Our Americana
Our Americana is a podcast that explores unique small towns across America and examines the stories that impact, cultivate, and challenge community. New episodes coming in August 2023.
Episodes
January 31, 2024 • 3 mins
Catch up on all things Studio BOTH/AND for the month of February (and beyond).
This month's news:
• New tours and events
• Unsafe Spaces update
• The Karen & Ellen Letters update
• True Crime Bullsh** update
• New projects
• Our Americana update
• Studio BOTH/AND Launch Party follow-up in The Berkshires this October
• What's happening on Patreon this month
Links:
• True Crime Podcast Festival, use promo code JOSH for 15% off
• St...
This month's news:
• New tours and events
• Unsafe Spaces update
• The Karen & Ellen Letters update
• True Crime Bullsh** update
• New projects
• Our Americana update
• Studio BOTH/AND Launch Party follow-up in The Berkshires this October
• What's happening on Patreon this month
Links:
• True Crime Podcast Festival, use promo code JOSH for 15% off
• St...
Mark as Played
September 13, 2018 • 19 mins
A man ahead of his time, built an entire town around the timber industry. A century later, the town is building itself around and in support of a local nuisance. Finding comedy in stress, it turns out, has been a decades-long tradition in Longview, Washington. Plus, the best way to survive a volcano eruption; and how fun, industry, and ecology can thrive in symbiosis.
This is a Studio BOTH/AND production:
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This is a Studio BOTH/AND production:
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Mark as Played
August 30, 2018 • 68 mins
A four-person support group, for parents of children with autism, inspires an entire community to become Canada's first Autism-Friendly Town.
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Written, edited, and produced by Josh Hallmark Guests: Joan Chaisson, Cathy Lomond, Cindy Goudie-LaPolla, Wanda Merrigan, Candace Ma...
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Written, edited, and produced by Josh Hallmark Guests: Joan Chaisson, Cathy Lomond, Cindy Goudie-LaPolla, Wanda Merrigan, Candace Ma...
Mark as Played
August 2, 2018 • 60 mins
In this collaboration with The Story Behind podcast, we explore the story behind Roadside Attractions. We take a look at how three Roadside Attractions have impacted and been impacted by community: including the world's largest beagle, the world's (former) largest cherry pie pan, and the Unclaimed Baggage Center (a museum of lost luggage).
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This is a Studio BOTH/AND production:
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Mark as Played
March 30, 2018 • 52 mins
When a rural town's only high school is in jeopardy, the community comes together to change it in some very radical ways. And then the school, in turn, changes the community.
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Written, edited, and produced by Josh Hallmark
Music by Jon Luc Hefferman, Kai Engel, Mike Durek, Squ...
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Written, edited, and produced by Josh Hallmark
Music by Jon Luc Hefferman, Kai Engel, Mike Durek, Squ...
Mark as Played
March 15, 2018 • 43 mins
A tornado forever changes the rural town of Greensburg in the most unexpected way. And we separate ideas and movements from the constraints of politics.
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Written, edited, and produced by Josh Hallmark
Research Assistance by Torey Griffith
Music by Saito, Chris Zabriskie, Kai...
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Written, edited, and produced by Josh Hallmark
Research Assistance by Torey Griffith
Music by Saito, Chris Zabriskie, Kai...
Mark as Played
March 1, 2018 • 73 mins
A rural town, known as The Troll Capital of the World, unites over the attempted banning of a book reading and its very close-to-home consequences.
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Written, edited, and produced by Josh Hallmark
Research by Vanessa York, Nicola Jezequel, Shannon DeFilippas, Jennifer Menges
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Written, edited, and produced by Josh Hallmark
Research by Vanessa York, Nicola Jezequel, Shannon DeFilippas, Jennifer Menges
...
Mark as Played
July 28, 2017 • 54 mins
We head to South Florida to take a very candid look at the struggles of drug addiction and recovery through the lens of a listener.
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Music by: El Perro del Mar, Chris Zabriskie, Lee Rosevere, and Freya Ridings
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Music by: El Perro del Mar, Chris Zabriskie, Lee Rosevere, and Freya Ridings
Mark as Played
June 1, 2017 • 53 mins
Hot off the heels of #VanLife, we stick to the open road and explore American Roadside Attractions. Manatees, vacuums, Big Fish, and some listener stories.
