<p>Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Dave Van Ronk, Pete Seeger... Folk music was the soundtrack of my childhood. I knew there was a neighborhood right across the river from Brooklyn, just a subway ride away, filled with streets and cafes where it was all happening. Greenwich Village was the promised land, and I just wanted to be there all the time.</p>

Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Dave Van Ronk, Pete Seeger... Folk music was the soundtrack of my childhood. I knew there was a neighborhood right across the river from Brooklyn, just a subway ride away, filled with streets and cafes where it was all happening. Greenwich Village was the promised land, and I just wanted to be there all the time.

A Winter Story

<p>Host and creator Siobhan Barry takes listeners back to the 1950s and 1960s. Her stories, sometimes funny and sometimes serious, are time traveling trips through the days of penny candies, neighborhood ice cream parlors, fifty-cent movie tickets, air raid drills, summers without air conditioning, street games, homemade toys, football weddings, transistor radios, Beatlemania, and a cultural revolution.</p>

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Host and creator Siobhan Barry takes listeners back to the 1950s and 1960s. Her stories, sometimes funny and sometimes serious, are time traveling trips through the days of penny candies, neighborhood ice cream parlors, fifty-cent movie tickets, air raid drills, summers without air conditioning, street games, homemade toys, football weddings, transistor radios, Beatlemania, and a cultural revolution.

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A Winter Story

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