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Caption: Pina Maisano Grassi is a fabrics store owner and dedicated activist in the fight against the Mafia.  Her husband was murdered in 1991 for refusing to pay the Mafia’s extortion tax., Credit: Nancy Greenleese
An 84-year-old grandmother and business owner is taking on the mob in Sicily. Organized criminals demand that business owners pay protection money...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 04:21
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From early calypso and New Orleans Mardi Gras music to New Orleans neighborhoods to my demise - what Mardi Gras means to me.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:47:46
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Bobby speaks with "Papa" about life and loyalties 60 miles north of New York City, in what some have labeled the “armpit of Connecticut”. A place t...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2013
  • Length: 01:25:02
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Edith Green tells her granddaughter, Chaya, about being a survivor of gun violence.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:59
Caption: Great Grandma Bea with Henry and Juliet, Credit: Jeff Slater
We recently celebrated my grandmother's 85th birthday. Her reflections here.

  • Added: Jul 16, 2012
  • Length: :54
Caption: Harrison Wright (R) with his grandson, Sean Guess (L)
Harrison Wright tells his grandson, Sean Guess, about serving in the Army at the end of World War II.

  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:56
Caption: The producer and her Grandmother, several years ago
Virginia Mae Snyder lived alone in her house in West Virginia until she was 94. She suffered a drastic fall while gardening; a fall which forced he...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 05:55
Caption: Dale Borglum is founder the Living/Dying Project
Dealing with death can be emotionally draining, but one man says we shouldn’t fear the experience. Instead, it should be embraced as a natural part...

Bought by KFAI


  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Radio Curious remembers Richard W. Johnson, Jr., an activist and publisher of four newspapers in Mendocino County, California, under the banner Men...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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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: 06:45
  • Purchases: 2
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Federal stimulus checks are arriving for retired railroad workers, veterans and people on Social Security Disability and SSI. Rogi Riverstone inte...

  • Added: May 08, 2009
  • Length: 04:23
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In the beginning, there was light - but there were also baby chickens.

  • Added: May 21, 2007
  • Length: 02:30
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82-year-old Nate Herschberg sings a Yiddish song that was popular in the 1920s for his nephew.

Bought by KFOK-LP, WMNF, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2005
  • Length: :57
  • Purchases: 3