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Music by: Drake Stafford, Broke For Free, Three Chain Links, Maxim Kornyshev, Will Bangs, and Cloudjumper
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Music by: Drake Stafford, Broke For Free, Three Chain Links, Maxim Kornyshev, Will Bangs, and Cloudjumper
Mark as Played
May 19, 2017 • 49 mins
Josh catches up with the four #VanLifers who he chatted with last July. Jennifer and Josh talk about the privilege of experience. Alex finds solace and liberation in a disconnected life. And we find out whether Giddi and Jace made it back out onto the road after having their baby.
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This is a Studio BOTH/AND production:
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Mark as Played
April 29, 2017 • 54 mins
Seth tries to uncover how exactly the epidemics began and continue to occur. Jesse comes through recovery and starts the long road to creating a new life for himself. Holli, once a beacon for hope in Austin, struggles with the intersections of religion, media, and welfare; and then ultimately loses hope, herself.
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This is a Studio BOTH/AND production:
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Mark as Played
April 20, 2017 • 37 mins
We pause the story in Austin, to talk more personally about HIV.
Music by Chris Zabriskie & Luke Pigott.
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Music by Chris Zabriskie & Luke Pigott.
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Mark as Played
April 1, 2017 • 35 mins
In a small, rural Indiana town, what started as a drug epidemic became an HIV crisis. Government, religion, public health, the community, and the media coalesce in their various attempts to help a town in peril.
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Mark as Played
March 22, 2017 • 46 mins
In a town with no radio or cellular waves, with no wifi or cable, life is wonderfully quiet. We examine our strange relationships with technology and meet a woman who suffers from electromagnetic sensitivity so bad, she spent a year living in a Faraday cage.
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This is a Studio BOTH/AND production:
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Mark as Played
March 14, 2017 • 45 mins
In a rural Iowa town rooted in Transcendental Meditation and home to the microcommunity movement, community-building and intention have been redefined.
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Mark as Played
February 28, 2017 • 42 mins
A northern Minnesota town, struggling to find its economic identity, gets a little help from an unlikely resident and his uncanny routine. Plus, turtle racing.
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Mark as Played
November 30, 2016 • 31 mins
Our Americana listener Adrienne walks us through her hometown. We talk about how tragedy shaped her, politics and conversation in North Carolina, and life in a town full of memories. Plus, a song about bears.
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Our Americana is produced & hosted by Josh Hallmark.
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Mark as Played
November 26, 2016 • 43 mins
In 2013, hundred dollar bills started mysteriously appearing throughout Salem, Oregon; in diaper boxes, tip cups, people's cars. This is the story of the mysterious person hiding them, and how their generosity became contagious.
This week's guests:
Heather Martin, JoAnn Culbertson, and Rob Whelan
Our Americana is produced & hosted by Josh Hallmark.
Learn more at www.ouramericanapodcast.com
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This week's guests:
Heather Martin, JoAnn Culbertson, and Rob Whelan
Our Americana is produced & hosted by Josh Hallmark.
Learn more at www.ouramericanapodcast.com
Sponsor Our Americana at www.patreon.com/o...
Mark as Played
October 27, 2016 • 72 mins
It's how this whole thing started. When we set off on the open road that May evening, we knew our lives were about to change; we had no idea exactly how. We had no idea exactly how much, how wonderfully; how it would take us to right here, right now.
#VanLife is, of course, bigger than just us and our travels. And so, I reached out to some of our fellow roadtrippers to see how life on the road has changed them and their perspective...
#VanLife is, of course, bigger than just us and our travels. And so, I reached out to some of our fellow roadtrippers to see how life on the road has changed them and their perspective...
Mark as Played
October 12, 2016 • 50 mins
A high desert ghost town is revitalized as an unincorporated, off-the-grid artists' community. In this ungoverned, un-policed town of 219, law enforcement consists of a self-appointed, five-person Intervention and Safety Team. This town and its governing by volunteerism will change the way you think about law enforcement, guns, ethics, and their impact on community.
This is a Studio BOTH/AND production:
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Mark as Played
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