Diamonds in the Dung Heap
Produced by Art Silverman and Bill Deputy
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Maurice Crane presides over a vast repository of the recorded voice. He's the curator of the Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State University in East Lansing. NPR's Don Gonyea took the tour of the library and learned about the collection AND the collector. The original collection was bequeathed by Robert Vincent; Crane has increased the tapes and records there 20 fold.

Dr. Maurice Crane, director of the Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State University since 1974.

G. Robert Vincent began recording voices in 1912 at the home of president Teddy Roosevelt. He went on to amass the nation's largest private collection of recordings of the famous and the not so famous.

Michigan State University's Vincent Voice Library
http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent