On this week's Newswrap from In Focus, Alabama Public Television's Don Dailey shares with Troy Public Radio's Carolyn Hutcheson headlines about Kenneth Pascal becoming the first African American Republican elected to the Alabama House of Representatives since Reconstruction.  And the wild card is about communicating with amphibians.

Sixty years ago, in 1961, Freedom Riders sought integration of interstate transportation.

Dorothy Walker, Site Director of the Alabama Historical Commission's Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, about this official destination of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, as well as the restored vintage Greyhound Bus that will visit communities across the U.S., with exhibits that tell the Freedom Riders story.

Ben Shurett was the publisher of the Troy Messenger newspaper in the 1980s, and he visits with In Focus host Carolyn Hutcheson to share memories of Troy State University and its president, Dr. Ralph Adams.  He also comments on the newspaper business today.  Ben Shurett chairs the Mentone, Alabama, Arts and Cultural Center board, and the interview took place there.

This week when Alabama Public Television's Don Dailey shares the political forecast with Troy Public Radio's Carolyn Hutcheson, the spike in the numbers of the Delta variant of Covid has public officials worried, because of Alabama's low vaccination rate.

On this week's Newswrap from In Focus, Alabama Public Television's Don Dailey shares with Troy Public Radio's Carolyn Hutcheson headlines about the possibility of one or two special legislative sessions, to deal with reapportionment and prisons. And the wildcard is about Covid shots for

Richard Metzger, Gallery Director of Stonehenge Fine Art Gallery in Montgomery, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, about the gallery's collaboration with the Society of Arts and Crafts in the 2021 Photography Competition and Exhibition.

The competition has drawn international interest in fine art photography, and the exhibition will be at Stonehenge throughJuly, then at Troy University's International Arts Center.

The Springer Opera House in Columbus is the State Theatre of Georgia.

Producing Artistic Director Paul Pierce talks with In Focus host Carolyn Hutcheson about the world famous performers who have entertained at the historic opera house during the past 150 years.

On today's In Focus, we listen back to an interview with actor Hal Holbrook. Guest host Kyle Gassiott spoke with Holbrook in 2011 when he brought his one-man show "Mark Twain Tonight" to the stage of East Alabama Arts in Opelika. Holbrook died in February of this year at age 95.

On today’s In Focus, Carolyn Hutcheson speaks with two members of the production, “Tinyard Hill” an audio musical premiering this weekend on Troy Public Radio.  The musical is set in the fictional community of Tinyard Hill, where conflict over the Vietnam War, the struggles of an ailing blacksmith shop, and the promise of young love come together in the two hour production.

Frye Gaillard, co-author of the book, "The Slave Who Went to Congress," talked with Carolyn Hutcheson, host of In Focus, about the legacy of Reconstruction-era Congressman Benjamin Sterling Turner, who was elected to Congress in 1870, encouraged to run by both blacks and whites in Selma, AL.

Juneteenth, June 19, 1865, ushered in the country's push for

This program is a repeat of an interview originally broadcast in June of 2020.