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#1 - Four Feet Under

Series: HowSound
From HowSound

Caption: Eugene Rand and Bill True dig it right -- four feet deep, corners squared., Credit: Clay Bolton, 2011.

Here it is, the first HowSound, the backstory to great radio storytelling. And, we kick things off in a graveyard — hopefully, that’s not foreshado...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio

In Maine, Southern Sudanese Celebrate Independence

From Alyce Ornella

Caption: Veterans of the Second Sudanese Civil War stand under the new flag of South Sudan., Credit: Alyce Ornella

Portland, Maine is home to one of the largest Southern Sudanese refugee communities in the United States, many of whom settled in the city after fl...

Bought by WMPG and New Hampshire Public Radio

The Passionate Pizza Man

From Jill Strauss

Caption: Stephen Lanzalotta, Credit: Jill Strauss

Stephen Lanzalotta is an artisan bread baker in Portland, Maine. Lanzalotta discusses his passion for his craft and his philosophy of life while he...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh

Bury Me Deep

From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Two hospice workers invite us into the world of death and dying.

Bought by WMPG, KUOW, and KFAI

Jonathan Cooper -- Violinmaker (Portland, ME)

From Scott Bliss (wsblissjr)

Jonathan Cooper - Violinmaker and fiddle player (Portland, ME)

Bought by Public Radio Remix

Stone Carver

From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

A Sculptor's Meditation in Granite

Bought by KLCC, WMPG, and Public Radio Remix

Transport: A Canine Journey

From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Dog overpopulation is a continual problem in much of the American South, where shelters often euthanize more animals than they can save. This is th...

Bought by WMPG and KUOW

Only For My King

From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Benuel Esch grew up Amish in Lancaster Pennsylvania, but twenty years ago he started asking questions. Though he left to explore other paths, he fi...

Bought by WMPG, KUT, and KUOW

Twister and Son

From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

A story about a family...and pretzels.

Bought by WMPG, Public Radio Remix, and KUOW

A Drum Is Always With Me

From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

In Portland, a small community exists around the public performance of Middle Eastern music and dance. Portland is also home to an Iraqi community ...

Bought by WMPG, KUOW, and Public Radio Remix

Maine's Survivor Bob

From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Bob Crowley calls himself a typical Mainer, but there’s nothing typical about becoming a reality TV star at age 57.

Bought by WMPG and Public Radio Remix

Revelations In the Mudflats

From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Coastal Studies for Girls is a hands-on marine science and leadership program for sophomores in high school. But for 15-year-old Laura, it’s more ...

Bought by WMPG, KUOW, and Public Radio Remix

Mark Our Vessel

From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

The art of tattooing was not fully legalized in all fifty states until the second half of the twentieth century. One of the last states was Maine. ...

Bought by WMPG and Public Radio Remix

I Just Am

From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Musicians often have trademarks. Elvis had a snarl, Michael Jackson had a glove, and Bret Michaels has bandanas. For Dan Knudsen, it’s a fanny pack...

Bought by KUOW, KUT, and Public Radio Remix

A Taste of PIE

From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Major cities like Boston and New York are known for their theater, comedy and improv troupes. But further north, Maine also has a thriving improv ...

Bought by WMPG

Food on the Table

From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

In today’s economy, you don’t hear too many success stories – let alone an unlikely one. Guy and Stella Hernandez went from designing buildings to ...

Bought by WMPG, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC

Homelessness: It Could Happen to Anyone, Even My Dad

From Blunt Youth Radio Project

When Blunt member Iris SanGiovanni was eight years old, her dad became homeless for six months after her parents divorced. A few years later, she h...

Bought by WMPG, Public Radio Remix, WMNF, KUOW, WMPG and more

A Reason for the Purpose

From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Maybe you know where your food comes from. But have you seen and heard about farming through a 13-year-old boy’s eyes? Colby Perron shares his thou...

Bought by WMPG

Talk of the Town

From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

This is a story about finding forgiveness and acceptance in a small town.

Bought by The Story, KUOW, and WMPG

A World of Their Own

From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

For two years, Karen Hawkins spent twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week with a Capuchan monkey named Mookie - until a routine trip to the gro...

Bought by WMPG

The Maine Event

From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Several times a month, art dealer Rob Elowitch becomes Robbie Ellis, "America's Sexiest Sexagenarian Superstud," a legend in Maine's independent wr...

Bought by WMPG and KFAI