Oct 27th, 2008 · In Hannibal, Mo., along the Mississippi, history entwines with the present for residents of the boyhood home of Mark Twain as they try to decide whom to vote for in the presidential election. The latest polls for Missouri show Barack Obama and John McCain in a dead heat.
Jun 21st, 2008 · A 34-foot-high levee has spared the main part of Hannibal, Mo., the boyhood town of Mark Twain. The surging Mississippi River has swamped other parts of the state.
Jun 2nd, 2007 · Conn and Hal Iggulden worried that the old-fashioned skills they learned as boys would disappear in the age of DVDs and video games. So they wrote The Dangerous Book for Boys and filled it with ingredients to get boys off the computer and into the backyard.
May 22nd, 2006 · If you follow prison history, or old Clint Eastwood movies, you know the swim from Alcatraz. It was the last barrier to escaping the island prison in California. The only men to escape disappeared without clear evidence they made it to shore. Today, Braxton Bilbrey is attempting that swim. He read about a nine-year-old who swam the 1.4 miles. Now he plans to try it -- at the age of seven. He's hoping to raise money for drowning prevention.
May 12th, 2005 · Jon Scieszka, a children's author and former teacher, wants boys to read more. His new book Guys Write for Guys Read is a collection of stories, comics and advice on boyhood by best-selling authors and illustrators.
Feb 19th, 2005 · It’s a remarkable, bittersweet goodbye by a famous man to his boyhood home. Listener and media producer Reverend Dwight Frizzell grew up in Truman’s hometown of Independence, Missouri. Several years ago he went to the Truman presidential Library and found this transcription of a groundbreaking. With the help of a musician friend, Michael Henry, he added music.
Jan 14th, 2005 · Each year, over 600,000 people visit Martin Luther King, Jr.'s boyhood home in Atlanta. NPR's Fred Child goes on a special tour of the house to learn more about the role that music played in King's young life.
Feb 19th, 1999 · NPR's year-long Friday collaboration with independent producers Jay Allison and the Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva) -- a series called LOST AND FOUND SOUND. Today we present an item from our QUEST FOR SOUND, in which listeners call 202-408-0300 and tell us about recordings they have - or have stumbled upon. Reverend Dwight Frizzell of Kansas City, Missouri found a recording of the late President Harry S. Truman from 1957 -- five years after Truman left office. The tape is of Truman dedicating a shopping center to be built on the site of his boyhood home. With music Frizzell and a friend added, this remarkable speech winds up being a powerful, and unintended elegy to a passing era.