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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: Finally, Snow!
Feb 06, 2006 — Ted Tate measured 19 1/2 inches off his back porch in Star Lake... Go to full article
Heard up North: Alternative Crops
Feb 03, 2006 — February is the month where a lot of farmers leave their land. They go to conferences and workshops. Get certifications they need and make plans for the upcoming season.
The annual New York State Farmer's Direct Marketing Conference is this weekend. The theme is 'profiting from local farm products.'
Chip Axe is attending. He teaches Environmental Technology courses at St Lawrence County BOCES. Go to full article
The annual New York State Farmer's Direct Marketing Conference is this weekend. The theme is 'profiting from local farm products.'
Chip Axe is attending. He teaches Environmental Technology courses at St Lawrence County BOCES. Go to full article
Heard up North: Maple Season Early this Year
Feb 02, 2006 — The syrup season is arriving early this year. Some small maple producers in Vermont are already tapping trees 6 weeks ahead of schedule. But 70 year old Earl Parker, of West Chazy, says its still a little too soon. Go to full article
Heard up North: A Photographer Gets Ready for the Olympics
Feb 02, 2006 — The Winter Olympics open next week in Turin, Italy. More than a dozen north country athletes will be competing in everything from men's hockey to biathlon.
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Heard up North: New Consolidated Catholic School in Plattsburgh
Feb 01, 2006 — It's catholic school week across the nation. Plattsburgh's St. John's Academy is celebrating with movie night, pajama parties, and of course, bingo... But there's a note of... Go to full article
Heard up North: North Country Rivals Face Off in Potsdam
Jan 26, 2006 — One of the great rivalries of college hockey continues tomorrow night when St. Lawrence skaters travel 10 miles further north to Clarkson University in Potsdam. St. Lawrence... Go to full article
Heard Up North: A Young Man Takes The TB Cure In Saranac Lake
Jan 24, 2006 — Saranac Lake was famous fifty years ago as a cure-center for people suffering from tuberculosis. Calvin Beale is a researcher with the US Department of Agriculture in... Go to full article
All Before Five 1/24/06
Jan 24, 2006 — Flu season has arrived in St. Lawrence County according to county health official Becky Trejos. The suspension of Olympic skeleton coach Tim Nardiello has been lifted, and... Go to full article
Heard Up North: David Brown does Ode to Joy
Jan 23, 2006 — David Brown of Potsdam believes the world would be a better place--if everyone played the washtub bass. Go to full article
All Before Five: 1/23/06
Jan 23, 2006 — David Sommerstein begins a new series--A Year on the Farm--at the Andrews' dairy farm outside Gouverneur. Karen Dewitt helps decode the mysteries of Gov. Pataki's last New... Go to full article
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