Quarter Miles Travel With Annita
The Adventure begins when you reach into your pocket. Each U.S. Mint Commemorative Quarter design tells a unique story. Each quarter is filled with pride, from hometown heroes to iconic landmarks; wildlife and nature to music and culture.
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Dogs on the Road: The South’s Best Cities for Travel With Your Pup (opens the original)
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Radio segment from Mornings on Maine With Bill Maine Dogs on the Road: The South’s Best Cities for Travel With Your Pup Pet travel stats, airline and national park rules, and five great Southern getaways for you and your dog Annita and her English Lab . By Annita Stokes Thomas If there’s a dog riding shotgun in your car more often these days, you’re not imagining it. Americans are traveling with their pets in record numbers, and the hospitality industry is scrambling to keep up. Here’s a look at
Episode 56: The Three Fifths Compromise (opens the original)
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The Three Fifths Compromise What it was and who benefited COLD OPEN [SOUND: Quill scratching on parchment. A gavel, once, distant. Silence.] ANNITA (V.O.): In the summer of 1787, in a locked room in Philadelphia, fifty-five men sat down to build a government. And for weeks, in that room, they talked about hundreds of thousands of human beings — argued about them, bargained over them, measured them, weighed their worth against tax revenue and political power — and not one of those human beings wa
Episode 55: Togo The Alaskan Sled Dog (opens the original)
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Togo – The Alaskan Sled Dog “The Dog They Left Out of the Story” The Story of Togo In January of 1925, in the dead of an Alaskan winter, a twelve-year-old dog ran across frozen sea ice in the dark, in a blizzard, to save a town full of children he would never meet. History gave the credit to someone else. This is Quarter Miles Travel. I’m Annita. Today, we’re setting the record straight on Togo. Before there was Togo, there was Constance. She was a young Belgian woman who’d come to Nome in 1905,
Following Togo’s Trail: A Travel Guide to the 1925 Serum Run (opens the original)
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Following Togo’s Trail: A Travel Guide to the 1925 Serum Run Nome, the Diphtheria Outbreak, the Iditarod, and Where to Find Togo Today Every hero has a version of the story the world remembers, and a version that’s actually true. For Togo, the twelve-year-old sled dog who led his team across the most dangerous 260 miles of the 1925 race to save the children of Nome, Alaska, those two versions couldn’t be further apart. On a recent episode of Quarter Miles Travel, “The Dog They Left Out of the St
Episode 54: Horace King – The Prince of Bridge Builders (opens the original)
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Episode 54 Horace King – The Prince of Bridge Builders “The Man Who Built the South’s Bridges” The Story of Horace King [SOUND: River current, low ambient water sound. A single hammer strike on wood, echoing. Then silence.] ANNITA (V.O.) Somewhere along the Chattahoochee River, there’s a bridge that isn’t there anymore. Most of them aren’t. Floods took some. War took others. Time took the rest. But the man who built them? History almost took him too. [SOUND: River fades under.] This is Quarter M
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