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Take Me To The River: New Orleans - a celebration of music history and legacy
From: World Footprints LLC
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Music is a powerful universal language where white musicians and black musicians come together, protect and stand by each other to create something...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2022
  • Length: 34:06
Ep 1: Teddy Greets the Soviet Union
From: Sean Guillory
Series: Teddy Goes to the USSR
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Teddy Roe took an extraordinary trip to the USSR in 1968. For three months, he travelled from one end of the USSR to the other. Most Americans at t...

  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 51:20
Green Light Circus and Complexities of Love
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
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As we wrap up our second season focused on events in the Northern Susitna Valley, we are coming back to Talkeetna. Specifically to the Sheldon Com...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Trapper Creek Festivals
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
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Today we’ll be focusing on two annual festivals across the river from Talkeetna in Trapper Creek. If you’re looking for summer fun, or if you want ...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Susitna Valley Mushing Events
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
Today, we’ll hear about Alaska’s state sport, dog mushing, and how mushing events have played a role in life in the area. Mushing races can be as ...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Oosik Classic Ski Race and Tour
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
Today, we’re looking at another annual gathering that brings hundreds of people to Talkeetna each March. In most years, it is a reminder that Spri...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Moose Dropping Festival
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
Today, we’re looking at an event…or rather two events with very similar names and themes having to do with…moose excrement. Come along as we hear ...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Miner’s Day
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
Today, we’re exploring another festival from Talkeetna’s recent past, Miner’s Day. It’s another example of the sort of celebration that took place...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Talkeetna Bachelor Auction and Ball
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
In this episode, we’re taking a look at the event that has turned the darkest time of year into the biggest party for the last forty years, the Tal...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Wilderness Woman Contest
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
One of the more common questions visitors ask Talkeetna residents is what we do in the winter. We’re starting off our second season by answering p...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Bucket of Blood and Belle's Barn
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
Join us in this episode as we wrap up our first season with two buildings that used to form part of daily life for many in Downtown Talkeetna, but ...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 2
Miners and Trappers Cabins
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
In this episode, we take a tour of some the humble yet vital cabins that sheltered miners and trappers in the area, many of which still stand today...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Forks Roadhouse
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
In this episode, we head across the river, past Trapper Creek, and toward the Petersville mining district, where we find the Forks Roadhouse miles ...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Curry
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
In this episode, we’re headed to Curry, a place “up the tracks” from Talkeetna that has been the site of a luxury hotel, a thriving small town, and...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Nagley’s General Store
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
In this episode, we’re visiting one of the first buildings you see as you turn onto Talkeetna’s Main Street, Nagley’s General Store. Since it was b...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Talkeetna Roadhouse
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
Since being built by Frank Lee around 1916 and later moved to its current location, the Talkeetna Roadhouse has been a staple of local life. Today...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Schoolhouse
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
For more than eighty years, the territorial schoolhouse building has stood in Downtown Talkeetna, Alaska. It has served many purposes over the dec...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Fairview Inn
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
The Fairview Inn is referred to by some as “Talkeetna’s living room.” On this episode of the Blue Tarp, we hear from people for whom the Fairview ...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Military Women’s Memorial: A little known gem preserving HERstory
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Phyllis Wilson's Military headshot
Phyllis Wilson, a retired Army veteran of 37 years and President of the Military Women’s Memorial Foundation, joins us to talk about the Memorial a...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 42:48
Franklin, Tennessee’s Fuller Story: History beyond the Battlefield and Whiskey
From: World Footprints LLC
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Hear about the initiative Franklin, Tennessee has launched to preserve and share a fuller and accurate truth about its place in American history.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 32:22
Episode 155: Cannonball
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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With Covid-19 shutdowns, people have been taking advantage of quiet highways to drive as fast as they can from New York City to Redondo Beach, Cali...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 32:22
Uncovering Appalachia
From: World Footprints LLC
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Author and scholar Nancy Brown Diggs joins World Footprints to peel back the layers of Appalachian culture that she uncovers in her new book, In Se...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2020
  • Length: 30:36
Mountain of the Stars
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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We are back in the scorching hot radio studio with an all-new episode of the radio show that Palm Springs Life magazine named the "Best Freaky Radi...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
Wizards & Critters
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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When it’s Snakesgiving Time in the Mojave, everybody’s just a little more careful. Goes well with these weird new times, being careful. So please m...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Preserving Cultural Heritages of Brooklyn’s Hasidic community and Ecuador’s Huaorani people
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Hasidic men at Western Wall, Credit: courtesy of Pixabay
Join World Footprints as we learn about the cultural heritages of Brooklyn’s Hasidic neighborhoods and Ecuador’s Huaorani people.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 43:17