PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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María de los Ángeles Vázquez and her son, Rafael Cancel Vázquez, remember his father, Rafael Cancel Miranda, one of four Puerto Rican Nationalists ...
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 03:16
In 2016, genealogist Mica L. Anders interviewed 7 families about their summer cabins in the north woods of Minnesota for the Minnesota Historical S...
- Added: Sep 21, 2023
- Length: 06:42
From Frank Sinatra’s version of “Ol’ MacDonald” to Ella Fitzgerald’s version of “The Muffin Man,” we’ll explore some jazzy selections aimed at kids.
- Added: Aug 25, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Loretta Berning’s father, Major Harold Martin, was an Air Force pilot during World War II. Loretta came to StoryCorps to remember her father and a ...
- Added: Aug 09, 2022
- Length: 02:50
Memorial Day can be filled with backyard barbeques and summer fun, but it can also be filled with remembrances that bring us closer to the ones we ...
Bought by KRCB 104.9, KRWG, KCNP, KRVS, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: Apr 19, 2021
- Length: 54:58
- Purchases: 16
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
My parents, Randy and Vicki, were high school sweethearts in the 1960s, but they broke up when my mom went off to college. Twenty years later their...
- Added: Jul 21, 2020
- Length: 03:48
This special Memorial Day episode brings you stories from the Civil War and both World Wars. These stories help us remember and appreciate the sacr...
Bought by WVIA, KUHF, KALW, Morehead State Public Radio, WNMU-FM and more
- Added: May 18, 2020
- Length: 56:58
- Purchases: 17
Rachel Rabin, Yitzhak Rabin’s little sister, isn’t so little anymore. Rachel, 91, reminisces about her childhood with her older brother who she rem...
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 05:16
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
Yankee pride, shoot-outs, and an eclectic square dance hall. The story of Ed Thrall’s Hall is a drama made for the big screen, that took place in t...
- Added: Oct 01, 2014
- Length: 14:40
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
Candace Simar is a Pequot Lakes poet who with her sister Angela Foster, has written a book of poems and essays, "Farm Girls," which was recently re...
- Added: Aug 11, 2013
- Length: 02:06
Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...
- Added: Jul 26, 2013
- Length: 02:43
Joseph and John Gindele are twin brothers that grew up on the unforgiving streets of Yorkville on Manhattan’s ethnic Upper East Side over 60 years ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 2
Peggy grew up on the Canadian prairie listening to big band on the radio. Hugh grew up in Seattle and tried to stay out of trouble from his Welsh ...
- Added: Mar 07, 2012
- Length: 17:18
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
Families that play music together stay together. The Joyce family on Swan's Island made their own entertainment.
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 04:45
His fourth year in the competition, Adam says this piece is a poem for his Grandma - it's a beautiful reflection on a Chicago landmark. Adam Gottl...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 03:13
An exploration into the events that sparked a journey.
Bought by The PRX Podcast
- Added: Aug 05, 2007
- Length: 08:43
- Purchases: 1
A compilation of memories of the historically black neighborhood of South Rome (Rome, Floyd County, Georgia), a community currently undergoing "red...
- Added: Jun 08, 2007
- Length: 06:31
Victor Hanson believes in the natural cycles of farming and the ancestors who tended his family?s land.
- Added: Jun 12, 2006
- Length: 03:19
- Purchases: 3
Mastin's store was once the heart of the community where you could buy a bag of flour, a pair of boots, a side of beef and a flannel nightgown all ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2005
- Length: 13:15
- Purchases: 2
The history of the twentieth century told through a love story, a mandolin, and an 81-year-old husband?s guide to good sex?
Bought by WRNC-LP, KUT, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP and more
- Added: Dec 01, 2005
- Length: 13:18
- Purchases: 7