Episodes

  • North Words: Back roads and a new theatre

    North Words: Back roads and a new theatre
    Jul 4 2025
    (Jul 4, 2025) For your holiday weekend listening enjoyment, here's the latest edition of the North Words radio show, featuring interviews with Frank Barry about his trip on the Lincoln Highway, and Saranac Lake's Pendragon Theatre, which will move into a new space next season.
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    54 mins
  • The Adirondacks are home to an anarchic cult in "The Damagers"

    The Adirondacks are home to an anarchic cult in "The Damagers"
    Jun 27 2025
    (Jun 27, 2025) Rocker Rob Benvie's new novel follows two girls who fall under the spell of a charismatic cult leader building his flock in the Adirondack High Peaks.
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    47 mins
  • North Words: The Pendragon Theater's curtain call at Brandy Brook.

    North Words: The Pendragon Theater's curtain call at Brandy Brook.
    Jun 20 2025
    (Jun 20, 2025) The historic playhouse is renovating and adding to the former A&P building in Saranac Lake, which will allow them to host bigger productions.
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    37 mins
  • The quiet stories that outlive us

    The quiet stories that outlive us
    Jun 13 2025
    (Jun 13, 2025) Following the news of Harry Mitchell's death, we revisit our conversation with him. He tells us about managing Niagara Mohawk and his time in Korea.
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    41 mins
  • What this New York writer learned by driving an RV across the US ahead of the 2020 election

    What this New York writer learned by driving an RV across the US ahead of the 2020 election
    Jun 6 2025
    (Jun 6, 2025) Frank Berry traveled across the US on the 3,300 mile Lincoln Highway, talking to people along the way. He wanted to find out what holds the country together.
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    38 mins
  • North Words radio: May 2025

    North Words radio: May 2025
    May 30 2025
    (May 30, 2025) Fifty-four minutes of amazing North Words interviews from our radio show that aired May 30, 2025.
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    54 mins
  • This is not just a ghost story. The Lady in the Lake of Lake Placid was real.

    This is not just a ghost story. The Lady in the Lake of Lake Placid was real.
    May 30 2025
    (May 30, 2025) Poet Sophie Morelli gives life to Mabel Smith Douglass, who drowned in Lake Placid. The true details of her death by suicide have often been obscured.
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    42 mins
  • People always ask this Ukranian-Canadian singer "Did you write that song for me?"

    People always ask this Ukranian-Canadian singer "Did you write that song for me?"
    May 23 2025
    (May 23, 2025) Vitalia is a jazz-pop singer who's using song-writing as therapy, but it's helping her audience, too. She recorded the song "Land of Black" when Ukraine was invaded.
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    43 mins