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Georgia Tann of Memphis, Tennessee bragged that she had a rigorous selection process that matched the perfect child with the perfect home.
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 36:44
Jerry Amiot of the Polk County (MN) Historical Society shares details on the historical demonstrations, exhibits, live music and fresh lefse planne...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 10:40
Next to Minnehaha Falls sits an old house that hosts exhibits recalling Minneapolis history. The house itself is the site of early business deals d...
- Added: Aug 22, 2019
- Length: 05:52
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
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
Radio Curious discusses the orphan trains of 1854-1930 with Victoria Golden, who helped author the autobiography of William Delos Vansteenburgh, ti...
- Added: Jul 24, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Added: Oct 20, 2017
- Length: 01:12
- Purchases: 1
It was June. It was hot. Kids were out of school, keeping busy outdoors. Parents were inside. Kind of like how it is now, except it was 146 years ago.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 19, 2017
- Length: 11:15
- Purchases: 1
Johnny was the son of a local cobbler who fell into an old canal that cut through the center of Dayton where Patterson Boulevard now runs. His belo...
- Added: Jul 27, 2017
- Length: 04:55
The Minnesota Orchestra has worked to expand its audience since it was founded over a century ago. Producer Daniel Zamzow discovers that one of the...
Bought by WTIP, KQAL, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jul 15, 2017
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
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
The unlikely story of a pacifist bull - Hidden messages scribbled in library books - Murder & poetry in Chaucer's London - A novel look at race rel...
Bought by WNMU-FM
- Added: Jan 27, 2017
- Length: :29
- Purchases: 1
The unlikely story of a pacifist bull - Hidden messages scribbled in library books - Murder & poetry in Chaucer's London - A novel look at race rel...
Bought by WCNY, KTOO, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WTJU and more
- Added: Jan 27, 2017
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 7
The unlikely story of a pacifist bull - The hidden messages scrawled in library books
Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WUGA (part of GPB), KKRN and more
- Added: Jan 27, 2017
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 9
In 1936, just as the Spanish Civil War was beginning, an instantly successful and highly controversial children’s book arrived on the bookshelves. ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Jan 27, 2017
- Length: 03:48
- Purchases: 1
Life’s precarious journey—lessons today’s parents often avoid.
Rediscover the frightening tales from our collective past.
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 11:46
The “Weekly Arts Calendar” is a weekly listing of events and activities that highlight the arts, music and culture of the region and within Minnesota.
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 02:23
- Added: Jul 22, 2016
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
In 1992, writer Susan Orlean was tired of celebrity profiles. Instead, she wanted to do something bigger, deeper, and much harder: She wanted to pr...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 27:00
- Purchases: 1
The “Weekly Arts Calendar” is a weekly listing of events and activities that highlight the arts, music and culture of the region and within Minnesota.
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 02:09
Paul Koch is a former pastor of Wannaska Lutheran Parish in rural northwestern Minnesota, near Roseau and a published author. He has written a ser...
- Added: Jun 30, 2015
- Length: 08:49
Kristin Eggerling lives in Hallock, MN, the mother of two and a freelance writer in northwestern Minnesota. She most recently worked in the public ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 07:47
Nine year old Gary Hayman ran away from a Rhode Island mental hospital in 1952 and sparked the biggest manhunt in state history.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 07:19
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 20, 2015
- Length: 28:06
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
