Howell Creek Radio
From an unlicensed transmitter deep within the forests of northern Minnesota, Howell Creek Radio transmits weekly addresses combining weather, personal yarns, shipping reports, poetry and literature. Read transcripts and get more info at howellcreekradio.com. **No Longer Being Updated**
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 8 minutes
- Episodes
- 96
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2014
Moving Stations
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Radio address for March 23, 2013. Running to work in the morning with a heavy bag on your shoulder, and stopping by the train station.
Airbrush
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Radio address for Saturday, March 16, 2013. We all spread out a little bit more with the passing of time and the coming of extra daylight.
Fireside Banter
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Well, we really coloured outside our usual lines with this one! Trixie and I sat down by the fire to discuss our podcast and the survey results – the only time…
One Mile
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Radio address for Saturday, Mar 2, 2013. I discuss the possibilities and limitations inherent in becoming, and trying to remain, a landed pro…
Small Place
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Radio address for Feb 23, 2013. Winter gets repetitive; it is a prison, a cave, a cocoon.
Scoop and Gallon
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Radio address for Jan 5th, 2013. The new year marks the end of Swaledale’s trials, and finds us with more tea than we know what to do with.
Running Thick
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Radio address for Saturday, December 15, 2012. There are few things that can persuade us to go for a run in the cold, but they invariably fin…
Good Fortune
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Radio address for December 3rd, 2012. I went for a walk in the woods by the cabin on a moonlit night.
Snap
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Radio address for Nov. 24, 2012. Every year at about this time I remember the winters I’m glad I’ve left far behind.
The College
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Radio address for November 11, 2012. I elaborate upon my ideal of a college and the search for a lifestyle of literacy.
Roundy Wells
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Radio address for Nov. 3, 2012. I contemplate going to college late in life.
Maple Talk
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Radio address for October 27, 2012: the weather gets colder, and we celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving.
Rustling Squirrels
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Radio address for October 20, 2012, in which I try to describe what inspiration sounds like.
Perch
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Radio address for August 19, 2012: a short memory of a long discussion last May, and my search for a new secret bunker.
The Sound of Music
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Radio address for August 4, 2012, about an outdoor concert at the Lake Harriet bandshell, and the planes flying overhead.
Cave Swept Clean
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Radio address for July 22, 2012. The garage having remained a dusty shrine to the long construction project, we conceived of the idea of ho…
Once Around the Lake
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Radio address for July 7, 2012, about a reunion in the Northwoods with some men I haven’t seen in a long time.
Red Jacket, Silver Curtain
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Radio address for June 23rd, 2012, inspired by our recent visit to family in Niagara Falls.
Deities in Exile
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Radio address for June 6, 2012, where Trixie and I long to go on pilgrimages, and in fact do so.