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The Peril of Spring Snow in Minnesota
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Ojibwe people at a winter camp in South Harbor, Minnesota in 1875, Credit: MN Historical Society
This spring marks the 80th anniversary of the 1941 blizzard that killed dozens of people in Minnesota and North Dakota. The region has a reputation...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 17, 2021
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 2
Emily Graves Webb - Laurie Akin
From: Kara Morgan
Series: Voices of Spanish Point
Caption: Emily Graves Webb
Emily Graves Webb as written and performed by Laurie Akin.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 11:40
St. Paul's Stone Saloon
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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These days, local craft beer is all the rage, and new taprooms are popping up all over the Twin Cities. But a look into the past reveals there's no...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 03:54
A trip down memory lanes
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Bowling as a competitive sport and family pastime peaked decades ago. The game still exists, but with fewer participants. KFAI producer Bill Lindek...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 06:01
Episode 13: The Big Sleep
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Raymond Chandler is often called the greatest American crime novelist. But something very important to Chandler had gotten lost. No one noticed u...

Bought by KALH and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 22, 2014
  • Length: 16:08
  • Purchases: 2
Pass the lefse, please
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Ask someone from out of state to describe Minnesota and you’ll probably hear a lot of “Minnesota Nice,” "uff dah’s" and "you betcha’s." Scandinavia...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
Lincoln Highway: The Father Road
From: WNIJ
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America's first transnational highway - the Lincoln Highway - was dedicated 100 years ago this October. In this hour, we mark the Highway's centenn...

Bought by WVPE, Wyoming Public Radio, NPR Illinois, Iowa Public Radio, and KISU


  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Liberace & His Spectacular Crystal Closet
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: One of Liberace's incredible feather capes, Credit: Glen Rutter
A half-hour music-rich documentary on Liberace and the former Liberace Museum. His story is told using historical clips from Liberace himself in pe...

Bought by WORT, KFAI Minneapolis, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:42
  • Purchases: 3
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "I Guess Dessert Has Been My Upbringing"
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Debra Klaber (right) and Paul J. Hintersteiner (left). , Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Debra Klaber, 60, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, recalls her mother's Eastern European baking traditions -- which she has passed down to her dau...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: :48
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Cooking Puerto Rican Comida on the Lower East Side
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Olga Colon., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Olga Colon, 86, of Manhattan's Lower East Side, arrived in New York City -- from Puerto Rico -- when she was 18 years old. Over the years Colon ma...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 1
Lost Landmarks: Time traveling in San Francisco's Tenderloin district
From: KALW
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The Uptown Tenderloin Historic District is trying to preserve its history with funding from SF Grants for the Arts and the city’s Neighborhood Arts...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2012
  • Length: 08:51
Peggy and Hugh: An Oral History
From: Laura Herberg
Caption: Peggy and Hugh, then and now.
Peggy grew up on the Canadian prairie listening to big band on the radio. Hugh grew up in Seattle and tried to stay out of trouble from his Welsh ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2012
  • Length: 17:18
Joyce Family Musicians
From: Meghan Vigeant
Series: Swan's Island Memory Project
Caption: Joyce Family musicians, Credit: courtesy of Sharon Joyce Butterfield (Swan's Island Memory Project)
Families that play music together stay together. The Joyce family on Swan's Island made their own entertainment.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 04:45
Ice Cream Socials
From: Meghan Vigeant
Series: Swan's Island Memory Project
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
Ball Game Days of Swan's Island
From: Meghan Vigeant
Series: Swan's Island Memory Project
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The softball players on Swan's Island were more than a team. They were a family.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 04:41
Big Time Baseball in a Small Texas Town
From: Marfa Public Radio
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The real life version of "Field Of Dreams" takes place in Alpine, Texas in the 1940s and 50s. This is a story about a man, his baseball field and ...

Bought by KMXT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WNMU-FM, KMXT, and KUT


  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 5
The Farmington Diner
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The legendary Farmington Diner closed to make room for a new RiteAid pharmacy.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 06:11
Trams for the Memories
From: Drew Leifheit
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Piece of olde Budapest reaches end of the line

  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: 08:24
Boxcar Poet
From: Adam Allington
Caption: PRX default Piece image
93-year-old Clive Haswell is a poet who spent his youth riding the rails and playing poker

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2006
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
The Church in the Heart of the City
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The Chestnut Street United Methodist Church in Portland, Maine deconsecrates the chapel in preparation for selling and leaving the church.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 06:49
The Military Honor Guard (long version)
From: Charles Lane
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A look at the history and tradition of the military funeral.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KGOU, WRVO Public Media, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUAC and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2005
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 12
The Military Honor Guard (short version)
From: Charles Lane
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A look at the history and tradition of the military funeral.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WKMS, and WFUV


  • Added: Dec 02, 2005
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 3
World Military Honor Guard
From: Charles Lane
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A look at military funerals around the world

Bought by 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Dec 02, 2005
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
Rugged and Beautiful
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Visit with two female WWII Liberty Ship welders from South Portland, Maine.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Yellowstone Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 4
Out of Smoke and Ashes
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Carolyn Jackson retells the story and the impact of the 1947 fire in Brownfield, Maine.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WYBC


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 2