Oct 02, 2000 — The first in a series of five radio call-in conversations about the place, the people, the history and the local culture we call North Country. The programs are produced in cooeration with TAUNY - Traditional Arts of Upstate New York, and supported in part by the new York State Council on the Humanities. We explore questions about regional identity in the northern section of upstate New York. Tonight's topic - WHERE IS THE NORTH COUNTRY? In the studio are series host, NCPR news director Martha Foley, TAUNY executive director Varick Chittenden, Art Johnson, professor of history at the State University College at Potsdam, Terry DeFranco Martino, executive director of the Adirondack North Country Association, and Tom Van De Water, science teacher at Canton High School.  Go to full article

Oct 01, 2000 — 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. The idea was to use the reach of the radio station, from Canada to Glens Falls and from the St. Lawrence River into Vermont, to see what people who live here have to say about regional identity and the question of place.  Go to full article

Jul 15, 1987 — Martha Foley followed the scent of sweetgrass to find a group of Mohawk women making baskets at the 1987 North Country Folklife Festival in Massena.  Go to full article