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021 Tony Schwartz 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Jay Allison, Katie Davis, Kitchen Sisters & Marjorie Van Halteren

Tony Schwartz, media pioneer, audio documentarian, and the most famous radio person you probably never heard of, died June 2008. We hear The Kitchen Sisters' Lost & Found Sound-portrait, "Tony Schwartz, 30,000 Recordings Later," and the Tony Schwartz-inspired verite documentary of the town he lived in and loved, "New York City: 24 Hours in Public Places" (thanks to Transom.org).

Broadcast: Jul 23 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Spoken Word, Youth

020 The Old Country 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Andrei Codrescu & Larry Massett

Three hearts searching for home: Going back to Vietnam makes Nguyen Qui Duc realize "Home is Always Somewhere Else," from Crossing East; host Neenah Ellis goes looking for her family in Croatia, where "The Old Country is Gone." And Andrei Codrescu returns to his Romanian home town and stares into the "Eyes of Sibiu."

Broadcast: Jul 16 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR

019 Life on the Mississippi 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Scott Carrier & Larry Massett

A Tour of the River Towns: Hannibal, Missouri, birthplace of Mark Twain; a day on a tugboat; St. Louis showboats; and changing the course of mighty rivers. A downstream trip through the history and mystery of the Big Muddy, with Larry Massett and Scott Carrier.

Broadcast: Jul 9 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Environment, Literature, Music

018 Stars and Bars 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Ben Adair, Joe Frank, Barrett Golding & Larry Massett

Celebrating America with Flags and Festivals, featuring: Recitations and reflections on "The Pledge" of Allegiance and "War vs. Peace." The annual "Rainbow Family" migration into the Montana forest on July Fourth -- their day of prayer for peace (photos by Chad Harder). A town that covets their title of the "Armpit of America" -- welcome to Battle Mountain, Nevada. Mississippi moonshine, barbecued goat and old-time Fife & Drum at "Otha Turner's Afrosippi Picnic." Stories by Joe Frank, Barrett Golding, host Larry Massett, and Ben Adair.

Broadcast: Jul 2 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Public Affairs, Music, War

Woman with crystal ball and painted face

Rainbow Family 10:42 Barrett Golding

The Gathering of the Tribes: the annual migration of The Rainbow Family of Living Light. Each year, twenty thousand people camp for a week in a the national forest. They come together first week of July; the Fourth of July is their day of prayer, a prayer for peace. Also see: Rainbow Family web presentation, audio collage, and Chad Harder photos. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jun 28 2008 on APM Weekend America; Jul 1 2002 on PRI/MPR Savvy Traveler Subjects: Politics, Cultural, Historical Anniversaries, Environment

Amy Jo: Surrounded by Lights 6:50 Erin Mishkin

A�very busy day with Amy Jo, a single mother of two toddlers. Everyday she strives to fulfill a promise for a better life, made to her daughter two years ago. Produced for SALT.

Broadcast: Jun 27 2008 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Labor, Family

Roy Tea Hastings Road, Utah's West Desert

017 No Place Like Home 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Scott Carrier, Carmen Delzell & Barrett Golding

Scott Carrier has a cultural history of the Great Salt Lake's "West Desert," a land of polygymists, bombing ranges, and toxic waste incinerators. There's chlorine gas in the air, anthrax stored underground, and people who call the place home. Sarah Vowell's childhood move from rural Oklahoma to small-town Montana was, for her, a change from the middle ages to a modern metropolis. And two Stories from the Heart of the Land: NYC native Natalie Edwards hates grass, bugs, dirt, and trees, but attempts a walk thru Brooklyn's Prospect Park; and Carmen Delzell tells why she moved to and has stayed in Mexico.

Broadcast: Jun 25 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Environment, Historical, Family

The Land of 10,000 Homeless: Bill Speaks 2:45 Andrew Turpening

From a music/documentary series by The Voices of the Streets, which gives a voice to individuals living in Minnesota experiencing homelessness. Bill Courtright was interviewed near the Dorothy Day Center, a homeless shelter in St. Paul, MN. Andrew Turpening wrote and produced the music.

Broadcast: Jun 25 2008 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Labor, Health

016 Bugs and Birds 54:00 (((Hearing Voices))), Scott Carrier & Jeff Rice

Jeff Rice of the Western Soundscape Archive hosts an hour of sounds for the start of Summer: an extinct woodpecker revives an Arkansas town, car alarms made from bird calls, breeding moths for their music, a morning walk with poet Jim Harrison, dancing with gnats, the seismic underground sounds of spiders, and the perspective of a pest controller. Stories by Long Haul Productions, M'Iou Zahner Ollswang, host Jeff Rice, and Scott Carrier; and recordings by Nina Katchadourian, Lang Elliot, and Dr. Rex Cocroft. (Produced with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.)

Broadcast: Jun 18 2008 on NPR Hearing VoicesSeries: Hearing Voices from NPR Subjects: Science, Environment

Walking Grand Canyon 4:07 Scott Carrier

Father and son spend a week together traveling and hiking America's Grand Canyon.

Broadcast: Jun 13 2008 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Environment, Family, Sports