StoryCorps Austin: Gene Rodgers and Dennis Borel

The StoryCorps mobile booth was in Austin this January, and we’re bringing you some of the stories that were recorded there. Gene Rodgers is an outdoor adventure enthusiast and self-described ‘argonaut’ who was paralyzed in an accident forty-five years ago at age seventeen. He was joined in the StoryCorps mobile booth by his longtime friend Dennis Borel, the Executive Director of the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities. Gene shared some memories of his life and adventures.