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Radio
Title
Paintin’ P-Town Brown
Year
2021
Portland, Maine is known for having something for everyone - even fans of the 90’s alternative band Ween. But as Portland’s downtown changes, weirdos are wondering - what’s happening to their beloved public spaces?
Type
Radio
Title
Your Neighbor, DebbieKathy
Year
2021
After their boat is stolen, a family must reckon with their sense of trust in the marina community. Producer Jay Venables investigates the theft, and finds a deeper level to the betrayal. Scoring by Angela Kazmierczak. Note: this audio piece contains profanity.
Type
Radio
Title
Follow the Fox
Year
2021
For 13 years between 2007 and 2020, a treasure hunt took place on Mount Desert Island. For one family in Bar Harbor, the treasure hunt became a central aspect of life.
Type
Radio
Title
Real and Imagined
Year
2021
In the summer before moving to Maine, Katherine Moncure finds items from a woman who lived in Portland over a hundred years ago, tucked into a book she had owned for years. Katherine’s determined to find out who that woman was.
Type
Radio
Title
Yiayia’s Hotel
Year
2021
Five years after losing her grandmother, Ariana Nedelman traces that beloved grandmother’s footsteps in Prouts Neck, Maine.
Type
Radio
Title
La Bella
Year
2021
For her whole life, Emma Adams has been pulled towards the Italian side of her family. They had a warmth and deliciousness that she just didn’t find anywhere else. As she grew up, the love for that feeling solidified into a deep passion for the Italian language, one that would take her on a life-changing journey to Rome. But this love for Italian did much more than change her own life, it also became a gift to her grandmother who spent a lifetime denying herself the pleasure of speaking her mother tongue.
Type
Radio
Title
Recipe for radical rest (serves 3)
Year
2021
Heather Flor is a Peruvian-American farmer and artist who uses rest as a radical tool. Heather’s mother, María Rosita, and her four-year old nephew, Ediercito, do too.
Type
Radio
Title
Confident, Sloppy, and Loud
Year
2021
The three women of Bait Bag found one another and their sound in the wake of the political turmoil of 2018. Fellow musician Ashraya Gupta meets the band and confronts questions about how to be a woman making music.
Type
Radio
Title
Fourteen Names
Year
2021
In 1936, 14 school children died over the course of one summer in Lubec, Maine. The tragedies cast a long shadow over the town and for years nobody spoke about the deaths. That is, until Vicki Reynolds Schad, a descendant of two of the children lost that summer, decided to help break the silence. What followed is the story of a small town finally speaking about a grief that had been buried for nearly one hundred years. Producer Marina Henke has the story.
Type
Radio
Title
A Giant in the Gulf of Maine
Year
2021
Maine Lobsterman Dustin Delano is dead set against the building of a massive experimental wind turbine in the waters where he and his family have fished for generations. But what he wants may not matter.
Type
Radio
Title
All That’s Left Is the Roar
Year
2021
The Westbrook High School Marching Band received a gold medal at the last Maine State Finals in 2019. Whether they can repeat that success depends on how much the band has been impacted by two big major events— the COVID-19 pandemic and a fire that has kept students from attending class together as the high school rebuilds. Is it really about gold medals or the community that marching band creates?
Type
Radio
Title
The Ring Finder
Year
2020
Sean Kelly is a metal detectorist and a scuba diver. He became aware of ring finder by way of watching Youtube videos and eventually finding out about a website called theringfinders.com. He has since recovered more than 15 lost rings or precious items for folks throughout the northeast. In this story, Sean meets Matt Smith. Matt’s ring is somewhere laying somewhere at the bottom of Hopkins Pond. Can Sean return the ring to Matt and Amy?
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