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Halyna Hrushetsky tells her daughter Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman about when she learned her Ukrainian parents had lived through the Holodomor famine.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Mar 01, 2022
- Length: 02:14
- Purchases: 1
Rabbi Philip Lazowski tells his wife Ruth about the stranger who saved him from the Nazis as a young boy, and how this fateful encounter would mark...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Jan 25, 2022
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
In August 1934, Ann Cooper Hewitt was having lunch with her mother when she suddenly felt pain in her abdomen. When she went to the doctor, he told...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 44:17
Malinda Edwards talks to her sister Mildred Betts about the murder of her father, Willie Edwards Jr. at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan in 1957.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Aug 10, 2021
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 1
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
In the late 1930’s, dancer Dorothy Toy debuted on Broadway with her partner Paul Wing. It capped years of hard work on the Vaudeville circuit and l...
- Added: Apr 06, 2021
- Length: 03:08
- Purchases: 2
In the midst of our dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s hard to imagine what stories we will ultimately tell our children and grandchildren. T...
- Added: Apr 28, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Journalist and biographer David Maraniss talks with fellow author John Bacon.
Bought by WKAR
- Added: Oct 02, 2019
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 1
Vernon Dahmer was a successful farmer who fought for voting rights in the mid-1960s. His family recalls the night he was killed by the KKK.
Bought by Public Radio for All and WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
For Yom HaShoah, stories of Israeli encounters with the Holocaust in the years and decades after it ended.
- Added: May 25, 2016
- Length: 48:42
Veteran Barry Romo and his nephew Bobby Romo were born a month apart and grew up together. They both went to Vietnam, only one came home.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WEZU, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU
- Added: Nov 06, 2015
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 5
In this installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack revisits a group of artists and co...
- Added: Oct 08, 2015
- Length: 30:35
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
More than 75 years ago Shenandoah National Park opened to the public for the first time. One of the most scenic routes in Virginia— Skyline Drive w...
- Added: Jun 09, 2013
- Length: 53:40
Charmil Davis talking to the US Congress from New Jersey Donald Payne Jr.
- Added: Jun 09, 2013
- Length: 09:40
In her first memoir, “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood,” British-born Alexandra introduced us to her family and her early y...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Mar 09, 2013
- Length: 10:02
- Purchases: 1
Gloria Del Bianco and her nephew, Lou, remember her father, Luigi Del Bianco, one of the chief stone carvers of Mt. Rushmore.
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 01:55
- Purchases: 2
