Join NHPR for special programming Thanksgiving week!

Wednesday, November 25
9 - 10 am
The Exchange: New Hampshire's Role in Thanksgiving

Massachusetts gets a lot of credit around the founding of Thanksgiving, but what many don’t know is the role New Hampshire played. Our state’s first permanent resident, David Thompson, helped Miles Standish and many of the Pilgrims survive a few years after their historic feast. Then there’s Sarah Josepha Hale, who lobbied for over twenty years to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. We’ll learn more about New Hampshire’s role in this cherished holiday as well as how we’ve celebrated it over the years.

Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 26
9-10 am
Giving Thanks: A Celebration of Fall, Food and Gratitude

Giving Thanks is a music-and-stories celebration of Thanksgiving. Host John Birge creates a thoughtful, contemporary reflection on the meaning of the holiday. In this hour, they remember John Updike, who in 2002 read his poem “To a Skylark” for “Giving Thanks” and shared some holiday memories. Plus, All Things Considered commentator Kevin King reads a humorous holiday story he wrote and violinist Pam Frank plays Beethoven with her father, pianist Claude Frank.

11 am-1 pm
Splendid Table's Turkey Confidential 2009

Help is on the way for Thanksgiving cooks, kitchen helpers and dinner guests on this, the biggest cooking day of the year. Lynne Rossetto Kasper, award-winning host of The Splendid Table®, will be available to answer listener questions throughout the live, two-hour program. This year, Lynne will be joined by guests such as Cook's Illustrated's Christopher Kimball, road food warriors Jane and Michael Stern and wine entrepreneur Joshua Wesson. Phone lines (800-537-5252) will be open nationwide during the show.

2-3 pm
Story Corps’s National Day of Listening Call-In

It's a special edition of Talk of the Nation, with host Neal Conan and Dave Isay of StoryCorps.

8-9 pm
Harvest Home: Thanksgiving with Dale Warland Singers

Help is on the way for Thanksgiving cooks, kitchen helpers and their guests on this, the biggest cooking day of the year! On Thanksgiving morning, join Lynne Rossetto Kasper, the award-winning host of public radio's national food show, The Splendid Table®, for real time turkey triage during the live broadcast of Turkey Confidential 2008. This year, Lynne will be joined by a number of special guests who may include Cook's Illustrated's Christopher Kimball, road food warriors Jane and Michael Stern, wine entrepreneur Joshua Wesson and style guru Isaac Mizrahi.

Friday, November 27
2008 Third Coast Festival Broadcast
Hour 1: 9-10 am
Hour 2: noon - 1pm

Hosted by award-winning writer, producer and humorist Gwen Macsai, the featured documentaries, all winners of the ninth annual TC / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition, prove just how powerful radio can be. Innovative and insightful, the stories engage, provoke, entertain and transport listeners, proving that all one needs to discover new worlds is a little box and an antenna. In addition to showcasing the winning documentaries, the "2009 Third Coast Broadcast" includes interviews with the winning producers, who give a glimpse into the art of audio storytelling, a profile of the year's Audio Luminary Award winner, and highlights from the annual Awards Ceremony.

We will be performing planned maintenance work on WEVO, 89.1 FM in Concord, this evening, November 17, starting at 9 pm. Maintenance is expected to take about one hour. This will temporarily affect reception on WEVO and most of NHPR's translator stations.

The top stories, shows and blog posts on NHPR.org last week:

1) Socrates Exchange: Are individual rights more important than the common good?

2) NHPR News: Fight Over Blog Comments Hits High Court

3) NHPR News: Honoring the Sacrifice: One Soldier Recounts His War

4) NHPR News: The Stuff Hospitals Throw Away

5) Socrates Exchange: Has technology helped us or hurt us?

6) Word of Mouth: Subprime Student Loan Crisis

7) NHPR News: Wolfeboro’s New Sewage Treatment System Brings New Problems

8) The Front Porch: The History of Skiing in the Granite State

9) The Exchange: Health Care Reform Hits Home

10) NHPR News: The Good News/Bad News of the New Hampshire Economy

We're asking for your help. On the evenings of November 17th and 18th we’ll be conducting Listener Advisory Boards, where people like you visit the station in Concord, and sit down and talk with us about what you like and dislike about our programming. The meetings are at 5:30 pm and 7:30 pm, you can choose which time you’d like to be here.

This won’t take long, we promise. The groups will last around 90 minutes. We're interested in your opinion and we’ll make it worth your time by paying you a small stipend for participating: $25. It’s the least we can do for your precious time and input.

