Jan 8th, 2009 · Jim Caito's family has been working the shores of northern California since the 1880s. But the once-bustling scene outside Caito Fisheries is long gone, a casualty of attempts to keep fisheries alive through a quota system.
Sep 18th, 2008 · The star of Apollo 13 and Pollock heads back to the 1880s in his latest film. He discusses what it was like directing himself, lugging around heavy guns and working with his father.
Jan 18th, 2008 · Despite its name, the newly restored Eureka Opera House hosts all kinds of musicians. Cowboy poet, singer and songwriter Richard Elloyan performs a song about the opera house, which was originally built during the mining boom in 1880.
Jan 27th, 2007 · In Solon, Maine, a retired nurse wants to turn family property into an environmentally friendly cemetery. The land has been in her family since the 1880s.
Jun 2nd, 2004 · Historian Mark Perry's new book, Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America, details a 15-month period in the mid-1880s when President Ulysses S. Grant and novelist Mark Twain were writing two American masterpieces. Perry believes Grant's Personal Memoirs and Twain's Huckleberry Finn reveal a fixation the two men shared: the legacy of the Civil War and slavery. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Perry.
Oct 3rd, 2003 · As part of our series Lost & Found Sound, The Kitchen Sisters -- Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva -- introduce us to the tradition of brass marching bands playing at funerals in San Francisco's Chinatown. Traditionally, Chinese like lots of noise at funerals. This was enhanced in Hong Kong in the 1880s, when they heard British military brass bands playing. Starting about a 100 years ago, the brass band became part of Chinatown's funeral rituals. We learn who plays and what it means to the community, where the tradition is still alive. And we highlight one band, the Green Street Mortuary Band.