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The Radio Reading Room introduces a podcast just for kids, featuring kid friendly stories that entertain and inspire. In the next few episodes, we will be featuring some classic stories from the past. Many that children have grown up with for several generations. Read & Voiced by Myron Hieronymous Thomas.
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The Radio Reading Room features the Stories of Americana special Featured Segments feature stories and poetry from some of America's Classic authors, such as, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, Emily Dickerson, T.S. Elliot and many more. The program is hosted and stories read by long time broadcast veteran and voice artist Myron Hieronymous Thomas. First aired over WQSA AM radio in Sarasota Florida in 1989 the program fast became a favorite of listeners and participants.
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In this episode we continue with our theme of stories that invoke the Thanksgiving Spirit. Today featuring 'Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen' by O. Henry. This a short story that first appeared in his 1907 collection, The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million. The story takes place around the turn of the 20th century, when many people ha…
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In this episode we share a story written by J. T. Trowbridge (September 18, 1827 – February 12, 1916) In this short Thanksgiving story, Trowbridge takes us back to 19th century Boston to experience the sharing of the Thanksgiving spirit by two strangers of differing generations. We experience a much different era, when newspaper boys sold their pap…
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In this episode we share a story written by J. T. Trowbridge (September 18, 1827 – February 12, 1916) In this short Thanksgiving story, Trowbridge takes us back to 19th century Boston to experience the sharing of the Thanksgiving spirit by two strangers of differing generations. We experience a much different era, when newspaper boys sold their pap…
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In this episode we feature The Furnished Room by O.Henry. In New York, a young man rents a furnished room from a woman and enquires about the room’s previous tenants. In particular, he asks the housekeeper a question he has asked of others many times before: whether a young girl, an actress with reddish gold hair and a mole near her left eyebrow, h…
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In this Episode we feature "A Ghost Story" by Mark Twain. The story is based on a true event that occurred in 1869. The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous archaeological hoaxes in American history. It was a 10-foot-tall, roughly 3,000 pound purported "petrified man", uncovered on October 16, 1869, by workers digging a well behind the barn of …
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In this Episode we present Part One of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" a 1820 short story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Irving wrote the story while living in Birmingham, England. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest exam…
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In this Episode we present Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. "The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a distraught lover who is paid a mysterious visit by a talking raven. The lover, often id…
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The Master of the Macabre Edgar Allen Poe's The Masque of the Red Death starts our series of Halloween Classic Tales. "The Masque of the Red Death" (originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dan…
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In this episode we feature "A Horseman in the Sky" a heavily anthologized short story by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. It was published on April 14, 1889 under the title The Horseman in the Sky in the Sunday edition of The Examiner, a San Francisco newspaper owned by William Randolph Hearst. It is set during the Americ…
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