PRX - Pieces for Tagging: small town
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Frank Capra’s parable about goodness versus the tyranny of profit bombed on its original release, but then gradually gained classic status with lat...
- Added: Jan 25, 2023
- Length: 03:33
Stewart, Minnesota, used to be a bustling farm and railroad town. In recent decades, stores have been shuttered and young people have left. But not...
- Added: Jan 02, 2019
- Length: 04:42
Humankind has for centuries been connected to the cycles of the year for sustenance from land and sea. We have built our communities and our spirit...
- Added: May 29, 2018
- Length: 05:41
As stray cats prowl and dough rises, two sardonic twenty-somethings flirt with dreams of Olympic glory - or maybe just escape from the small town b...
- Added: Feb 28, 2018
- Length: 15:27
- Purchases: 2
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. I have to admit I kind of admire the courage it took for a producer to approve such an awkward title for...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 03:34
The hip hop scene in Ely, Nevada - a rural town on the loneliest road in America.
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 16:17
This piece looks at the stereotypes and realities of the state of Vermont, as told by citizens and outsiders.
- Added: Nov 12, 2015
- Length: 03:25
How a detour, a patch of goathead thorns, and a flat tire changed one guy's life, and brought an economic boost to a sleepy, little town in rural W...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 20:03
- Purchases: 3
Frankie Valenti talks staying creative, learning to be unlikable, and being very tidy.
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 11:25
Wade Gasque and Mark Strano talk trust, polarizing brothers, and male bonding in a cabin.
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 12:57
The Wilton Town Hall Theatre owner, Dennis Markaverich reflects on his job and contemplates the grim future.
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 05:24
- Purchases: 2
20 years ago the working class town of Lubec, ME buried a giant whale. The town is working together once more–this time to dig it up
- Added: Jan 09, 2015
- Length: 05:57
Kim Fu talks about and reads from her debut novel, 'For Today I Am A Boy.'
Bought by WMPG, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and WCWP
- Added: Mar 21, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
In the early 1980s a mysterious creature stalked the woods and beaches of Truro, Massachusetts, a small town on the far end of Cape Cod. This is th...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 04, 2013
- Length: 07:35
- Purchases: 1
A National Book Award finalist, Kent writes about the residents of a small town in fictional Holt County on the plains of eastern Colorado. His new...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 09:59
- Purchases: 1
A small town's shocking scandal becomes national news, but no one is really sure why. The defendant was sentenced May 31, 2013.
- Added: Mar 26, 2013
- Length: 07:35
In 1898, a small group of citizens in Maryland faced a devil of crisis. Indoor plumbing! They quickly banded together and sped to Annapolis and in ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2010
- Length: 06:25
This is a story about finding forgiveness and acceptance in a small town.
Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, PRX Remix, The Story, KUOW, and WMPG
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 11:29
- Purchases: 5