PRX Gives Thanks

John posted on Wednesday, November 21st, 2012 | Station Newsletters

Radio Diaries revisits teen diarists; plus, picks for Native American Heritage Month and World AIDS Day.

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November 21, 2012

PRX Gives Thanks

Hi friend of PRX,

We drove by modest Plymouth Rock this summer — over 300 years ago, it must have been a pretty desolate place to land after months of seasickness.

Native Americans were already here and had turned New England’s fields and woods into a thriving society. The rest is history, myth, memory. Thus launches the season of eating and cooking and, oh yes, deep gratitude.

If we could, we would serve you each pie for dessert…

-John

Radio Diaries

Revisits teen diarists

Since 1996, Joe Richman has been giving tape recorders to young people around the country to document their lives.

In December of 2012, Radio Diaries will revisit five of these original diarists 16 years after their first recordings.

Like the stories of Josh, a boy with Tourette’s; Amanda, a young woman trying to get her parents to accept her sexuality; or Melissa, a teen mom coming out of the foster care system.

Stay tuned!

World AIDS Day

December 1

Haunting and beautiful: There Were Ghosts Everywhere explores the way AIDS affected Provincetown, Mass. in the ’80s and ’90s.
Brandon talks about living with HIV and being open about it with others.

In this short piece from StoryCorps, Chris tells his friend Erin about being diagnosed HIV-positive early on in the AIDS crisis.
Here is the diary of Thembi, a South African woman who documented her struggle with AIDS. A lovely new animation was made from this piece.

More picks for World AIDS Day

Native American Heritage

Celebrate in November

Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca & Tuscarora. Music from Canada’s Six Nations, from the RPM (Revolutions Per Minute) Podcast – Indigenous Music Culture.

Ode to the Salish Sea, a new name which honors the original inhabitants of the waters of the Pacific Northwest (also known as the Puget Sound).
Take Me To Your Leader. Some Native Americans see alien invasion films as metaphors for their own history.

More for Native American Heritage Month

Other Good Stuff

Coming Soon: New Kitchen Sisters special, The Raw and the Cooked. Stay tuned for more info.
Coming Soon: Generation Putin: Millennials in the Former Soviet Union. What are they thinking about their future? Hosted by Brooke Gladstone.
Get it now! Best of the Best: The 2012 Third Coast Festival Broadcast.

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Original turkey image by Norman Rockwell. Fist image by Danny Williams. Native American Heritage Month image by Timothy K. Williams.