Sense of Place

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May 24, 2009

How much do you know about the place where you live? You probably know your neighbors, your local schools, the grocery store... but can you describe what your neighborhood looked like before there were houses in it? Can you name the native birds and plants and insects? How much local history can you tell? In this hour of To The Best Of Our Knowledge, constructing a sense of place. Lessons in the new localism. And, a history of walking.

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Writer and ecologist Terry Tempest Williams talks with Steve Paulson about prairie dogs and their language and her trip to a village for genocide survivors in Rwanda.

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Martyn Stewart is one of audio engineers who went to Alaska in 2006 as part of the Arctic Soundscape Project to record the sounds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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Several grammy-winning folk musicians have written songs based on the stories in a book called "Wilderness Plots" by Scott Russell Sanders.

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Caryl Owen, TTBOOK's Technical Director, provides an essay on her efforts to restore part of her Wisconsin property to its native prairie state.

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Chinese actress Gong Li takes us for a walk through Beijing.

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Sean Bonner tells Anne Strainchamps about "Met Blogs" a worldwide network of city-focused blogs.

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April 04, 2010
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