Couldn't resist another story in the sprit of Ireland. There's no intro, no host narrator. Just dive in and meet the late Packie Byrne - a friend, storyteller and musician of renown. We met in 2007 in the town of Ardara, near Donegal, where Irish music lives and thrives.

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Master storyteller Eddie Lenihan weaves a tale from the Other Side. You'll never think of the wee folk in quite the same way again.

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In the rural Cajun communities of south Louisiana, Mardi Gras is organized mayhem.

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Basile, Louisiana has its own unique Mardi Gras song.

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In the bayous of Louisiana, costumed revelers beg for food and money from their neighbors, to support a communal gumbo.

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"Forget about your job, your worries,  your bills.."

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The roots of Mardi Gras run deeper than Christianity.

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Headphones on! Picture being under a palm tree next to a burbling brook in the middle of California's Anza-Borrego desert.

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Scientists are finding ways to help plants absorb fertilizers and nutrients more efficiently.

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Keeping rare birds home on the range.

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