Podcast Episodes

Classic: The 49th Parallel

A listener takes us to a town on the edge of the longest undefended border in the world.

US-Canada border regulations have been updated since this epi…

3 years, 5 months ago

Bloodroot Feminist Restaurant

For more than 40 years Selma Miriam and Noel Furie have maintained the Bloodroot Feminist Vegetarian Restaurant and Bookstore as a place where women …

3 years, 5 months ago

Oyotunji African Village

Oyotunji is an African Village with real homes and real community founded in the 1970s and located in the US - just an hour south of Charleston, Sout…

3 years, 5 months ago

Broken Angel

The 1980s birthed a gleaming creature that spread its wings of scrap wood and glass over the intersection of two iconic Brooklyn, NY neighborhoods fo…

3 years, 5 months ago

Enchanted Hart Haus

Steve and Amy Hartbauer have turned their home in residential Denver, CO into a massive mosaic and decade’s long expression of inner inspiration. 

REA…

3 years, 5 months ago

Classic: Jatinga Bird Deaths

An Indian village is home to one of the world’s oldest and greatest ornithological mysteries.

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3 years, 6 months ago

Libre Intentional Artist Community

Luz Flemming explores the home where he grew up, Libre - one of the longest lasting intentional communities still exists.

3 years, 6 months ago

America’s “Quiet Zone”

Green Bank, West Virginia is free of wifi and cell signals due to the massive telescope nearby that requires radio silence.  

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3 years, 6 months ago

Summer Adventures ‘22

Today, a sampling of listener-submitted stories of summer adventures from the wild, strange and wonderful world in which we live. 

3 years, 6 months ago

Ark Two Shelter

Forty-two school buses have been buried in Horning’s Mills, Ontario - covered in concrete, they’re house up to 500 people in case of nuclear fallout.…

3 years, 6 months ago