Journeys Of Discovery With Tom Wilmer
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- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 7:22:56
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Sinopse
Tom Wilmers Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast, recorded live on-location across America and around the world- showcases the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine and spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts. We cover nouns and verbspeople, places, things, and actioneverything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls, and interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic. His feature, recorded live at Harland & Wolfe Shipyards in Belfast Northern Ireland, celebrating the centenary of the launch of the Titanic was the recipient of a Best Travel award from Outdoor Writers Association of California.
Episódios
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Hollywood flick How to Date Again filmed on Central Coast
25/04/2026 Duração: 23minA conversation with producer Matt Flanders about his creative journey and filming on location in Morro Bay and the Madonna Inn.
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Ybor City, Tampa’s legendary Cuban-cigar history
18/03/2026 Duração: 12minOur Associate Producer Jillian Parks shares Austin based writer, Jennifer Simonson’s tales of Ybor City’s Cuban connection
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Confederate defense of Mobile Bay, Alabama—exploring Fort Gaines today
16/03/2026 Duração: 19minA best-of-the best podcast from the Journeys of Discovery archives recorded on-location at Fort Gaines, Alabama.
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Nashville’s legendary Ryman Auditorium and Country Music Hall of Fame
06/03/2026 Duração: 23minAn exploration of the historic Ryman Auditorium and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
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Memphis Music legend Booker T. Jones shares life journey snippets
27/02/2026 Duração: 12minBooker T. Jones visits with correspondent Tom Wilmer at the North Carolina Folk Festival.
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South Dakota’s Wall Drug--America’s most popular roadside attraction
23/02/2026 Duração: 09minTed Hustead, grandson of Wall Drug's founders shares tales of how the tiny town's drugstore became the number one roadside attraction in America.
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How the Bermuda wound up with the world’s most elegant Naval warehouse
16/02/2026 Duração: 05minThe Royal British Navy’s North America and West Indies Station on Bermuda was long ago the largest naval base outside of the U.K.—with the Royal Naval Dockyards a key centerpiece.
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Organics and Regenerative AG rule at Booker Vineyard
06/02/2026 Duração: 41minJoin Correspondent Tom Wilmer for a visit with Hilary Graves, Vineyard Manager and Molly Lonborg, Winemaker with Booker Vineyard located off 46 West in Paso Robles, California.
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Missouri’s AT Still University—birthplace of osteopathic medicine
02/02/2026 Duração: 14minJoin Tom Wilmer at the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine at A.T. Still University in Kirksville, Missouri, where he visits with museum director Jason Haxton.
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Peering through time—1800s portraiture art at the Nelson Adkins Museum
24/01/2026 Duração: 14minA most fascinating conversation with Kate Crawford recorded back in 2016 when she was Assistant Curator of American Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Beechcraft aircraft Heritage Museum in Tullahoma, Tennessee
19/01/2026 Duração: 14minCharles Parish, President at the Beechcraft Heritage Museum located at the Tullahoma Regional Airport, shares cool stories about the museum and the iconic Beechcraft airplanes on display in Tullahoma, Tennessee.
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Prison guard, George DeVincenzi and his stories of Murders on Alcatraz
15/01/2026 Duração: 20minFormer Alcatraz prison guard recalls his time on the Rock.
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A memorable fall interlude at a Finnish lakeside resort
05/01/2026 Duração: 11min300 kilometers north of Helsinki, Finland, correspondent Tom Wilmer shares the tranquility of punkaharju-valtionhotelli, a lakeside resort and a chance meetup with former WWII Finnish resistance fighters who have come from across Finland for a reunion in the village of Punkaharju.
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Mike Wolfe’s amazing American Pickers life-journey
01/01/2026 Duração: 31minMike Wolfe visits with correspondent Tom Wilmer at his home in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee.
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“Tommy” recollects performing in 1946 film classic “It’s a Wonderful Life”
22/12/2025 Duração: 29minJimmy Hawkins, 6 year-old Tommy in It's A Wonderful Life, talks about working as a cast member and his subsequent Hollywood career
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WWI hero Alvin York--a conversation with his daughter Betsy York-Lowery
15/12/2025 Duração: 30minIn honor of Sergeant York’s birthday (born December 13, 1887) we re-share a visit to his family farmstead in Pall Mall, Tennessee for a visit with his daughter, Betsy and granddaughter Deborah.
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Mahatma Gandhi's century-old philosophy—now more timely than ever
10/12/2025 Duração: 51minIn Gandhi's footsteps, literally and figuratively, author Perry Garfinkel discovers finding Truth and Peace is not an easy path to follow in 21st century society...but well worth the journey.
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How life in Hawaii dramatically transformed after the Pearl Harbor attack
09/12/2025 Duração: 39minFollowing the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941 Marshall Law was declared in Honolulu, but very few residents of Japanese descent were ever interned.
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A visit aboard the legendary USS Missouri berthed at Pearl Harbor
04/12/2025 Duração: 14minJoin correspondent Tom Wilmer on Oahu at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii aboard the “Mighty Mo”.