Coast to Coast with Clay Jenkinson: Nolan’s 2024 Highlight Reel — Video Dispatch
Tuesday, December 31 2024
Nolan Johnson, Listening to America’s intrepid videographer and podcast editor, shares highlights of his adventures with Clay while traversing the country from Long Island, New York, to the source of the Mississippi River to Monterey, California, on LTA’s 2024 Travels with Charley/Steinbeck Tour.
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Family Favorites: Christmas Cookie Recipes
Tuesday, December 24 2024
Clay and his good friend David Horton share their favorite family cookie recipes in this week’s special Christmas edition of the LTA podcast.
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A Visit to Ed Ricketts’ Pacific Biological Laboratories — Video Dispatch
Tuesday, December 17 2024
Clay talks about John Steinbeck’s friendship with marine biologist Ed Ricketts and visits Ricketts’ Pacific Biological Laboratories on Cannery Row in Monterey, California.
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A Visit to Medgar Evers’ Home — Video Dispatch
Tuesday, November 19 2024
Clay visits Medgar Evers’ home, now a national monument. Medgar Evers was killed by a white supremacist here, in front of his house, on June 12, 1963.
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John Steinbeck’s Beloved Monterey Bay — Video Dispatch
Monday, November 11 2024
As Clay traveled across the country, he stopped at John Steinbeck’s beloved Monterey Bay, home of the author’s great friend Ed Ricketts and the inspiration for many unforgettable characters immortalized in his novels.
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Touring Glendive, Montana’s “Biblical History” Dinosaur and Fossil Museum — Video Dispatch
Monday, November 04 2024
The Dinosaur and Fossil Museum in eastern Montana presents its detailed fossil displays in the context of “Biblical history.”
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The Story of Red Lake Nation — Video Dispatch
Monday, October 28 2024
Clay shares some of the unique history of the Red Lake Indian Reservation, which covers 1,260 square miles in Northern Minnesota.
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The Source of the Mighty Mississippi — Video Dispatch
Monday, October 21 2024
Our intrepid traveler courageously wades the waters at the source of the Mississippi, America’s second-longest river. It flows 2,350 miles from its source at Lake Itasca in Minnesota through the heart of the continental United States to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Reflections at the Little Bighorn Battlefield — Video Dispatch
Tuesday, October 15 2024
Listening to America’s “Chief Scout,” Frank Lister and Clay visit the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, where George Custer’s 7th Cavalry met its fate against Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors in June 1876.
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Where the American West Begins — Video Dispatch
Tuesday, October 08 2024
Clay stops on the banks of the mighty Missouri River, the boundary of America’s east and west. It is here that John Steinbeck noted, “The two sides of the river might well be one thousand miles apart.”
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