils, methodone, migraines, oxycotin, prescription drugs
Leigh Maddox: On Drugs	April 19, 2018	A former sargent becomes an advocate for legalizing weed	cop, drug deals, marijuana, realizations, shooting, weed, young murder
Michael Furr: On Drugs	April 19, 2018	A young man overdosed on heroin after finding his lover cheated on him	artist, bad boys, carroll county, cheating, friendship, gay, heroin, overdose, small town, troubled
Twig Harper: On Drugs	April 19, 2018	An eccentric man experiments on himself using salvia	abuse, drugs, experiments, hallucination, pain, salvia, sensory deprevation, trauma
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
Lauren Ross: On Drugs	April 19, 2018	Woman happens upon a drug deal late night in Baltimore	Baltimore, bars, bushes, city life, cops, drug deal, drunken, football, john waters, late nights, mica, sex, walks, week, youth
Ta’Von Vincent: On Drugs	April 19, 2018	Young man contracts HIV and becomes an advocate for others	advocacy, bus, cat eyes, cocktail, doctors, drugs, HIV, jaundice, needles, patient, trash
Rachel Micah Jones: Intercambio	March 9, 2018	Click on a photo to hear the story! Stoop Special Engagement at the BMA to mark the closing of the exhibition Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints. This image is starting a migrant workers’ rights legal organization in Zacatecas, and about falling in love with Mexico and living there for many years	lawyer
Marybeth Lennon: Intercambio	March 9, 2018	Click on a photo to hear the story! Stoop Special Engagement at the BMA to mark the closing of the exhibition Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints. This image is Story about coming from a large Irish family and connecting with the hispanic immigrant community in Baltimore City	accident, birth, home, Irish, large family, Mexico, poverty, round face, school, siblings
Aida Medinas: Intercambio	March 9, 2018	Click on a photo to hear the story! Stoop Special Engagement at the BMA to mark the closing of the exhibition Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints. This image is coming to US from Columbia, living for 9 years in a white suburb of DC, and then moving to Baltimore where she works with people from all over Latin and	chuch, civil rights, Columbia, DC, diversity, hispanic, mission, purpose, social norms across culture, suburbs, white
Jax Baires: Intercambio	March 9, 2018	Click on a photo to hear the story! Stoop Special Engagement at the BMA to mark the closing of the exhibition Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints. This image is Chicano identity in college after struggling with feeling less-than as a Salvadoran growing up in Texas	activism, Austin, college, El Salvador, home, immigrant, mother, ohio, Texas
Maggie Villegas: Intercambio	March 9, 2018	Click on a photo to hear the story! Stoop Special Engagement at the BMA to mark the closing of the exhibition Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints. This image is growing up in Miami where she didn’t feel Other and then moving to Tallahassee, where suddenly her identity — and her loyalty as an American — was in question	mean girls, Miami, rebel, southern, tallahassee
Holden Warren: Intercambio	March 9, 2018	Click on a photo to hear the story! Stoop Special Engagement at the BMA to mark the closing of the exhibition Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints. This image is Story about accidently crossing into another country while in Peace Corps	Africa, joints, passport, Peace Corps, visa, weed
Carlos Raba: Intercambio	March 9, 2018	Click on a photo to hear the story! Stoop Special Engagement at the BMA to mark the closing of the exhibition Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints. This image is Spent an idyllic childhood in Mexio with his mother and her family even though his father was murdered when he was a baby. Had to leave Mexico and take sanctuary	childhood innocence, cooking, corruption, fathers, firework, food, Journalism, Mexico, murder, sanctuary, sons
Jesus Perez: Intercambio	March 9, 2018	Click on a photo to hear the story! Stoop Special Engagement at the BMA to mark the closing of the exhibition Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints. This image is Story about how he became a DREAMER (DACA). Mother left him in Mexico. He eventually came to America as a child who didn’t speak English in a Baltimore City Public	Abandonment, DACA, Dreamer, ESOL, immigration, Mexico, mothers, news, public school, sons, TV, uniform
