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The Virginia State Penitentiary in its early years
was considered an extremely progressive prison. That didn't last long. Not long after it opened...
- Added: Oct 01, 2019
- Length: 27:05
this is the conclusion of The Scotch Bonnet Republic, Ocracoke Island, and how local fisherman saved their way of life.
- Added: Aug 22, 2019
- Length: 24:42
Ocracoke Island is the Key West of the southeast. And where that notable Key claims the conch as its emblem, this remote island off North Carolina...
- Added: Aug 20, 2019
- Length: 27:26
My brother Thomas recounts a diving accident he lived through early in his career as a commercial diver.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 08:51
When he was just a boy, Victor Ayala whose family was struggling in Guadalajara crossed the Rio Bravo on his own, only to be taken back to Mexico. ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 28:06
We return to Prince Edward Island where we’ll spend the next half hour with a father and daughter who produce what PEI has come to be known for the...
- Added: Jul 10, 2015
- Length: 27:06
Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 27:05
Mike Notter (currently with the bands Motopony and Hannalee) used to be in a band with a bunch of other window washers (Shim). Back then, cleaning ...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Dec 05, 2014
- Length: 16:10
- Purchases: 1
Behind drawn shades in a brightly lit room downtown, dispatchers for the Los Angeles Police Department answer 9-1-1 calls and send officers to thei...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 1
Eva fled to the U.S. from El Salvador’s civil war more than 20 years ago. Since then, she’s cared for 11 kids – and mastered emotional calculus of ...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 02:59
At USA Recycling in East LA, a two-story yellow crane smashes cars, refrigerators and stoves into neat piles of wreckage all day. The mistress of t...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 1
In car-choked LA, riding the bus is a sign that you can’t afford your own wheels. But Joshua Salazar's overnight routes are often full of people be...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:58
As dawn breaks, birds serenade Eric Jones, who crosses a church parking lot in his baggy jeans, jangling an oversized key ring. The plastic wheels ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 1
At just sixteen Victor left his home in Guadalajara and crossed the river into Texas only to be picked up by immigration agents and returned to Mex...
- Added: Mar 30, 2013
- Length: 28:06
Geoffrey is a guy with his feet in a couple places. He attends school full time, works two jobs, takes care of six siblings and a daughter, and ha...
- Added: Jan 11, 2011
- Length: 05:50
- Purchases: 2
There are people in your life that you depend on every day. They know who you are. Do you know them? From Portland, Maine, this is the story of the...
Bought by WMPG
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 05:58
- Purchases: 1
The nation's last sardine cannery in Gouldsboro, Maine closed its doors in April 2010. Lela Anderson worked at the cannery for fifty-four years.
- Added: Jun 03, 2010
- Length: 07:46
In Northern California's Humboldt County, one octogenarian just won't quit working.
- Added: Oct 07, 2009
- Length: 04:20
A night with Tom Witkowski, “Pizza Time” delivery guy.
Bought by KPIK-LP, HowSound, The Story, YouthCast, KUT and more
- Added: Jun 22, 2009
- Length: 06:07
- Purchases: 7
- Added: Jun 22, 2009
- Length: 08:28
- Purchases: 1
A man practices the ancient art of timekeeping.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WRVO Public Media, WMPG, and CKMO
- Added: Jun 22, 2009
- Length: 06:13
- Purchases: 4
The travels of the last milkman in Portland, Maine.
- Added: Jun 22, 2009
- Length: 06:05
Entering her 19th year as a truck driver, Debbie Seelow is no burly man, but rather a self-described "grandma who loves to knit and crochet".
Bought by WABE, KZYX, WNIJ, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KRUA and more
- Added: Mar 05, 2009
- Length: 05:47
- Purchases: 7
A look into the world of ice cream truck drivers in southern Maine.
- Added: Jan 21, 2009
- Length: 06:28
A profile of Millinocket, Maine, after the mill shut down.
- Added: Jan 20, 2009
- Length: 06:50
