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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
Today's Rough Draft Diaries celebrates Veterans Day, a holiday honoring military veterans while marking the anniversary of the end of World War I. ...
- Added: Nov 10, 2020
- Length: 06:12
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
The experience of 1.5 generation immigrants, a term used to describe people who arrived in the U.S. as children and adolescents, is a unique one. U...
- Added: Jul 18, 2018
- Length: 10:15
Today on The Rough Draft Diaries, we're going back in time as we visit The Wood County Historical Society, a community organization that makes conn...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 18, 2018
- Length: 06:39
- Purchases: 1
This week, The Rough Draft Diaries takes a visit of the National Museum of the Great Lakes, a museum that spans hundreds of years on the Great Lake...
- Added: Jun 13, 2016
- Length: 06:24
One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 29:00
In this Valentine's Days Special, we'll meet Jo and Harvey. Tune in and hear how they met and married 58 years ago in California.
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 06:11
In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 28:11
- Purchases: 2
We go way back in time for this very special show, featuring true stories from the 1930's and 40's, told by the Southerners who lived them. Stories...
- Added: Mar 03, 2013
- Length: 34:00
While living on a farm in the Mississippi Delta that was once part of a slave plantation, Randy searches for clues about the life of his great-gran...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 12:11
- Purchases: 4
It’s the year 1942. The United States has just joined the war in the Pacific. On the home front, the FBI is investigating and interning Japanese-Am...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 16, 2011
- Length: 01:56
- Purchases: 1
A personal reflection on the stakes of becoming the godfather to my best friend's first child.
- Added: Dec 25, 2010
- Length: 09:59
From: Radio Diaries
In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KUT, WRPI, KUOW and more
- Added: Oct 12, 2010
- Length: 22:59
- Purchases: 8
A quest for family heritage on Prince Edward Island turns up unexpected results and revelations.
- Added: Jun 15, 2006
- Length: 10:51
- Added: Nov 21, 2005
- Length: 02:11