by kitchensisters | Oct 9, 2018 | Podcast, The Keepers
Last month, The Keepers premiered on NPR’s Morning Edition. Story #3 took us to Cinémathèque Française in Paris where we met its legendary founder and keeper, Henri Langlois. Now listen to the “Director’s Cut” version of the story on our podcast, The Kitchen...
by kitchensisters | Oct 4, 2018 | The Keepers
Next week The Kitchen Sisters launch Keeper of the Day, a year-long series of daily social media stories chronicling keepers from around the world. Join us in telling their stories. Call our Keeper Hotline: 415-496-9049 or write us here:...
by kitchensisters | Oct 1, 2018 | The Keepers
Our Keepers story, The Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky made it onto Greil Marcus’ Real Life Top Ten in Rolling Stone! And now our day, our month, our year is made… 4. Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva), “The Pack Horse Librarians of...
by kitchensisters | Sep 24, 2018 | The Keepers
The Keepers Story #2: The Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky aired earlier this month on NPR’s Morning Edition. (Greil Marcus even wrote about it in Rolling Stone). Now listen to the “Director’s Cut” version of the story on our podcast,...
by kitchensisters | Sep 19, 2018 | The Keepers
Here’s a little sneak preview of the story. Listen Special Thanks: At the Cinémathéque Française: Costa-Gavras (President), Frédéric Bonnaud (Director), Laurent Mannoni, Céline Ruivo, Elodie Dufour, Sylvie Vallon. In Paris: Agnès Varda, Rosalie Varda, Barbet...
by kitchensisters | Sep 13, 2018 | The Keepers
The Keepers: Story #2 During the Depression, those horrible years after 1929, the Appalachians were hit hard. Coal mines were being shut down. Many people were living in dire poverty with no hope. In 1936, as part of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the Kentucky WPA...
by kitchensisters | Sep 6, 2018 | Hidden Kitchens, Hidden World of Girls, Lost & Found Sound, The Keepers, The Making Of
With each series we do we have theme music, a sonic signature, that ushers in the stories on NPR and our podcast, The Kitchen Sisters Present… For our Peabody Award-winning series, Lost & Found Sound — we created a mix of a Tony Schwartz recording, Music in Marble...
by kitchensisters | Sep 5, 2018 | The Keepers
SPECIAL THANKS: At The Hiphop Archive at Harvard: Dr. Marcyliena Morgan, Executive Director and Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies + Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center...
by kitchensisters | Sep 5, 2018 | Podcast, The Keepers
This week, we launch a new series — The Keepers — stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians. Keepers of the culture and the cultures and collections they keep. Guardians of history, large and small. Protectors of the free...
by kitchensisters | Aug 28, 2018 | Lost & Found Sound, Podcast
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS In 2000 we received a call to the NPR Lost & Found Sound Hotline from Willard Mayes, a member of the Antique Fan Collectors Association, who was concerned about the vanishing sound of electric fans. Willard leads...
