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Back to SearchMaine 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…
3 months 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…
3 months 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…
3 months 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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3 months 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…
3 months 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…
3 months, 1 week 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…
3 months, 1 week ago
12 Days of Wonder: Chacaltaya
Hear from the caretakers of a ghost town in Bolivia that was once the world's highest ski resort.
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3 months, 1 week ago
12 Days of Wonder: Luciadagen
In honor of Lucia Day on December 13, we’re diving into the origins of a Swedish holiday tradition which evolved from sinister pagan lore to a celebr…
3 months, 1 week ago
12 Days of Wonder: World's Loneliest Tree
About 400 miles south of New Zealand, on the subantarctic Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku, stands a Sitka spruce whose nearest neighbor is 170 miles a…
3 months, 1 week ago