Today, we’re thinking about Marcyliena Morgan, a keeper extraordinaire, a linguistic anthropologist who founded and championed the Hip Hop Archive at Harvard. Marcyliena Hazel Morgan was born in Chicago, May 8, 1950 and passed away September 28, 2025. We were fortunate to interview her in 2018 as part of the opening story in our NPR series The Keepers.

The worlds of a young Canadian immigrant, an Italian pasta-making family, and a 70-year-old survivor of the Armenian Genocide converge in this story of the San Francisco Treat.

In the 1950s, some ingenious Russians, hungry for jazz, boogie woogie, rock n roll, and other  music forbidden in the Soviet Union, devised a way to record banned bootlegged music on exposed X-ray film salvaged from hospital waste bins and archives.

Family, Farming & Filmmaking

Throughout the islands and out of way places in Scotland — along the rural roads, at the end of driveways, out on their own with no house nearby — you’ll find eggs, fresh baked bread, homemade jams, cabbage, cauliflower, scones, Victoria Sponge Cake, hand-knitted hats, you name it. If someone can make it, bake it, grow it, sew it, it may turn up for sale in an “Honesty Box.”

Willie Nelson and Dallas-born actress Robin Wright, along with some wild and extraordinary tellers, take us across Texas and share some of their Hidden Kitchen stories. Gas station tacos, ice houses, Chili Queens, Stubb’s BBQ, cowboy kitchens, car wash kitchens, space food. With special guests Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Kinky Friedman, Joe Nick Patoski,  and so many more.

It is with deep sadness and much love that we write to tell you that Amazing Grace Mulloy died on May 2, surrounded by her devoted family. Grace was 101-years-old and bowled til the end, making a final farewell to the lanes just two weeks before she passed. 

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