Ventriloquists from around the country get together in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky every year for their convention. Harold Crocker was one of them. He's only missed one convention in 37 years. Now he’s 75 and retired from his real jobs, but he's still not ready to give up the one he’s loved the most.

Harold & Butch

Mel spends his days walking through the Beebe Woods in Falmouth, MA part of a protected land area. He knows the woods well, every fallen tree, every bend in the trail, every shortcut. His job is to maintain these trails.

Mel Maps the Woods

Sarah is a radio producer and multimedia storyteller and longtime investigator. She produces stories for public radio and specializes in digital storytelling, devising and producing multimedia for the non-profit sector as a way of improving the receptivity and messaging of an organization's work, building arsenals of stories that often go untold.

A large body of her investigative and documentary work has focused on immigrant communities around the U.S. and has been published in numerous reports by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Brennan Center for Justice and the Center for American Progress.

Sarah formally trained in radio at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies after which she worked with Atlantic Public Media on Cape Cod and with the Peabody Award winning Transom.org, while reporting for the local NPR station, WCAI. She has also reported, written and produced for the WNYC newsroom and for the New York Press Club Award winning political news website, WNYC's It's a Free Country. In 2012, she won a PRNDI award for Best Multimedia Presentation for WNYC.

Her work has taken her around the globe and has been aired on NPR's All Things Considered and Weekend Edition and other national programs including Studio 360 and The Story. Her work has also aired on several public radio stations around the country, from KQED in L.A. to WGBH in Boston. She has taught radio with WNYC's Radio Rookies, a youth radio project in New York City and at NYU.

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