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Hour 1

  • Dana Gould

    Home With Dana Gould

    This Saturday after Thanksgiving, we're focusing on home and what it means to us. We're checking in with some Weekend America regulars to see what they're up to since we didn't put them to work on Good/Bad/No. Comedian Dana Gould offers travel tips with primates (a.k.a. young children) and how to consult T.V. guide to pick the most auspicious time to travel home.

  • Music Bridge:
    Glory B
    Artist: Global Goon
    CD: Family Glue (Audio Dregs)
  • Homes for No Pay

    Ramiro Mora snaps a chalk line.

    When we think about home, of course, we usually think about houses. The companies that build residential homes rely on Hispanic workers, many of them foreign-born. Much of that work has dried up with the housing bust. There's still work to be found--for less money, and in some cases, no money at all.

  • Music Bridge:
    Wonderplucks
    Artist: Freeform
    CD: Outside In (Skam)
  • From Projects to Suburbs

    The Gilbert family on their old porch.

    In the 1970s, the government funded a desegregation plan to move more than 3,500 black families from Chicago to the suburbs. One of those early pioneers was Valencia Morris. She moved to a suburb called Woodridge with her three daughters. Laurie Stern of American RadioWorks picks up the story of one of those daughters 32 years later.

  • Music Bridge:
    A Muted Street Song
    Artist: The World On Higher Downs
    CD: Land Patterns (Plop)
  • Weekend Soundtrack

    Weekend Soundtrack: "My Pillow is the Threshold" by The Silver Jews

    Shay Robertson with her husband

    A weekend soundtrack can be the song you hear on your iPod or just in your mind all weekend long. Our latest story comes from Shay Robertson in Evanston, Ill. Her soundtrack is "My Pillow is the Threshold" by The Silver Jews.

  • Music Bridge:
    Harvest
    Artist: Slow Poke
    CD: At Home (Palmetto)
  • Poetry Radio Project

    Bringing Poetry Home

    Terrance Hayes

    Home is a subject poets have been scribbling about in stanzas since the days of Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey." This year, some poets put their own spin on the topic at City of Asylum Pittsburgh's annual jazz and poetry reading. Two of those poets come from very different places: Liberian-born Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, and native South Carolinian Terrance Hayes.

  • Music Bridge:
    Very Small Rock
    Artist: Happy Apple
    CD: Happy Apple Back on Top (Sunny Side)
  • Vegetarians Falling Off the Wagon

    Thanksgiving without turkey?

    Weekend America asked a delicate question of listeners recently -- and yes, it turns out there are more than a few ex-vegetarians who lapsed during the holidays. We hear their stories.

  • The Tragedy of Stuff

    Moving Sale to honor Maury Duchamp

    Your house becomes your home when you have your stuff in it. But what if you have a lot of stuff? So much that your home starts to feel like a storage unit? That's what happens to people sometimes referred to as hoarders. They collect things and have a hard time organizing them and letting go. Cathy Duchamp was married to someone she prefers to call "chronically disorganized." Here's her story.

Hour 2

  • Pico Iyer

    On the Road With Pico Iyer

    Pico Iyer has been called "the Nowhere Man" and a "privileged homeless person." The travel writer and author was born in Britain, to Indian parents, and eventually wound up in America. He now divides his time between Japan and California, but most of his life is spent six miles up in the air on the way to his next destination. John Moe talks with Iyer about his portable idea of home, finding sanctuary and what it was like losing his home to the California wildfires in 2000.

  • Your Stories of Home

    Annie Smith's home

    We asked you for your stories of home and you sent dozens of great stories, thoughtful essays about the meaning of home and entertained us with your housing adventures. We hear some of our favorites.

  • Music Bridge:
    Milda Doden Hamtar Oss Alla Till Slut
    Artist: Eric Malmberg
    CD: Verklighet & Beat (Hapna)
  • After the Projects

    Michael Whitehead

    The Ida B. Wells housing projects on Chicago's South Side opened in 1941, when housing segregation was still legal. By the '70s and '80s, Wells was caught up in the violence and squalor that became synonymous with Chicago public housing. Michael Whitehead's six-story building was no exception.

  • Music Bridge:
    A Boat of Courage
    Artist: Michio Kurihara
    CD: Sunset Notes (20/20/20)
  • Conversations with America

    Conversations with America: Moustafa Bayoumi

    Moustafa Bayoumi

    In Brooklyn, there are several different neighborhoods that have relatively large concentrations of Arab Americans and of Muslim Americans. Probably the most important one is Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. And then the older neighborhood in Brooklyn where there are a lot of Arabs and Muslims would around Atlantic Avenue. They sell a lot of cassette tapes and pamphlets, and there's Chinese food that's halal.

  • Music Bridge:
    She Walks In A Dream
    Artist: Takeshi Nishimoto
    CD: Monologue (Buro)
  • Shooting with Nancy French

    Nancy French target shooting from her front porch.

    We're home for the holidays today and we released our Good/Bad/No panel from their duties. But we thought we'd check in with a few of our regulars to see how they're spending the weekend. Nancy French is the author of Red State of Mind: How a Catfish Queen Reject Became a Liberty Belle. She reports live from target practice on the front porch of her parents' home in Paris, Tenn.

  • Music Bridge:
    Neon Filler
    Artist: Howe Gelb
    CD: 'Sno Angel Like You (Thrill Jockey)
  • Every Bunk Tells a Story

    Troops Aboard the Walker

    Sometimes the most unlikely places feel like home. There's not much that's warm and cheery about the troopships that took young soldiers to war in Vietnam in the late 1960s. The ships were hot, sweaty and packed with up to 5000 men at once. But some soldiers saw these troopships as a last secure refuge before the uncertainties of war.

  • Running Across New Hampshire

    John Lacroix

    I drive along Route 9 as the sun dips behind the mountains. I'm looking for two runners - Nate Sanel and John Lacroix - who are somewhere along this road, on their way to running 124 miles across the state of New Hampshire. Or at least, attempting to do so. When I finally spot them, they're 12 hours and 60 miles into their run - almost half-way done.

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