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    <description><![CDATA[Join host Tina Casagrand Foss, the founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of The New Territory magazine, on a magical Disneyland log ride down the Missouri River. Along the way, we’ll get to see how this mighty waterway shapes the people and places it flows through.River Town is a collaboration between KBIA, The Missouri News Network, The Mississippi Basin Ag and Water Desk, The New Territory Magazine, and PRX.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this special bonus episode of River Town! Our producers traveled to Weston, Missouri for "Hearing Place," an inspiring day in Weston, Missouri, hosted by our partners at The New Territory magazine. We joined a roster of creators, writers and scholars - all gathered to talk about the ways we listen to a place, and how a sense of place inspires us.]]></description>
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      <itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Welcome to this special bonus episode of River Town! Our producers traveled to…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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      <description><![CDATA[A special bonus episode of River Town! Our producers traveled to Marthasville, Missouri to interview hikers, cyclists, conservationists, musicians and all manner of people visiting the Peers Store, a historic landmark along the Katy Trail, on a summer Saturday.]]></description>
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      <itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[A special bonus episode of River Town! Our producers traveled to Marthasville,…]]></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:author>Maggie Turner, Janet Saidi, Jessica Vaughn Martin, Tina Casagrand Foss</itunes:author>
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      <description><![CDATA[In the final episode of season one, we’re turning things over to River Town Producer Tadeo Ruiz. Tadeo is pretty new to Missouri – via Mexico City - and he’s been surprised to learn about how much people here love the river. But during his reporting for River Town, he started to feel connected with one Missouri River town in particular… Rocheport. Follow him along his journey as he gets to know the river and the people who love it.]]></description>
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      <itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[In the final episode of season one, we’re turning things over to River Town…]]></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:author>Kiana Fernandes, Tina Casagrand Foss, Kaylin Hellyer, Abigail Keel, Abby Lee, Ailing Li, Ellie Lin, Jessica Vaughn Martin, Olivia Mizelle, Tadeo Ruiz Sandoval, Ava Neels, Ashley Cochrane</itunes:author>
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      <description><![CDATA[Water is life. It gets us places. Connects us to each other. It holds history and tradition. It keeps all these things, and us, alive. History, and modern stories, show us this. For this episode, we explored these connections by documenting modern Indigenous relationships to the Missouri River and other sacred waters, caught a boat ride with historian and author Greg Olson, and observed a water blessing at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.]]></description>
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      <itunes:author>Kiana Fernandes, Tina Casagrand Foss, Kaylin Hellyer, Abigail Keel, Abby Lee, Ailing Li, Ellie Lin, Jessica Vaughn Martin, Olivia Mizelle, Tadeo Ruiz Sandoval, Ava Neels, Ashley Cochrane</itunes:author>
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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of River Town, we’re going to meet River Town’s youngest upstanding citizens, learn what people are doing to protect our waterways from pollution, and what’s happening in Missouri water policy right now.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode, we’re having some fun. We’ll meet people who choose to spend their time sweating on the river. Our producers spent this past autumn meeting casual trail users, dry-land athletes and big river paddlers who enjoy actually getting their feet wet.]]></description>
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      <itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[In this episode, we’re having some fun. We’ll meet people who choose to spend…]]></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:author>Kiana Fernandes, Tina Casagrand Foss, Kaylin Hellyer, Abigail Keel, Abby Lee, Ailing Li, Ellie Lin, Jessica Vaughn Martin, Olivia Mizelle, Tadeo Ruiz Sandoval</itunes:author>
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      <title>Episode One: A Flood Monster, Music and a Pretzel Boat</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In the very first episode of River Town, we’re exploring how the Missouri River of today inspires artists -- from folk musicians, to watercolor painters with a penchant for pretzel paddle boating, to writers recounting their childhood “flood monster” memories. We want to know . . . no shame for this pun . . . How does the Missouri River help artists find their flow?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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