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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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 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…
10 years, 10 months 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. …
10 years, 10 months ago
22 – War and Separation: Life on the Homefront During World War II
For Memorial Day — a portrait of life on the homefront during World War II featuring 4 women’s stories, rare home recorded letters sent overseas to s…
10 years, 11 months ago
21 – The Secret (and Not So Secret) Life of Theresa Sparks
Theresa Sparks has lived more than one life. Born a guy’s guy, a man’s man, cowboy boots, motorcycles, a stint in the army, married his childhood swe…
10 years, 11 months ago
20 – The Birth of Rice-A-Roni: The San Francisco, Italian, Armenian Treat
The worlds of a young Canadian immigrant, an Italian pasta-making family, and a 70-year-old survivor of the Armenian Genocide converge in this story …
11 years ago
19 – America Eats: A Hidden Archive
Potlucks, church picnics, fish fries, family reunions — during the 1930s writers were paid by the government to chronicle local food, eating customs …
11 years ago