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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For millennia the Hazara people have been telling folk tales. Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman have collected them in a book called “The Honey Thief.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nature writer Robert Finch gives Steve Paulson an insider's view of the ecosystem of the Cape Cod town of Wellfleet.  They walk along the outskirts of Wellfleet, and visit shellfish growers Pat and Barbara Woodbury, who are raking for clams. 

You can see photos from Cape Cod here.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Alex Abramovich recommends "Blues People: Negro Music in White America" by Leroi Jones, who later changed his name to Amiri Baraka.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Gram Rabbit is a rock band whose members live in the Joshua Tree Desert.  Their CD is called "Music to Start a Cult to."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jonathan Haidt talks with Jim Fleming about an often-overlooked emotion - elevation.

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Kate La Riviere-Gagner's Dangerous Idea? There should be a reality show to give people a better idea of what a day in the life of a teacher is like.

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Julia Alvarez tells Anne Strainchamps that she raises coffee on a small farm in the Dominican Republic and explains how it influences her writing.

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Marcella Hazan is a chef and teacher of cooking.  She thinks Americans totally misunderstand Italian food.

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