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New Hampshire's Immigration Story: Immigration and Healthcare

Healthcare delivery is complicated enough without language barriers, financial difficulties and cultural misunderstandings. Being a newcomer in a strange country presents many new challenges but healthcare is one of the most difficult to overcome. We take a look at the myriad obstacles the foreign born population face, and what some local healthcare providers are doing to help ...

New Hampshire's Immigration Story: The History of Immigration in New Hampshire

We’re looking at the history of immigration as a part of NHPR’s year long series on New Hampshire’s Immigration Story. In the early days it was French Canadians and Irish who arrived, at the turn of the last century Greeks and Eastern Europeans and today, new arrivals from Brazil, to Burundi to Bhutan. We’re looking at who came, why they came and the little known ...

New Hampshire's Immigration Story: The History of Immigration Law

Although we are a nation of immigrants, the first laws to enforce who could be an American citizen and who couldn't didn’t appear until the late 1880s. Since then, new legislation like the Immigration Acts of 1921 and 1965, as well as the Refugee Act of the 1980s have both strengthened and loosened these rules. As part of our year long series ...

Deaf Jam Poetry - the signs of spoken word

Deaf Israeli slam-poet Aneta Brodski collaborates with Palestinian interpreter Veronica Staehle, uniting culture and language through art.

What Scares You?

Stephen Asma is Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Scholar at Columbia College in Chicago. He's also author of the book, On Monsters: An Unnatural History of our Worst Fears.

For the record, we're afraid of lots of things around these parts. Virginia has a real problem with Bela Lugosi's Nosferatu. Taylor has nightmares ...

Uncovering the Stories Behind Manchester's Historic Buildings

Yesterday we talked to the poet laureate of Rochester, who’s been preserving the voices of people who worked at city’s giant factory buildings.

Today we talk with a resident of Manchester who’s preserving the history of the buildings themselves.

Dan Brian ...

Voices of the Rochester Shoe Factories

For the past year Andrew Periale has been interviewing people who worked at the factories and he’s turning their words into poems that reflect what he calls “the language of work.” Here he reads one of the poems, in which several factory workers talk about education.

"The Lost Soles of Rochester" Gives Voice To Factory Workers

Fifty years ago the city of Rochester was home to giant shoe factories. Hundreds of workers made a living working with leather and handling huge machines.

Rochester’s shoe factory era may be gone, but the city’s poet laureate wants to make sure it’s not forgotten.

For the past year Andrew Periale has been interviewing people who worked ...

A Totally Awesome Dinosaur Killer?

Mount Holyoke paleontologist Mark McMenamin believes he's solved the mystery behind the burial site of schoolbus-sized swimming dinosaurs...and it might be because someone released the Kraken. Awesome, right?

American Independence Museum

The American Independence Museum in Exeter shares the stories of this country's founding through exhibits, artifacts, and tours. Emily Belanger first visited the museum at seven years old. Now, at fifteen, she gives guided tours. Here, she portrays Elizabeth Folsom.