Traffic: How We Get From Here to There
America’s story is one of migration and expansion. In this hour, we explore the history of America’s highways and byways. We hear from Gridlock Sam, who fights traffic for a living, and Peter Norton, who takes us back to the dawn of the motor age. Then we travel through America’s canalways with batteau reenactors and [...]
Shenandoah Removals
Jesse Dukes’ story on the Shenandoah was inspired by Justin Reich’s article, Recreating the wilderness: Shaping narratives and landscapes in Shenandoah National Park. Here are two pieces of archival tape, courtesy of the Carrier Library at James Madison University. In this piece, Dorothy Noble Smith, who conducted a private oral history project, reads aloud the [...]
