Wonderworld, U.S.A.
This story about a day at an amusement park is so creepy and delightful. {listen}
The Sheepherder’s Ball
Basque sheepherders in the American west. Basques were recruited from Spain and France during the 1930s to tend sheep throughout the western states. Within days of arriving in America these…
New Orleans Visions – King’s Candy & Living with Water
Robert King Wilkerson was imprisoned at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola for 31 years, twenty-nine of those years in solitary confinement. During that time he created a clandestine kitchen in…
Catastrophe
n 1993, more than 1,000 levees broke along the Mississippi River, flooding thousands of acres. Most of these cases were accidents due to the river rising well above its usual…
Carry A. Nation
“You wouldn’t give the vote so I had to use a rock” - Carry A. Nation. {listen}
Criminal Podcast: Bears, Birds, and Bones
As long as 2,500 years ago, Native Americans placed the bones of their dead in giant mounds of earth in the shape of animals. The Effigy Mounds National Monument in…
Ways of Hearing – 99% Invisible
about how we record and listen to music can alter our perceptions of time. {listen}
Civil War Widows
A woman who died in 1998 was married to a man who was born a slave and fought in the civil war in the union army. {listen} here is her…