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Over 7000 hours of interviews, oral histories, songs, field recordings, along with photographs, notebooks, journals, and research material created by The Kitchen Sisters has recently been acquired by The Library of Congress where it will be preserved and made accessible to researchers, students, other producers and the general public into the future.

Alexis Madrigal of KQED\\u2019s Forum talks with Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva about the collection and their 40 year history of producing audio stories together. Stories featured and discussed include The Packhorse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky; The Birth of Rice A Roni; The Mohawk Iron Workers at the Twin Towers; and The Homobile\\u2014a Story of Transportation, Civil Rights and Glitter.

The Kitchen Sisters have been working together since 1979 creating audio stories for NPR, public broadcast and their Kitchen Sisters\\u2019 Present podcast. They are the producers, with Jay Allison, of the Peabody Award winning series Lost & Found Sound and The Sonic Memorial Project, the DuPont Columbia Award winning series Hidden Kitchens, the NPR series Hidden World of Girls, and The Keepers, Stories of Activist Archivists, Rogue Librarians, Historians, Curators, Collectors \\u2014 keepers of the culture and the free flow of information.

The Kitchen Sisters Productions is supported by National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities,\\xa0California Humanities, Creative Work\\xa0Fund,\\xa0Robert Sillins Family Foundation,\\xa0TRA Fund,\\xa0Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation,\\xa0Franklin Legacy Foundation, Susie Tompkins Buell Fund, and Listener Contributions to The Kitchen Sisters Productions. \\xa0 The Kitchen Sisters Present is part of PRX\\u2019s Radiotopia podcast network.