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As time goes on, the younger generations forget what it's like to live in moments of the past. Each of these moments in time are experienced and r...
- Added: Feb 13, 2023
- Length: 22:56
Sometimes an object out of place becomes the only thing in place.
- Added: Apr 01, 2022
- Length: 01:00
Joe Newman is 107 years old. He was 5 during the flu pandemic of 1918. Today, he lives in a senior apartment complex in Sarasota, Florida with his ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2020
- Length: 05:23
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're going back in time! I visit with Betty Metts the current president of The Oregon-Jerusalem Historical So...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 18, 2017
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 1
When The Rough Draft Diaries contacted John Rockwood he was feeling a little under the weather... a lil too under the weather for a face-to-face in...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 06:31
On July 17th, 1981 The Kansas City Hyatt Hotel Skywalk fell onto the unsuspecting attendants at one of the hotel’s popular Tea Dances. 114 people w...
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 10:26
It was 1945, Joe Prinster was just hours into his high school diploma when he was told to "pack and be ready to get on the train in the morning...
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 01:35
"We had a final discussion early in our marriage. ... He said, 'Are you sure?' I said, 'I am, my dear.' And we've never looked back."
-Beverly, 72,...
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 03:21
Janice N. Harrington, draws from myriad experiences to create her poetry and children's stories. In this interview with NEW LETTERS magazine editor...
- Added: Sep 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
In this short documentary, longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home lost to immigration.
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 02:52
Margot Karp, 86, moved with her family to Washington Heights, Manhattan, in 1939 to escape Nazi Germany. Karp has fond memories of her mother's str...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 03:04
Bobby speaks with "Papa" about life and loyalties 60 miles north of New York City, in what some have labeled the “armpit of Connecticut”. A place t...
- Added: Jan 05, 2013
- Length: 01:25:02
For years I've been obsessed with death, asking people about living, dying, killing (www.livediekill.org) but really getting into the dying. For ev...
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 04:42
Ringing the Salvation Army bell is boring, cold work during the busy Christmas holiday season. Margaret Agard, author and bell ringing volunteer, ...
Bought by Angelica Community Radio, KTXK, KZMU Moab Community Radio, 'The Sea', and Delta College Public Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 04:16
- Purchases: 5
City living proves less glamorous than anticipated to one wide-eyed newcomer -- but there are lessons about family to be learned.
Bought by American Voices
- Added: Dec 02, 2012
- Length: 10:23
- Purchases: 1
Now that her kids are grown up, it's not them keeping Jane up at night—it's her father.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 04:26
- Purchases: 1
After his mother has a massive stroke, writer Dave White describes the quick thinking and problem solving necessary for a simple trip to the movies.
- Added: Mar 13, 2012
- Length: 10:49
- Purchases: 3
After more than 30 years together, my beloved British sports car and I have parted. We've become too old to continue our exciting adventures together.
- Added: Nov 20, 2011
- Length: 05:47
It's Crunch Time this week; sharing stories of the times you were late or just barely made it as we get through the Crunch Time of our summer fundr...
- Added: Jun 21, 2011
- Length: 03:53
This short, fully produced audio essay – with music and sound effects – is a rumination on growing old, with a nod to the effects of Alzheimer's. I...
- Added: Dec 09, 2010
- Length: 03:38
"What do you think of when you think of your dad?"
People in Seattle share stories about their fathers. Death, divorce, drugs, love, Casey Kasem...
- Added: Mar 05, 2010
- Length: 14:24
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Jun 02, 2008
- Length: :47
- Added: Jun 02, 2008
- Length: 02:27
A Grumpy Old Man learns to play the saxophone and have fun.
- Added: Feb 07, 2008
- Length: 48:39
An hour-long special about starting over late in life.
Bought by KUNM, WSKG, PRX Remix, Marfa Public Radio, WSKG and more
- Added: Apr 13, 2007
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 13
