Tara DeMoulin grew up collecting eucalyptus buttons in the Panhandle with her mom.

In this podcast, the singer/songwriter, activist, and filmmaker shares the story of her life. It starts in San Francisco in the late-1980s, travels east to Maine and New York City (where she discovered and became obsessed with Broadway), starts to circle back west with a stop in Texas before scooting over to Southern California.

In the early 2000s, after some college, Tara decided to come back to her native home in San Francisco, which we'll get more into in Part 2.

The rest of this episode includes some of Tara's thoughts on living in such wildly different places in the U.S. Check back Thursday for Part 2 and the conclusion of Tara's life story.

We recorded this podcast at Vesuvio in June 2021.

Photography by Michelle Kilfeather