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🔥 Unearth the untold story behind America's economic dawn here on radio and podcast🌅 Join us for a riveting episode 🎙️ "Faith In Markets of America...
- Added: Apr 25, 2024
- Length: 35:34
The love of Ricardo and Georgiana Montalban: Star Trek meets Corinthian leather on Fantasy Island; Foreplay chardonnay and “wining” about winter in...
- Added: Mar 18, 2024
- Length: 38:15
Storytellers Scotte and Toni Burns shine in 'Ladies First,' an inspiring episode of Love in America showcasing the strength and spirit of America's...
- Added: Mar 03, 2024
- Length: 40:53
The Covid shut down occurred almost four years ago to the day. This piece includes On the Front Lines, with a guy by the name of Leigh Carter, a nu...
- Added: Feb 27, 2024
- Length: 23:28
Explore the loving journey of Carol Burnett, a story of resilience, heart, and the transformative power of laughter.
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 16:43
Love triumphs, even through the Civil War, and the story of a union within the Union - the profound love of Ulysses and Julia Grant
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 15:10
John and Annie Glenn's life story is one small step for a man and one giant leap for love!
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 14:53
The untold and surprising behind-the-scenes history of Walt Disney's Lady and The Tramp.
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- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 18:46
- Purchases: 1
More ghostly encounters of a Third Kind with a woman named Sarah who seems to have something of a shine.
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 25:23
This week we encounter the supernatural with Beth and Chris Houlihan.
- Added: Oct 12, 2023
- Length: 26:58
This is part 1 of A Monumental Change about how the brutal murder of George Floyd has propelled the entire country forward toward a more perfect Un...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 26:48
From where we stood, in every direction, as far as the eye could see, there were people holding placards above their heads, all of them moving, som...
- Added: Jan 23, 2023
- Length: 25:44
Escape with us to a simpler place and time. Before COVID, before monkeypox, before traveling got so fraught. To a town promoters claimed then was e...
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- Added: Aug 09, 2022
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Libraries weren't always located in their own stately buildings. Many of our branches used to operate out of pharmacies, laundry rooms, storefronts...
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- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 26:16
- Purchases: 1
The Old Farmer's Ball is a regional folk dance organization in Asheville, North Carolina that is best known for its lively Thursday night contra da...
- Added: Feb 22, 2021
- Length: 49:50
How the murder of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers led to an ever-expanding ripple of protests across the country and...
- Added: Jul 01, 2020
- Length: 27:51
An empty church, an orphaned organ, a solo organist. Scott Lariviere is 26 years old and volunteers to try to keep a magnificent 4,500 pipe Casavan...
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- Added: Nov 25, 2019
- Length: 08:27
- Purchases: 2
Beth Houlihan and her husband Chris own and operate Haunts of Richmond. And for a city this this size, Richmond has an abundance of ghoulies and gh...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 26:58
Pro-Confederates and white supremacists faced off with counter-demonstrators on America's largest outdoor Civil War museum on Monument Avenue in Ri...
- Added: Jul 30, 2019
- Length: 26:39
This time, we profile a handful of rare recordings from Big Joe Williams that became one of the few remaining legacies of post-war St. Louis blues.
- Added: Mar 04, 2019
- Length: 03:29
It started with the red wolves at Alligator River, took me out to the Blue Ridge Mountains, then down to a tribal gathering of the Chickahominy in ...
- Added: Sep 11, 2018
- Length: 26:43
This time, we profile guitarists Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas, whose 1930 recordings for Paramount baffled researchers for nearly a century.
- Added: Sep 01, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile St. Louis guitarist Hi Henry Brown, who made a handful of remarkable sides for Vocalion in March 1932, and then disappeared.
- Added: Sep 01, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile the March 1932 recording sessions held by Vocalion in New York City, as the nation was in the grips of the Great Depression.
- Added: Aug 30, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Rocket 88,” by Jackie Brenston — widely considered to be one of the archetypal records of rock ‘n’ roll.
- Added: Aug 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29