These are podcasts of a series of stories by Buddy Swain, offered by
The Island Free Press. In the series, entitled "Precious
Memories," Swain recounts his adventures as a youngster in
the
1940s when he spent summers with his grandparents on Hatteras Island. A
podcast is a collection of digital media files that is distributed over
the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media
players (iPods and other mp3 devices) and personal computers. To hear
the audio of this feature you must have on your computer the latest
version of Internet Explorer (click here to download the lastest
version of Internet Explorer ) and the latest version of
Quicktime (click here to download the latest version of Quicktime
). Once these have been installed, click on The
Island Free
Press Podcast logo below to hear the author narrate the
story.
This feature also works with the Safari Web browser. By
downloading the story to your portable media player, you are no longer
chained to the computer to listen to or read the
story. You
can enjoy it while you are walking, jogging, or commuting to
work. If you don't have a portable media player yet, you can
read
the story on your computer as you usually do or listen to it on your
computer while you are doing other
