Town Meeting Audio

Mr. Olocho came to the U.S. from Kenya after receiving a green card through the immigration lottery. The Nashua Adult Learning Center helped him prepare for and achieve his U.S. high school equivalency degree.

Each year, the Third Coast International Audio Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to U.S. airwaves in a special two-hour program. Hosted by award-winning writer, producer and humorist Gwen Macsai, the Third Coast Festival broadcast features documentaries that 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.

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.

Guests

• J. Dennis Robinson, editor of SeascoastNH.com and author of several books on New Hampshire history, including Strawberry Banke: A Seaport Museum 400 Years in the Making
• Stuart Wallace, New Hampshire historian and Associate Professor of History at New Hampshire Technical Institute

This program was originally broadcast on November 26, 2008

American scientists recently crashed a probe into the moon and found lots of frozen water, a discovery that could have major implications for future space exploration. Also, the end is in sight for the shuttle program, and new images from a souped-up Hubble telescope give us the best pictures ever of the birth of a star. We’ll talk about these and other ‘out of this world’ news from space.

Guest

• John Gianforte, astronomy instructor for Granite State College and co-founder of the Astronomical Society of Northern New England

People in philanthropy expect charitable contributions to drop this year.

If it does, it will be the first time in the past 50 years that individual giving will fall in two consecutive years.

But New Hampshire Public Radio’s Dan Gorenstein spoke with several people who are bucking the trend.