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 John Rupkey reads a poem by Walt Whitman that helped inspire his pseudonym.

John Rupkey reads a poem by Walt Whitman that helped inspire his pseudonym.

John Rupkey reads a poem by Walt Whitman that helped inspire his pseudonym.

Episode 02 EXTRA: Song Of Myself

Back Channel Radio is a storytelling project committed to preserving and sharing oral histories from beyond the mainstream. This first season, “A Wolf Spider Island Story,” chronicles the legal battles a group of river rats had to wage to keep their small boathouse community on the Mississippi River afloat.

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Back Channel Radio is a storytelling project committed to preserving and sharing oral histories from beyond the mainstream. This first season, “A Wolf Spider Island Story,” chronicles the legal battles a group of river rats had to wage to keep their small boathouse community on the Mississippi River afloat.

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