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Oct 31, 2022

'The Pumpkin Giant' is an outstandingly silly tale of the origin of the pumpkin, and the perfect beginning to Halloween week!

Host Dan Scholz

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Oct 28, 2022

In today's poem from "The Topaz Story Book", Gabriel Setoun brings us a different side of Jack Frost than we're used to seeing.

Host Dan Scholz

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Oct 26, 2022

'Winter's Herald' is my absolute favorite story to tell at the beginning of autumn. A story of the warnings of the first frost and of neighborly compassion, it's the perfect October folktale.

Host Dan Scholz

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Oct 24, 2022

"It is a quaint and pretty tale | Six hundred summers old, | When in the green Tyrolean vale, | The peasant folk is told."

- 'The Sickle Moon', A Tyrolean Harvest Legend

Host Dan Scholz

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Oct 21, 2022

"Each year at harvest time she invited the poor peasants of the neighbourhood to come and glean in her field, and take home with them as much grain as they needed for winter use." - The Scarf of the Lady

Host Dan Scholz

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