848; 05 Cabrini Quakers; 01 Rare Ivory-billed Woodpecker; 02 Saving Snakes from Development; 03 Gwendolyn Brooks Birthday Celebration; 04 Stories on Stage: Morning, Noon, and Night
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- 848
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- 05 Cabrini Quakers
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- 01 Rare Ivory-billed Woodpecker
- Producing Organization
- WBEZ
- Contributing Organization
- WBEZ (Chicago, Illinois)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/50-56n031mg
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- 05 Marlene PedigoMinister Steve PedigoMinister In 1976, Steve and Marlene Pedigo founded a Quaker ministry in Chicago's Cabrini-Green public housing complex. And almost three decades later, they're moving on. The couple joins us to reflect on their work, their faith, and the changing neighborhood.
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- Episode part 2 of 2
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- 01 Steve SullivanManager of Scientific Collections, Chicago Academy of Sciences Gianofer FieldsProducer and Correspondent, Eight Forty-Eight It was believed to be extinct in North America. But the ivory-billed woodpecker was sighted in the cypress swamps of Arkansas in spring 2005. And closer to home, there's a century-old specimen at Chicago's Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.
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- 02 Eastern Massassauga rattlesnakes used to be plentiful in the upper Midwest, but they've become a rarity. And as the Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Chris McCarus reports, rapid development is threatening the only remaining healthy population. Music Button David and Steve Gordon, Rainbow Hoop, World Groove Mix, Volume One (Sequoia, 2004)
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- 03 Late Illinois poet laureate Gwendolyn Brooks would've turned 88 today. And more than two thousand Chicago Public School students are celebrating her legacy with a mass poetry reading in Washington Park on Chicago's south side. Music Button: Kaskade, Close, Mid/downtempo Sampler Number Four (Om, 2002)
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- 04 Actress Mary Beth Fisher reads an excerpt from In the Gloaming by Alice Elliott Dark. It's one of three stories in "Morning, Noon, and Night," the last program in the 2005 live performance season of Chicago Public Radio's Stories on Stage. The other stories are Enough, written by Alice McDermott and read by Barbara Robertson, and Yma Dream, written by Thomas Meehan and read by Bruce Norris. Music Button: Pat Metheny, Half Life of Absolution, The Road to You: Recorded Live in Europe (Geffen, 1993)
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Distributor: WBEZ
Producing Organization: WBEZ
Production Unit: 848
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ-FM) and Vocalo.org
Identifier: 40748 (WBEZ)
Format: Data CD: CD-R
Generation: Master
Duration: 01:00:00
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- Chicago: “848; 05 Cabrini Quakers; 01 Rare Ivory-billed Woodpecker; 02 Saving Snakes from Development; 03 Gwendolyn Brooks Birthday Celebration; 04 Stories on Stage: Morning, Noon, and Night,” WBEZ, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 25, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-50-56n031mg.
- MLA: “848; 05 Cabrini Quakers; 01 Rare Ivory-billed Woodpecker; 02 Saving Snakes from Development; 03 Gwendolyn Brooks Birthday Celebration; 04 Stories on Stage: Morning, Noon, and Night.” WBEZ, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 25, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-50-56n031mg>.
- APA: 848; 05 Cabrini Quakers; 01 Rare Ivory-billed Woodpecker; 02 Saving Snakes from Development; 03 Gwendolyn Brooks Birthday Celebration; 04 Stories on Stage: Morning, Noon, and Night. Boston, MA: WBEZ, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-50-56n031mg