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32 – WHER: 1000 Beautiful Watts—The First All Girl Radio Station in the Nation—Part 1
When Sam Phillips sold Elvis’ contract in 1955 he used the money to start an all girl radio station in Memphis, TN. Set in a pink, plush studio in th…
10 years, 8 months ago
31 – Waiting for Joe DiMaggio
April 1993: A small village in Sicily prepares for the first visit of 78-year-old baseball legend Joe DiMaggio to the town where his parents were bor…
10 years, 9 months ago
30 – The Building Stewardesses: Construction Guides at the World Trade Center
As construction commenced in 1968 on the largest building project since the pyramids, questions and controversies swirled around Lower Manhattan. How…
10 years, 9 months ago
29 – King’s Candy: A New Orleans Prison Kitchen Vision
Robert King Wilkerson was imprisoned at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana for 31 years. Twenty-nine of those years he was in solitary…
10 years, 10 months ago
28 – Wall Street: San Quentin’s Stock Market Wizard
Everyone in San Quentin calls him Wall Street. Curtis Carroll aka Wall Street teaches his fellow prisoners about stocks. Through friends and family o…
10 years, 10 months ago
27 – Braveheart Women’s Society: Coming of Age in South Dakota
The Braveheart Women’s Society, a group of Yankton Sioux grandmothers and tribal elders, have re-established an almost forgotten coming of age ritual…
10 years, 10 months ago
26 – Horses, Unicorns & Dolphins
Horses and dolphins and unicorns—creatures that possess the imagination of so many young girls—borderland creatures—gateway animals to other worlds. …
10 years, 11 months ago
25 – Hidden Kitchens Texas with host Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson and Dallas-born actress Robin Wright, along with some wild and extraordinary tellers, take us across Texas and share some of their hidd…
10 years, 11 months ago
24 – Route 66: The Mother Road, Part 2
John Steinbeck called it the “Mother Road.” Songwriter Bobby Troup described it as the route to get your kicks on. And Mickey Mantle said, “If it had…
11 years ago
23 – Route 66: The Mother Road, Part I
The birth of the Main Street of America—songwriter Bobby Troup tells the story of his 1946 hit Get Your Kicks on Route 66; Gladys Cutberth, aka Mrs. …
11 years ago