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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Psychologist and philosopher Thomas Moore talks with Anne Strainchamps about the connections between springtime and death, and how flowers reflect this.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Shelley Mitchell has created a one-woman play called "Talking with Angels."  She talks with Anne Strainchamps about the play and the historical incident and book on which it's based.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Howard Axelrod was accidentally blinded in one eye in a freak accident when he was in college.  Disoriented and depressed, he retreated to an off-the-grid cabin in the Vermont wilderness.  He stayed there, alone, for 2 years.  Now he's published a memoir about his period of renunciation, "The Point of Vanishing."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Some of us think of dance as something best left to the professionals, people with years of training and technique. But when Sally Gross started dancing, she realized that she'd never master ballet or modern dance. So she made a whole new kind of dance...

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For the Aboriginal people of Australia, the concept of "The Dreaming" means an existence with no linear time.

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Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison remembers her childhood in Ohio.

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Sounds from the Dane County Farmer’s Market, right here in Madison, Wisconsin.  Our farmer’s market is the largest in the country.

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If there is one song more than any other that shimmers with political and emotional resonance, it’s “We Shall Overcome.”

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