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Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "The Long Shining Waters" by Danielle Sosin

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology

Danielle Sosin's novel, "The Long Shining Waters," tells three stories of three women living around the shores of Lake Superior in three distinct t...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ

Added: Jan 17, 2013
Length: 02:58
Purchases: 2

On the road to a litter-free environment

From: KALW

Caption: Jeff Chen, founder of Pick up America speaks with volunteers cleaning up the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline., Credit: Laura Flynn

Pick up America is the nation’s first coast-to-coast litter pick up. KALW's Laura Flynn met the clean up volunteers when they arrived in San Franci...

Added: Dec 03, 2012
Length: 02:33

Restoring The American Chestnut

From: Hal B Klein

Caption: American chestnut grove in Sewickley, PA. , Credit: Hal B. Klein

Those chestnuts "roasting on an open fire" in the iconic "Christmas Song" have a secret. They're European. The American chestnut was once a keysto...

Bought by KLCC and WRST-FM Oshkosh

Added: Nov 25, 2012
Length: 05:30
Purchases: 2

Island Stories: Virginia's Restless Archipelago Part 3

From: Charles McGuigan

Caption: Colony of American oyster catchers., Credit: Charles McGuigan

Some 40 years ago the Nature Conservancy began buying up the barrier islands of Virginia and the riparian areas on the mainland. Today they own all...

Added: Oct 24, 2012
Length: 27:13

StoryCorps: Daniel Ross

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Daniel Ross talks about being a volunteer firefighter while serving time in a minimum security prison.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, and KUOW

Added: Aug 27, 2012
Length: 01:47
Purchases: 4

The Bridge Guy

From: Amy Gastelum

Caption: John at the top of the north tower

John Mickiewicz maintains and operates the iconic WPA built Railroad Bridge that connects Cape Cod to the mainland over the Cape Cod Canal. He love...

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Added: May 26, 2012
Length: 06:28
Purchases: 2

StoryCorps: Kenneth and Gaye Honeycutt

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Kenneth Honeycutt tells his wife Gaye about witnessing the New London School Explosion of 1937.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WEZU, KMUD, and KUOW

Added: Apr 06, 2012
Length: 02:03
Purchases: 4

A New Year for Trees at San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum

From: KALW

Tu B’shevat is the New Year for Trees. It takes place on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat, which is January or February, depending on the...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Mar 22, 2012
Length: 07:11
Purchases: 1

Soundwaves

From: Shannon Geis

An artist decided to spruce up the space underneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway by painting a mural depicting Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata in a ...

Added: Nov 11, 2011
Length: 06:01

Forest to Desert

From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera

An audio doodle about this phrase: "Humankind is preceded by forest, and followed by desert." Forest versus city / tree versus car / then versus now.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Apr 25, 2011
Length: 02:35
Purchases: 1

MA-193 Food: What's Eating Me

From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac

For over a century, U.S. farmers have strived for quantity of food. Quality, though, is at least as important.

Added: Apr 19, 2011
Length: 05:26

A Cold Freezin Night (Inverse Winter)

From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds

In Tucson, Arizona, summer is like winter in Canada.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Apr 11, 2011
Length: 03:10
Purchases: 1

Summer Insects

From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses

Soothing sounds from the short lived singers of summer - cicadas, crickets, and grasshoppers.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and PRX to iTunes

Added: Jul 20, 2010
Length: 02:30
Purchases: 2

Winter: Where the Wild Rivers Run ~ Cheryl-Anne Millsap

From: Spokane Public Radio

Caption: Clark Fork River, Missoula MT, Credit: Cheryl-Anne Millsap

We crossed the Clark Fork River on our way out of Missoula, Montana. The sun was just coming up and the sky along the horizon was fading, changing ...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio

Added: Mar 07, 2010
Length: 04:00
Purchases: 1

Farm To Fork Dinners Deliver More Than Food

From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho

Caption: Abby Carlson, Credit: Photo by Guy Hand

An evening at a farm to fork dinner delivers more than a good meal.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio and KUOW

Added: Nov 06, 2009
Length: 06:06
Purchases: 2

Seeing the Small

From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing

Caption: Rob Olson and Heidi Sosik developed an automated underwater microscopic camera that takes photographs of phytoplankton in the ocean., Credit: Tom Kleindinst, WHOI

Heidi Sosik and Rob Olson describe how a shared frustration led them to develop a special underwater camera that takes pictures of tiny cells in th...

Added: Jun 11, 2009
Length: 10:02

Chesapeake Mornings

From: Tom Niemisto

America's rivers have always had a sacred sense of place, and we must protect them for future generations

Added: Mar 09, 2009
Length: 01:45

A Greener Christmas

From: Sandra Sleight-Brennan

This annual celebration is one that asks a lot of the environment.

Bought by WSLR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., and KRUA

Added: Nov 19, 2008
Length: 08:43
Purchases: 3

How Place Shapes Us

From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays

From Hawaiia, a tropical canvas.

Added: Nov 12, 2008
Length: 03:58

This Beautiful Carcass

From: Joan Schuman

On a desolate beach in Northern California's Humboldt County, a marine biologist and a citizen scientist troll for bird carcasses, inadvertently fi...

Bought by KZYX and PRX Remix