Rumble Strip

This is a show about how the charitable food system works and how it’s not working. The topic of hunger is not very exciting. Stories about...

In the concrete jungle, it all starts out innocently enough: especially if you live in a high-rise. It was a blustery Tuesday morning, when...

Ed Cashman spent twenty-five years on the bench, presiding over drunk driving cases and murders and everything in between. After a while,...

For the last four and a half years, Victor’s been working on dairy farms in the Northeast. Like 11 million other people in this country,...

When Marlo Mack’s son was three and just learning to talk, he informed his mother that he was not a boy. He said that something had gone...

It’s really dark here in Vermont this time of year. And every year, by the third week in January, I feel like I’m seeing everything through...

Steve Sheinkin is an award-winning writer of stories for kids about American history. When he started out, he was a writer of boring...

Ho ho ho! It’s time again for the annual seasonal update from the Keen family! In certain American subcultures, there’s a long holiday...

As some of you may remember, last year I did a pledge drive. It was called the Shwag Pledge Drive. I gave away a number of prizes to...

“That’s the thing about lentils, if they were going to soften, they would have already fucking softened. Honestly, you’d be better off...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Here is hunter Barry Forbes talking about turkey hunting again. I could listen to Barry Forbes talk about...

Charlie Hunter is a plein air painter, which is a fancy way of saying he paints outside. His paintings of Vermont are stark and evocative...

A couple weeks ago my son and I volunteered at the soccer Special Olympics in Northfield, VT. The athletes came from all over the state and...

Today, an interview with songwriter and Grammy winning record producer Jim Rooney. He and his wife Carol live in an old farmhouse in...

More and more Vermonters can’t afford groceries by the end of the month. The paycheck isn’t enough. The food stamps won’t stretch. And...

I met Jubal Durivage through my boyfriend, Gordon. Gordon and his two partners, Robby and Hilton, own a small hydroelectric plant way up...

Last summer I interviewed my friend Susan Randall, a private investigator. Susan trained me as an investigator, and we’ve spent whole days...

It’s hot here in central Vermont, and there’s a whole lot of crime going down. Here’s a sampling of calls to the police, as reported in the...

This is a conversation with Bread and Puppet founder and director, Peter Schumann…a conversation in which I ask him over and over again to...

The kids of Randolph, Vermont describe their neighborhood as a place with three purple houses. They tell me there’s a shortcut through the...