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The Old Farmer's Ball is a regional folk dance organization in Asheville, North Carolina that is best known for its lively Thursday night contra da...
- Added: Feb 22, 2021
- Length: 49:50
Ghost towns are an icon of the American West. But they’re not just part of a sepia-toned past; ghost towns in the making today as rural communities...
- Added: Nov 13, 2020
- Length: 57:41
If "Bring Your Kid To Work Day" was a competition, Jack's father would win.
- Added: Jul 08, 2019
- Length: 02:37
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine
Series: Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine
This story was produced by Amy Madore and Jennifer Seale at the 2017 Stories Summer Institute
- Added: Jul 20, 2017
- Length: 07:16
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine
Series: Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine
This story was produced by Diane Murray at the 2017 Stories Summer Institute
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 20, 2017
- Length: 08:58
- Purchases: 1
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine
Series: Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine
This story was produced by Amy Frishkey at the 2017 Stories Summer Institute
- Added: Jul 20, 2017
- Length: 09:27
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine
Series: Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine
This story was produced by Elizabeth Abernathy and Arabella Daniels at the 2017 Stories Summer Institute
- Added: Jul 19, 2017
- Length: 07:48
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine
Series: Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine
This story was produced by Kimberly Fritch and Diana Kaz-Sugasawara at the Stories Summer Institute 2017
- Added: Jul 19, 2017
- Length: 09:02
Tribute to my grandmother: No matter what life hands them, great dames keep on singing.
Bought by WHQR and Public Radio East
- Added: May 03, 2017
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 2
Jose Serebrier is an internationally respected conductor and composer. We'll speak to him about his artistry and some new recordings.
Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, KMUN and more
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 8
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Two lives, two philosophies, and a History Channel special collide as a relationship is forged with Iron Age techniques.
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 09:24
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Lee Miller is a bootmaker with a storied history, carrying on the traditions and techniques of the best bootmakers anywhere in the world.
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 06:03
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Mark Erlewine may be known as the Luthier of the Stars, but his Austin workshopshop couldn't be more down to Earth. Hear the story of the man who m...
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 07:29
Marrying the person you love is the ideal, right? So what happens when you finally get to do that, only to have the government tell you, never mind...
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 31:17
- Purchases: 1
For Yom HaShoah, stories of Israeli encounters with the Holocaust in the years and decades after it ended.
- Added: May 25, 2016
- Length: 48:42
The Schwinn bicycle has a rich history in New York’s Nuyorican communities. In many of these enclaves, you’ll find members of riding clubs showing ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 25, 2016
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 2
An audio essay that combines science, personal moments, and the wit and wisdom of four 100-year-old (and up) women.
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 10:26
'Step-', as in stepparents or stepchildren, originated in grief. Family structures have evolved, but are stepmothers now so tainted by fairytale as...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 38:16
- Purchases: 1
It’s June; the President of the USA has officially designated it LGBT Pride Month, and there’ll be Pride events around the world. But how did the w...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZMU Moab Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 14:08
- Purchases: 3
Country music legend Willie Nelson says that when he was a child, he heard a heavenly tune that's been under his skin ever since.
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 2
Berkeley-based Wilderness Torah is one group that’s trying to bring new meaning to the old tradition. Intrigued, I tagged along this past spring fo...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 11:58
From: john rabe
Off-Ramp's Chris Greenspon tells the fabulous and tragic story of Jim Tully, famous in the Thirties, forgotten in the Forties.
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 14:18
Joshua Sirotiak seeks out the history of Second Line Jazz culture in New Orleans. Along the way, he finds a few answers to questions about his own ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 10:04
- Purchases: 2
Memories of an African-American swimming pool and dance club in the Jim Crow south.
- Added: Jun 16, 2014
- Length: 06:51
- Purchases: 2
As whites fled Washington D.C. to live in the suburbs in the 1950s, Stronghold was born. This piece reveals how residents gave the neighborhood its...
- Added: Feb 23, 2014
- Length: 14:07
