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Acoustic Stories: Robert Jevne - "Winter Projects"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Robert Jevne offers up his version of "Winter Projects." Jevne brings a bit of a different perspective to winter tasks with his insight into dams a...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 01:56
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing - "Winter Projects"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing, like Aaron Brown, looks at his seasonal tasks this winter and why those tasks should be avoided at all costs. Downing specifically a...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:52
Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown - "Winter Projects"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Acoustic Stories
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In his essay, "Winter Projects," Aaron Brown lightheartedly looks back at his past tasks for winter. He also discusses the preparations, obstacles,...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:41
StoryCorps: Boyd Applegate and Rhonda Dixon 2
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Big-rig driver Boyd Applegate tells his sister, Rhonda Dixon, about being a real-beard Santa Claus.

  • Added: Dec 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:17
Let's Count Our Blessings On Labor Day
From: Dick Meister
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We owe much to organized labor.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 06:10
Thanksgiving 2011: Hard times, free turkeys, many thanks
From: Tinker Ready
Caption: East End House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Credit: Tinker Ready
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, voices from the local turkey giveaway

  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 02:50
Labor Day 2010 - The Labor of Movies 10-35
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: The Score with Edmund Stone
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This week on The Score – The Labor of Movies – Music from films about working men and women.

Bought by KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Aug 31, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Audio Revolution "Consumerism" segment
From: Youth Media Project
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Youth Media Project's Audio Revolution tackles conspicuous consumerism with local organizations, as well as Taoist approach to dealing with holiday...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, KMUN, KPVL, KDUR, and KUT


  • Added: Apr 24, 2010
  • Length: 28:06
  • Purchases: 5
BackStory - American Idle: A History of Leisure
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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The history of time-off. Tom Lutz provides a cultural history of slacking. and Cindy Aron reveals the beginnings of the modern American vacation.

Bought by KREV-LP, WCQS, WRPI, KSJD, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
LABOR DAY: SAFETY FIRST
From: Dick Meister
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Unions are marking Labor Day with high hopes that the Obama administration will move to finally lessen the severe on-the-job hazards facing U.S. wo...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2009
  • Length: 04:20
"The Joe & Lorie Healthy Living Special" hour 2
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Documentaries
Caption: Joe Bevilacqua at home, camp Waterlogg, Napanoch, NY, Credit: Eddie Adams Workshop
Second of two hours about small business owners promoting healthy lifestyles.

Bought by KUT-HD


  • Added: Aug 19, 2008
  • Length: 01:00:18
  • Purchases: 1
Not My Job: Tales From the "Degreasing Room."
From: Chelsea Merz
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Matthew Works has been living on the streets for ten years. Here he remembers one of his last paying jobs, assembling Braille typewriters, which th...

Bought by WLPR, KUT, KUOW, WAMC, WCAI / WNAN and more


  • Added: Aug 30, 2007
  • Length: 08:42
  • Purchases: 6
"The Joe & Lorie Healthy Living Special" (hour 1)
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Documentaries
Caption: Husband wife Joe Bevilacqua & Lorie Kellogg explore healthy living in the Catskills., Credit: The Kingston Freeman
First of two hours about small business owners promoting healthy lifestyles.

Bought by KUT-HD, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM/FM-WLHV FM, and Public Interactive


  • Added: Aug 25, 2007
  • Length: 01:00:09
  • Purchases: 3
Labor Day: It Began in San Francisco
From: Dick Meister
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Despite what the official histories say, Labor Day actually was first observed in San Francisco.

Bought by KBUT


  • Added: Aug 17, 2005
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
Commentary: Labor's Day -- and Yours
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary on how working life would be much harder and far less rewarding were it not for organized labor.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Delta College Public Radio, KBUT, Prairie Public, KUSP and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2005
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 7