StoryCorps, ABC News Giving High Schoolers and Grandparents a Chance to Tell Their Stories

— -- High school-aged kids and senior citizens, separated by decades in age, will have the chance to tell their stories together in “The Great Thanksgiving Listen” this fall.

The project, a collaboration between ABC News and StoryCorps, was announced today on “Good Morning America.”

Other partners on the initiative include National Public Radio, the nonprofit Facing History and Ourselves and the nonprofit Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED).

“The Great Thanksgiving Listen” will take place over Thanksgiving weekend this year, and will mark StoryCorps' largest initiative to date in recording the oral histories of everyday Americans.

High schoolers will be invited to record an interview with a grandparent or another elder, either through StoryCorps’ recently released app.

“I hope this is the kind of effort that can bring us together and remind us of what's really important and remind us of how much we have in common," StoryCorps founder and president Dave Isay said. "Remind us of how important the stories are of our parents, of our grandparents, of the people around us."

Since Isay founded StoryCorps in 2003, the program has collected and archived more than 65,000 interviews with over 100,000 participants.

"We are looking to record more interviews in that weekend than we have in the last 12 years," Isay said of "The Great Thanksgiving Listen." "It's the biggest thing we’ve ever tried to do."

StoryCorps participants have the chance to record a conversation with a loved one in one of the StoryCorps booths set up across the country. Each conversation is recorded on a CD to share, and is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

Selected conversations are also broadcast weekly on NPR's Morning Edition.

For more information, visit StoryCorps.