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An exploration of regional memories of the American Civil War and the ways we use story to hide or confront our complicated past.
- Added: Jul 24, 2017
- Length: 20:40
We asked our members where were you during the summer of love?
- Added: Jul 24, 2017
- Length: 10:33
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine
Series: Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine
This story was produced by Amy Madore and Jennifer Seale at the 2017 Stories Summer Institute
- Added: Jul 20, 2017
- Length: 07:16
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine
Series: Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine
This story was produced by Diane Murray at the 2017 Stories Summer Institute
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 20, 2017
- Length: 08:58
- Purchases: 1
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine
Series: Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine
This story was produced by Amy Frishkey at the 2017 Stories Summer Institute
- Added: Jul 20, 2017
- Length: 09:27
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine
Series: Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine
This story was produced by Elizabeth Abernathy and Arabella Daniels at the 2017 Stories Summer Institute
- Added: Jul 19, 2017
- Length: 07:48
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine
Series: Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine
This story was produced by Kimberly Fritch and Diana Kaz-Sugasawara at the Stories Summer Institute 2017
- Added: Jul 19, 2017
- Length: 09:02
In the summer of 2013, I traveled a six hundred miles, and 200 years into the past to spend nine days living and working aboard the U.S. Brig Niaga...
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 10:04
Dudley Riggs is a fifth-generation member of a distinguished show business family. He's worked in many areas of the biz, as everything from an aeri...
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 18:32
Vincent Chin was a 27-year-old draftsman living near Detroit. On a June night in 1982, he and a group of friends went out to celebrate his wedding,...
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WEZU
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 2
This show is part II of our Juneteenth Series focusing African-American music and venues in North Tulsa from the 40's through the 60's. We intervi...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 58:58
Minneapolis performance artist Patrick Scully has created a one-man show about the life and times of Walt Whitman. It's called "Leaves of Grass--Il...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 31:02
- Purchases: 1
The death penalty is the barest, most explicit aspect of state violence. Relatively few people are sentenced to death, and even fewer are actively,...
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 29:58
We’ll hear music inspired from events on September 11, as well as some of the composers on this episode of What’s New!
Bought by WRTI, KMUN, Interlochen Public Radio, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more
- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 11
We’ll hear music about trains, and learn some little known facts and myths about Purdue on today’s What’s New.
Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, KMUN and more
- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 7
"Alice in France" is a collection of letters home from Alice O'Brien, a young St. Paul woman who volunteered in France in various roles during Worl...
- Added: May 29, 2017
- Length: 14:52
Octogenarian composer Augusta Cecconi-Bates talks about growing up a member of "the lost generation," hearing melodies in the written word, and whe...
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 25:42
Sharon Griggins was 17 years old and working for Illinois Bell as a telephone operator when she was interviewed by Studs Terkel. For a job that req...
Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 4
Tribute to my grandmother: No matter what life hands them, great dames keep on singing.
Bought by WHQR and Public Radio East
- Added: May 03, 2017
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 2
Host Bob Kustra interviews Beth Macy, author of "Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South."
- Added: Apr 28, 2017
- Length: 30:00
On this episode of "Culture Clique" we hear from civilians and veterans recounting their memories of the Vietnam War. A widow gives her perspective...
- Added: Apr 14, 2017
- Length: 27:40
On this episode of "Culture Clique" we get to listen in as Winonan's recall their memories of Vietnam on the home front and on the battlefield. Thi...
- Added: Apr 14, 2017
- Length: 32:24
March is Women's History Month, and WTIP was lucky to speak with a Minnesota woman who made history by becoming the first woman to cross the ice to...
- Added: Mar 21, 2017
- Length: 22:58
Climate swing calls for changing baritonic sax pressure, Lars Gullin moves into the “Queen of the Jukeboxes” Dinah Washington (after all she once s...
Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WYAP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Feb 15, 2017
- Length: 01:59:58
- Purchases: 6
Jose Serebrier is an internationally respected conductor and composer. We'll speak to him about his artistry and some new recordings.
Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, KMUN and more
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 8
