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Listening for Thanksgiving Weekend

While the turkey's baking

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Drop-Ins

Thanksgiving in Athens
Amara G. Hark-Weber, 04:11: This is a narrative piece about living in a foreign country during Thanksgiving.
Turkey Hunting Tips
Vermont Folklife Center Media, 02:19: Hunter Barry Forbes uses turkey psychology to lure in the toms. And some great gobbling...
None So Blind: A Thanksgiving Story
03:39, Patrick Klausen/Spokane Public Radio: A plate full of food, the gift of a Thanksgiving meal, connects a lonely old woman and the shy little girl next door.
A Naked Thanksgiving
02:45, Cheryl-Anne Millsap/Spokane Public Radio: Talking turkey about the birds and the bees.
SERIES: StoryCorps (*)
Short drop-ins, StoryCorps: Every day at StoryCorps booths across the country, ordinary people share extraordinary stories with friends and loved ones.
Thanksgiving story (*)
05:50, New California Media: A refugee remembers his first Thanksgiving
A Red State Thanksgiving (*)
03:41, Sarah Dalsimer: A blue state girl at a red state Thanksgiving.
A Cook's Notebook: Deep-Fried Turkey (*)
02:55, Viki Merrick and Steve Young: Deep-frying a turkey for Thanksgiving.
Citizen Celebrations (#119)
02:00, Dean Ritz: National holidays encourage learning and living up to American ideals.
A Cook's Notebook: Turducken: Three Birds - One Stone
02:53, Ali Berlow: A chicken inside of a duck inside of a turkey. Go figure.
All in the Family (*)
04:02, Scott Gurian: A family reunion turns out to be not so bad after all.
My Family, Your Family, Our Family (*)
05:37, Robynn Takayama: My Family, Your Family, Our Family, a new coloring book by Libby Black and Jennifer Lovvorn, features families with parents who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.
Who's Family?: Queerspawn Respond (*)
01:34, Nava EtShalom and Chana Joffe-Walt: Young adults who grew up with queer parents respond to the question, "Who is in your family?"
Finding a Spiritual Home (*)
02:43, Betty Smith: A young family takes stock of their priorities and seeks out a community that will guide and nuture them. The commentator explores what religion means and doesn't mean to him, and why his desire to join a church is so strong.
Let Us Give Thanks
02:03, Bill Palladino: Let Us Give Thanks - Spoken Word Poem read by Claudia Schmidt.

Segment

Turkeys [S.Carrier]
06:10, Scott Carrier: From turkey farm to supermarket, the life and death of a turkey.
Comfort Food
07:49, Adrian Boy?s: In this amusing piece Adrian Boy?s plunges into the mysteries surrounding comfort food.
Buffalo Turkey Butt (*)
07:05, Andy Raskin: Does it exist? Does it matter?
Airline Travel and the Family
08:20, Bill Palladino: First person essay on using air travel to go home for the holidays.
Different Colors, Same Family
06:35, Elizabeth Chur: Three Maine families describe the joys and challenges of transracial adoption in the whitest state in the country.
Once Is Lost
14:10, Carma Jolly: Barbara Harrison puts her rocky relationship with her father aside to help him deal with Alzheimer's.
To Give and To Receive
13:08, Outfront: Amanda Stewart and Jane McLean have lived very different lives: Jane volunteers to raise money for her local food bank and Amanda needs her local food bank to put food on the table for herself and her daughter.
Of A Piece (*)
17:04, Michelle Orange with Jay Allison: A father/daughter meditation on divorce, tradition and jigsaw puzzles.
Coming Home
14:10, Outfront: Jennifer Van Evra and Eric Denison discover together what make a house a home.

Half-hour

Peacekeeping Traditions of the Iroquois Confederacy (Peace Talks Radio Series)
29:00, Good Radio Shows, Inc./ Paul Ingles: Two American Indian scholars discuss the Great Law of Peace, the founding constitution of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy.
Skywalkers of Akwesane(*)
29:00, Helen Borten: How the dangerous skill of high steel became a rite of passage for a Mohawk tribe.
RN Documentary: Pow Wow at Porcupine
29:30, Martha Hawley: Hot summer fun in the US state of South Dakota: The pow wow in the town of Porcupine on Pine Ridge Reservation is alive with jokes, music and dance.
The Maypole at Merrymount
29:00, Helen Borten: A long-forgotten conflict between the Pilgrim Fathers and a freethinking fur trader resonates with today's moral concerns.
The Gathering - A Modern Thanksgiving Story (*)
29:00, Barbara Simmons and Laura Jackson: Reimagining the original Thanksgiving story.
What's the Word? Literary Feasts (*)
29:00, Sally Placksin: In literature, feasts often serve as central events in telling a story.
What's the Word? Cookbooks as Literature (*)
29:00, Sally Placksin: Cookbooks can be more than just a source of recipes.

Hour+ Specials

Breaking Bread Together: The Spirit of Thanksgiving
Riverwalk Jazz/PRI, 59:00: The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and their special guests William Warfield, Sweets Edison and Clark Terry reflect on how spirituals and hymns have inspired them in their music.
The Thanksgiving Hour - with Don Ho
59:00, Stephen Gilbreath: Thanksgiving history, humor and music -- this year from Hawaii with special guest Don Ho.
A MOMbo Thanksgiving
59:00, Nanci Olesen: An audio Thanksgiving feast, featuring history, cooking, and family dynamics.
FM Odyssey's Special Edition For Thanksgiving
118:00, Fred Migliore & Paul Porzio: A soundtrack to the many activities that occur on this holiday. From songs about food, to travel plans/visiting friends and family to remembering the Native American. And of course, Thanksgiving would not be complete without Alice's Restaurant!
Thanksgiving Echoes
119:00, John Diliberto: A harvest of Americana chamber music concerts.
SERIES: RN Focus: Worlds Apart (*)
3 hour-long pieces, Radio Netherlands: Worlds Apart: Indigenous people bridging traditional and modern ways of life. Includes shows on Aboriginal Australians, Inuit, and Oglala Lakota Sioux.
Festivals of Light/Families of Dysfunction
57:17, Barbara Bernstein: Transformational journeys through time, space and memory.
Family (*)
58:59, Ben Manilla: Time to gather the relations for a picnic of coleslaw and unconditional love.
Life Stories - Families: Fathers, Sons & Brothers (*)
Jay Allison, 59:00: Four stories of men and family.

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