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Special Reports
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.
Heard Up North: Welcoming summer by roasting marshmallows
Canton, NY, Jun 21, 2012 — Camping is one of the pleasures of the warmer months in the North Country. For little people it can mean a lot of firsts: the first time sleeping in a tent, and hanging by a campfire. Julie Grant and her 3-year-old daughter joined their friends Aviva Gold and Steve Dilger and their 3-old daughter for the girls' first experience roasting marshmallows. Go to full article
All Before Five: 6/15/12
Jun 15, 2012 — The family of an Air Force pilot killed 50 years ago visits the site of the crash that killed him and several others. The race for the new 114th Assembly district will be more competitive than anticipated. The Vermont Air National Guard tries to clear up what it says are "inaccuracies and hyperbole" about its plan to fly louder planes over Burlington. The battle over the International Joint Commission's water levels plan continues...with some questioning whether everyone's having the same argument. And Heard Up North: Building a horse jump. Go to full article
Heard Up North: building a horse jump
Canton, NY, Jun 15, 2012 — Peggy McAdam-Cambridge owns a horse farm a few miles outside Canton.
Honey Dew Acres will host whats known as an eventing competition this weekend for local equestrians. One of those events is cross-country jumping. A series of natural-looking obstacles in a field tests the horse's, and rider's, endurance and bravery.
Peggy likes a rustic look for her course. Our intern, Jasmine Wallace, found her in a converted cow barn building a new jump. With a mare and foal watching from one side, and a pile of tools on the other, Peggy made quick work of it. Go to full article
Honey Dew Acres will host whats known as an eventing competition this weekend for local equestrians. One of those events is cross-country jumping. A series of natural-looking obstacles in a field tests the horse's, and rider's, endurance and bravery.
Peggy likes a rustic look for her course. Our intern, Jasmine Wallace, found her in a converted cow barn building a new jump. With a mare and foal watching from one side, and a pile of tools on the other, Peggy made quick work of it. Go to full article
Heard Up North: Undoing what beavers hath wrought
Canton, NY, Jun 07, 2012 — Spring cleanup is a major feature of life in the North Country. After even a light winter like the one we just had, there's a lot of grit, leaves and mud to contend with. For... Go to full article
Earthlings watch the Venus Transit
Canton, NY, Jun 06, 2012 — Yesterday evening Venus made its last journey across the face of the sun, as seen from Earth, until the year 2117. People of all ages covered the southeast corner of the St.... Go to full article
Heard Up North: The Dairy Princess Parade
Canton, NY, Jun 04, 2012 — June is National Dairy Month, and this weekend was the annual Dairy Princess Festival and Parade. Despite the crummy weather, the hundreds of people who came out didn't look... Go to full article
All Before Five: 05/30/12
May 30, 2012 — We'll continue our series on literacy in the North Country with a visit to story time for kids at one of our local libraries. Brian Mann reports from Montreal on the ongoing... Go to full article
Storytime sows seeds for lifelong literacy
May 30, 2012 — This week we're looking at literacy in the North Country. Yesterday, we heard what it's like to live without knowing how to read or write, and the challenges and rewards of... Go to full article
Heard Up North: Nosing around the Canton Farmer's Market
May 23, 2012 — The Canton Farmer's Market opened last week. While most of the vendors rely on their table display to catch the customer's eye, one tent calls on the customer's olfactory... Go to full article
All Before Five: 05/21/12
May 21, 2012 — Potsdam considers the future of village its police department. New Yorkers and Vermonters celebrate the opening of the new Lake Champlain Bridge. And, Heard Up North, singing... Go to full article
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