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Sammy Marques tells stories, one-man-shows that last an hour and more. The stories within the bigger stories are chapters of his life. Because they...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 25:28
Sammy Marques, descended from Portuguese seamen, was expatriated from his native America by his missionary father. When he returned stateside he ma...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 27:56
Sammy Marques is a raconteur. He frequently draws on personal experience to flesh out stories that seem always to embrace some humorous element. Th...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 27:30
For three generations, Sammy Marques’ family was stuck in a sort of revolving door of emigration from Europe to the United States and back again. I...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 28:24
Sammy Marques has been a lot of things over the years. He was never a butcher, but he was certainly a baker. Twice. And armed with a wood lathe he ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 26:21
Between 1820 and World War I, nearly six million Germans immigrated to the US – in 2017, only about 5,000 made the trip. If Germans aren’t coming t...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 06, 2019
- Length: 19:17
- Purchases: 1
A renegade California group creates pop-up swings throughout the city.
- Added: Aug 26, 2018
- Length: 02:30
Being a roofer was never sold to Philip Armand as a safe profession. When he nearly falls to his death, he is left thinking about his childhood di...
- Added: Mar 12, 2016
- Length: 04:19
Randy Brown has to, no lie, shoot a bear and immediately grab it by the tail and Glenner Anderson makes the cardinal mistake of bear encounters--he...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 28:59
Champion dog musher Brent Sass gets sprayed in the face with bear spray and then nearly eaten by a bear and Bill Schnabel tries to raise pigs but c...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 29:01
Dubi Ayalon, a retired IDF lieutenant-colonel, traded a life as a school principal in Israel for a life of raising and miking water buffalo in rura...
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 17:03
- Added: Jun 10, 2014
- Length: 03:24
One of the highlights of Knoxville’s International Biscuit Festival is the Mr. & Miss Biscuit Pageant. This piece profiles Liz Barr, the reigning M...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 08:18
- Purchases: 4
Brooklyn hipsters explore modern commerce through social networking, urban tribalism, and suspicious fires.
- Added: Jul 08, 2012
- Length: 05:25
Once upon a time, Sam and Gerrit were flipping through a booklet of incoming college freshmen when they happened upon an unlikely superhero named C...
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 18:51
- Added: Dec 14, 2011
- Length: 14:30
- Purchases: 1
Holiday Traditions abound on this segment from Arctic Entries. David Onofrychuck tells us how his family celebrated Christmas.
Bought by KRUA
- Added: Oct 24, 2011
- Length: 08:49
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 05, 2011
- Length: 01:15
- Added: Dec 21, 2010
- Length: :47
- Added: Dec 20, 2010
- Length: :37
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 19, 2010
- Length: :43
- Purchases: 1
Have you ever returned a product that malfunctioned?
- Added: Dec 18, 2010
- Length: :45
Ask yourself where your pet has been putting his nose
- Added: Dec 16, 2010
- Length: 01:22
What did Brubeck and Mort Sahl do when they visited Portland?
- Added: Dec 16, 2010
- Length: 01:08
- Added: Dec 14, 2010
- Length: :26
