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In 1939, President Franklin Delano actually moved Thanksgiving up a week! Find out the reasons why in this episode of Did This Happen?!
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Radio Curious takes you to France as it was in 1932 where Maya Schwartz was born to an immigrant family. 1939 to 1945 her family was torn apart by...
- Added: May 28, 2012
- Length: 29:02
In a little known chapter of American history, hundreds of thousands of Irish Catholic children were taken from their families in New York City and...
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 13
Swan’s Islanders share their childhood memories of growing up on the island.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 1
Of course ice cream is a treat at any time for anyone, but it was awfully difficult to stock in any island store in the 1930’s. Marguerite Staples...
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 01:31
The battle between a kid’s fun and her parents.
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 03:31
Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...
- Added: Aug 31, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Actor Sam Elliott perfectly reads passages from Twain's tribute to American boyhood. The program also includes commentary by Ken Burns, P.J. O'Rour...
Bought by KMUN, KREV-LP, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more
- Added: Aug 18, 2011
- Length: 29:16
- Purchases: 6
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
Griffin Bourassa possesses many traits of a typical 15 year old boy, but there is one facet of his life that is not normal.
- Added: May 27, 2011
- Length: 07:06
- Purchases: 2
"The Last Hunter - An American Family Album" by MN Author Will Weaver.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 10, 2010
- Length: 20:30
- Purchases: 1
Bestselling author Adriana Trigiani is back on Realgoodwords this week talking about her grandmothers, including Lucy from Chisholm.
- Added: Dec 10, 2010
- Length: 30:14
As a kid, Guido envied his friends who had two, hands-on Grandmothers.
- Added: Dec 10, 2010
- Length: 05:35
In Judeo-Christian tradition we track families through the fathers side. Unless of course you are not a landed male heir. It's not that you don't m...
- Added: Dec 10, 2010
- Length: 03:23
"...These Grandmothers, man, they don't play by anyone's rule book. Truly, they never have... They weren't always Grandmothers, that's something it...
- Added: Dec 10, 2010
- Length: 05:15
Charles Lindbergh made history flying his plane, The Spirit of St. Louis, non-stop from New York to Paris in 1927. The trip took over 33 hours! Lis...
- Added: Nov 17, 2010
- Length: 01:00
The Liberty Bell is a symbol of freedom for the United States, but did you know it started life as a simple Statehouse Bell for Pennsylvania? Liste...
- Added: Nov 17, 2010
- Length: 01:00
When Guido thinks of Thanksgiving, he thinks of a time decades ago...
- Added: Nov 16, 2010
- Length: 04:26
Michael shares his thoughts on houses
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Nov 16, 2010
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
Guido shares his thoughts on houses
- Added: Nov 16, 2010
- Length: 04:21
Aaron Brown shares his thoughts on houses.
- Added: Nov 16, 2010
- Length: 02:43
On December 14, 1911, an expedition team led by Roald Amundsen became the first to reach the South Pole. Listen in on this historic moment in today...
- Added: Nov 03, 2010
- Length: 01:00
The caves in Lascaux feature thousands of Paleolithic paintings along the walls. Just who painted these and why remains a mystery. We provide you w...
- Added: Nov 03, 2010
- Length: 01:00
In January or 1894, Edison Labs were working on the Motion Picture camera. During that time William Dickson became the director of the very first m...
- Added: Nov 03, 2010
- Length: 01:00
On September 26, 1580, Sir Francis Drake completed his circumnavigation of the world. Find out what he said to his men as they pulled into the harb...
- Added: Nov 03, 2010
- Length: 01:00
