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Recently Posted American Stories
Red Carpet Gas
Remember when personal service was not just for the rich? At Vince’s Red Carpet gas station, it has never gone out of style. It’s customers are willing to pay 20 cents more a gallon because mechanics run to help them. If you have to wait to get your car fixed, there’s a sound proof lounge. No grime covered calendars of last year’s Miss Wrench on the walls. Sparkling clean. That’s the way Vince does business, so did his father and his father’s father.
Better Baby Institute
The Better Baby Institute of Philadelphia looks like a college campus. Ivy on the walls. Faculty in the halls. Walk by an open door, you hear violins and Japanese. It’s a college all right, but the average student is less than six years old. Glenn Doman, the director says, “Tiny children are starved for information. They have a rage to learn. And they understand superbly.”
Flowery Branch
Carlton Garrett is a working man. Not one for museums. But on a thousand lunch hours, he has retreated into a world of his own — a world he whittles out of wood. In the fragrant closeness of his toolshed, Carlton Garrett has traced his life in toys.
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KEN BURNS
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- SAVANNAH GUTHRIE
“Throughout his remarkable career Bob Dotson has searched for the real essence of America – not by interviewing the so-called famous but by seeking out those unnoticed people we pass by every day. Dotson is a national treasure for caring enough to listen.”
- MEREDITH VIERA
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