137- The Keepers - Archiving the Underground, with Host Frances McDormand

The Kitchen Sisters Present

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The Keepers, from The Kitchen Sisters and PRX with host, Academy Award-winning actress, Frances McDormand. Stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians. Guardians of history, large and small. Protectors of the free flow of information and ideas. Keepers of the culture and the culture and collections they keep.

In this hour, stories of the Hiphop Archive at Harvard, the Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky, the Lenny Bruce Archive, the Internet Archive and more striking and surprising stories of preservation and civic life.

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0:59.9	with your friends. Welcome to the Keepers.
1:07.0	A new special from the Kitchen Sisters and PRX.
1:11.0	Stories of Activists, Rogue librarians, curators, collectors, and historians.
1:17.0	I have a duty as an archivist to preserve this history.
1:22.0	Guardians of History large and small.
1:25.0	It's just natural for me to protect the archives.
1:28.0	Protectors of the free flow of information and ideas.
1:31.0	Eccentrics born with the collector gene, who take it upon themselves to preserve some little-known aspect of the culture.
1:39.0	People afflicted with a bad case of archive fever.
1:42.0	This is the archive. the Keepers.
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