6-minute Stories

By Randell JonesSociety & Culture Personal Journals

6-minute Stories episodes

June 19, 2020 "52 Connections" by Randell Jones
a bonus episode--For Juneteenth, this story recounts a North Carolina community’s connection to two stories of Resistance and Persistence as brought to mind by recent Black Lives Matter demonstrations.
10 min
June 17, 2020 "Forgetting the Smilings" by Joel R. Stegall
what they always wanted--This North Carolina writer remembers his 1950s childhood in eastern North Carolina and the four separate school systems in his home county needed to accommodate the different groups who did not what to go to school with the others.
9 min
June 14, 2020 "Fake News Is an Old Story" by Randell Jones
This bonus episode of “6-minute Stories” about P.T. Barnum is edited from “From Time to Time in North Carolina” by Randell Jones. Today is National Flag Day, so the music is easy-listening patriotic tunes. The story is timely, bringing an episode of America’s past to bear on our own times.
9 min
June 10, 2020 "Southern Exposure" by Ron Machado
her dad called her mom “Sugar”--
This California transplant and Air Force pilot recalls his first exposure to the South which he has now happily made his home.
8 min
June 07, 2020 "My Neighbor Is a D-Day Hero" with Horace Barrett
On the 76th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, listen to the story of one veteran, my neighbor, Horace Barrett, now 96, who jumped into Normandy with the 82nd Airborne. Three Purple Hearts and Bronze Star
8 min
June 03, 2020 "Little Rock" by Randell Jones
Randell Jones is an award-winning history writer about the pioneer and Revolutionary War eras. Since 2007, he has served as an invited member of the Road Scholars Speakers Bureau of the North Carolina Humanities Council. He created the Personal Story Publishing Project and the companion podcast, “6-minute Stories” to encourage writers. He lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
9 min
May 30, 2020 "Southern Lineage" by Grace Ellis
what was “proper” and what was “common”-- A North Carolina writer and playwright examines the stage on which generations of her family have played out their Southern penchant for rules and expectations.
8 min
May 27, 2020 "The Great Dumpling Divide" by Susan Griner
A Japanese-American writer from Seattle returns to her childhood community in Tennessee with her Chinese daughter to visit family. OMG!
8 min
May 24, 2020 "On the Wings of Angels" by Randell Jones
On this Memorial Day weekend, this story recounts the tragedy of six civilians, the only casualties from enemy action against the American mainland during World War II, which ended 75 years ago this year.
9 min
May 20, 2020 "Her Dusty Road to a Life of Service" by Phyliss Grady Adcock
trying to be "enough"
During the month of memorials and Mother's Day, this North Carolina writer reflects on the formidable challenges her mother faced as a child and the service she rendered throughout her life to others, especially children.
8 min

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True, personal stories from new voices and experienced writers resonating with the themes of the Personal Essay/Story Publishing Projects: "Bearing Up" (2018) and "Exploring" (2019).