Part two of one woman's life journey from a village in Guatemala to eventually prospering in Alabama, USA.

On this weeks In the Corner Back By the Woodpile

podcast, a woman tells the incredible- both heartbreaking and

ultimately triumphant- story of her life’s journey from a village in

Guatemala to Alabama, USA. And thus Guatemalabama!

DJ Emerald was rocking the 80’s on college radio back in the 90’s

when most folks were ‘so over’ the best decade ever! Now she brings some

of her favorite lessor known tracks and a few personal stories along

with her to the Woodpile behind the roller rink dumpster.

when most folks were ‘so over’ the best decade ever! Now she brings some

of her favorite lessor known tracks and a few personal stories along

with her to the Woodpile behind the roller rink dumpster.

Welcome to more philosophical explorations back by the woodpile,

this time dealing with our attraction to beauty, satisfaction in the

artificial and affecting those we’ll never meet. Compare the results

against your own experience!

There are so many stories behind anything humans have had a hand in-

including cars- that are unknown; and sadly there’s also stories behind

actual humans that are forgotten. Michael J. Sparks comes Back by the Woodpile

to talk about both his colorful experiences with wheeling and dealing

in the automotive business and his love for lost names in history he’d

like us not to forget.

Dead girls beckoning fellers in for a swim, a spirit babel fish app, a

swinging summer camp noose, trying to outwit the devil, the tiniest

claw marks, a dog not quite ready to leave, lost foreign ghosts in Japan

and guts splattered on the road. What’s all this mean? Another episode

of In the Corner Back by the Woodpile, ghost story edition!

To our ears there’s nothing creepier than Halloween songs played on

scratchy old records and sang by long dead musicians. To help us mine

through the fertile bone yard of said tunes, musicologist Dirk Allman of the Carolina History Project brings along a few of his favorite finds by to the Corner Woodpile podcast. Learn about swamp gas, dancing with the devil, skeletons on the rag and the singing acoustics of closed coffins.

In keeping with a spirits of the season, we present another weird short story, this one by Spun Counterguy. (Patches of a Second-Hand Planet)

“Creaky Limbs, Swings and Mouths” involves a plot of land that’s ended

up a graveyard more than its vegetable garden original intentions.

interreligious dialogues, having recently published a book specifically

about the relationship between Taoism and Christianity entitled The Gourd and the Cross. She joins us In the Corner Back by the Woodpile to discuss both her book and her life’s work!