Alfonso Fernandez: Intercambio	March 9, 2018	Click on a photo to hear the story! Stoop Special Engagement at the BMA to mark the closing of the exhibition Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints. This image is His grandmother and mother taught him to see the world as an artist as a boy in Mexico	art, art school, dye, education, grandmother, immigration, mother, paint, poverty, sky
Karim Mansour: Keep Calm and ____!	February 23, 2018	Strong City Baltimore, in partnership with The Stoop Storytelling Series, presents an evening of stories about how Adult Learning Center learners, staff, and Baltimoreans “keep on keeping on” amidst challenges, A guy who gets a D in calculus becomes a mathematician	engineer, failure, immigrants, math, milennial

Story Title	Story Date	Story Description	Story Keywords
Naomi Cross: Order up!	January 15, 2013		A girls first job become shift coordinator and on her first shift finds an employee peeing in the buscuit mix	funny, inappropriate peeing, service industry
Naomi Cross: Rock Bottoms and Tip Tops	April 9, 2013
Naomi Cross: That 80s Show	February 22, 2018		watching the Berlin Wall fall while in Germany as an Army brat.	army, Berlin Wall, border guard, childhood, customs, depravation, East Germany, Regan, tear down, West Germany
Natalie Bryson: Dating Stories	February 19, 2013
Natalie Froman: Every Body Has a Story	February 6, 2023		A story of someone struggling with two life-threatening illnesses at once, cancer and an eating disorder	cancer, eating disorder, illness
Natalie Gillard: Getting It Wrong	October 25, 2018		scripted story
Natalie Hikel: Illin’	May 12, 2016		Woman recounts childhood discovery of hereditary illness.	childhood, gratitude, hereditary disease, parvo, rare disease, strange diagnosis, surgery
Natalie Neill: Accidents!	January 23, 2014		While working in Brazil and trying to cook a meal for her host parents a women cuts her finger badly and ends up passing out in her house.	abroad, fainting, gashes
Natalie Neill: Accidents!	January 23, 2014		While working in Brazil and trying to cook a meal for her host parents a women cuts her finger badly and ends up passing out in her house.	abroad, fainting, gashes
Natalie Sokoloff: Fight Club	October 10, 2016
Natasha Tylea: A Beautiful, Terrible Thing	January 23, 2020		story about being a female audio engineer	bias, caring, field festival, mics, poverty, rain, regrets
Natasha Tylea: Invisible Labor	October 15, 2020		story about being a female sound engineer
Nathan Sterner: WYPR 10th Anniversary	May 23, 2012
Ndo Osias: BRAINsPARK		story about almost losing his Visa
Nefir: COVID Chronicles	March 25, 2022
Neil Bixler: Illin’	May 12, 2016		Man warns audiences of mold and dust allergies.	allergies, hereditary disease, mold, public service, strange diagnosis
Nellie Sorenson: A Beautiful, Terrible Thing	January 23, 2020		story about bathroom on tours	girls don't poop, smelly poop
Nelly Sorenson: Summer Camp Stories	March 10, 2016		Was a camp counselor who hates vomit and children
Netta Gurari: Across the Divide	February 22, 2010
Netta Gurari: War Stories	February 22, 2010
Nevin Baker: I Did it My Way	November 1, 2018		I met an older woman in World of Warcraft. Moved across the country to live with her. It all went to hell in a hand basket and I stayed in	east coast, mental health, midwest, relationships, sexual assault, teenagers, video games, World of Warcraft
Nick Sheridan: Order up!	January 15, 2013		A man working as a cook has to quickly turn a hamburger into a cheeseburger quickly.	Cutting corners, line cook
Nick the Bartender: My Freaky Family	November 16, 2017		Story of superhero grandfather who survived unbelievable curcumstances while serving in the British army during WW2	Bartender, British, Dunkirk, family history, grandfather, grandson, POW, survival, UK. England, WWII
Nick: Never Have I Ever	April 11, 2022		after being dumped and fired, he went to a macadamia farm in Guatemala and had border trouble renewing his visa
Nicki Seibert: That’s Incredible!	October 20, 2014