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Audio Journeys are exploring the National Civil Rights Museum Memphis Tennesse. Forty-one years ago on April 4 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated as he was leaving the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee to join the city's sanitation workers' striking for better working conditions and pay.

Audio Journeys explore Cornell Ornithology Lab, Ithaca New York. The Cornell Bird Lab is one of the largest nature research and conservation organizations in the world. This important non-profit organization protects, studies, and records the sounds of birds and other animals around the world. Part 1 of 2 part series.

Audio Journeys explore St. John’s Church in Richmond Virginia. St. John’s Church is one of the most important buildings in the American Revolution. It was here that the 2nd Virginia Convention was held in March 1775 with over 100 revolutionaries attending, including George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. Four hundred years of history across the Commonwealth of Virginia series.

In London England, an exact replica of the 17th century William Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre opened in 1995. Audio journalist, Lee Daley is exploring the Globe Theatre with actress and docent, Kitty Grimes. Ms Grimes tells us how the new Globe Theatre began while we walk through the scrim and into a Shakespeare past.

Fort Ross State Park California. Fort Ross, was a Russian Fur Trading Outpost between 1812 and 1841, never a military fort. Original builds and replicas tell of a short lived Russian history in California. Fort Ross is one of the oldest parks in the California State Park System.

Death Valley National Park in California, is a 3.5 million acre desert preserve, boasting the hottest, driest, and lowest spot in North America. Patricia Lawrence is exploring this land of extremes with park geologists.

Death Valley National Park is the lowest and the hotest place in North America. Patricia Lawrence explores Death Valley to find out about the name, the borox industry, and the historic inn.

The Tracy Aviary is a perfect place for visitors to get up close and learn about birds from the USA and around the world. Patricia Lawrence and Douglas Roycroft are exploring this world-class private aviary, open to the public since 1938, with knowledgeable aviary staff.

Wildthings and Vision Quest Ranch is home to elephants, tigers, and other wild animals from around the world. Guests can get up close and interact with and care for some of the animals. Patricia Lawrence is exploring Wildthings with foundering president Charlie Sammut.

Mission Ridge Ski Resort near Wenatchee Washington is one of the most popular ski destinations in the world. It’s also a 1944 crash site of a B-24 bomber on a secret mission. Patricia Lawrence is exploring Mission Ridge; she assends on a tram up the tall mountain and decends in a courtesy toboggan.

Wolfgang A. Mozart, one of the worlds greatest composers, was born in Salzburg Austria, in 1756. Patricia Lawrence is exploring the life and times of Mozart in Salzburg with an historian.

Since 1987 the Performing Animal Welfare Society has been providing a safe loving home to wild animals that have been abused in captivity. Star Decker is in Galt, California, exploring PAWS with co-founding director, the late Pat Derby.

In 1879, due to its central location in the center of the country, Aberdeen became the hub of the Milwalkee Railroad. Patricia Lawrence is exploring Aberdeen with railroad men who lived some of that history.

Archeology meets paleontology on the Sonoma Coast of California where State Parks archeologist, Breck Parkman and others have made discovers of the existence of Columbian mammoths, and sabertooth tigers, as the last ice age melted and humans moved in 15,000 years ago. Patricia Lawrence is exploring Sonoma State Park and Goat Rock Park with Breck Parkman.

Audio journalist Jessica Spain is in Hawaii exploring the Maritime Culture as she sails in a traditional Polynesian voyaging canoe.

The San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park is the country's only floating museum. Patricia Lawrence explores two of the six ships with a park ranger: the 1886 square-rigger Balclutha and the 1890 steam ferryboat Eureka.

Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge north of Aberdeen South Dakota, is one of be best places for bird watching in the USA and has been designated an area of international importance. Patricia Lawrence explores and gets up close to the prairie ecosystems with park managers.

Patricia Lawrence explores three sacred places around San Francisco Bay - Miwok (Native Californian) fertility rock, Mt. Tamalpais, and Grace Cathedral on Nob Hill - with author and travel writer Brad Olsen.

Audio journalist Patricia Lawrence tours the Blue Mountain Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center near Pendleton, Oregon, with Lynn Tompkins, founding director of the educational nonprofit, where injured wildlife are given veterinarian treatment and lovingly cared for. The center is an important source of education and information about western wildlife.

Audio Journalist Patricia Lawrence explores Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park in Petaluma California, the early 19th century Mexican rancho and primitive factory of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. General Vallejo is a prominent figure in California's Mexican history. A California State Historical Landmark and a National Historic Landmark.