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  • Gene Stratton-Porter's conservation legacy lives on through a new generation of women leading today's environmental movement. Meet some of the acclaimed authors, scientists, historians, and advocates featured in the upcoming WTIU/PBS documentary Gene Stratton-Porter: Music of the Wild and discover how they are carrying her vision into the future.
Their presence on earth reveals kindness in the human touch.
  • Atlas plodov (1906) vyp. 2, no. 44
    The science of horticulture, long practiced back East, had gained little hold on the western frontier, and Reverend Beecher set about remedying the problem.
  • Danny William
    We’re saying goodbye to Nice Work this week. For our last show, hosts Tyler Lake and Alex Chambers talk about some of their favorite moments, look back at stories and interviews and reflect on what they hoped the show would accomplish.

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June Christy's 1954 album "Something Cool" was a landmark in the "Cool School" of vocal jazz.
  • British Museum manuscript 31,922.
    While incarcerated at Fleet Prison, English composer William Cornysh wrote a long poem, "A Treatise between Information and Truth," which drew upon many musical metaphors to explain how and why he was falsely imprisoned. This week on Harmonia, we’ll explore the life and music of William Cornysh II, 500 years after his death.
  • In 1957 tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins was at the peak of his first great period, playing with a confident, swinging, and radical abandon both as a leader and with Max Roach and Miles Davis.
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