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A profile of two master bird banders (and their trainees) who converge every May on the Crown Point State Historic site along the shores of Lake Ch...
Bought by WRPI
- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 26:43
- Purchases: 1
You never know who will pin you at an arm wrestling, or pulling, tournament.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 01, 2013
- Length: 05:16
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jan 29, 2013
- Length: :51
New to California, the narrator experiences his first earthquake drill: online, and at LA's Union Station
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 02:00
The places near water we treasure now were just as special to the people before us. Producers Brian Whittemore and John Sumption take us on a ten-...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Aug 18, 2012
- Length: 01:13:13
- Purchases: 1
The places near water we treasure now were just as special to the people before us. Producers Brian Whittemore and John Sumption take us on a trip...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Aug 18, 2012
- Length: 59:49
- Purchases: 1
The US has the highest per capita incarceration rate of any country. At the Maine State Prison, inmates are being taught skills to care for their ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 07:26
- Purchases: 1
Producer Dave Lathrop documents the "draw band" process at the Cabin Fever Reliever Bluegrass gathering in Duluth. Dave follows one of the draw ban...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 03, 2012
- Length: 58:45
- Purchases: 1
May 2 is the 40th anniversary of the Sunshine Mine disaster in north Idaho. In 1972, a fire underground killed 91 miners at the mine near Kellogg, ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2012
- Length: 05:21
This is an adventure story about how I met a girl who couldn’t laugh, and my quest to get my laugh back, which I lost somewhere under the pile of l...
- Added: Nov 27, 2011
- Length: 21:14
Wade Wipperling tells how a stack of unstable bales of hay fell on his head, breaking his neck.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 02:55
Victor Jensen, tells about finding his dear friend face down in the bedding of a pasture…”the bull had gotten him”.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 02:56
Chris Furrer [FUR] describes a frightening incident rolling over his tractor on their dairy farm.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 02:47
Scott Furrer [FUR], dairy farmer, describes how his son Chris got his hand caught between a flywheel and shield, burning off the top of his fingers.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 01:39
Russell Zacharison tells the story of how he got pinned down by his ATV for eight hours out in his pasture.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 03:14
Ron McHargue [mic-KAR-guh'] describes to son Mike his fall from a ladder on a metal grain tank
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 02:35
Gloria Edwards tells how her child fell into their dairy farm manure pit while playing.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 02:17
Diana Hansen, wheat farmer, recounts losing her arm, relearning to do everything and refusing to be a victim.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 02:01
Brett Schrom [sh'-RAHM], a hay grower/beef producer, describes to his sister Neesha how his harobed threw him off.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 05:26
Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted m...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Portland is Maine’s largest city and busiest hub for travel and immigration. However, in recent years it’s become a haven for a new visitor: the be...
Bought by SALTcast Podcast, WMPG, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jan 06, 2011
- Length: 06:11
- Purchases: 3
Nanne Kennedy left a life of mortgages and the career rat race to pursue something of a higher calling. She believes she has a responsibility to w...
- Added: Jan 05, 2011
- Length: 06:05
- Purchases: 2
There are now over 400 "dead zones" in coastal oceanic waters with varying degrees of oxygen-deprivation.
- Added: Sep 20, 2010
- Length: 02:00
A scientific conference in London, England studied the geologic impacts of climate change by reviewing the records of previous warming periods. It...
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 02:00
For Katie West of Bath, Maine, laughter is not only a way of life but a tool for survival.
Bought by SALTcast Podcast
- Added: Jun 03, 2010
- Length: 05:31
- Purchases: 1
