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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


  • Added: Jan 20, 2012
  • Length: 00:13:45
  • Purchases: 1
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


  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 00:02:24
  • Purchases: 2
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


  • Added: Jun 13, 2011
  • Length: 00:06:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Two hospice workers invite us into the world of death and dying.

Bought by WMPG, KUOW, and KFAI


  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 00:11:36
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Jonathan Cooper
Jonathan Cooper - Violinmaker and fiddle player (Portland, ME)

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 30, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:54
  • Purchases: 1
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A Sculptor's Meditation in Granite

Bought by KLCC, WMPG, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:08
  • Purchases: 3
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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


  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 00:06:15
  • Purchases: 2
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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


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 00:07:44
  • Purchases: 3
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A story about a family...and pretzels.

Bought by WMPG, Public Radio Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 11, 2011
  • Length: 00:06:28
  • Purchases: 3
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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


  • Added: Jan 11, 2011
  • Length: 00:08:26
  • Purchases: 3
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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


  • Added: Jan 11, 2011
  • Length: 00:08:27
  • Purchases: 2
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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


  • Added: Jan 10, 2011
  • Length: 00:06:03
  • Purchases: 3
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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


  • Added: Jan 10, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:59
  • Purchases: 2
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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


  • Added: Jan 10, 2011
  • Length: 00:07:07
  • Purchases: 3
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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


  • Added: Jan 05, 2011
  • Length: 00:06:29
  • Purchases: 1
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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


  • Added: Jan 05, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:47
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Iris and her dad, Robert
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


  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 00:04:17
  • Purchases: 6
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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


  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 00:05:51
  • Purchases: 1
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This is a story about finding forgiveness and acceptance in a small town.

Bought by The Story, KUOW, and WMPG


  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 00:11:29
  • Purchases: 3
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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


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 00:06:29
  • Purchases: 1
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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


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 00:06:45
  • Purchases: 2
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The limerick is a form of poetry that is short, rhyming and often of a sexual nature.

Bought by SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 00:06:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Tracy Tingley is a hula hooper in Portland, Maine. She found hooping just before leaving her job as a financial advisor.

Bought by KUT, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WMPG


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 00:05:36
  • Purchases: 3
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John Yanga is a refugee from Sudan. He's trying to start a family farm in Maine, where he and his family of nine settled.

  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 00:06:58
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George McKay had the fantastic dream to build a tall ship that’s wheel chair accessible.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 00:07:23
  • Purchases: 1