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Long before Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson began sending civilians into space, in the 1960s there was an American airline that had the same dream. ...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Nov 10, 2022
- Length: 09:36
- Purchases: 1
It wasn't just fame and glory that inspired Lewis and Clark's expedition across this great land. It took a "medication" so powerful that people wou...
- Added: Mar 30, 2022
- Length: 04:58
In September of 1896, the town of Crush was created for the sole purpose of crashing two steam trains together. Things did not go according to plan.
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Stop laughing Americans, it's not what you think. Starting with the industrial revolution in the UK, people were employed as human alarm clocks, wa...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 2
Help us lean into the New Year with the many Scottish traditions surrounding Hogmanay! There are wee drams of whiskey and balls of fire and cleanin...
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Dec 23, 2020
- Length: 04:53
- Purchases: 1
On July 6th, 1930 Fred Newton dipped a toe into the Mississippi river and explained to reporters that he planned to swim from Minneapolis to New Or...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Dec 23, 2020
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 1
How did we go from no green spaces in city neighborhoods to the perfectly manicured lawn that defines American suburbia? It all comes down to Frede...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Sep 16, 2020
- Length: 04:42
- Purchases: 1
In this episode I talk to Tiff who started Fanny Adams Vintage as well as Project Awesome, a project bent on advertising local artists & creating a...
- Added: Jan 23, 2018
- Length: 35:59
The innovate art of chinking, filling the gaps between the logs in a log cabin, is being lost on the present generation. Modern restoration efforts...
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 03:47
- Added: Jun 10, 2014
- Length: 03:24
Acoustic Stories: Michael Goldberg On Foot-In-Mouth Situations - "More Or Less Human Than A Human.""
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, MinnesotaSeries: Acoustic Stories
Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.
- Added: Jan 29, 2014
- Length: 03:34
Politics doesn't run smoothly when the language to be used is left as an option.
- Added: Sep 04, 2013
- Length: 08:25
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Brian Balough chats with Law professor Chris Sprigman about the intellectual property debates surrounding standup comedy – no joke!
Bought by WABE, PRX Remix, WEZU, Radio Newark, KHNS and more
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 10:32
- Purchases: 6
Although he hailed from St. Louis, Charles Ellsworth “Pee Wee” Russell took his clarinet cues from New Orleans. Only now is he beginning to be reco...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 26, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
He has one foot in vaudeville and one foot in jazz, and he was a show unto himself. Ted Lewis was the only popular bandleader who could show up wit...
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 59:01
The early history of jazz often leaves out some very talented musicians simply because they didn’t move to Chicago or New York.
- Added: Jan 11, 2012
- Length: 58:59
