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Limestone work used to be quite dangerous. Joyce Jeffries remembers workers, including her grandfather, dying or getting injured. It’s gotten safer...
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 51:59
We're talking trash at the library today. Specifically, the story of a 3,000-ton garbage barge that made a scene in Brooklyn in the 1980s… and, we ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 21:06
- Purchases: 1
It’s not an uncommon experience to be unstably housed in this country. From Brooklyn to San Francisco, communities often turn to public libraries f...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 24:46
- Purchases: 2
This barbershop built my character. I started off sweeping floors. I own the shop now.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 07, 2019
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 07, 2019
- Length: 04:02
- Purchases: 1
The Virginia State Penitentiary in its early years
was considered an extremely progressive prison. That didn't last long. Not long after it opened...
- Added: Oct 01, 2019
- Length: 27:05
this is the conclusion of The Scotch Bonnet Republic, Ocracoke Island, and how local fisherman saved their way of life.
- Added: Aug 22, 2019
- Length: 24:42
Ocracoke Island is the Key West of the southeast. And where that notable Key claims the conch as its emblem, this remote island off North Carolina...
- Added: Aug 20, 2019
- Length: 27:26
Youth Conservation Corps Rover Cody Gardner talks about his background in Long Island and urban planning and how it relates to his work in the wild...
- Added: Jul 15, 2019
- Length: 07:47
If "Bring Your Kid To Work Day" was a competition, Jack's father would win.
- Added: Jul 08, 2019
- Length: 02:37
It's hard to come here as an immigrant. You leave everything behind.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 07, 2018
- Length: 04:14
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 07, 2018
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 1
I try to avoid dropping things.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2018
- Length: 04:14
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 01, 2018
- Length: 04:19
- Purchases: 1
I repossess autos, boats, motorcycles, things of that nature. It’s rough. I’m just the messenger.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 16, 2017
- Length: 04:09
- Purchases: 1
Phil Mello has been photographing New Bedford’s working waterfront for over 40 years. He started as an amateur, documenting the inner world of the ...
Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: May 31, 2017
- Length: 04:53
- Purchases: 2
Despite strict rules that you can't illicitly sell things outside of Jazz Fest, there is a whole economy that exists just beyond the festival gates...
- Added: Apr 28, 2017
- Length: 04:40
A quick biopic on the life of Tom Landry with a focus on his finest season.
- Added: Oct 02, 2016
- Length: 04:24
Working on a dairy--especially a small dairy--is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, more dangerous even than construction. Over the pas...
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 20:18
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
When should a judge step aside? As more and more money floods into judicial elections across the nation, states are grappling with this question. P...
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 30:36
This is the story of Springdale, Arkansas, and how chicken transformed a once-sleepy rural town into the most ethnically diverse city in the state—...
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 21:15
- Purchases: 2
On April 20th, 1914, just north of Trinidad, Colorado, one of the bloodiest, most overlooked events in the history of the American labor movement s...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 58:45
Millions of people around the world work in jobs that aren’t formally recognized or afforded legal protections typical of wage earning jobs. On thi...
Bought by KALW, WCPN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
