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107 - William Ferris—Keeper of Southern Folklife
Folklorist and Professor Bill Ferris, a Grammy nominee this year for his "Voices of Mississippi" 3 CD Box set, has committed his life to documenting …
7 years, 3 months ago
106 - 21 Collections—Every Object has a Story
Paper airplanes, photographs of men in rows, birds nests, gay bar matchbooks, dolls hats —an untraditional take on what warrants our attention. As p…
7 years, 4 months ago
Bonus Episode - The Free-Range Archivist: Jason Scott
We've got something extra for you today as part of the Radiotopia fundraiser that is happening now. You can join the Radiotopia community and support…
7 years, 4 months ago
105 - The Keepers: The Unrelenting Oral Histories of Eddie McCoy
After a devastating car accident that made his work as a janitor impossible, civil rights activist Eddie McCoy, picked up a scavenged tape recorder a…
7 years, 5 months ago
104 - The Keepers: Emily Dickinson's Hidden Kitchen
Deep in the hidden archives of Harvard’s Houghton Library are the butter stained recipes of Emily Dickinson. Who knew? Emily Dickinson was better kn…
7 years, 5 months ago
103 - The Keepers: The Lenny Bruce Collection
One of the most controversial, outspoken men of the last century, comedian Lenny Bruce spent much of his life in court defending his freedom of speec…
7 years, 6 months ago
102 - Archive Fever: Henri Langlois and the Cinémathèque Française
Keepers: people possessed with a passion for preservation, individuals afflicted with a bad case of Archive Fever. The Keepers continues with the sto…
7 years, 6 months ago
The Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky—The Keepers
Episode 101
During the Depression, those horrible years after 1929, the Appalachians were hit hard. Coal mines were being shut down. Many people were living in d…
7 years, 7 months ago
100 - The Keepers: Archiving the Underground—The Hip Hop Archive
This is the first episode in our new series THE KEEPERS—stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians—Keepers…
7 years, 7 months ago
99 - Lovers of Lost Fans
In 2000 we received a call to the NPR Lost & Found Sound Hotline from Willard Mayes, a member of the Antique Fan Collectors Association, who was conc…
7 years, 8 months ago