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November 04, 2001

Maybe home is where you live, raise your family and mow the grass. Or it's where you grew up. Or where the whole clan gathers for major holidays. Wherever home is, it's never mattered more. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, stories of home, from the Texas hill country to the ‘hood. Also, why American homes are the most comfortable in the world.

Merritt Ierley on Domestic Technology

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Merritt Ierley talks with Anne Strainchamps about the domestic technology (central heating, indoor plumbing, vacuum cleaners, dishwashers) that makes American homes the most comfortable in the world.

Janisse Ray on "Ecology of A Cracker Childhood"

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Naturalist and environmental activist Janisse Ray talks with Jim Fleming about her memoir, "Ecology of A Cracker Childhood." Ray now devotes herself to long leaf pine restoration.

Dalton Conley on "Honky"

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Dalton Conley grew up in the housing projects of New York's lower East Side. But he went to school in a wealthy white neighborhood. 

David Syring on Life in the Texas Hill Country

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David Syring is descended from the German immigrants who settled the Texas Hill Country. He tells Jim Fleming about his problematical grandfather, and why he still feels rooted to his family's home place.

Paule Marshall on "The Fisher King"

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Paule Marshall tells Steve Paulson about the neighborhood both she and her cousin were born into, recalls Brooklyn's glorious past as a hotbed of jazz, and explains why so many African-American artists chose to live in France.

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November 04, 2001
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Merritt Ierley

Janisse Ray

janisseray.weebly.com

Dalton Conley

files.nyu.edu
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David Syring

Paule Marshall

english.emory.edu
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August 02, 2024