The Dead Can't Do You Nothin

02/24/07 • 15 min

(Produced by ) Looking to get more experience with the dead and ghosts, producer Katie Mingle spent some time in a "pauper's graveyard". She narrates her experiences there. She tell what she finds, and more importantly, doesn't find, in one of the only "below ground" cemeteries in New Orleans, LA. A special thanks to Katie for her (link for MySpace users). Have a great time at ! Check out the or go straight to the

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Ruana

(Produced by ) Meet Ruana, the world's cutest 6-year-old Portugese teacher. This languange lesson comes to us from our friend and Producer Emma Raynes. Emma recently ran off to Brazil, where she's working as a , a very cool program housed at the Duke Center for Documentary Studies. Check out to read about her encounters with language, rivers, rituals, migrant workers, orphans and lice! Big Shed is proud to announce our international documentary desk. Shed alums and are both working overseas as and are sending us wonderful tape of the people and places they're getting to know. We really appreciate their doing this and are elated to share their sounds and stories with you. Check out the or go straight to the

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Al's First Record

(Produced by ) Drive west from Portland, Maine on US 302 and youâll pass a giant mechanical television repairman on the left. The repairman was built by Al Hawkes years ago to promote his television store. Al sold TVs for years, but his real love was always country and bluegrass music. Heâs been a performing musician, record producer, pirate radio broadcaster, and general promoter. Now, he works like a mad scientist in his basement to preserve recordings and document musicians who played a part in Maineâs musical history. His basement is filled with records; some 50,000 or more. Every now and then, he goes into his stacks and pulls out an old treasure. Jen forgot to say in the piece that is a producer on the Virginia-based radio program, . Thanks so much for turning her on to this awesome tune "Shifting Texas Sand." She went on a web hunt for it immediately. (And Shea wants to out Jesse as an alum of the .) Check out the or go straight to the