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In 1998, Forest Quimby spent thousands of dollars building one of the most beautiful, most elaborate docks on Franklin Pierce Lake in New Hampshire...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 21, 2016
- Length: 21:53
- Purchases: 1
In the early '90s Keene, New Hampshire created a pumpkin festival to bring the community together,
but after 24 years the quaint festival tore the ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2016
- Length: 22:42
The Miracle Workers of Holton Elementary School are Christal Mark, Ricky Gay, Mary Pace, Robin Barber, Cheryll Hughes and Latonya Brown-Oliver. Wha...
- Added: Oct 21, 2016
- Length: 23:46
Today, we take a step back to imagine a world without a web of GPS satellites telling your smartphone where you are every second of the day. While ...
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- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 24:33
- Purchases: 1
It’s not surprising that many of the medicines we use today are derived from plants. The surprising part is how similar the molecular components of...
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 35:36
When a Harvard professor accidentally let Gypsy Moths loose in the 1860s, he didn't release he was unleashing a scourge that would plague New Engla...
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- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 56:30
- Purchases: 1
There used to be a time when you could strike out into the vast unexplored wilderness and stake your claim – but not anymore. Today, the story of ...
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 56:27
Technology advances at breakneck speed, so why hasn’t the electric grid changed in 60 years? This week’s episode explores things, that for one rea...
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 56:28
Tyler Armstrong is 12-years-old. He loves video games, laser tag, and he wants to become the youngest person to summit Mount Everest. In this episo...
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 58:29
Ever since becoming a reporter, Sam has heard stories about a secret hunting reserve in New Hampshire, stocked with elk and 200-pound wild boar. I...
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 56:28
How do you define wilderness? Why are humans drawn to summits? Will the cold-hardy kiwi save a struggling local economy, or will it destroy a nativ...
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 56:29
Billed as the world's smallest woman, Gloria Rhoden of St. Mary Jamaica understands the nature of true beauty.
- Added: Oct 14, 2016
- Length: 23:02
It's 2011, and Bahrain is a divided society.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 29, 2016
- Length: 42:13
- Purchases: 1
Pirates love the water. It’s their sustenance, it’s their highway, it’s their haven. Lester Blackiston loved the water. As a matter of fact, I didn...
- Added: Aug 25, 2016
- Length: 27:08
You'll meet Sam Melden in this new episode of The Rough Draft Diaries. Tune in to hear about his work with Leadership Toledo.
- Added: Aug 22, 2016
- Length: 06:01
The myths and legend surrounding AMC's oldest trail crew, the TFC, aka Trail F*cking Crew.
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 25:00
The Rough Draft Diaries visits our local newspaper to interview Taylor Dungjen, a journalist working to understand and help the community around her.
- Added: Aug 16, 2016
- Length: 06:09
A group of 19th century pioneers lay claim to one of the world’s most inhospitable mountains and turn it into a premiere tourist destination.
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 19:41
There’s a very robust debate going on right now as to exactly how much sea level rise we’re in for, and the Cliffs Notes version is that it’s betwe...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 22:05
- Purchases: 1
Ari Ofsevit is a guy from Boston fueled by an intense, nerdy love for sports. The day after running this year’s Boston Marathon, his face was all o...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 20:12
The “Save the Whales” movement of the 1970’s was instrumental in putting a stop to commercial whaling. But even as humpbacks and other whale popula...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 27:48
Pirates and their deeds become legend. Blackbeard, Lester’s personal favorite, did this thing with canon fuses, or so the legend goes. Just as his...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 26:15
Lester Blackiston was a pirate . . .
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 24:46
Lester Blackiston was the pirate of Shockoe Bottom. He was a minor Beat poet, a questionable inventor, a man who avoided work at all costs. He had ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 23:27
This is the story of a dead man. He gave up the ghost a few years ago. And some who knew him might say he never had a ghost to give up in the first...
- Added: Jul 22, 2016
- Length: 26:09