Interview with Martin Brady, 18 Sept. 2007.
(Document/manuscript/pamphlet/archival material)

Interview NPL000009.

Materials housed in Special Collections Division of the Main Library, Nashville Public Library.

"StoryCorps is a national project to instruct and inspire people to record on another's stories in sound. . . . StoryCorps is modeled -- in spirit and in scope -- after the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the 1930s, through which oral history interviews with everyday Americans across the country were recorded." -- StoryCorps website accessed 07/11/2007. "StoryCorps is a project of Sound Portraits Productions, in partnership with National Public Radio and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress." -- StoryCorps brochure.

In library use only. Available by appointment.

Scope and content: Martin Brady shares with friend Deanna Larson memories of how his father (Leo Brady) and mother (Eleanor Buchroeder) met and married during World War II; his father's career as an author, playwright, director, and drama professor at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.; his grandparents; his mother's modeling career; and his mother's mental illness.

Interview recorded in the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public Library from September 2007 to September 2008. Each interview is approximately 40 minutes long and conducted with the help of a trained facilitator. Most interviews are conducted by family members and friends of the interviewees. Most interviews are accompanied by digital color photographs of the participants taken at the time of the interview.

Cite as: Interview with Martin Brady, Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth Interviews, Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library.

Duplication of the recorded materials is governed by copyright and other restrictions.

Sound Portraits Productions;,Gift;,2007-2008;,Acc. 2008.010.

StoryCorps Collection,,Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress,,Washington, D.C.

Martin Brady was born in Washinton, D.C., in 1952. He is a freelance writer and musician.

The Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth was funded by the Nashville Public Library Foundation. The booth operated at the Nashville Public Library from September 2007 to September 2008.

In English.

Index available in repository.

Forms part of: Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth Interviews.