Part One (2020)

Connecticut
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December 7, 2020 • 5m

As a young, single mother of three, Joyce Thomas moved from St. Vincent to the United States after reading a newspaper ad for hous...Read more

Massachusetts
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December 8, 2020 • 4m

Doug is in his freshman year at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A native Californian, he is learning to adapt to t...Read more

Maryland
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December 9, 2020 • 5m

Serving a life sentence at 17-years-old, Chris Wilson sat down and wrote out what he called his “master plan” of all the things he...Read more

New Hampshire
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December 10, 2020 • 4m

Lisa Hansen grew up in Kentucky and says she has the accent to prove it. Eleven years ago, she moved to New Hampshire and planted ...Read more

Virginia
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December 11, 2020 • 5m

As a young quadriplegic law school graduate, living in a location with strong public transportation accessibility options was a mu...Read more

New York
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December 12, 2020 • 5m

Karen Eberle-McCarthy loves the Hudson River Valley community she has lived in for many years. A passionate member of this New Yor...Read more

North Carolina
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December 13, 2020 • 5m

Growing up in a shack in the Jim Crow South, Paul Gunter dreamed of someday owning his own home. Although his dream came true at t...Read more

Rhode Island
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December 14, 2020 • 5m

A native of Rhode Island, Jack Welch has called the Ocean State his home for 82 years. The former teacher and principal is now a M...Read more

Vermont
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December 15, 2020 • 4m

Growing up in a military family, Kelly Ault lived in twelve different states as a child. After college she was anxious to put root...Read more

Indiana
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December 16, 2020 • 5m

Born and bred Hoosier Randy Evans explains the value he places on his sense of belonging including his connection to those that ha...Read more

Illinois
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December 17, 2020 • 5m

Thirteen years ago, after finishing college in Minnesota, returning home to Texas, and then volunteering in Mexico, Nathan Tolzman...Read more

Maine
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December 18, 2020 • 5m

Nancy 3. Hoffman curates the world's only Umbrella Cover Museum on an island off the coast of Maine. Here, Nancy embraces a commun...Read more

Missouri
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December 19, 2020 • 5m

Sarah Smith's ancestors helped found the state of Missouri, so she has always felt strong roots connecting her to the land that wa...Read more

Iowa
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December 20, 2020 • 5m

Since apprenticing for a retired fiddler after college, Beth Rotto has grown into a cultural staple within her community in Iowa. ...Read more

Wisconsin
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December 21, 2020 • 5m

Born in a refugee camp in Thailand, Xong Xiong moved to Wisconsin after her family couldn't return to Laos following the Vietnam W...Read more

Minnesota
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December 22, 2020 • 5m

Living on an island in the Mississippi River has always drawn Kathy Christenson to seek inspiration and peace from its banks. Desp...Read more

Oregon
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December 23, 2020 • 5m

I-Shüan Warr grew up with a unique name in a multicultural family in a mostly white Tennessee suburb. Her mom is from Taiwan, her ...Read more

West Virginia
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December 24, 2020 • 5m

Though Hanna Sizemore grew up wandering the mountains of West Virginia, her passion for understanding a larger universe took her t...Read more

Nevada
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December 25, 2020 • 6m

Clay Greenland's desire to help others as a paramedic drove his life but his son's suicide prompted a retreat from Tennessee to a ...Read more

Nebraska
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December 26, 2020 • 5m

Dereck Higgins has vivid memories of being harassed and attacked as a child. As an adult, he has managed the isolation and suspici...Read more

Montana
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December 27, 2020 • 5m

It was the past that brought Dave Varricchio to present-day Montana. Over the past 20 years, paleontology work in Big Sky Country’...Read more

Washington
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December 28, 2020 • 5m

Mohinder Sangha moved to Northwest Washington in 1983, becoming the first Sikh person to start berry farming in the region. Since ...Read more

Idaho
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December 29, 2020 • 5m

Mexico-born Evaristo Mireles moved to Idaho decades ago as a teenager searching for a job. He has worked long hours with local far...Read more

Wyoming
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December 30, 2020 • 5m

People come to Jackson, Wyoming for many different reasons: for Sven Taow, it was the promise of a high-paying summer job. He didn...Read more

Utah
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December 31, 2020 • 6m

Daniel Shellabarger lives in a cave in the breathtaking canyons outside Utah's Arches National Park. A middle-aged former Peace Co...Read more

Oklahoma
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January 1, 2021 • 5m

Chuck White and his family narrowly survived an EF5 tornado, escaping their house minutes before it, and his Oklahoma neighborhood...Read more

New Mexico
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January 2, 2021 • 5m

Floyd Ashley is a retired educator who has spent his life dedicated to the Navajo people. During his years as an activist, teacher...Read more

Arizona
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January 3, 2021 • 5m

LaVona Evans was born in 1912 on the same day Arizona became a state. Naturally, she’s felt that her own identity has always been ...Read more

Hawai'i
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January 4, 2021 • 4m

Patricia Lei Murray is a passionate advocate for preserving and sharing the culture of Hawai'i, her native island home. She is a m...Read more