Welcome to WPFC Podcasting! This is a weekly look at news, information and the people in and around Pike County! Before the consolidation of Pike County Schools for the 1974-75 school year, the three remaining high schools were Otwell, Petersburg and Winslow. And when it comes to small-town Indiana schools, many were defined by the success of the basketball program!  It was a way of life… and only needing a handful or two of participants small schools could compete with programs that had larger student bodies.  Otwell had some great success especially in the late 1960s and early ‘70s.  Petersburg had some sporadic success throughout the years… but Winslow… year in and year out… Winslow was pretty dominate. There is a book that’s out called "Eskimo Fever."  It was written by Mitchell Stinson.

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Welcome to WPFC Podcasting! This is a weekly look at news, information and the people in and around Pike County! Today’s visit is with long friend of Pike County, a fellow who started prating dentistry here in Petersburg in 1960!  Dwight Eisenhower was President!  But 65 years later, Howard Dunigan still has the driven energy of many 30 year olds….

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Welcome to WPFC Podcasting! This is a weekly look at news, information and the people in and around Pike County! This week begins, an annual tradition that has been going on at Hornady Park, it’s current location, for nearly eighty years! It is the Pike County Fair! Today’s visit is with Brooke Gobel, the Extension Educator through Purdue University.  She is stationed right here in the Pike County Courthouse and helps pull the fair together every year.

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Welcome to WPFC Podcasting! This is a weekly look at news, information and the people in and around Pike County!Most people that know much about me, know that I appreciate history. Family history, Pike County History… Petersburg history. My dad was a history teacher… I married a history teacher! When somebody asks me a history question above my pay grade… it’s a call to Sandy McBeth! She is the quintessential Pike County Historian.

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Welcome to WPFC Podcasting! This is a weekly look at news and information in and around Pike County! Today is July 4th! The 249th anniversary of our nation’s independence! There is no better guest for today’s program than Tom Morrison. Tom is a retired Social Studies Teacher, Government & History, from Pike Central High School. Tom is a true patriot. He is decorated with the Bronze Star from heroic action under fire. During the Viet Nam War he found himself, and his buddies, in the middle of the Tet Offensive which was a series of coordinated attacks launched by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. It changed the war. It changed his life.

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Welcome to WPFC Podcasting! This is a weekly look at news and information in and around Pike County! Our heritage of Coal Mining in Pike County is a deep vein. Fact check me, but I think 38% of our geography has been coal mined.  That, in part, is why our 334 square miles of land, only has about 12,500 inhabitants.  Our foot print is larger than that of New York City! One of the coal mines, this one in Jefferson Township, near Cato, the property was gifted by Old Ben Coal, to the Buffalo Trace Council of the Boy Scouts and they built a regional scout retreat.  A few years ago, that property became expendable by the scouts and was purchased by Clint and Michelle Swisher.

Welcome to WPFC Podcasting! This is a weekly look at news and information in and around Pike County! Nestled in the western rolling hills of Clay Township, on the border of Gibson County, is a hidden garden, a forrest preserve, that has brought thousands of visitors to this neighborhood for quite a few years. It is the Azalea Path Botanical Garden and Arboretum, we call it the “The Azalea Path." It’s also the home to the curators, Beverly and Steve Knight.

Our host, Randy Harris, is joined today by Randall Hedden who is the creator of the Gil Hodges Mural in Petersburg, Indiana.

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