Dec 10, 2008 — Holidays may not start in the kitchen but all the good ones end up there, as families and friends come together to celebrate around food. At Potsdam's Beth El Synagogue the public is invited in, too -- just before Chanukah -- for the annual food festival. This year's festival is Sunday, Dec. 14. Before you get in the door you'll smell the latkes or potato pancakes frying in oil, and the matzo ball soup. Another staple of the event is the blintz... Martha Foley has today's Heard Up North. (Thanks to Lamar Bliss for recording and producing this piece.)  Go to full article

Dec 09, 2008 — Hosts Martha Foley and Jackie Sauter talk with guests Wally Siebel, Carol Berard, George Arnold and callers about favorite holiday recipes and traditions.  Go to full article

Dec 04, 2008 — Co-hosts Ellen Rocco, Chris Robinson and John Ernst take your suggestions for books for holiday gift-giving and for winter reading.  Go to full article

Dec 01, 2008 — This is the time of year when towns along the Champlain Valley light up with the annual Holiday Train. Canadian Pacific uses the Christmas tour to raise money and food for local pantries in the North Country. Brian Mann was in Ticonderoga last night and sent an audio postcard.  Go to full article

Dec 01, 2008 — Horticulturist Amy Ivy has some advice when buying plants as holiday gifts: think ahead. She spoke with Martha Foley.  Go to full article

Dec 10, 2007 — Amy Ivy offers a how-to for making fresh wreaths and garlands.  Go to full article

Dec 03, 2007 — Amy Ivy has tips on what greens to pick, or buy, and how to keep them fresh for the holiday season.  Go to full article

Dec 20, 2006 — Jewish students at St. Lawrence University were joined by Rabbi and professor Michael Greenwald to remember ancient history and holidays spent with family, and to settle a 2,000-year-old question.  Go to full article

Oct 09, 2006 — The turkey's in the oven and the smell of stuffing's filling the kitchen north of the border. Today's Thanksgiving in Canada. Our Ottawa correspondent Lucy Martin sent us this audio postcard.  Go to full article

Jul 04, 2006 — Tonight's fireworks show in St Regis Falls was designed and handmade by Peter Henry, a pharmacist at Adirondack Medical Center. He makes fireworks out of his home workshop in Brighton. But new federal regulations on sales of explosive chemicals are making it harder and harder for him to continue his hobby. Gregory Warner paid Pete a visit last Friday.  Go to full article