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Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip, Erica Heilman

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00:59:37

Big Job

Rumble Strip ·

2014/12/26

This week’s episode is about one of life’s hardest and most humbling jobs. Parenting. You’ll hear stories about potty training, power struggles, living with teenagers, character-driven parenting, and negotiating new relationships with grown children. Plus some stories about beaches and dead birds. The hour features two interviews. Melissa Burroughs is a mother and teacher, and has worked extensively with families. The show also features an interview with a mother of two grown daughters. She talks

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00:07:47

Truck

Rumble Strip ·

2014/12/26

We live in a place where trucks are a kind of passion. It’s not overt. It’s an understated, Vermont kind of passion. According to TheCarStarter.com, Vermonters sometimes heat up when you get them talking about Ford vs. Chevy vs. Dodge. So I drove around and talked with some guys about trucks. Here’s what they said. Leave a comment or story at the bottom of this show page! We love to hear from you. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/169932294″

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00:06:00

Poopy Old Man

Rumble Strip ·

2014/12/24

We are all busy getting older, for better and for worse. Here is an unvarnished perspective on aging by author Marc Estrin. Marc Estrin is a writer, cellist and political activist who lives in Burlington, Vermont. His most recent book, And Kings Shall Be Thy Nursing Fathers, features the ruminations of Tchaikovsky’s corpse. You can find it on Amazon here, or order it from a local bookstore. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/183023161″

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00:06:31

Buy Nothing Day

Rumble Strip ·

2014/12/18

Welcome to The Mudroom, a joint commentary series of Rumble Strip Vermont and The Dooryard. In time for the holidays, we bring you a commentary about Buy Nothing Day, an annual day of protest against buying stuff. Jessamyn West is a writer, blogger, librarian, and knower of many things technological and digital. She lives in Randolph, Vermont, and here she is standing on a bed. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/182121652″

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00:05:00

A Vermonter’s Lament

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2014/12/12

I don’t know what you’d call this. A commentary? A riff? An agricultural lament? This is how Alan LePage started his show a few weeks ago, and I wanted to share it with you all. Alan LePage is a legend around here in central Vermont. He’s a fourth generation Vermont farmer, mentor to many up and coming market gardeners, and he’s the host of one of WGDR’s most popular shows, The Curse of the Golden Turnip. For the past few months, we’ve been working on getting his show out into the world as a

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00:17:30

The Eyes of Sibiu

Rumble Strip ·

2014/12/07

This is a story produced by my friend Larry Massett. A few years ago Larry took a trip with public radio personality Andre Codrescu. Andre grew up in Romania in times of hardship. After twenty years as an American citizen, he feels he’s lost the local taste of the land where he spent his youth. Larry Massett records the story of a man now in the role of “tourist” in his radically changed native land. THANKS TO HEARING VOICES This program originally aired on Hearing Voices, and airs on Rumble Strip

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00:05:05

Gold, Frankenstein and Myrrh

Rumble Strip ·

2014/12/07

From the Saviour’s conception to offerings of gold, Frankenstein and myrrh, six year old Erin Magill of Moretown, Vermont tells her version of the Christmas story, with help from her creche figures. I made this story some years ago. NOW Erin Magill is a COMPOSER, and you can hear her work HERE. Go Erin!!!

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00:11:08

Magic: The Gathering

Rumble Strip ·

2014/12/03

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/179849504″ params=”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] This is a show about a game my son loves that I don’t understand. At all. It’s called Magic: The Gathering, and it’s a card game that’s sort of a cross between Dungeons and Dragons and chess. It involves spells and enchantments and creatures and math and strategy. The game was born in 1993, and millions of people play it around

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00:03:25

Rock Lottery

Rumble Strip ·

2014/11/11

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/176331320″ params=”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] When my son was four I joined a temporary rock band. It was humiliating and terrible and I was middle aged and didn’t know what to do with my arms. I wanted to quit. This is a commentary about why I didn’t quit, and why it’s important to risk failure as an example for our kids.

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00:18:32

Raw Tape

Rumble Strip ·

2014/11/07

This is an unedited interview I did with a young man in Barre, Vermont in 2011. He gave me permission to use this tape, but I’ve chosen not to use his name in order to protect his privacy. I’ll call him ‘O’. I had interviewed O once before, when he was on furlough and living in Barre. About a year after that first interview I interviewed him again. I was curious about how he was doing after having maxed out his jail sentence. We met at the apartment he was living in with his girlfriend and

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00:05:21

Peace, Love and Occupation?

