Heard Up North
Special Reports
StoryCorps 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.
Looking 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.
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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.
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.
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.

Meet 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).
Living 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.

The 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.
Eben 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.
Heard up North: What Boxing Day?
Dec 26, 2005 — The day after Christmas is known as Boxing Day in Canada. Most Americans aren't clear on what "boxing day" means...and neither are many Canadians. Lucy Martin sampled folks in Ottawa. Go to full article
Heard Up North: The Wreath-Maker
Dec 22, 2005 — Martha Foley visited Jane Desotelle at her Underwood Herb workshop on a very cold day about a week ago. Jane ships her hand-made wreaths all over the country, including to Traditional Arts in Upstate New York. Go to full article
Heard up North: Tree Farm 2 (A Goodbye)
Dec 21, 2005 — The Van de Water tree farm outside Canton will hang up its saws for good after this year's holiday season. Go to full article
Heard up North: Tree Farm
Dec 20, 2005 — Laird's Tree Farm, in Osgoode Ontario. Go to full article
Heard Up North: Funk/Soul, Powered by Vegetables
Dec 16, 2005 — Revision is a funk/soul band out of Ithaca. They've been touring for about two years. Two weeks ago, they converted their touring van to run on vegetable oil. Tonight,... Go to full article
Heard Up North: On The Roof
Dec 15, 2005 — Chimney sweep Al Piercey has a saying: the first time he falls off a roof will be his last. Today we visit him, up on the roof... Go to full article
Heard Up North: Bionic Tonic
Dec 13, 2005 — Ed Clark, adjunct professor of modern languages at SUNY Potsdam, calls in with the recipe for his favorite home remedy. Go to full article
Heard Up North: "Pet Santa"
Dec 09, 2005 — As if it wasn't enough that he has billions of kids to worry about... Santa is taking time out for photos with pets, all to raise money for Spay/Neuter/Now in St. Lawrence... Go to full article
Heard Up North: More Latkes Please!
Dec 08, 2005 — A trip to the Potsdam Synagogue's Food Festival... Go to full article
Heard Up North: Railroad Dreams
Dec 07, 2005 — Running a train has always been a romantic business. Ronald Crowd took over the Batten Kill Railroad in Washington County. He's owned it for two decades and still hasn't... Go to full article
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