By Gillian Ferris Kohl
Flagstaff, AZ – Inside soundproof booths across the country, friends and loved ones are interviewing each other about their lives. The booths belong to StoryCorps, a project that collects the stories of everyday people in order to create an oral history of America. At a booth in Flagstaff, Susan Johnstad interviewed her longtime friend, Valerie Pierce, about how religion and hope have affected her life.