America Works Podcast

By: Library of Congress
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  • Summary

  • Voices of contemporary workers from throughout the U.S. talking about their lives, their workplaces, and their on-the-job experiences. Drawn from hundreds of longer oral history interviews collected by fieldworkers for the American Folklife Center’s Occupational Folklife Project (OFP), America Works is a testament to the wisdom, wit, knowledge, and dedication of today’s working Americans.
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Episodes
  • Emily Daniels, Agricultural Pilot. South Hampton, New Jersey.

    Emily Daniels, Agricultural Pilot. South Hampton, New Jersey.
    Sep 19 2024
    Emily Daniel, one of a small but growing number of female agricultural pilots – or, as they are often referred to, “crop dusters” – talks with documentarian Ellen Kendricks about learning to fly planes as a teenager, career challenges, and managing a small family-owned crop spraying business that services farms from New Jersey to Maryland and Texas and Kansas.
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    6 mins
  • Alfred Quijance, Fisherman and Subsistence Harvester. Seldovia, Alaska.

    Alfred Quijance, Fisherman and Subsistence Harvester. Seldovia, Alaska.
    Sep 12 2024
    Alfred Quijance talks with documentarian Josh Wisneski for the Alaska Marine Conservation Council’s Occupational Folklife Project “Beyond the Breakwater: Gulf of Alaska Small Boat Fishermen.” He talks about growing up in the remote Alutiiq/Sugpiaq community of Old Harbor on Kodiak Island; learning about traditional Native American seining, fishing and harvesting; and leaving at age 13 to find work on fishing boats and canneries throughout the state of Alaska.
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    6 mins
  • April Matson, Pitt Stop Food Concession Manager, Ransomville Speedway. Ransomville, New York.

    April Matson, Pitt Stop Food Concession Manager, Ransomville Speedway. Ransomville, New York.
    Sep 5 2024
    April Matson, Manager of the Pitt Stop food concession at the legendary Ransomville Speedway, a family-owned dirt track racecourse in western New York, talks with folklorist Edward Millar about her job, about why food is such an important part of the Speedway experience, and about preparing popular local specialties -- including 'flat dogs' and hand cut fries.
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    6 mins

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