StoryCorps Austin: Monica Smith and Karen Collier

The StoryCorps mobile booth was in Austin this January, and we’re bringing you some of the stories that were recorded there. Karen Collier and Monica Smith met in 1968, when Karen’s family moved and she enrolled in Butterfield Elementary, a small country school on Highway 277 outside of Abilene. She met Monica on her first day at school, and the two quickly began a friendship that is now fifty years old. The two sat down in the StoryCorps mobile booth this January, and shared some memories.