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Alzheimer's: Slipping Away Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Alzheimer’s sucks an entire life away, bit by bit at first, almost imperceptibly. By degrees memories--short-term, and then long-term--begin to fad...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 27:30
Modern-Day Homesteaders
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Destination DIY profiles two families who live the DIY lifestyle every day by growing and making most of what they need.

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Appetite for Home -- Bitter-Sweet Memories of Learning to Cook & Eat in America
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Olga Colon., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
In this short documentary, longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home lost to immigration.

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:52
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "Eating Out" in Old New York
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Hilda Baumol (left) and Monte Malach (right)., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Longtime New Yorkers recall a bygone era of NYC when eating out was a rare luxury, and eateries that vanished long ago -- automats, Nedick's (hot d...

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:13
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "Cooking In" in Old New York
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Paul J. Hintersteiner (left) and Debra Klaber (right)., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Longtime New Yorkers recall cooking and food shopping in NYC's bygone era of milk and ice delivery men, ice boxes, horse-drawn fruit and vegetable ...

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:18
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Learning to Like Roast Turkey and Other Memories of a Jewish Refugee Childhood
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Margot Karp., Credit: Photo courtesy of Margot Karp.
Margot Karp, 86, moved with her family to Washington Heights, Manhattan, in 1939 to escape Nazi Germany. Karp has fond memories of her mother's str...

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 03:04
Don Fidel
From: American Student Radio
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Don Fidel, an immigrant to the United States, opened a staple restaurant in Chicago, but for his family, it was more than restaurant.

  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 16:26
M4M
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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With the legalization of same-sex marriage in Maine, Barton Girdwood got to wondering, what about all the gay men in Maine who never found love? S...

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  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 1
Six Feet Above
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Chuck Lakin has a unique hobby. He builds coffins. For living people.

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  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 3
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "Well Yes We Have No Bananas Today!" -- Food Shopping in Old New York
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Paul J. Hintersteiner. , Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Paul J. Hintersteiner, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, describes food shopping and home cooking during his childhood in Yorkville's large German ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 01:14
15: Music and Memory
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Nearly everyone has strong emotional connections to music, and one man realized that our relationship to music might improve the quality of life fo...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 15:46
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Grandma's Stuffed Cabbage
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950., Credit: Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America.
Bonnie Sue Pokorny, 66, of Forest Hills, Queens, recalls her grandmother's stuffed cabbage. It's a dish she loves, but it's too difficult for her t...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:56
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Forgotten Foods of NYC: "I Guess Dessert Has Been My Upbringing"
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Debra Klaber (right) and Paul J. Hintersteiner (left). , Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Debra Klaber, 60, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, recalls her mother's Eastern European baking traditions -- which she has passed down to her dau...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: :48
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "Me Nacieron Mi Diente Cocinando; I Was Born Cooking"
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950., Credit: Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America.
Nurys Ortiz, 58, of Washington Heights, left the Dominican Republic ("DR") to work in a NYC factory when she was 17 years old. Ortiz started cooki...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Missing Hong Kong Handmade Noodles & Winter Melon Soup in NYC
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Photograph from The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collection.
Nancy Soong, 90, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the foods of her childhood in Hong Kong.

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:04
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Forgotten Foods of NYC: Cooking Puerto Rican Comida on the Lower East Side
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Olga Colon., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Olga Colon, 86, of Manhattan's Lower East Side, arrived in New York City -- from Puerto Rico -- when she was 18 years old. Over the years Colon ma...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Learning to Cook and Eat in America
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Photograph from The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collection.
Christina Lam, 68, of Chinatown, Manhattan, grew up in Hong Kong and moved to New York to work in a garment factory on East Broadway. She recalls h...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 2
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Automat Baked Beans and Childs' Chocolate Syrup
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Hilda Baumol., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Hilda Baumol, 89, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the automat and a memorable (and long-shuttered) New York City restaurant chain, Childs.

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 2
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Soda Fountain Memories
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Monte Malach. , Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Monte Malach, 85, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, remembers a time when soda fountains occupied any busy street corner in New York City.

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:07
  • Purchases: 1
Crown the King: Red Takes Black
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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One block from my apartment sits the Capitol Pool Checkers Club where, each week, men with nicknames like the Hammer, the Pressure Man, and the Raz...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, The Story, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 4
Red, White, and Bruised
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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Don Floyd looks back on his life of 80 years after surviving a heart attack in March of 2012.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 3
The Man With the Long White Beard
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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He's not just the Santa Claus-looking guy who walks his dog every day on my street--he's Larry Bauer: carpenter, man-of-letters.

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hugh Oliver: Late Bloomer
From: Sean Rasmussen
Series: Happy
Caption: Hugh Oliver
If you have ever given up on a dream, or think you're too old to start something new, you might think again after hearing this episode of happy...

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  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 08:23
  • Purchases: 1
Peggy and Hugh: An Oral History
From: Laura Herberg
Caption: Peggy and Hugh, then and now.
Peggy grew up on the Canadian prairie listening to big band on the radio. Hugh grew up in Seattle and tried to stay out of trouble from his Welsh ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2012
  • Length: 17:18
More Than Mail - Rural Postal Service Threatened
From: WMMT
Caption: Blake White, outside the Burdine Post Office in Letcher County, KY, Credit: Mimi Pickering
As the U.S. Postal Service faces financial crisis, Central Appalachia and much of rural America may be hard hit by pending closures of post offices...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 21:19