On this episode of Our American Stories on September hundreds of thousands of people reached the southern tip of Manhattan and found themselves trapped between a city under attack and New York Harbor Then a call went out over the radio All available boats Ferries tugboats fireboats and private vessels converged on the waterfront and began taking people aboard By day's end an estimated to people had escaped Manhattan by water in the largest waterborne evacuation in American history Dr Mike McGee author of All Available Boats shares the story of the fireboats that answered the call including the John [... more]

Girls can be in class instead of walking hours for water, thanks to clean water access. Meanwhile, a family's holiday tradition is revealed through a simple love story involving turnips, a dish that one family member secretly disliked, but cooked every year for her husband's love of it. [... more]