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1930s Florida Folklife Barrett Golding

FLORIDA FOLKLIFE- Web accompaniment to the radio program: ‘Proposed Recording Expedition into the Floridas’ by Zora Neale Hurston &ndash a 1940 proposal to the Library of Congrees that instigated their Florida Folklife collection.

Broadcast: Jan 31 2002 on HV Webwork Subjects: Music, Labor, African American, Historical

Home From Africa 21:07 Jake Warga

Jenifir returns from Benin with all 13 Symptoms of Chronic Peace Corps Withdrawal. A tale of two selves, mixed with dirt, disease, music, and voodoo. (Details and photos at our collaborators: Transom.org.) Edited by Jay Allison.

Broadcast: Jan 1 2002 on PRI/MPR Savvy Traveler Subjects: Travel, Cultural, International, Women

Sarah as a child wearing Indian chief headdress

PRODUCER: Sarah Vowell Sarah Vowell

CONSONANT VOWELLS– A gallery of radio works, essays and books by Violet Incredible.

Broadcast: Jan 1 2002 on HV Webwork Subjects: Literature, Entertainment, Politics, Native

Family Baggage, Lost & Found 20:08 Ben Adair

Sometimes things happen that cut you like a knife. Sometimes, it’s like a long kitchen knife driven straight into your gut. Sometimes the knife is like a surgeon’s scalpel. It opens you up and it hurts like hell, but it cuts out all the bad parts. [transcript]

Broadcast: Dec 1 2001 on PRI/MPR Savvy Traveler Subjects: Family, Travel

Pains & Accuracy 5 10:50 Barrett Golding

War: No Home on the Range, Chief Joseph’s Race Track, Brothers Buddha and Brahma, and 2000 miles thru the Himalayas. [transcript]

Broadcast: Nov 1 2001 on PRI/MPR Savvy TravelerSeries: Lewis & Clark Trail: 200 Years Later Subjects: Native, Historical, Travel, War

Radio Liberacion 24:19 Nancy Updike

A clandestine radio station set up by the CIA set up in the fifties, to overthrow Guatemala’s government. The coup success was in part due to power of radio. Or that’s what the CIA believed. For the first time in the USA, we hear the recently declassified broadcasts.

Broadcast: Nov 1 2001 on PRI/WBEZ This American Life Subjects: Hispanic, Politics, Technology, War

Manitou cave drawings from Clark’s journal

Pains & Accuracy 4 11:10 Barrett Golding

Rendezvous: Biking and mic-ing the Missouri River. Captain Lewis’ Aria, replicas upriver, surveyor-stalking cougars, black powder bursts, cave wall Manitous, and Edens lost.

Broadcast: Oct 6 2001 on PRI/MPR Savvy TravelerSeries: Lewis & Clark Trail: 200 Years Later Subjects: Travel, Historical, Environment

Thunderbolt Mountain Lookout - Boise National Forest in Idaho

Fire Lookouts 11:40 Jeff Rice

A few Forest Service employees still spend their days and nights on top of 8000-foot Rocky Mountain peaks, with a radio, binoculars, and wood stove, looking for lightning strikes and reporting fires. [transcript]

Broadcast: Oct 1 2001 on NPR Living on Earth Subjects: Environment

End of the Road 7:06 Nancy Updike

After 70 years behind the wheel, Esther Gospe gives up driving. Everybody has accidents so just get in the car and drive.

Broadcast: Sep 1 2001 on PRI/MPR Savvy Traveler Subjects: Senior

Ready for War? 21:45 Scott Carrier

"Are you ready to go to war?" Answers by a Wyoming soccer mom, Vietnam vet Green Beret, Lakota warrior, Omish teen, and others met on a trek across America.

Broadcast: Sep 1 2001 on PRI/WBEZ This American Life Subjects: Public Affairs, International, Politics, War