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From: Andy Sewell

Caption: Some of Doris Kelly's handmade cards.

In the early 1930s, a boy played a prank on a girl. The girl, Doris Kelly Hall, swore revenge. What followed was over 70 years of harassing limeric...

Lester Blackiston: The Pirate of Shockoe Bottom, Part 4

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Pirates and their deeds become legend. Blackbeard, Lester’s personal favorite, did this thing with canon fuses, or so the legend goes. Just as his...

Episode 227: Bill O'Sale and the rise of climatic realism

From: Rick Taylor
Series: Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs

My friend Bill O'Sale just opened a new retail store down at the corner of High Street and Low Road. I asked him what he's selling this time. He ...

The late Joe Wilson--the great friend of American folk culture

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Joe Wilson at the Henderson Festival, 2014, Credit: Ginger Correll

2001 National Heritage Fellow Joe Wilson weaves his storytelling spell into the history of Blue Ridge Mountain culture.

Bought by WNJR, WABE, WMMT, and KPIP-LP

Jenny Bovey, Fish Printer

From: Kara Janeczko

Caption: Jenny Bovey at her store in Chatham, MA, Credit: Kara Janeczko

Jenny Bovey's fish don't stink. She's one of the few full time practitioners of a 2,000-year-old Japanese art form called "Gyotaku." She and her h...

Bought by WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix

Episode 1: Firsts

From: Ethan Woods
Series: Pings From The Abyss

Caption: The Face Of Dough, Credit: Jaime Boddorff

Our initial dive into the tar... Music by Alvin Lucier and the Chipmunks, Petra Boo and the Goo Goos, Wilburn Jetsett, The Turntables, Wiggle Jeff...

Taxidermy Gone Wrong

From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY

Terry Lyman thought she'd try taxidermy, but she quickly realized she was in over her head.

Bought by PRX Remix

The Granite City Radio Theatre, Episode 1 Part 1

From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage

KVSC presents the Granite City Radio Theatre in partnership with the Pioneer Place Theatre Company in St. Cloud. The Granite City Radio Theatre is ...

Bought by KSRQ

Buck, Naked

From: Andrew Norton

Caption: Buck Dietz poses at an afternoon life drawing session at the Cape Cod Art Association in Barnstable, MA. , Credit: Andrew Norton

Buck Dietz is a figure model. That means he has to stand naked and completely still for long sessions while artists sketch him. But for Buck, it's ...

Bought by HowSound, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more