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Sammy Marques tells stories, one-man-shows that last an hour and more. The stories within the bigger stories are chapters of his life. Because they...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 25:28
Sammy Marques, descended from Portuguese seamen, was expatriated from his native America by his missionary father. When he returned stateside he ma...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 27:56
Sammy Marques is a raconteur. He frequently draws on personal experience to flesh out stories that seem always to embrace some humorous element. Th...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 27:30
For three generations, Sammy Marques’ family was stuck in a sort of revolving door of emigration from Europe to the United States and back again. I...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 28:24
Sammy Marques has been a lot of things over the years. He was never a butcher, but he was certainly a baker. Twice. And armed with a wood lathe he ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 26:21
Although 2019 was not a good year for Haley, this episode actually features one of her strongest allies throughout bad years and good ones. A frien...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:01
All of these episodes, the past 8 years, are set behind the backdrop of the town Haley has been working in: a midsize, rustbelt community that brin...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:01
A touching story of fathers, family, and bargains spelled backwards.
- Added: Jul 15, 2020
- Length: 20:30
The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has the largest collection of petrified wood in the world. The beautiful wood is more than 200 millio...
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 20:17
Josh's mom was having trouble having a baby, so she headed down to Mexico for an "operation" from a renowned psychic surgeon. This story was sele...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 06:19
- Purchases: 2
The story of two boys who, in 1985, instead of going in for their dinner, decided to go on a little journey....
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and KUT
- Added: Mar 05, 2011
- Length: 39:01
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Aug 24, 2007
- Length: 06:32
- Purchases: 1
Salon regular and Emmy winning writer Joseph Dougherty discovers an unnoticed gift in a crowded train station.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 23, 2006
- Length: 03:15
- Purchases: 1
Shirley Scott recalls the nightmare of uniformity imposed by "Mother-Daughter" matching outfits.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Aug 19, 2006
- Length: 04:08
- Purchases: 1
Michael Rayner, storyteller and professional juggler, reflects on the complex high of fatherhood.
Bought by Public Interactive
- Added: Aug 19, 2006
- Length: 02:19
- Purchases: 1
Storyteller Leni Ramberg visits that hot-bed of wild gambling: Hinkley, Minnesota.
- Added: Aug 19, 2006
- Length: 03:47
- Added: Apr 27, 2004
- Length: 05:33
