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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 Zipper in action.
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 rides on the midway and sent this audio postcard. Go to full article
Keeping in touch with The Garden Plot
Canton, NY, Jul 23, 2010 — NCPR and TAUNY, Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, have been keeping track of gardens across the North Country in a project we call The Garden Plot.
At midsummer, our plot has grown, just like the gardens we've been watching. Martha Foley talks with TAUNY's Jill Breit about what we've learned from gardeners about growing vegetables and collaborating on the internet. Go to full article
At midsummer, our plot has grown, just like the gardens we've been watching. Martha Foley talks with TAUNY's Jill Breit about what we've learned from gardeners about growing vegetables and collaborating on the internet. Go to full article
Reliving the battle that ended the French and Indian War
Jul 19, 2010 — In Ogdensburg over the weekend, hundreds of people donned 18th Century garb and re-enacted the battle that ended the French and Indian War 250 years ago. Jonathan Brown strolled through a tent city that re-created the daily lives of soldiers and their families. Go to full article
Potsdam Community Band welcomes summer with a joyful noise
Potsdam, NY, Jul 09, 2010 — Potsdam musicians decided to resurrect the town's community band which had been nascent for 25 years. The result: band members of all ages come together to make a joyful... Go to full article
Calling all growers ? for a project mapping vegetable gardens this coming season
Canton, NY, May 11, 2010 — Traditional Arts in Upstate New York is partnering with NCPR on a new project, The Garden Plot, to map and document vegetable and fruit gardens, big and small, this growing... Go to full article
North Country teachers opt to cut their own benefits and prevent all district layoffs
Harrisville, NY, Apr 30, 2010 — Whenever New York State's spending plan is finalized, it's expected to cut billions from payments to schools. The state teachers' union estimates 8,000 to 14,000 teachers... Go to full article
Cold-hardy plants not expected to be hurt by snows
Watertown, NY, Apr 29, 2010 — To get a sense of how this spring snow may affect all that's green and growing, we talked with Sue Gwise. She's a horticulturist with the Cornell Cooperative Extension office... Go to full article
Spring snows may hurt birds more than bugs
Paul Smiths, NY, Apr 29, 2010 — Before we were blanketed with spring snows, black flies and plenty of other bugs were already buzzing in the warm, April air.
Now, that buzz has all but died away.... Go to full article
Now, that buzz has all but died away.... Go to full article
Adirondack tourism officials say marketing cuts are bad for the region, bad for the state
Mar 18, 2010 — New York State is short this year (Gov. Paterson is delaying tax refunds to ease the cash flow crunch) and will be even shorter next year. Current estimates put the looming... Go to full article
Heard Up North: tapping the trees
Mar 10, 2010 — Cold nights, warm days, sunshine: chickdees are busy, and the sap is rising. It all adds up to maple syrup season. Whether your operation includes a bulk holding tank and... Go to full article
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