Enlighten Radio Presents
Winners and Losers: Hey Stranger!
Darkness Darkness: Take Me To The Light
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE Fridays 7:30 AM Eastern
Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case
Karen and John are feeling better! Kamala is uplifting our spirits, and hopes --- from the Bottom --- and a Handmaid's Tale
This Episode Recorded July 26, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Enlighten Radio Presents
A Coal Country Requiem
 
 
Ruth MacQuade, -- a retired federal prosecutor turned short story writer and poet now residing in Shepherdstown --- joins us to share 3 beautiful poems closely tied to her West Virginia coal country upbringing in a family of 15 children.
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded July 23, 2024
The Making of a Family Portrait
by Ruth MacQuade
It was to be a festive affair. Making a family portrait at the Greenbrier Resort. Painted by the famous portraiture artist W.H. Anderson, who, before us, painted the portraits of Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon.
Preparations for the portrait were hectic. The girls needed permanents and matching dresses. the boys, starched white shirts, Mother, a new dress, Daddy, a new suit
Designed by my father, it was to be a symmetrical portrait. The older children to be shown in four sets of three. The youngest girl in the center, between my mother and father, and the two youngest boys, at the bottom, facing each other.
Finished, the large 5-foot square family portrait hung on the wall of my parents’ living room. Proudly shown to anyone who wanted to see the number of happy and healthy children my father sired and my mother reared.
But hidden behind the smiles are the fearful face of my mother in the presence of my father, the wincing faces of children caused by the belt lashing of their father, and the sad faces of two brothers who died by suicide.
 
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Enlighten Radio Presents
The Turd Sandwich Cafe: Take that thing off Your EAR!
Trump's Shit Sandwich for America:
Kamala Harris Responds: "NO One, NO American, Should Eat This"
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:15 AM Eastern
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case
Mike and John note improvements in the Nationals baseball team, while ordering up, from the 69 SDS convention an "eat shit and die, fascist-imperialist business administration majors" SOS breakfast sandwich. The Harris campaign is not planning to show up at the cafe. they have to save the country. She may even need OUR help.
This Episode Recorded July 22, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Enlighten Radio Presents
Winners and Losers Radio: The Presidential Fiasco
"Canada must feel like they live in an apartment above a meth lab."
 
 
Broadcast Fridays, 7:30-is AM Eastern
Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case
The rise and normalization of Donald Trump and the Democratic Party crisis over Biden's alleged infirmities are setting our hair on fire.
This Episode Recorded July 19 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Art as the subject of Art Yields Masterpiece's Multiplied
 
 
Janet introduces some poems about paintings and painters: Vincent Van Gogh, Rembrandt, and Monet. Poets include Robert Hayden and Robert Murre
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded July 17, 2024
Monet's Water Lilies
by Robert Hayden
Today as the news from Selma and Saigon poisons the air like fallout, I come again to see the serene, great picture that I love. Here space and time exist in light the eye like the eye of faith believes. The seen, the known dissolve in iridescence, become illusive flesh of light that was not, was, forever is. O light beheld as through refracting tears. Here is the aura of that world each of us has lost. Here is the shadow of its joy.
 
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Labor Beat Radio: Sean O'Brien at the RNC
Teamster President normalizes Trump: Good, or Bad?
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern
Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall
 
Special Guest: Joe Henry
Description: Special Guest Joe Henry joins the LB team to discuss the pros and cons of Teamster President Sean O'Brien's remarks and presence at the Republican's National Convention. Joe is a retired Teamster active for many years and a former staff organizer for President Ron Carey, a legendary reformer in the Teamsters union.
 
This Episode Recorded July 16, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Winners and Losers: The Solar Farm Flap, Part 2
Corporate Tax Breaks for Development -- Are they worth it?
 
 
Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case
 
Special Guest: Dr. John Aldis
Dr John Aldis appears and weighs in on the pros and cons of the Solar Farm projects ongoing in the county. Dr Aldis retired from Federal service as a physician at US embassies across the world. In retirement he has been an advocate for medically assisted treatment of addiction. He has been a frequent commentator on local media, and past versions of this radio program.
This Episode Recorded 07/12/1014 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Special Guest -- Hiram Larew
 
 
Hiram Larew shares poems of gratitude and wonder, and a delightful tiptoe across images and moments as if they were jeweled islands in a sea of stars.
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded July 10, 2024
 
The Irish Potato Famine occurred from 1845-1849.
Achill Sound
by Hiram Larew
When the roads curve like sound and dip as if lifting to bow Whenever all thoughts round or cluster or when hearts call down is Ireland And as rich when poor was or as wise as bare heads in snow seemed and as twigs so frail broke into song and as true as any blight or potato could be was Ireland So when sand laps the senses or salt drips the edges as dreams Whenever hope streams through such heavens and moss comes home or hearts beam down is Ireland.
 
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