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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
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
Archeologist Ripley Bullen written and presented by Ed Schmidt
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 06:42
2100 E Monument: One block. Everybody's story.
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 48:30
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
200 W Saratoga: One block. Everybody's story.
- Added: May 17, 2016
- Length: 48:30
Today’s show is called Prelude to Summer. We end up on a parking lot late at night on the first day of summer, sprawled out on sleeping bags and lo...
- Added: Apr 22, 2016
- Length: 22:10
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
Every day the Hiawatha Blue Line light rail trains transport Minnesotans from Minneapolis to Bloomington for work, shopping, travel, and home again...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 05:00
Cafesjian's Carousel in Como Park celebrates its centennial this year. In 1914, Austin McFadden paid the Philadelphia Toboggan Company to build a c...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 06:27
A show about the fine folks who serve your food.
- Added: Jul 18, 2013
- Length: 58:19
How did a nice girl with a degree from Princeton University end up as a globetrotting... clown? Meet Christina Gelsone -- and her husband, Seth. Th...
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 08:37
In 2007 the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
researched why people in Minnesota were spending less time outdoors.
They found three problem...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
This is a feature story documenting the performers and organizers of the 30th annual Skaneateles, NY chamber music festival.
- Added: Feb 23, 2010
- Length: 07:29
Funtown/Splashtown USA is the largest family-run amusement park in the Northeast. Half a million people visit the park in Saco, Maine every summer.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 06:50
- Purchases: 4
In Maine, there are two organized naturist, or nudist clubs: the Dirigo Naturist Association and the Maine Coast Solar Bares.
Bought by WMPG and WORLDcompass.org
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 06:20
- Purchases: 2
My uncle - Chicago's Santa Claus - finds inspiration in the memory of his father; Santa Claus.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KUER, KRZA, WETD, WLPR and more
- Added: Nov 28, 2009
- Length: 09:00
- Purchases: 12
Inside and outside the wrestling ring, Keith Dinsmore gets knocked down and back up, again and again.
- Added: Dec 18, 2006
- Length: 05:04
From the Saviour's conception to offerings of gold, frankenstein and myrrh, six year old Erin Magill of Moretown, Vermont tells her version of the ...
Bought by KZYX, Yellowstone Public Radio, KZYX, KZYX, KMXT and more
- Added: Dec 11, 2006
- Length: 04:29
- Purchases: 12
Sharon Bar-David, guided by her seven-year-old daughter Leore, takes you into a magical world filled with wiggly teeth and tooth fairies.
Bought by XRAY.fm, KFAI Minneapolis, WBEZ, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: May 10, 2005
- Length: 13:15
- Purchases: 4
A photo lab technician ponders our life as he sees it every day, through thousands of personal snapshots
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Audible, and WYSO
- Added: Dec 10, 2004
- Length: 12:43
- Purchases: 3
