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In 1989, Helen Ackley decided to sell her old Victorian house in Nyack, New York. It didn’t go as planned. The house became the center of a case th...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 30:05
Whose fault was the housing crisis? Ours? The Banks? The Realtors? The governments? Great biting news piece- Money Matters Classic
- Added: May 25, 2019
- Length: 04:41
In this show I talk about the role emotions play in our lives. I ask my listeners to call and tell me about the emotions that occur during wedding ...
- Added: May 07, 2019
- Length: 52:57
On the last episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, Haley mentioned Georgette's Grounds and Gifts were nominated to be on the program. We covered the g...
- Added: Dec 20, 2018
- Length: 06:02
From: James Szkobel-Wolff
Sangar General Store, in Windsor, MA, is owned by Prem Sangar. Prem wasn't born in Windsor and doesn't quite fit the mold of the town, but the comm...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 29, 2018
- Length: 04:55
- Purchases: 1
My great grandfather started the business in 1917. He came from China. This was the built-in childcare/daycare for me. My parents would come to w...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 13, 2018
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 1
Tonight’s guest, David Neville, tells us about his successful participation on the reality TV show “American Grit.” While we peek inside the TV sh...
- Added: Jan 12, 2018
- Length: 56:18
A father and son talk about working together in an air conditioner repair business that has been in their family for more than half a century.
- Added: Aug 29, 2016
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 2
This week, we have a pair of entrepreneurial brothers on The Rough Draft Diaries. Because we have two brothers, talking about two separate business...
- Added: Mar 07, 2016
- Length: 05:56
In a series of audio postcards, the Weekday High Interns take you through the Pike Place Market ? stopping along the way at Marakesh Leathers, Gold...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 08:43
Bobby speaks, from a boat anchored off the Coast of Shell Island, once again, with lifelong friend and pizza man Tobia Spinelli in part 2 of this 2...
- Added: Jul 04, 2013
- Length: 01:34:49
Freddie Wood and his wife Wilma Sue talk about the Wood and Swink General Store and Post Office, which has been in Freddie's family for more than a...
- Added: Jul 13, 2012
- Length: 02:12
- Purchases: 2
Stimulus dollars are being poured into the American economy for projects that build schools, fix roads, put people to work and rescue small busines...
- Added: Apr 26, 2010
- Length: 03:47
The thing about living in a small town is doing errands takes a loooong time because you know everyone...
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Apr 05, 2010
- Length: 02:47
- Purchases: 1
Funtown/Splashtown USA is the largest family-run amusement park in the Northeast. Half a million people visit the park in Saco, Maine every summer.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 06:50
- Purchases: 4
A family business named Sarah's Hat Boxes is surviving the Great Recession, despite selling a product more befitting an era defined by the Great De...
- Added: Dec 06, 2009
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Feb 28, 2008
- Length: 13:21
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 10, 2008
- Length: 02:23
More on one of the newest sales techniques.
Bought by KENW, WEZU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Hawaii Public Radio
- Added: Dec 14, 2007
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 4
Some eleven year-olds sell lemonade for extra cash. Jennifer Rubenstein uses extortion, sort of.
- Added: Dec 18, 2006
- Length: 05:55
