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In 2016, genealogist Mica L. Anders interviewed 7 families about their summer cabins in the north woods of Minnesota for the Minnesota Historical S...
- Added: Sep 21, 2023
- Length: 06:42
'A Seat in Soho: Thien Tran' is a firsthand profile of long-time Soho, London resident Thien Tran. In this poignant piece, Thien discusses the chal...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 10:00
Half siblings Linda Mae Lawelawe and Doug Carillo talk about how their lives were shaped by Kalaupapa--America’s largest leprosy colony.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Nov 01, 2022
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 1
Will you visit your library this summer? To kick off a season of reading, we thought we'd have some fun! How many Brooklyn and library trivia quest...
- Added: Jun 27, 2022
- Length: 28:49
HOUR ONE: "Living With Loneliness" - In countries all over the world, rates of loneliness are skyrocketing. How did it become a condition of modern...
- Added: Apr 09, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
Richard reflects on the connection between his life’s work and that of his daughter Erika, who is leading the Biden/Harris transition team for the ...
- Added: Dec 02, 2020
- Length: 10:30
The Rouse Simmons was a three-masted schooner famous for having sunk in a violent storm on Lake Michigan in 1912. The ship was bound for Chicago wi...
- Added: Dec 01, 2020
- Length: 06:05
The coronavirus pandemic has increased a desire to return home for some people; we’ll hear from several people who recently moved to Appalachia. So...
- Added: Sep 16, 2020
- Length: 54:00
An African American family that traces its roots back to Nancy Carter Quander, a woman who was enslaved by George and Martha Washington, talks abou...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Aug 10, 2020
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 1
My Grandma Jody, who recently passed away, sharing her life story...
- Added: May 05, 2020
- Length: 22:23
We place some focus on some stories that are inspired by famous literature.
- Added: Jan 22, 2020
- Length: 58:02
Novelist Karl Marlantes, whose latest book is "Deep River," talks with Benjamin Busch.
Bought by WKAR
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 54:29
- Purchases: 1
When Walter Dixon fought in the Korean War, he was captured and kept a prisoner of war for more than two years. The whole time, he was believed to ...
Bought by KWMU St. Louis and WHRV
- Added: Aug 08, 2019
- Length: 02:53
- Purchases: 2
We're headed to the ball game on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, however this team may look a lil different than your traditional baseball...
- Added: Jul 01, 2019
- Length: 06:02
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 01:00
Nowadays we’re very accustomed to recording and hearing the sound of our own voices. But in the 1930s many people were doing it for the first time....
Bought by Troy Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 11, 2018
- Length: 10:50
- Purchases: 4
In many families, there’s that one person who plays family historian.
Bought by KICI Iowa City, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 05:27
- Purchases: 3
Barbed Wire and Flowers: A daughter’s story of her perception and relationship with her father. He, a survivor of the holocaust, and she, his adul...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Nov 23, 2016
- Length: 28:14
- Purchases: 1
After spending eleven years in Africa as bureau chief for The Associated Press, Chris Tomlinson returned home to Texas. Seeing oppression and apart...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 31, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 05:57
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
Jim Gallagher lives with his wife, and writes from his home near Bemidji, MN.
- Added: Dec 31, 2013
- Length: 03:44
A small group of Mainers is working hard to revitalize and modernize their local grange, while holding onto traditions that date back to the 1800s.
- Added: Dec 23, 2013
- Length: 05:44
On Saturday, July 6, the musician who has given the Bemidji area its honest and gritty musical swagger for decades, Jim Miller, passed on. Jim's lo...
- Added: Oct 12, 2013
- Length: 58:11
- Purchases: 2
Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...
- Added: Sep 23, 2013
- Length: 02:59
