PITTSBURGH -- A mobile booth will be in Pittsburgh for the next four weeks to help record the stories of the everyday person.

With StoryCorps, subjects are interviewed by a family member for 40 minutes and then have their photograph taken.

StoryCorps is planning on collecting approximately 250,000 interviews over the next 10 years to help document the oral history of the people who otherwise might not be remembered by this nation's history.

Eliza Bettinger of StoryCorps agreed that sometimes the importance of the lives of normal people are ignored.

"It's so important to have the stories of regular people be a part of our history, not just politicians and dignitaries," Bettinger said.

"When you leave, you have your own CD that you walk away with," Bettinger said. "And [you have] another CD that, with your permission, goes to the Library of Congress for the biggest oral-history archive of ordinary Americans that's ever been made."

"It's a really remarkable opportunity for Story Corps to come to Pittsburgh," WDUQ-FM general manager Scott Hanley said. "Pittsburgh has so many great neighborhoods and so many great stories to tell."

Herb Edwards, a former steelworker and artist, has agreed to record his story for StoryCorps.

Edwards said he wants his story to be recorded, because he is a part of Pittsburgh history that is quickly disappearing.

"This whole area now has gone practically high-tech and it's something that needs to be known because the steel mills are almost extinct around here now," Edwards said.

There are other bonuses that come with having one's oral history recorded.

"When someone passes on, having that recording brings that person back in a way that even photographs don't do sometimes," Bettinger said.

StoryCorps asks for a $10 donation.

Reservations are expected to fill up quickly.

Copies of all Pittsburgh interviews will also be stored at the Carnegie Library.

To sign up for an interview, call 800-850-4406.