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82 - First Day of School—1960, New Orleans
November 14, 1960 — Four six-year-old girls, flanked by Federal Marshals, walked through screaming crowds and policemen on horseback as they approach…
8 years, 7 months ago
Sonic Prayer Flags - New Orleans
A string of sonic prayer flags —voices and sounds from New Orleans and Bayou Road, the oldest street in the city. Local visionaries, neighborhood en…
8 years, 8 months ago
80 – Thad Vogler: A Short History of Spirits
Thad Vogler, creator of San Francisco’s Bar Agricole and Trou Normand, travels the world in search of hand made spirits — rum, scotch, cognac, mescal…
8 years, 8 months ago
79 – Pati’s Mexican Jewish Table
A walk through Oaxaca’s Ethnobotanical Garden with chef and cookbook author Pati Jinich, host of the Emmy and James Beard nominated PBS series Pati’s…
8 years, 9 months ago
78 – The Galveston Hurricane of 1900: No Tongue Can Tell
The Great Galveston Hurricane arrived on a Saturday, September 8, 1900 — almost without warning. Galveston, the grand dame of Texas, a vibrant port c…
8 years, 9 months ago
New Orleans Visions – King’s Candy & Living with Water
Episode 81
Robert King Wilkerson (aka Robert Hillary King) was imprisoned at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana for 31 years. Twenty-nine of thos…
8 years, 10 months ago
Liberace and the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band
Episode 76
In 1967 thirty men left Trinidad with 97 steel drums to represent their country at the World’s Fair in Montreal. None of them had ever been off their…
8 years, 10 months ago
75 – The Making Of a Karaoke Ice Cream Truck and More Stories
Stories of creativity and invention— the making of a jar of jam, the making of a fashionable 3-D printed covering for an artificial limb, the making …
8 years, 11 months ago
74 – What Is It About Men and Meat and Midnight and a Pit?
Barbecue, burgoo, mopping the mutton, the fellowship of stirring. Hidden Kitchens stories of conflict, competition and resolution in the backyards an…
8 years, 11 months ago
73 – Basque Sheepherders Ball
In the 1930s and 40s, hundreds of Basques were brought to the western United States to do the desolate work that no one else would do—herding sheep. …
9 years ago