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<title>Retracing her father&apos;s wartime footsteps</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Nov 9, 2012) Veterans Day is this Sunday - a time to honor the service of all U.S. military veterans.   A Potsdam woman traveled to a small village in France to retrace her father&apos;s footsteps during World War Two.  Robin Collen&apos;s father, Leonard, served in the Army Air Corps.   When his plane was shot down over France, he parachuted to safety and was rescued by local villagers.As a child, Collen remembered tissue paper-thin air mail envelopes from France, and occasional war stories from her dad.   When her father died in 2000, he left behind a map and note about the experience and his French rescuers. A few years ago, after some web research, Collen says she was curious and determined to revisit her father&apos;s past.  She and her husband, Bruce, traveled to rural France to try to connect with one of the women who helped hide her father from the Nazis more than 60 years ago.    She wrote an essay to honor his experience and shared her thoughts with Todd Moe. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20856/20121109/retracing-her-father-apos-s-wartime-footsteps">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Preview: &quot;Etty&quot; in Morristown</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Aug 21, 2012) Actor/writer Susan Stein combed through the diary and letters of Etty Hillesum, a Jewish student who lived in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of Holland during World War Two, and her one-woman play Etty is based on those diaries. Stein will perform the play at St. John the Evangelist Church in Morristown on Wednesday at 7:30 pm. She spoke with Todd Moe. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20341/20120821/preview-quot-etty-quot-in-morristown">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Mohawks seek recognition for WWII code talkers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 8, 2012) A Mohawk veterans group wants the federal government to recognize the contributions of “code talkers” during the D-Day invasion of Europe during World War Two.   The Navajo “code talkers” were the largest group of Native Americans during the 1940’s to use their language skills in the south Pacific against the Japanese.  Jeffrey Whelan, a member of the St. Regis Mohawk Veterans Affairs Committee, says many other tribes participated as &quot;code talkers&quot; during the war.  He says the St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Council has sent a letter of request to the U.S. Mint to develop a Congressional Medal for nine veterans at Akwesasne who used their native language to confuse the Germans. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19457/20120308/mohawks-seek-recognition-for-wwii-code-talkers">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Whiteface honors early ski pioneers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 7, 2011) Seventy years ago today, a group of young skiers climbed Whiteface Mountain to build the first racing shelter at the top of what is now known as Wilderness Trail. Later that day, they came down the mountain to find out that Pearl Harbor had been bombed by the Japanese. Many went on to join the military in the early years of World War Two.Whiteface will honor the men on Sunday with a special ceremony that will include lectures and historical displays. While most of those pioneers of alpine skiing on Whiteface and that fateful day are gone, their stories and memories live on through their children and friends.  Todd Moe has more. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18896/20111207/whiteface-honors-early-ski-pioneers">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Commentary: Remembering &quot;V-mail&quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jul 15, 2008) It&apos;s the same in every war.  Soldiers send their love and thoughts back home.  The only thing that changes is the &quot;how.&quot;  Commentator Renate Wildermuth recently came across &quot;V-mail&quot; from World War II. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/11717/20080715/commentary-remembering-quot-v-mail-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Norwegian sailors remembered in Saranac Lake</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 16, 2008) Tomorrow is a day of national pride for millions of Norwegians around the world and the North Country.  It’s the 17th of May, or “Syttende Mai.”  But it’s not just Norwegians who pay tribute to Norway’s Constitution Day. A quiet ceremony will take place Saturday morning at a small plot of graves in Saranac Lake’s Pine Ridge cemetery. During WW II hundreds of Norwegian merchant sailors ended up in Saranac Lake as tuberculosis patients. 15 men, and the daughter of a ship’s captain, died and were buried there.  And a longtime cemetery volunteer has made it her mission to make sure they’re not forgotten.  Todd Moe has more. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/11430/20080516/norwegian-sailors-remembered-in-saranac-lake">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The uphill battle of the 10th Mountain</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 25, 2007) A new documentary about Fort Drum’s 10th Mountain Division debuts Sunday at 7pm on WPBS in Watertown.  The Last Ridge: the Uphill Battles of the 10th Mountain Division uses vintage film footage, first-person accounts, and on-location reenactments to bring to life the 10th Mountain’s role in World War 2.  NPR’s Scott Simon is the narrator.  Abbie Kealy directed, wrote, and produced The Last Ridge.  She told David Sommerstein it’s the story of the division’s daring assault on the German front in the mountains of northern Italy in 1945. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/9326/20070525/the-uphill-battle-of-the-10th-mountain">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>StoryCorps: life in Indonesia during World War II</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jul 19, 2006) Conversation by conversation, interview by interview, StoryCorps is collecting the stories and voices of our time. After two weeks on the village green in Canton, the StoryCrops MobileBooth is now at Flower Memorial Library in Watertown. While the studio was in Canton, Yvonne Todd interviewed her mother, Emma Westdijk, about her life as a teenager in Indonesia during World War Two. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/7725/20060719/storycorps-life-in-indonesia-during-world-war-ii">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Chestertown Honors American Veterans</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jul 8, 2005) Chestertown commemorates the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II Saturday with a parade (10am) on Main Street, a reception for veterans, a 1940&apos;s swing dance and fireworks.  Todd Moe talks with Chestertown&apos;s &quot;History Alive Celebration&quot; organizer Barbara Wilson. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/5887/20050708/chestertown-honors-american-veterans">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Art Without Borders: Carmen D&apos;Avino</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 19, 2004) Today we begin a series on art in the North Country with an artist profile.  Carmen D’Avino began his career as a painter in the 1930s.  He’s been a World War II military filmmaker, a sculptor, and an avant-guarde animator in New York City.  He was even nominated for an Academy Award.  For the past 15 years he’s lived in an old farmhouse in the St. Lawrence County town of Hammond.  David Sommerstein stopped by for a visit and found a portrait of the creative process in action. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/3870/20040119/art-without-borders-carmen-d-apos-avino">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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