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Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 26:08
Kimberly had talked about her house as if it was a person, her best friend as she put it. Stephanie saw her house as a metaphor for her life, falli...
- Added: Nov 10, 2023
- Length: 24:53
More ghostly encounters of a Third Kind with a woman named Sarah who seems to have something of a shine.
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 25:23
Basil Smith, one of the prime movers behind this choir of children called the City Singers, talks about the transformative nature of music, an impa...
- Added: Sep 26, 2023
- Length: 24:15
A modern-day nativity story that takes place in a garage on Suitcase Alley in Richmond, Virginia's Fan District.
- Added: Dec 09, 2019
- Length: 24:24
Beth Houlihan and her husband Chris own and operate Haunts of Richmond. And for a city this this size, Richmond has an abundance of ghoulies and gh...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 26:58
Edward Harden Peeples V was born to be a racist. It almost seemed preordained. One of his ancestors had owned 250 slaves and his father loathed bla...
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- Added: Sep 09, 2019
- Length: 25:37
- Purchases: 1
Anthony Clary grew up in the bricks. Buildings linear as Legos, lining block after block of city streets, stretching from Porter to Dinwiddie, from...
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- Added: Mar 26, 2019
- Length: 26:58
- Purchases: 1
Will Turner is the Real Iron Man. No special effects, no suit of armor, no comic book fiction, He’s the genuine article. He now holds the world rec...
- Added: Dec 31, 2018
- Length: 15:04
It started with the red wolves at Alligator River, took me out to the Blue Ridge Mountains, then down to a tribal gathering of the Chickahominy in ...
- Added: Sep 11, 2018
- Length: 26:43
Although American Indians in Virginia now enjoy both state and federal recognition--that came fairly recently. For many years American Indians didn...
- Added: Aug 27, 2018
- Length: 27:52
It all started with the red wolves who now live, for the most part, in eastern North Carolina at Alligator River. These wolves had once numbered in...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 24:33
Just as the red wolves were dispossessed of their homes so too were the people who had inhabited the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia for many gene...
- Added: Aug 13, 2018
- Length: 25:06
Kim Wheeler is the Wolf Lady. She knows more about red wolves than just about anybody in the world. And the more I learn about these remarkable ani...
- Added: Jul 24, 2018
- Length: 24:51
Red wolves used to roam free across most of the eastern United States, from Maine to Florida, from Missouri to Texas, one of the top dogs in the fo...
- Added: Jul 16, 2018
- Length: 24:08
this is the conclusion of 2828 Story of a House. It’s about a man named Leroy Basham who hoarded for several decades, and the people who dug throug...
- Added: Apr 17, 2018
- Length: 22:09
2828: Story of a House is about hoarding, and two people who can make order of chaos and find treasure in trash. It's also about a man whose life w...
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 26:05
America has a long, long, long history of embracing immigrants one day, generally because it needed them for economic reasons, a variation of slave...
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- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 27:50
- Purchases: 1
Just as America is a nation of immigrants, Virginia is a commonwealth of immigrants. For the first time ever the state Department of Historic Res...
- Added: May 22, 2017
- Length: 08:45
Billed as the world's smallest woman, Gloria Rhoden of St. Mary Jamaica understands the nature of true beauty.
- Added: Oct 14, 2016
- Length: 23:02
Blackbeard the pirate may have had as many as 14 wives, the last one being a 16 year old girl who he gave to his crew after he deflowered her. It w...
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 25:45
Lester Blackiston was a pirate . . .
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 24:46
Virginia’s Barrier Islands, and the waters and salt marshes that surround them, are among the most pristine coastal regions on the entire Eastern S...
- Added: Jun 16, 2016
- Length: 25:17
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...
- Added: Jun 10, 2016
- Length: 27:59
We interview the only person from Alaska to make the first cut for the Mars ONE program and also speak to a scientist who thinks sending humans to ...
- Added: Feb 15, 2016
- Length: 29:01