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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Stephen Long is the founder of Northern Woodlands Magazine.  He takes us for a walk in his Vermont woods and teaches us how to "read" a forest.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Paulson visits award-winning children’s book author Paula Fox at her New York brownstone. Fox has just written a highly acclaimed memoir, “Borrowed Finery.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

William Ury tells Jim Fleming that simply being able to talk about past oppression is a powerful healing tool. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A big cat biologist goes on a blind date. It doesn't go well.  Writer Ben Hoffman reads from a work in progress.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Susan Burch teaches at Gallaudet University and is the author of “Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 - 1942.”  She talks about the “oralist” movement which required the deaf to learn sign language and lip reading.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

There’s a Modern Caveman Movement afoot. And their inspirational leader is 76 year-old Arthur De Vany. A man who says we all should be mimicking our caveman ancestors.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We know a lot about how slaves looked at books because of the hundreds of slave narratives they wrote.  Scholar Cherene Sherrard-Johnson says a fundamental trope in those narratives is what’s called “the Talking Book.” 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Walter Hamady is the proprietor of the Perishable Press Limited, and among the most celebrated American printers of fine, limited edition books.

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