Jun 20th, 2008 · It's summer—time to get out of the city and head for the open road. This list of five great driving songs from WNYC's John Schaefer provides the right energy to help ease the transition from urban to bucolic, and keep nostalgia for the city at bay. And if the crushing cost of gas holds you hostage at home, this music may just give you enough refreshment that you don't need to drive anywhere, at all.
Aug 25th, 2006 · For the final report in our summer travel series, Neda Ulaby takes her mother and sister on drive from Washington, D.C. to Virginia's Chincoteague Island, a bucolic summer getaway destination full of quiet walks and lush scenery.
Jun 28th, 2006 · The price of gold is shooting up and one modern-day miner has an ambitious plan to get to the ore still left in one of California's boomtown mines. But residents of that town, now a bucolic tourist draw, are wary of the environmental cost.
May 24th, 2006 · Reverting to a lifestyle of living off the land isn't so unusual. But one Massachusetts family is living that ideal in a less-than-bucolic setting. The family of four is gardening, living by candlelight and forgoing most modern conveniences in a low-income, inner-city neighborhood in Springfield. Karen Brown of member station WFCR reports.
Aug 24th, 2005 · The Chumash band of Santa Ynez Mission Indians want to use profits from its casino to expand its land holdings and business ventures. But tribal officials are battling some of the rich and famous residents of the bucolic Santa Ynez Valley, near Santa Barbara.
May 4th, 2005 · Ishiguro, born in Great Britain, is a master of the very English genre of quiet desperation. Never Let Me Go, is a deceptively simple tale set in a bucolic private school that eventually reveals its horrible secret.