Noel Black
- Username: darksandal
- PRX Member
- Role: Producer/Reporter: Station-Based
Recent Pieces from Noel Black
Episode 16: Liberty's Pitchman - Robert LeFevre & The Freedom School
(59:02)
From: KRCC-FM
In the mid-20th Century, a man named Robert LeFevre (pronounced Luh-FAVE) created a small mountain academy just north of Colorado Springs called The Freedom School. The ...
Episode 15: Acre for Acre - The Fight For Strawberry Field
(58:58)
From: KRCC-FM
On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we take a close look at all sides of a controversial land deal and that bitterly divided the Colorado Springs conservation community. ...
Episode 14: Shorty - The Life and Disappearance of Mike "The Bike" Rust
(58:09)
From: KRCC-FM
On this special episode of Wish We Were Here: Tales and Investigations from the Shadows of America's Mountain, we worked with Nathan Ward at Grit and Thistle Film Company to ...
Episode 13: The Girl Who Dug Up Dinosaurs
(58:59)
From: KRCC-FM
A 12-year-old girl in blue jeans probably isn’t the first thing you picture when you hear the word paleontologist. But in 1979, young India Wood discovered a bone on a ranch ...
Episode 12: Avalanche on Pikes Peak
(01:01:02)
From: KRCC-FM
Most people think of Pikes Peak as a tourist destination – the Fourteener with a highway and a donut shop on top. But for many local mountaineers, climbers and skiers, Pikes ...
Episode 8: CSPD Black -- The True Story of Colorado Springs' First African American Detective
(45:08)
From: KRCC-FM
On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you the story of Ron Stallworth. In the 1970s, he became the first black detective ever to serve in the Colorado Springs Police ...
Episode 11: Dragonman - Behind the Guns
(58:13)
From: KRCC-FM
With a national debate raging about the 2nd Amendment, we went to meet a man who epitomizes the right to bear arms: Dragonman. Born Mel Bernstein in Brooklyn, NY in 1945, ...
Episode 9: Three Degrees of Lorne Greene
(39:29)
From: KRCC-FM
On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you three stories from three current or former Colorado springs residents, completely unknown to one another. All three of ...
Episode 7: Bishop Castle
(59:08)
From: KRCC-FM
In this episode of Wish We Were Here, we tell the remarkable story of Bishop Castle--an incredible piece of folk architecture that is likely one of the largest one-man ...
