WXXI Public Broadcasting: Emma Jacobs

To Catch A Suspect — On Pinterest

WXXI Public Broadcasting: Emma Jacobs — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:53:00 +0000

Pinterest is known as a place where people share recipes, crafts or fashion. But a new set of images have started showing up on the social media site: mug shots.

Bonnie Stankunas has come to the post office in Pottstown, Pa., her entire life.

Kind of Like 'eFarmony': Matching Farmers With Urban Landowners For Fun And Profit

WXXI Public Broadcasting: Emma Jacobs — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:28:00 +0000

Many farmers want their farms to be located close to a city - especially organic farmers who'd like to sell their produce at big urban farmers markets. But the price of land within range of a big city is sky high and only getting higher.

Most small farmers buy their land, but some are now looking to lease in suburban or exurban areas. And to do that, they're using something straight out of Fiddler On The Roof: A matchmaker.

Marilyn Anthony is one such matchmaker.

Pa. Town Chases New Energy Dream After Oil Bails

WXXI Public Broadcasting: Emma Jacobs — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:50:00 +0000

Marcus Hook, Pa., had been a refinery town for 109 years. But caught in big changes to the world of energy, the plant shut down last winter. Now the community's young mayor wants to reinvent the community as a hub for the natural gas industry.

America's First Celebrity Robot Is Staging A Comeback

WXXI Public Broadcasting: Emma Jacobs — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:10:00 +0000

Before IBM's Watson and Deep Blue, there was another celebrity robot: Elektro.

The first robot introduced to Americans, Elektro was the 7-foot-tall man who greeted millions of visitors who streamed through the gates of the 1939 World's Fair.

An Inuit Builder Crafts His Last Canoe

WXXI Public Broadcasting: Emma Jacobs — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:30:00 +0000

In a remote corner of northern Canada, Joe Goudie is at work on his very last boat for sale.

The Inuit community in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador once used wood and canvas canoes to navigate the rivers of Labrador.

Goudie, 72, is Inuit, but grew up as that tradition was drawing to a close.

Today, he's the last person building wooden canoes in this corner of Canada.

"The one thing you need to remember — not just [about] building canoes, but working with wood — the wood is going to want to assume its natural shape," Goudie says at his workshop.