By Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip, Erica Heilman
Good conversation that takes its time, hosted by Erica Heilman.
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Leland is my neighbor and for the last seven years, we’ve been getting together in the spring to talk about his year, and things like God and space and pork shortages. This year Leland graduated from high school and I...
Tiana and I talk about what she has planned for her 1-year anniversary with her boyfriend.
Ira is a story keeper who collects epic tales from his everyday life.
Ira Karp lives on a farm in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, surrounded by music, puppets, and a family of incredible storytellers. Over his brief lifetime, he has become a ‘story keeper’ himself, collecting epic tales from his everyday life. This is a...
This show is a kind of coda to Finn and the Bell.... At long last, the bell is in its tower at Hazen Union High School. The final installation happened right before the Hardwick Memorial Day Parade. I stopped by and...
It seems that a lot of people feel like they have to hide the amount of grief they experience when their dogs die. But the death of a dog can be just as painful--sometimes more painful--than the death of a...
Chris and Beth got a puppy and recorded the first seven months. It was harrowing. And hilarious.
I've been thinking of getting a dog for years but even though I have an eighteen-year-old son, I've never felt mature enough to have a dog. So when my friend Chris told me he and his partner Beth were getting...
He’s always practical and always generous and these things are always the same thing.
Helena is taking her citizenship test. I asked her to record what it feels like to become an American.
I was cleaning and listening to Foreigner and I thought of Grant Owen. The perfect company for New Years.
It's been another hard year for Pam and Andrea and Amanda.
A hunter and wildlife biologist takes me bird hunting.
Finn Rooney killed himself in Walden, Vermont. This is a story about who he was and what he left.
After forty years farming this land, Peter Dunning is getting done.
A show about the people who stand with the accused
In cases where a defendant seems unjustly accused, the defense attorney is our hero. But if they seem guilty...or if it’s an especially violent crime, we look at these lawyers and wonder…how can they do that? This is a show about...
Susan delivers a dead owl to the Fairbanks Museum and then we talk about Covid.
What does justice lose when human contact is lost?
A camp for people with and without disabilities that is the funnest ever.
A show about Chris and Beth singing. Made from home recordings.
A practical joke from a loved one in the hereafter...
Irfan tells me I can't understand war. I asked him to tell me about it anyway.
Irfan Sehic grew up in Bosnia and spent most of his childhood living in a civil war. One day the kids across the street were his best friends, the next day they were enemies. His father would fight in the...
Bryan Pfeiffer takes me birding and we talk about nature and a little about death.
I ask Jane Lindholm all the questions I've been wanting to ask for years. In her garage.
Police here in central Vermont have been overrun with calls...and the cases are complex. Here is a special report.
A story about war and hairdressing.
Leland joined the volunteer fire department and I got a ride in his really loud truck.
A little musical about not very much.
Sing about what you do every day.
A scientist on growing up second born in a one-child policy China. And we talk about the brain. And fish.
Even if you don't like soup. Just come.
Marriage is hard. How hard is it during Covid? It seems pretty hard.
Where we make our own damn decisions. Civilly, and in person.
To celebrate Inauguration Day...a show from Shaking out the Numb...PARTY IS EVERYTHING.
Three awful sisters plan a Zoom Christmas for their parents.
Daniel Kirk's story about surviving COVID, one fever dream at a time.
A conversation with Bill Schubart about love and fatness.
The first show in an experimental series with Sylvan Esso. About everything.
We talk about his childhood in the South, and one of the great loves of his life--Mr. Rogers.
A journey into the life and mind of Mark Utter
I am not fond of video conferencing. I learned this last week.
A show about donkeys, optimal chickenhood, and our future on earth.