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A Froggyland diorama shows a teacher trying to control a class in which students are hitting each other with rulers, arriving late to class and balancing pencils on their noses. Each diorama displays anthropomorphized frogs in human scenes of the early 20th century.

Welcome To Froggyland, The Croatian Taxidermy Museum That May Soon Come To The U.S.

The museum features the work of a Hungarian taxidermist who created anthropomorphized exhibits. It had 50,000 visitors in 2019, but numbers fell during the pandemic and the owner now plans to sell.

Richard Sobek, the Commander of American Legion Post 327 in Shawnee, Kansas, sits at the post's basement bar in this undated photo. The post is struggling to recover financially after being closed several months during the pandemic.

American Legion Posts Are Reopening, But Many Still Face A Financial Crisis

More than 12,000 American Legion posts closed for at least part of the pandemic. Those closures left some posts in financial trouble.

Cassandra Cast (second from left) and Barbara Arthur (right) traveled to Washington state from Boston and Atlanta, respectively, to meet their grandson for the first time.

Photos: Scenes From Across America As COVID-19 Restrictions Begin To Lift

Photographers from NPR member stations fanned out to document a nation navigating a return to normalcy. They captured moments of caution and joy, exuberance and relief, as restrictions began to lift.

Weightlifting or other forms of strength training can be a smart addition to your exercise routines. It can help stave off chronic illness and manage weight gain.

Weight Training Isn't Such A Heavy Lift. Here Are 7 Reasons Why You Should Try It

If you're trying to rev up your pandemic fitness routine, maybe it's time to mix things up with some free weights — or soup cans — and get your muscles pumping.

Pastor Billy Joe Lewis was all in favor when a local health worker suggested a COVID-19 vaccine clinic in the parking lot of his church in Smilax, Ky. "We've still got to use common sense," Lewis says. "Anything that can ward off suffering and death, I think, is a wonderful thing."

Kentucky's backroad churches may be key to saving hospitals overwhelmed by COVID

Public health workers are going church to church and house to house in the state's secluded valleys to dispel COVID myths, ease isolation, bring aid, and convince wary residents to get vaccinated.

Rep. Davis Won’t Run In 2020, Where To Build New Homes, Local Reps Say No To Offshore Drilling

Congresswoman Susan Davis is stepping down after ten terms. Also, a government report says family separation at the border left children traumatized, SANDAG looks at how to distribute 171,000 new homes throughout the county, local representatives are urging Congress to say no to drilling off the California coast and and San Diego bluegrass band Prairie Sky performs in the KPBS studio in the final installment of the Midday Edition summer music series.

Marc Savoy, a patriarch of Cajun music, is still building accordions, playing them, and hosting weekly jams sessions at 80 years old.

COVID-19 Hits Hard For South Louisiana's Cajun Musicians

Cajun life is all about getting together to be with people to celebrate what you love: music, food and camaraderie. But the pandemic has shut that life down.

Enjoy a celebration of the music of SESAME STREET with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Oct. 25–26, 2019 Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Jazz At Lincoln Center Presents: A Swingin' Sesame Street Celebration

Stream or tune in Friday, Oct. 30, 2020 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2

The Olympic Rings at the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on Friday.

Let The Games Begin: Tokyo Olympics Holds Its Opening Ceremony

The fanfare and celebration unfolded in a virtually empty stadium, as Japanese protesters gathered nearby to register their discontent over the world's largest sports event.

Julian Hernandez (right), 12, a seventh-grader at Hillside School in Illinois, says he feels much safer being back in school knowing that a weekly testing program is identifying those who are sick with COVID-19.

How Some Schools Are Using Weekly Testing To Keep Kids In Class — And COVID Out

Many K-12 school districts are tapping federal funds to pay for regular surveillance testing of students. It's an effective pandemic tactic when used alongside mask-wearing and other precautions.

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