Podcast Episodes

Maine’s Burning Blueberry Fields (Classic)

Travel to Penobscot, Maine, where one farmer maintains the tradition of burning his crop each year to rejuvenate it the next.

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4 months, 1 week ago

Maine Week: All Lighthouses Have Ghosts (Classic)

Over the course of its 200 year history, the lighthouse on Wood Island in Maine has been home to a celebrity dog, a grisly murder, some mischievous g…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Maine Week: Chef Jason and The Well

A couple decades ago, Jason Williams was working at a local restaurant in Portland, Maine. One day he was driving around to farmers markets looking f…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Maine Week: Hanako Nakazato’s Pottery Studio

Since settling down in the small town of Union, Maine, the Japanese-born ceramicist Hanako Nakazato has shaped her pieces around her endlessly surpri…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Maine Week: Captain Becky’s Wind-Powered Boat

We meet Becky Sigwright, who captains a wind-powered boat that’s been sailing around Maine since before the invention of the telephone. 

It's Maine We…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

We want to hear your travel resolutions!

We're working on a listener-powered episode about travel resolutions and we want to hear yours!

What are you hoping to change about the way you travel…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

12 Days of Wonder: World's Quietest Room

Experience the Orfield Anechoic Chamber: a room inside a concrete bunker that was once known as the quietest place on earth.

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

12 Days of Wonder: The Unclaimed Baggage Center

The Unclaimed Baggage Center in Alabama bills itself as “the nation’s only retailer of lost luggage.” If you’ve ever lost a bag during air travel, it…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

12 Days of Wonder: Puffin Patrol

We go to the Westman Islands off the southern coast of Iceland and meet the heroes who save young birds that have wandered from their nests every sum…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

12 Days of Wonder: Slowjamistan

We get out our passports and visit The Republic of Slowjamastan, a nation built on good vibes, good music and a dream of eliminating one very popular…

4 months, 3 weeks ago