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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.
Bruce Horne. Photo: Caitlyn Loucas
Heard Up North: An Unusual Passage on Horne's Ferry
Wolfe Island, ON, Aug 19, 2011 — Bruce Horne is captain and owner of Horne's Ferry. His family has carried passengers from Cape Vincent, New York across the St. Lawrence River to Wolfe Island, Canda since 1802. Bruce has made hundreds of trips across the St. Lawrence. He told Sarah Harris about a particularly memorable one in today's Heard Up North. Go to full article
Fine days for woodpile work
Nov 11, 2010 — The weather forecast for the next few days looks just about right for catching up on outdoor chores. Clear skies, daytime temperatures up to about 50F. Along with raking and mowing, there could be a woodpile on your list...here's a Heard Up North to set the mood. Go to full article
Meet the Masters: Roger Huntley
Nov 05, 2010 — Roger Huntley died this week at age 82. He was the sixth generation of his family to work their 300-acre dairy farm in the St. Lawrence County Town of Pierrepont. He was a fixture in his local hamlet of Crary Mills: active in the commmunity center located in the old Grange Hall, and as the proprietor, with his wife, Ann, of the Crary Mills "Mighty Mall."
But over the years and throughout the region he was best known as an auctioneer, a trade he took up in the late 1950s. Traditional Arts of Upstate New York named Roger to its honor roll of North Country Masters in 2000.
We profiled him in May of that year, when he was busy conducting the premier old-time sales of the northern Adirondack foothills and St. Lawrence Valley. Here's that profile, produced by Joel Hurd. Go to full article
But over the years and throughout the region he was best known as an auctioneer, a trade he took up in the late 1950s. Traditional Arts of Upstate New York named Roger to its honor roll of North Country Masters in 2000.
We profiled him in May of that year, when he was busy conducting the premier old-time sales of the northern Adirondack foothills and St. Lawrence Valley. Here's that profile, produced by Joel Hurd. Go to full article
Remembering Roger Huntley
Nov 04, 2010 — Well-know auctioneer Roger Huntley died yesterday. He was 82 and had been in failing health. Huntley was the sixth generation of his family to operate their 300-acre dairy... Go to full article
Remembering Mohawk peacemaker Jake Swamp
Hogansburg, NY, Oct 22, 2010 — Jake Swamp, Mohawk chief and spiritual leader - planter of peace trees -- died unexpectedly a week ago. He was a public face of traditional Mohawks, opening ceremonies with a... Go to full article
DEC asks hunters to help count declining grouse population
Rensselaer, NY, Oct 01, 2010 — State environment officials are asking hunters for more help tracking the falling numbers of Ruffed Grouse, one of the most popular game birds in New York.
Michael... Go to full article
Michael... Go to full article
Flood Watch across NNY and VT
Fort Covington, NY, Sep 30, 2010 — The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for today and tomorrow across northern New York and Vermont.
The alert mirrors flood watches and warnings along... Go to full article
The alert mirrors flood watches and warnings along... Go to full article
Amish in New York: among us, but apart
Potsdam, NY, Sep 29, 2010 — In parts of St. Lawrence County, Amish buggies and horse drawn wagons commonly share the roads with cars and tractor trailers. Failing modern farms have been reclaimed. There... Go to full article
Fill 'er up - with wood
Sep 22, 2010 — For just about everybody who drives, filling up the tank is one of those things you just have to do. But not Rick Bates. His pick up truck runs on wood.
So,... Go to full article
So,... Go to full article
St Lawrence County Fair: Audio Postcard
Gouverneur, NY, Aug 09, 2010 — Be it goats, cows, maple syrup or funnel cake, the St. Lawrence county fair has it all. Sarah Harris visited the fair in Gouverneur, ate too much funnel cake, braved the... Go to full article
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