PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical

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Caption: Loretta Berning at her StoryCorps interview in Mandeville, LA on May 11th, 2022., Credit: Katie Fernelius for StoryCorps
Loretta Berning’s father, Major Harold Martin, was an Air Force pilot during World War II. Loretta came to StoryCorps to remember her father and a ...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2022
  • Length: 02:50
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My parents, Randy and Vicki, were high school sweethearts in the 1960s, but they broke up when my mom went off to college. Twenty years later their...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2020
  • Length: 03:48
Caption: Thrall Hall, Credit: Chion Wolf
Yankee pride, shoot-outs, and an eclectic square dance hall. The story of Ed Thrall’s Hall is a drama made for the big screen, that took place in t...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2014
  • Length: 14:40
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
Caption: "Yorkville Twins" by Joseph and John Gindele
Joseph and John Gindele are twin brothers that grew up on the unforgiving streets of Yorkville on Manhattan’s ethnic Upper East Side over 60 years ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 2
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His fourth year in the competition, Adam says this piece is a poem for his Grandma - it's a beautiful reflection on a Chicago landmark. Adam Gottl...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:13
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Victor Hanson believes in the natural cycles of farming and the ancestors who tended his family?s land.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 3
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Mastin's store was once the heart of the community where you could buy a bag of flour, a pair of boots, a side of beef and a flannel nightgown all ...

Bought by WTIP and KSUT


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:15
  • Purchases: 2