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Night Noises
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Night Noises graphic illustration, Credit: Catherine McGuigan
“Everything can change just like that.” That’s what Jane says. But there is no snap of fingers. This is the preamble to a story she’s retold a hun...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2021
  • Length: 27:43
An Outlier
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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This moment in time is teaching us to find ways to be alone. That's what it's always been like for James.

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  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 1
Music in the time of the Coronavirus: Bellevue Porchella with Brooke Ullman
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Brooke Ullman, author of Bellevue Porchella., Credit: Charles McGuigan
COVID-19 cancelled Richmond's premier music event--the Richmond Folk Festival, which annually attracts a couple hundred thousand people to three da...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 26:59
Dem 2 Brothers & a Grill
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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The same people who told me it wouldn't work, they come every day.

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  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
Aurora, in the Village
From: Rae Solomon
Caption: The Beloved Community Village at its new home, Credit: Rae Solomon
Aurora has finally found a stable home, after 14 years, at the Beloved Community Village, a tiny home colony for people experiencing homelessness i...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2020
  • Length: 17:12
Teens Take Over
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Kairi Hollon tried to go to the library when he was a teenager in Brooklyn in the 1980s, but he kept getting kicked out. Years later, he came back ...

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 22:09
  • Purchases: 1
Chilkat & Ravenstail Weaver Lily Hope
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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One square inch of Chilkat weaving can be up to 3 hours in the making.

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
E's Barbershop Lounge
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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This barbershop built my character. I started off sweeping floors. I own the shop now.

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 1
Fishing with Delton
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Born and raised in Compton. It was big to come out here and see something different.

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
Chris Yun at Eddie's Lunch
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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It has to be fresh. I cut the fish and sell the fish the exact same day.

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
Up Close And Acoustic with Carlene Carter
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: Carlene Carter, Credit: Marc Hauser
Carlene Carter, proud member of the long celebrated Carter family of music, stops by Up Close And Acoustic to talk about music, legacy, family hist...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2019
  • Length: 55:08
  • Purchases: 2
El Merengue Restaurant
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I started cooking at 9 years old for my mother, my father, and 9 brothers and sisters.

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  • Added: Sep 07, 2018
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 1
Ray and Scott at Robert's Key Service
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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He’s my step-father, but he has always treated me like a son… and like one of the guys.

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2018
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 1
Soul Source
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I get so much love from the customers in here. It’s better than where I came from.

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  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 1
Timothy Louie
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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My great grandfather started the business in 1917. He came from China. This was the built-in childcare/daycare for me. My parents would come to w...

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
Vander Pearson
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I've been here through the good times and the bad times. At one time, I was the only business on this block.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 04:16
Ayden
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Some people on the sidewalk said they saw what happened, and they called security and the police. And I remember one woman telling me, ‘You can rep...

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 1
Syniya
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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My advice for kids, for losing someone you love: Just remember the good times, and remember those big hugs and big kisses you always got.

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
Frannie and Steve
From: Justine Yan
Caption: Frannie and Steve sitting on the front lawn, Spring 2017., Credit: Photo by Justine Yan
Steve Plant was many other things before he became a caregiver for 96-year-old Frannie Cahoon. Now they spend the afternoons together. This is the ...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 07:39
  • Purchases: 1
Out of the Blocks: 2100 E Monument (full version)
From: Out of the Blocks
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2100 E Monument: One block. Everybody's story.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 48:30
Out of the Blocks: 2100 E Monument (mini version)
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks
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2100 E Monument: One Block. Everybody's story.

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Out of the Blocks: 200 W Saratoga (full version)
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks
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200 W Saratoga: One block. Everybody's story.

  • Added: May 17, 2016
  • Length: 48:30
Out of the Blocks: 6300 Reisterstown Road (mini version)
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks
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6300 Reisterstown Road: One Block. Everybody's story.

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
New Year's Day in South Philly with the Mummers
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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The Mummers Day Parade is as quintessentially South Philadelphia as Ben Franklin or Willy Penn, a Philly cheese steak or Italian water ice. It’s u...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 08:35
This Moment is Worth It
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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When Thanksgiving arrived in 2008, Robert found himself struggling with a tangled mess of emotions. The economic crisis in the U.S., big changes at...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2015
  • Length: 31:20