If this sounds interesting, please e-mail group coordinator Lisa Riker at lisariker at jacobsmedia dot com to let us know. Please provide your daytime/nighttime phone numbers as well. Lisa will get in touch with you very soon.

Whether you decide to participate or not, thanks for listening to NHPR.

As an NHPR listener, you have the rare opportunity to help us shape this station and refine our statewide service. I hope you’ll join me at the next sounding board forum, this Thursday in Keene at the Toadstool Bookshop in Colony Hill Marketplace. I’ll be there at 6pm. I’m looking forward to meeting you and hearing your thoughts about NHPR.

NHPR Events: Sounding Board in Keene

The top stories, shows and blog posts on NHPR.org last week:

1) NHPR News: Fight Over Blog Comments Hits High Court

2) The Exchange: The Chicago Gun Case

3) NHPR News: The Stuff Hospitals Throw Away

4) NHPR News: Some Companies Declare a “No-Layoff” Zone

5) Word of Mouth: A Transgender Candidate

6) Writers on a New England Stage: Barbara Kingsolver

7) NHPR News: Dartmouth Doctors Say Drug Labels Leave Out Essential Information

8) Word of Mouth: The Indie Blog Curse

9) Socrates Exchange: Are individual rights more important than the common good?

10) Working It Out: Relief for Long-Term Unemployed; Another Boost for Homebuyers

An NHPR cake, designed by our in-house cake artisans, Cheyenne Wright, Jen Nathan and Avishay Artsy.

Join NHPR for special Veterans Day programming on Wednesday, November 11.

Morning Edition and All Things Considered

NPR News observes Veterans Day this year with a series of veteran profiles -- one from each of the U.S. wars in the last 60 years, from World War II to Iraq and Afghanistan. In the profiles, veterans will share what it was like for them to return home and re-enter society.

9 am (and again at 8 pm)

Boots on the Ground: Esprit de Corps
Brian Turner, infantry team leader with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Unit in Iraq, talks about his book of poetry is "Here, Bullet." We talk to soldiers about Helen Benedict's book "The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq." Tyler Boudreau, an Iraq War veteran and 12-year veteran of the Marine Corps, explains why he resigned his commission due to reservations over the legitimacy of that war. We meet Sergeant 1st Class Toby Nunn. After two tours of duty in Iraq, he now works for Soldiers' Angels, a nonprofit that supports veterans and deployed military personnel and their families. Johnthan Pieslak is joined by Marines and soldiers to talk about their favorite combat songs. And John Wroblewski Sr. travels to Iraq to see where his son, 2nd Lt. John "JT" Wroblewski, died on April 6, 2004, in Ramadi.

Noon

Boots on the Ground: Covering the War

Philip Gourevitch talks about the Errol Morris' film "Standard Operating Procedure" about the American soldiers at Abu Ghraib. Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq from June 2003 to June 2004 General Ricardo Sanchez discusses his experiences at Abu Ghraib. Mike Hoyt, executive editor of the "Columbia Journalism Review" talks about his work on "Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It." Brian Palmer was embedded for CNN three times with the 1st Battalion/Second Marines between 2004 and 2006. And Deborah Scranton, director of "The War Tapes", talks about giving New Hampshire National Guard soldiers the chance to record their experiences in combat in Iraq for one year.

You can hear more of the "Boots on the Ground" series this month on Friday Journal.

Here at NHPR, we are keenly interested in your thoughts and opinions about our programming. We believe strongly that your input is key to keeping NHPR a vital source for excellent audience service in New Hampshire and beyond. As part of our commitment to keeping in touch with you, we periodically conduct surveys to gather your feedback about our programming.

This questionnaire is short and will take you less than 10 minutes to complete, but the information you provide us will be invaluable in helping us understand the impact of our work. Thank you for taking this time to complete this short survey, at http://www.jacobsmedia.com/nhpr

The top stories, shows and blog posts on NHPR.org last week:

1) Word of Mouth: Refusing to Join Facebook

2) NHPR News: Bethlehem Residents Have Higher Rates of Cancer

3) Word of Mouth: Amongst the Ruins

4) Socrates Exchange: Are individual rights more important than the common good?

5) The Exchange: The Impact of Unemployment

6) NHPR News: Lynch Defends Lead Paint Cuts

7) NHPR News: Flu Vaccine Unpopular Among Pregnant Women

8) The Exchange: The Other Side of Immigration

9) NHPR News: Drive Through Flu Shots

10) The Exchange: Making Sense of the Census