 Audio Slideshow
A Fading Tradition: The November Hunt For Whitetail Deer
In the north country, deer hunting is a family tradition. The passion and the skills are passed along through generations, usually from father to
son. But these days, many hunters worry that their tradition is fading.
Audio Slideshow
Napoleon's Brother in the North Country
David Sommerstein visits the historic Benton House in the town of Oxbow in Jefferson County, the former home of Joseph Bonaparte's extramarital daughter.
Audio Slideshow
Clearing Trail
Betsy Kepes spends her summers out of the North Country, working a fire spotter in a tower out west. Recently, her family accompanied her for a summer clearing trail.
Photo/Audio
Essay
Inside Dark Island's Castle
On the St. Lawrence River near Chippewa Bay, a representative
for the buyers of Dark Island and its historic castle gave David
Sommerstein a peek of what visitors could see as early as next summer.
Photo Audio Essay
Summer at the Seagle Music Colony
For 87 years, the Seagle Music Colony in the eastern Adirondacks
has offered talented young singers a secluded summer haven
to polish their skills.
Call-in
Program
Working
on the Railroad
A call-in recollecting the labor and lives of North Country rail
workers. (Real 58:51)
Photo Audio Essay
Vikings at the Museum of Civilization
Todd Moe tours the new Vikings exhibit at the Canadian Museum of
Civilization in Hull, Quebec, and chats with two Norwegian experts on Viking
culture.
UpNorth Forum
Paul Hawken on Natural Capitalism
Author and businessman Paul Hawken envisions a new kind of economy,
one that protects natural resources, creates more jobs, and
gives businesses a competitive advantage.
Photo Audio Essay
10th Mountain Peacekeepers in Kosovo
David Sommerstein spends a week living and patrolling with 10th Mountain Division troops on a peacekeeping mission in the Serbian province of Kosovo.
Photo Audio Essay
Winter Camping in the Adirondack
High Peaks
The Adirondacks' High Peaks can be a hard place to find peace and
quiet during the busy summer months. Many people choose the winter
to get their fix for solitude among New York's tallest mountains.
Winter camping offers unique pleasures and sometimes, unexpected
perils. Brian Mann and David Sommerstein got plenty of both on a
late winter expedition to Lake Colden and Algonquin Peak.
Photo Audio Essay
Literacy and Illiteracy in the North Country
In this special series, North Country Public Radio examines what
literacy is, how it’s achieved, why it isn’t, and the
impact illiteracy has on our region and people.
Photo Audio Essay
Massena
at 200: A Walking Tour
John
Michaud III, a local writer and historian, has published
the first bicentennial history of Massena, called Yesterday
in Massena: A Bicentennial Celebration 1802-2002. He and
David Sommerstein took a walk down Massena’s
Main Street to see how the town has changed.
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Photo Audio Essay
Protecting the Tug Hill Plateau: Fish Creek
Last summer, New York State, the Nature Conservancy, and a Boston-based timber company announced a plan to preserve 45,000 acres of forest on the Tug Hill Plateau. David Sommerstein visited the “East Branch of Fish Creek Working Forest” to see how the plan is shaping up.
Photo Audio Slideshow
Gary Randorf: Wild Adirondack Photography
Gary Randorf is one of the region's veteran photographers. His new book is called The Adirondacks: Wild Island of Hope. Brian Mann talked with him on a shoot in the Dix Mountain Wilderness.
Photo Audio Essay
Dairy Farming in the North Country
The time seemed right to look at the challenges facing dairy in the North Country. In part 1 we look at the price of milk, as seen through the eyes of one mid-size dairy farmer. In part 2 we visit a cheese manufacturer proposing drastic changes in the way North Country farmers do business. David Sommerstein reports.
Photo
'Blog
Anna Benvenuto in Naru,
Japan
The online journal of Anna Benvenuto, a recent college graduate
from Potsdam, NY, teaching for a year in a small secondary school
on the island of Naru in the Gotos chain of southern Japan.
Photo Audio Essay
President
Bush Visits Fort Drum
President
Bush pumped up military personnel at Fort Drum near Watertown
Friday, July 19, 2002. He toured the base and reviewed military
maneuvers by the 10th Mountain Division troops.
Photo Audio Essay
Restoring the Common Tern
Once plentiful along the St. Lawrence, the common tern is now
threatened. David Sommerstein joins volunteers creating artificial
nesting habitat using Seaway navigational markers.
Photo 'Blog
Our Man in Cannes
The online road journal of Alexei Boulokhov, a St. Lawrence University
student interning at the Cannes Film Festival and travelling through
Europe this summer.
Audio
Slideshow
A Journey to Alaska's
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
In the US Senate debate over the country's energy plan, New York's
senators oppose plans to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge. Brian Mann spent a month in the Alaskan wilderness
to research this half-hour documentary report.
Photo Audio Essay
Red Grandy, Cold War Photographer
As a still photographer with Stars and Stripes, the daily newspaper for military personnel abroad, "Red" Grandy's subjects ranged from Khruschev to French orphans, from bullfights to unexploded napalm bombs, from presidents to starlets to Muhammed Ali.
Photo Audio Essay
Snow Art in St. Regis Falls
A team from Dickinson Center won the 2002 New York State Snow Sculpting
Competition in St. Regis Falls yesterday. Jody Tosti, an NCPR Team
sculptor, spoke with some of her rivals.
Audio Series
Looking for the North Country
NCPR and TAUNY, Traditional Arts of Upstate New York, spent October 2000 exploring the place, the people and the culture we call the North Country.
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