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From the July 12, 1912 edition of The Washington Herald.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:06
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Stanford music professor Jesse Rodin discusses the luminous polyphonic style of the great Renaissance composer Josquin des Prez and what it means t...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
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VoiceBox celebrates Woody Guthrie's centennial birthday with conversation and song when Peter Glazer, professor of Performance Studies at the Unive...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 59:01

  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: 01:06

  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: :51
Caption: John at the top of the north tower
John Mickiewicz maintains and operates the iconic WPA built Railroad Bridge that connects Cape Cod to the mainland over the Cape Cod Canal. He love...

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 26, 2012
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 2
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The third woman in the Parker Devoe Production Series "Thirty Women Worth Knowing.

  • Added: Mar 08, 2012
  • Length: 04:06

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Journeymen Christian and Philip , Credit: Walter Slater Murch
Two young Journeymen from Germany show up on the farm and spend the night.

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jan 29, 2012
  • Length: 16:12
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Alice's Restaurant, Credit: Arlo Guthrie
Thanksgiving 2011: Back to Alice's Restaurant.

Bought by KDUR, WDSE, KWMR, KKRN, KEOS and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Some blues and lots of 1967.

Bought by KWMR, KMXT, KKRN, KPVL, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: 4th of July on Swan's Island, late 1950s, Credit: courtesy of David Joyce (Swan's Island Memory Project)
Celebrate America's independence the Island way, with pranks, potato-spoon races, and pie eating. But remember, cheaters never prosper here.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WEZU, and Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Sea Side Hall, Swan's Island, Maine, Credit: Swan's Island Memory Project
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
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A set of Hendrix, a side of Pink Floyd and a whole lot of 1967.

Bought by KWMR, KMXT, KEOS, KKRN, KPVL and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
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You want Cream with that?

Bought by KKRN, KEOS, KWMR, KEOS, KPVL and more


  • Added: May 25, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Covering a lot of (old) new ground.

Bought by KWMR, KEOS, KFOK-LPFM, KPVL, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Apr 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 5
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That's why they call it "free form".

Bought by KWMR, KEOS, KFOK-LPFM, WXXI Rochester, and KPVL


  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 5
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Heavy on the vinyl.

Bought by KWMR, KEOS, KFOK-LPFM, KPVL, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Apr 06, 2011
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 5
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Return of the artist set.

Bought by KWMR, KEOS, KFOK-LPFM, KPVL, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Don't let the Zeitfunk go to your head, hermit!

Bought by KWMR, KEOS, KFOK-LPFM, KPVL, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Mar 23, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Poets and long jams

Bought by KEOS, KWMR, KEOS, KFOK-LPFM, KPVL and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: The newly formed Pi Eta chapter of Phi Beta Sigma step before the beginning of the 34th Annual Soul Food Dinner on Saturday in Kryzsko Commons on Winona State University campus. Performing are Sam Ndely, left, Beh Gay, center, and Forrest Agnew. , Credit: David Ranzenberger/Winona Daily News
Members of Phi Beta Sigma’s fraternity started off this year’s 34th annual Soul Food Dinner at Winona State University. The Harlem Renaissance was ...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 12:21
Caption: The old brewery. Recently the structure has been painted brick red.
At the base of the bluff where Sugar Loaf sits in Winona MN is an old building with a lot of history. When you drive the short steep slope up to Su...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2010
  • Length: 15:00
Caption: A group of students ask questions about the effects of 18th century disease and illness Friday at the annual Winona County Historical Society's Woodlawn Cemetery Walk., Credit: Rory O'Driscoll/Winona Daily News
On this edition of Don't Cha Know we’re headed into Winona’s historic Woodlawn Cemetery. The 12th Annual Woodlawn Cemetery Walk commenced and we we...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 14:58
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Oklahoma's oldest higher education building is back in use after a two-year, $8.6 million renovation.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2009
  • Length: 03:56