From NPR News:
by Sarah Reynolds
"What good is a steak or a hot dog without pickles? Everybody has their own taste. I like half sours, my mother loves sours" - Len Zurling, customer
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113763154
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Journey into Nebraska Podcast: A Traditional Scandinavian Christmas on the Plains
Christmas is Santa Claus, mistletoe and the giant tree at Rockefeller Center. But It’s also so many smaller seasonal traditions and customs.
One such regional traditional Christmas can be found in Elkhorn, Nebraska. It was there on the Prairies and the Great Plains that many Scandinavians made their home.
This heritage is celebrated each year at the Little Scandinavian novelty shop on Main Street, the Old Lincoln Highway.
Christmas traditions from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland are to be found being celebrated. There’s food and music and customs in the midst Norwegian sweaters, Scandinavian textiles, candles napkins and other novelty gifts. There’s a Scandinavian Deli, and even free coffee and Scandinavian Ginger Snaps.
In this “Journey into Nebraska” we speak with Leona Anderson of the Little Scandinavia about her little corner of Scandinavia in Nebraska and how they celebrate and preserve their traditions at Christmas-time there.
Yopu can hear the podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=325
One such regional traditional Christmas can be found in Elkhorn, Nebraska. It was there on the Prairies and the Great Plains that many Scandinavians made their home.
This heritage is celebrated each year at the Little Scandinavian novelty shop on Main Street, the Old Lincoln Highway.
Christmas traditions from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland are to be found being celebrated. There’s food and music and customs in the midst Norwegian sweaters, Scandinavian textiles, candles napkins and other novelty gifts. There’s a Scandinavian Deli, and even free coffee and Scandinavian Ginger Snaps.
In this “Journey into Nebraska” we speak with Leona Anderson of the Little Scandinavia about her little corner of Scandinavia in Nebraska and how they celebrate and preserve their traditions at Christmas-time there.
Yopu can hear the podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=325
Podcast: 50 Years of Rocky the Squirrel & Bullwinkle J. Moose
On November 19, 1959. Rocky and Bullwinkle first went on the air. “Tongue in cheek dialogue” contrasted with the simple plots in which Rocky (Rocket J. Squirrel) and Bullwinkle Moose tangled in Cold War fashion with Soviet bad guy Boris Badinov and his wife, “The Beautiful” Natasha (who worked for Mr. Big).
Other popular features on the show included “Fractured Fairy Tales” (with Everett Edward Horton), “Bullwinkle’s Corner” and the Adventures of Sherman and Mr. Peabody (an intelligent talking dog). In 1961, the program was re-named the Bullwinkle Show, though characters and format remained the same.
Joining us to talk about it and more is regular “Journey into Hidden America” contributor Bob Thompson, the Trustee Professor of Television and Popular Culture at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture.
You can hear the podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=315
Other popular features on the show included “Fractured Fairy Tales” (with Everett Edward Horton), “Bullwinkle’s Corner” and the Adventures of Sherman and Mr. Peabody (an intelligent talking dog). In 1961, the program was re-named the Bullwinkle Show, though characters and format remained the same.
Joining us to talk about it and more is regular “Journey into Hidden America” contributor Bob Thompson, the Trustee Professor of Television and Popular Culture at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture.
You can hear the podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=315
Podcast: Road trips to Prepare for a Traditional Thanksgiving
“Over the river and through the woods” goes the song.
Many of us have a mental picture about the perfect Thanksgiving. Some of su extend tis image beyond the Thanksgiving to the preparations for Thanksgiving Day as well.
In this Journey into Hidden America, we speak with contributor Elizabeth Muse from A Days Outing about some ideas for shopping which can take beyond the mega-Super Market and the local parking lot to places beyond the interstate and off the beaten path – places for superior food and a quality life experience too.
You can hear the podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=313
Many of us have a mental picture about the perfect Thanksgiving. Some of su extend tis image beyond the Thanksgiving to the preparations for Thanksgiving Day as well.
In this Journey into Hidden America, we speak with contributor Elizabeth Muse from A Days Outing about some ideas for shopping which can take beyond the mega-Super Market and the local parking lot to places beyond the interstate and off the beaten path – places for superior food and a quality life experience too.
You can hear the podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=313
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