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Black Portsmouth (REBROADCAST)

By Laura Knoy on Friday, January 2, 2004.

Many New Hampshire slaves and, later, free blacks lived in the Port City. We'll hear their stories and where you can see reminders of that history in Portsmouth today. Laura's guests are Valerie Cunningham, founder and president of the Portsmouth Black History Trail, and Peter Michaud, Regional Director of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.

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Food Week: The Blanchards

By John Walters on Friday, January 2, 2004.

We conclude Food Week with the Blanchards. Bob and Melinda Blanchard live in the Upper Valley and run a restaurant on the Caribbean island of Anguilla. They've written a cookbook called, At Blanchard's Table. They'll talk about their two homes, their lives in the food business, and how they wound up running a restaurant on a tropical island.
This originally aired in July 2003.

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Dont Feed the Deer

By Rosemary Conroy on Friday, January 2, 2004.

This is a great time of year to give a helping hand to birds. But Rosemary Conroy explains why you should limit the feed to our feathered friends.

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Evangelical Christians Use Schools for Preaching

By Jeanne Baron on Friday, January 2, 2004.

Religious groups in Maine have started taking advantage of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

The Court has decided that religious groups are just like any other non-profit organization when it comes to using school facilities after class.

Still schools remain a contested ground in the ongoing debate over freedom of speech and the separation of church and state.

Maine Public Radio's Jeanne Baron traveled from Fort Kent to Lewiston to visit two Christian groups who count on the schools in their effort to bring their Christian message of salvation to the very young.

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