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Audio SeriesStoryCorps in the North Country: North Country residents have shared their stories with this national oral history project during visits to the region in 2006 and in 2008.
Audio SeriesLooking 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.
No Bigger Than a Piano Box: a North Country Schoolhouse in 1893
By historian Betsy Kepes. Based on the 1893 diary of a North Country schoolteacher. A Women's History Month special. Teacher's guide and CD available.
Audio Slideshow:Finding the North Country
A new exhibit at TAUNY (Traditional Arts in Upstate New York) tells the story of North Country life with pictures. Finding the North Country: Stories of Local Life Through Photographs revisits the theme of North Country identity explored in the 2000 radio collaboration "Looking for the North Country." The photographs will remain on display through November 25, 2006.
Multimedia SeriesMeet the Masters of North Country Folklife
Profiling people who have mastered and conserved a variety of family and community traditions over several generations in the North Country and who actively practice them today. Together, they exemplify a living history of our North Country and a way of life otherwise often difficult to explain. An ongoing project of Traditional Arts in Upstate New York (TAUNY).
Audio SeriesLiving North Country: Essays on Life and Landscapes in Northern New York, edited by Neal Burdick and Natalia Singer at St. Lawrence University, recently became available in bookstores. We invited several of the contributing authors into the NCPR studio to record excerpts in their own voices.
Writing ContestThe Writing Contest for Young and Adult Writers
The Adirondack Center for Writing and North Country Public Radio offer a literature award to regional writers. The Writing Contest is held biennially. We will offer prizes in two genres per session; this year (2005-2006) the genres are nature writing and memoir.
Audio NovelEben Holden: A Tale of the North Country
This three-hour NCPR production of Irving Bacheller's timeless tale of the North Country, the 1900 bestseller Eben Holden, features many local voices and talents.
The 8 O'clock hour, 9/27/12
Sep 27, 2012 — A veteran ABC-TV journalist urges a new take on climate change--starting with depoliticizing it. Gov. Cuomo offers an endorsement to a GOP Senator who lost his primary after voting yes on same-sex marriage. Comptroller DiNapoli offers an "early warning" system for troubled municipalities.
The Trudeau Institute partners with a Chinese hospital on Tuberculosis research. On Natural Selections, ancient water. Farms and other ag businesses open their doors to the public. And Heard Up North: Saturday night piano. Go to full article
The Trudeau Institute partners with a Chinese hospital on Tuberculosis research. On Natural Selections, ancient water. Farms and other ag businesses open their doors to the public. And Heard Up North: Saturday night piano. Go to full article
Heard Up North: Looking for the heart of Saturday night
Canton, NY, Sep 27, 2012 — The student center at St. Lawrence University has a vaulted wooden ceiling and a wide column of open space down the middle, giving it the feel of an Adirondack concert hall.
Late on Saturday night, the bottom floor is noisy with groups of friends getting pizza or playing pool; the ground floor is dotted with pairs of students leaning into each other; and on the top floor, a few lone students are scattered in giant armchairs silently studying or texting. And on some Saturday nights, one young man comes up to the top floor and plays the piano. Go to full article
Late on Saturday night, the bottom floor is noisy with groups of friends getting pizza or playing pool; the ground floor is dotted with pairs of students leaning into each other; and on the top floor, a few lone students are scattered in giant armchairs silently studying or texting. And on some Saturday nights, one young man comes up to the top floor and plays the piano. Go to full article
The 8 O'clock Hour 9/19/12
Sep 19, 2012 — Matt Doheny, the Republican candidate in the NY-21 House race, has yet to weigh in on the Medicare debate. Green Groups say Cuomo may have meddled in the permit process for the Adirondack Club and Resort project. Sarah Harris does a ride-along on a boat treating the Lake Champlain basin with a pesticide to control the sea lamprey.
The Star Lake schoolhouse gets a facelift and a new life as an exhibit center. Plus a look ahead to the Wild & Scenic Film Festival this weekend in Lake Placid, and a Heard Up North with a carver of memorial stones. Go to full article
The Star Lake schoolhouse gets a facelift and a new life as an exhibit center. Plus a look ahead to the Wild & Scenic Film Festival this weekend in Lake Placid, and a Heard Up North with a carver of memorial stones. Go to full article
Heard Up North: Etching memorials at Seniorama
Massena, NY, Sep 19, 2012 — You might think that selling custom made gravestones would be a little uncomfortable at a gathering of senior citizens. But that's exactly what one man was doing at the... Go to full article
The 8 O'clock Hour, 9/18/12
Sep 18, 2012 — New York state to shape the public use of new Adirondack Park lands. An Adirondack tourist train wins support from the North Country's Regional Economic Development... Go to full article
Heard Up North: more than a toy railroad
Star Lake, NY, Sep 18, 2012 — The logging railroads are gone and most of the sawmills in the northwestern Adirondacks have closed over the last century. But a group of model railroad buffs in Star Lake... Go to full article
8 O'clock Hour, 8/20/12
Aug 20, 2012 — In Potsdam, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announces new Federal "innovation bank" legislation intended to fund tech research and create jobs. In Lake Placid, police believe Seth... Go to full article
Heard Up North: Sisters of Perpetual Needling
Ogdensburg, NY, Jul 27, 2012 — Historical re-enactors are serious about battle strategies, muskets and cannons. And for many, it's all about period clothing. Todd Moe toured Lighthouse Point in Ogdensburg... Go to full article
Heard Up North: An afternoon at the horse barn
Canton, NY, Jul 05, 2012 — Horseback riding was once our main form of transportation, but today the people who ride do it because they love the animal and the sport. We spoke with local equestrian... Go to full article
Heard Up North: Pre-K dreams
Potsdam, NY, Jun 22, 2012 — What did you want to be when you grew up? Imagine sitting down with your four-year-old self today and telling him or her about your future. Would that child be surprised?... Go to full article
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