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Caption: The Houlihans, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
This week we encounter the supernatural with Beth and Chris Houlihan.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 26:58
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
It turns out that libraries weren’t always so friendly toward children. That started to change around the turn of the 20th century, thanks to a lib...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 20:41
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jones Mountain cabin
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
Caption: Jones Mountain cabin.
I’ve been on the road eight days now, living out of the trunk of my car, and though I pass straight through Richmond, which is my home, I skirt the...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2018
  • Length: 27:54
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries you'll meet Vicki Obee former director at Bittersweet Farms, a private non-profit that offers services to adul...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 06:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Go back to 1936 with Shervena Grubbs, her twin sister, and their daddy on a train to Little Rock, get in a car with Wetzel LaGrone in the 1940's, a...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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KVSC Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack reports on the Library Day held at St. Cloud State University for middle school students as t...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2010
  • Length: 26:07