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Dawn Powell

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...

Bought by KALW

El día que se apareció El Diablo (The Day the Devil Appeared)

From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: The Folklorist Next Door

Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez

"El dia que se apareció el diablo" takes us back to a time when "the devil" appeared on the poor side of the tracks. The terrifying experience lead...

Episode 145: How to Sell a Haunted House

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

In 1989, Helen Ackley decided to sell her old Victorian house in Nyack, New York. It didn’t go as planned. The house became the center of a case th...

Wizards & Critters

From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio

When it’s Snakesgiving Time in the Mojave, everybody’s just a little more careful. Goes well with these weird new times, being careful. So please m...

Bought by KFCF FM

Lenny At The Gate

From: Israel Story

What happens when an internationally renowned artist stands in front of their inspiring muse? In 1957, Leonard Bernstein travelled to Israel to see...

Ironies and Onion Rings: The Layered Story of the Vidalia Onion

From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast

Caption: The Vidalia Onion Museum in Vidalia, Georgia. , Credit: Photo by Tyler Pratt.

If you know and love the Vidalia onion—an onion sweet enough, its fans say, to eat like an apple—you likely also know it as a product of Georgia, a...

Bought by WMMT, KVLU, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting

The 100 Year Old Liberty Derrick at Stearns County Quarry Park and Nature Preserve

From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota

Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack explores the very thing that makes St. Cloud the “Granite City” as he heads out at the Stearns Count...

Episode 8: CSPD Black -- The True Story of Colorado Springs' First African American Detective

From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here

On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you the story of Ron Stallworth. In the 1970s, he became the first black detective ever to serve in ...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Life of the Law #71: Space Law 2.0

From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law

When you look up at the sky the last thing you probably think about is the law. But space is exactly where the next frontier of law is being played...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Working: Then & Now

From: Radio Diaries

In the early 1970s, radio host and oral historian Studs Terkel went around the country interviewing people about their jobs. Studs recorded more th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KALW, Spokane Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more