For A New View On The West Virginia Spill, Follow The Elk River
In early January, West Virginia's Elk River was contaminated by a chemical spill near Charleston. NPR's Noah Adams returns to the Elk nearly two months later to follow the course of the river.
View ArticleThe Beauty And Difficulty Of Poet Nikky Finney
April is National Poetry Month, a time when bookstores proudly display those slim volumes usually hidden in the back.On display this April is the work of Kentucky poet Nikky Finney, who won the...
View ArticleHow America 'Struck Back': Doolittle Raid Turns 70
It's just after sunrise outside the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, when 20 B-25 bombers start showing up in the western sky.The B-25s land outside the museum and line up on...
View ArticleCalled To The Post, Derby Starters Pack 'Em In
When the gates fly open at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on Saturday, all eyes will be on the 20 racehorses that launch themselves into the 138th Kentucky Derby. That's a lot of horses, and a...
View ArticleObama's 'Clean Coal' Fighting Words To W.Va. Dems
Mingo County, deep in the southwest corner of West Virginia, has sent a "protest vote" to the attention of President Obama. In the May 8 Democratic primary, voters chose a man named Keith Judd to run...
View ArticleCruisin' For Classic Cars On A Steamy Summer Night
At the heart of the small town of Milan, Ohio, there's a graceful and tree-lined town square. It makes a good gathering spot for the classic cars and trucks of decades past.A 1923 T-Bucket Ford, a '77...
View ArticleMichigan Author Dreams Up A Deadlier Ann Arbor
Ask Harry Dolan to take you for lunch at a restaurant he's written about, and he won't disappoint. In downtown Ann Arbor, Mich., on Liberty Street, the vegetarian restaurant Seva serves mushroom...
View ArticleThe Ohio Snake Art That's Been Mid-Slither For A Millennium
In new installment of the Spring Break series, Noah Adams visits the Serpent Mound in southern Ohio. It's not a burial site; it's a massive, grass-covered effigy of a snake, created a thousand years...
View ArticleWant A Shot At $10,000? Solve Kentucky's Great Bourbon Mystery
Saturday marks the 140th Run for the Roses: the Kentucky Derby. Great horses, great hats — but where's the Pappy Van Winkle bourbon for the mint juleps?Last October, more than 200 bottles of the prized...
View ArticleIn Mystery Series's W.Va. River Town, There's No Escape From Terror
When writer Julia Keller talks, you notice a touch of West Virginia — it is, after all, her home state. Her accent may have faded a bit during her newspaper career in Chicago, so she says when she...
View ArticleCarroll, Iowa: Where The Childhood Paper Route Is Alive And Well
This story began in 2012 while I was working on a story in Iowa. I was taking pictures on a foggy afternoon and saw a young girl on a blue bicycle, a newspaper bag slung across her shoulder. She...
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What Makes A Bike Pump Worth $450?
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: If you happen to be thinking about buying a new bicycle pump, you'll soon see a floor pump priced at a...
View ArticleAn Unlikely Friday Night Pizza Café Has A Big Heart
Here's what might have sounded like a pretty shaky business plan for a neighborhood pizza café: "We'll only be open one day a week. Won't do any advertising. No prices on the menus. We'll serve mostly...
View ArticleAs Bourbon Booms, Demand For Barrels Is Overflowing
If you could make a lot of bourbon whiskey these days, you could be distilling real profits. Bourbon sales in this country are up 36 percent in the past five years.But you'd need new wooden barrels for...
View ArticleRemembering Sgt. York, A War Hero Who Built A School
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View ArticleFine Brine From Appalachia: The Fancy Mountain Salt That Chefs Prize
Thanksgiving feasts are always in need of something special.Can a sprinkle of artisanal salt noticeably pump up the experience?Let's meet a new Appalachian salt-maker in West Virginia and find out.J.Q....
View ArticleHow Low Oil Prices Are Changing Career Plans At An Ohio College
Marietta College has earned a global reputation for its program in petroleum engineering, drawing students from as far away as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and China to this liberal arts school in southeast...
View ArticleMuseum Builds New Hangar To Show Off Former Air Force One
A trusty Boeing 707 is inside a new home at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The plane has graceful lines of color: white, blues and gold. In large letters: "United States of...
View ArticleFrom Farm To Distillery, Heirloom Corn Varieties Are Sweet Treasures
"Knee-high by the Fourth of July" is an old favorite saying, when you'd drive past a field of corn out in the country. And many of the old favorite varieties, called heirloom corn, have lots of new...
View ArticleIn Paducah, Artists Create Something From Nothing
How do you fix a neighborhood? What do you do about crime and drugs and the once-lovely old houses that are falling down? The answer in Paducah, Ky., was to turn it into a special place for artists to...
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