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2014/11/06

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/175689933″ params=”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] Welcome to the Mudroom, a joint commentary series of Rumble Strip Vermont and The Dooryard. Israel has been a substantial recipient of US foreign aid since the state’s inception. According to Mark Hage, Israel is also the recipient of some of Vermont’s finest ice cream, which is sold in Israeli settlements. Do we have a social

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00:36:49

Jamie Cope in Black and White

Rumble Strip ·

2014/10/24

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173664668″ params=”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] Jamie Cope’s house is filled with pictures of people…pictures so beautiful you practically want to lick them. Or at least I do. They are all black and white, and all printed with exquisite attention to light and shadow. There is an amazing intimacy in her portraits, as though she’s looking INTO the people she’s photographing, and

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00:22:03

Town

Rumble Strip ·

2014/10/10

Town is a sound exhibit that I produced for the Kent Museum in Calais, Vermont. It weaves together personal stories and memories about growing up in Calais, and natural sounds recorded around town. There’s no start or finish to these stories. It’s meant to be a kind of sonic wallpaper. In this audio, you hear reference to the former owner of the Kent Museum building, Louise Andrews Kent, and you hear her granddaughters talk about concerts once held upstairs in the ballroom, and her creation of the

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00:04:35

My Son Teaches Me a Game

Rumble Strip ·

2014/09/15

This is a raw recording of my son teaching me how to play a card game called Magic. Does anyone know what he’s talking about? Please advise. And featuring a picture of a cruel pinata in Hancock, Vermont, crafted by my friend Stacey at The Dooryard. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/167881968″ params=”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /]

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00:22:53

The Taxidermists

Rumble Strip ·

2014/09/12

Rodney and Theresa Elmer are a taxidermy power duo in Northfield, Vermont. In this interview, they talk about the art and psychology of mounting animals, and why they hunt. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/167267083″ params=”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] Credits: Photos by Josh Larkin. Music for this show from Katie Trautz and Julia Wayne of the Vermont duo Mayfly. Links to more of their work below. Link to

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00:22:27

Strange Days

Rumble Strip ·

2014/08/25

The farther you go from home, the stranger things get. Here is a story by Larry Massett about the life and work of Paul Bowles. This program originally aired on Hearing Voices, home to some of the best radio anywhere….

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00:07:07

Vermont Health Disconnect

Rumble Strip ·

2014/08/17

Jessamyn West studies and writes about the digital divide and she solves technology problems for a living. This summer she found herself unemployed, and forced to use some of the same state agency websites she’d been helping others to use–namely, Vermont Health Connect, and the Department of Labor. The results were not pretty. Here’s a commentary about it. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/168089366″ params=”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%”

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00:11:57

Thunder Road

Rumble Strip ·

2014/07/19

For generations of Vermonters, Thursday nights in the summer have meant one thing….Thunder Road. This quarter mile short track opened in 1960 and it’s home to some of the most passionate drivers and fans you’re likely to find anywhere. In these shows and outtakes, you’ll hear from some of the drivers and from Thunder Road co-owners and ring leaders, Ken Squier and Tom Curley. There are thrills and heartbreaks and heated coils and a lot of history. There’s even some opera. Welcome. Shows (in the box

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00:06:23

Night Dreams of Another Life

Rumble Strip ·

2014/07/14

Welcome to The Mud Room, a joint commentary series from Rumble Strip Vermont and The Dooryard. A late night shopping cart reminds Marc Estrin of a song from Schubert’s song cycle, Winterreise (Winter Journey). Marc Estrin is a writer, cellist and political activist who lives in Burlington, Vermont. Marc Estrin’s Novels The Prison Notebooks of Alan Krieger (Terrorist) When the Gods Come Home to Roost Tsim-tsum The Good Doctor Guillotin The Annotated Nose Skulk The Lamentations of Julius

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00:03:23

A Man of Wealth and Taste

Rumble Strip ·

2014/07/10

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/158099219″ params=”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] Welcome to The Mud Room, a joint commentary series from Rumble Strip Vermont and The Dooryard. This is A Man of Wealth and Taste, a commentary in response to Dick Cheney’s editorial in the Wall Street Journal on June 17, 2014. It is written by Robby Porter. Robby is a woodworker and hydro plant operator and lives in Adamant,

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