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Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 5

From: Charles McGuigan

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...

Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 3

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Sammy Marques, descended from Portuguese seamen, was expatriated from his native America by his missionary father. When he returned stateside he ma...

Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 4

From: Charles McGuigan

Sammy Marques is a raconteur. He frequently draws on personal experience to flesh out stories that seem always to embrace some humorous element. Th...

Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 2

From: Charles McGuigan

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...

Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around

From: Charles McGuigan

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 ...

Cash Gart: The Songs of Sniagrab

From: Matthew Simonson

Caption: A Sniagrab sale, from above, Credit: The Gart Family Archive

A touching story of fathers, family, and bargains spelled backwards.

The Apocalypse

From: Liz McArthur
Series: The "Get to Know Me" occasional series

I spent a lot of time with my grandmother when I was a kid. She told me some weird stuff about the imminent end of the world.

Cobblestones: Jim Henson from A to Zoe

From: Andrew Hiller

Caption: Five-time Emmy Award winner Fran Brill, the first woman hired by Jim Henson for Sesame Street (seen here with Zoe) is retiring after 42 years , Credit: Jim Henson Legacy

Cobblestones: Jim Henson from A to Zoe is a sound rich special that includes original interviews, clips, music, and new skits with many of the orig...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Wedding Dollar

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

It's easy to play when you're a kid, but most of us forget by the time we grow up. But not one Portland couple.

Bought by PRX Remix

Moving By Bike

From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY

Moving all your belongings by bike might sound crazy, but if enough people get involved, it can be both fun and efficient.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Crossing Over

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

At just sixteen Victor left his home in Guadalajara and crossed the river into Texas only to be picked up by immigration agents and returned to Mex...

A Mother's Solution

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

With jobs, chores, and family obligations, working mothers can lose themselves to their many commitments. A group of moms in Maine have a unique so...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio

Tiny Dancers

From: Christopher Williams

Join us at the 'Irish In Birmingham Activity Centre' in England as we grab an insight into how one group of 'Yeehaa Grandmas' plan to cause a stir ...

Theme Songs

From: ayme frye

A man talking about how he has a theme song for people in his life. He recalls the qualities of the people and describes them with music.

Zibia and Clyde

From: Jesse Newcomb

6-year-old Zibia can be sweet and thoughtful, but she also has a wild temper. She can be mean and she knows it. This is a story about a clash bet...

Bought by PRX Remix

Funtown

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

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

Skin Deep

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

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

After the Forgetting

From: Erica Heilman

This is a story about a Vermont family's experience living with an elderly member's progressive dementia. What happens to love when there is no mem...

Bought by PRX Remix

Enter Night Audio Montage

From: Deanna Neil

A collection of stories, dreams, nightmares and lullabies

Portrait of a Psychic as a Young Man

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Nathan Dyer?s just like any other teenage kid-- except, for a small fee, he?ll tell you what your future holds.

Bought by HowSound, SALTcast Podcast, KFAI Minneapolis, Third Coast International Audio Festival, and WFUV

Trespassing and Other Crimes

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Some eleven year-olds sell lemonade for extra cash. Jennifer Rubenstein uses extortion, sort of.

Becky Nash Fishing Tales

From: Edward May
Series: Fishing Tales

Becky Nash knows about rearing children on a fishing boat, watching them grow up to be fisherman and losing one to the sea that helped rear them.

Alaska Beckons

From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits

Disillusioned with their teaching jobs in California, Ray takes a job at a one room school house in Alaska and their adventure begins.

Bought by WUAL

The life of mushing

From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits

Jim guides us through his personel journey, into a world few of us will ever know.

Singing in St. Andrews

From: Dmae Lo Roberts

A man courts his wife in Scotland.

Bought by WKNO

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