PRX - Pieces for Tone: Sentimental

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Caption: The Mount Calvary congregation standing outside the church, ca. 1950s, Credit: Ric Sheffield, Knox County Black History Archives at Kenyon College
A piece of local history audio storytelling exploring a now-defunct predominantly black church in Mount Vernon, Ohio, through the voices of its for...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2020
  • Length: 16:07
Caption: Richard Hadlock
The Great American Songbook was largely derived from Broadway Shows produced at the turn of the Century. However, as the Great Depression began in ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:12
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
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A beloved American classic, Willa Cather's My Ántonia is best summarized by its epigraph---"the best days are the first to flee." Garrison Keillor ...

Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, and KQED


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 3
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A look at one of the hottest cowboy bands in the west in the 1950s and the times in which they lived.

Bought by KISU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, Prairie Public, Marfa Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2008
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 6
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93-year-old Clive Haswell is a poet who spent his youth riding the rails and playing poker

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2006
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
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Mastin's store was once the heart of the community where you could buy a bag of flour, a pair of boots, a side of beef and a flannel nightgown all ...

Bought by WTIP and KSUT


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:15
  • Purchases: 2