This is Our Story: River Songs (c 1959)

March 27, 2026, 11:00 pm

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Final Study for “Bathers at Asnières” by Georges Seurat, 1883 (Source: artic.edu CC0 Public Domain Designation)

In the late 1950s, during the first of almost five decades that Studs Terkel hosted programs on WFMT, he presented a creative, music-based series he called “This Is Our Story. “ In this archive hour of the past, Studs weaves together a wide range of songs about rivers, where they go, how they roll along, and the lives lived upon their waters and shores.