S-Towns: Stories from Small Towns
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After finishing all 7 Chapters of Serial's S-Town , we're craving stories from other small towns that reveal life in all of its complexities.
Our Small Towns playlist is full of stories that still stick with us - made in rural, out-of-the-way places, from the woods of Minnesota to Paris, Texas to the Appalachian foothills, to a Rocky Mountain town in Alberta, Canada.
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Two Towns of Jasper
Producers and long-time friends Whitney Dow and Marco Williams (Two Tone Productions) discuss the making of their film Two Towns of Jasper, a documentary about the racially motivated murder of James Byrd, who in 1998 was dragged to his death after being beaten then chained to the back of a pick-up truck in Jasper, Texas.
- 2004
- 01:23:16
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Lord God Bird
The Ivory Billed Woodpecker was thought to be extinct until 2004, when it was rediscovered near the small town of Brinkley, Arkansas.
- 2017
- 11:18
- Elizabeth Meister
- Dan Collison
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Tornado Prom
Susan Burton reports on Prom Night 2001 in Hoisington, Kansas, a town of about 3,000. While the seniors danced, a tornado hit the town, destroying about a third of it.
- 2001
- 25:06
- Susan Burton
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Envision Yourself Being a Free Man
Sylvia Ryerson works with family members of those incarcerated in Virginia supermax prisons to capture the sounds, voices & music of home - to be broadcast directly into the prisons.
- 2016
- 10:52
- Sylvia Ryerson
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In The Dark, Episode 1
When 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling disappeared in 1989, local Minnesota police seemed determined to crack the case. Instead, it took them 27 years.
- 2016
- 32:05
- Madeleine Baran
- Samara Freemark
- Natalie Jablonski
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Barmy Banff Blackout Bingo!
Welcome to Thursday night $1,000 jackpot bingo at The Royal Canadian Legion in the small Rocky Mountain town of Banff, Alberta.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Alyssa Moxley
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Battle Flagging Father
In 2009, Brisbane-based writer and documentarian Hamish Sewell traveled to Alabama to meet his estranged father for the first time in nearly 30 years.
- 2009
- 46:55
- Hamish Sewell
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Re:sound #176 The Tiny Towns in Texas Show
This hour: we explore two struggling Texas towns through the beautiful and mournful voices of those who remain.
- 2013
- 01:01:14
- Pejk Malinovski
- Katherine Wells
- Katie Mingle
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As Black As We Wish to Be
There's a tiny town in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio where, for a century, residents have shared the common bond of identifying as African-American despite the fact that most look white.
- 2013
- 50:29
- Lu Olkowski
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X-Town
In the late 1930s, Massachusetts flooded four towns in the central part of the state to create a reservoir for the city of Boston. More than 2,000 people lived in those towns.
- 2003
- 07:29
- Sean Cole