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Teaching Technology: Just Throw Tomatoes
A class at SUNY
Canton gives high school students a chance to grapple with real
engineering problems, but with a seasonal twist. Students have
to design and build a catapult to launch rotten tomatoes the
furthest.
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Shenandoah Shakespeare Express Returns
to Canton
The Shenandoah Shakespeare Express returns to Canton each
year.
They brought their "not your father's Shakespeare" approach
to the Bard
into the NCPR studio October 22, 2001.
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Rock
Climbing in the Adirondacks
People climb looking for adventure and amazing views—and
a deeper connection to the mountains. Brian Mann climbed Hurricane
Crag during the peak of this year's leaf season.
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Discovering Adirondack Old Growth
Forest
The Adirondacks are home to some of the East's largest Old
Growth Forests. Martha Foley talks with a naturalist who spent
part of this summer finding the towering trees.
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Saving New York's Historic Barns
Some of New York's oldest barns are getting facelifts. Todd Moe visited a Canton family's 1820 English threshing barn slated for restoration.
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Relicensing the St. Lawrence-FDR Power Project
The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project was the largest public works project in the world. The power project's 50-year operation license expires in 2003. A three-part series by David Sommerstein.
 Audio Series
North Country Transportation Study
A new study is looking at ways to improve the transportation infrastructure and help northern New York catch up with the rest of the country. It's analyzing all forms of transportation, but the focus is the automobile, the highway, and the Interstate.
Audio Slideshow
Free Trade Protests at the Border (Real)
The Free Trade Area of the Americas pact is drawing protestors to talks in Montreal. Crossing the border proved to be difficult for many.
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Globalization: The Borders of Trade
David
Sommerstein was on the streets of Ottawa to ask demonstrators
how the anti-globalization movement has changed since September
11.
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Riding the Rails
Todd Moe rides the rails—the first passenger train in
40 years traverses the North Country.
Audio Slideshow
Ellen in Canyonland
NCPR Station Manager Ellen says there's nothing
like fear to get her attention as she reports on
what she did on her summer vacation.
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The New Potsdam Co-op Bakery
The Potsdam Food Coop's new wood-fired brick oven is producing
crunchy, chewy sourdough and wholewheat breads. Todd Moe talks
with the Coop's baker, Chris Affrey.
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Rips: A Novel of the St. Lawrence in the 1750s
Rips, by Peter Owens, is a harrowing adventure novel about the traumas, adventures, and
frustrated romances of a St. Lawrence River man and his adopted
family as they fight for survival during the French and Indian War.
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37th Annual Clayton Antique Boat Show
Thousands of people visited Clayton for the 37th annual Antique Boat show and auction—a chance to view St. Lawrence skiffs, launches and runabouts.
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Preserving Adirondack Alpine Meadows
Adirondack Nature Conservancy program volunteers haul rocks up into the High Peaks to protect fragile ecosystem from erosion.
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Fort Ticonderoga's Grand Encampment
Fort Ticonderoga, a bottleneck of history—a visit to the annual "grand encampment" where stories of the French and Indian War and the Revolution come to life amid the sounds of fifes, drums and cannon fire.
Audio Slideshow
A Barn-Raising in Upper Jay (Real 6:23)
These days, most new barns are built quickly with steel frames and sheet-metal siding. But some landowners are taking a little more time, using methods and materials passed down over hundreds of years.
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Five Ponds Wilderness: Oswegatchie Postcard
One of the classic Adirondack canoe routes begins near Tupper Lake and winds through the Five Ponds Wilderness toward Cranberry Lake through some of the most remote forests and rivers in the East. Brian Mann and David Sommerstein, made the trip.
Audio Series
America’s Largest Superfund Site, the Hudson River
A special, three-part series on the Hudson River. The EPA has a plan for cleaning up toxic PCBs, dumped decades ago by General Electric. The corporation and many locals say the river is cleaning itself. We'll tell you about the public controversy, the health risks, and the impact of PCBs on the wildlife along the Hudson.
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