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The Last Stop Cafe: Is Football Dying?

 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Is Football Dying?
Is Pro Football a sport anymore? Or Just a Biz?
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:15 AM Eastern
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
The Turd Sandwich Cafe has been sold. It found a better offer. The Last Stop Cafe cannot guarantee you won't be served a shit sandwich by Fate. But you do not have to eat it here. Outside -- a big decision, maybe a big mistake, awaits. But in here, it's a game -- and we are playing along, noting the desert, wolves, mountains and abyss beyond.
This Episode Recorded August 26, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: August 19: More Mirrors

The Poetry Show: The Theme of Song

 
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That Singer Stole Sy Song:
From the Heel to the Throat
 
 
Poems on the theme of Song from Alice Ostriker, WB Yeats, Alan Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, and Susan Jackson, and Langston Hughes
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded July 31, 2024
 
The Radio Is Playing Ray Charles
by Susan Jackson
Georgia, Georgia the whole day through… just an old sweet song… I’m leaning into you in the smoke and the slow dancing those low notes working their way up my spine stirring up the night throaty voices in the corner singing along our hips touching like moonlight through the pines moonlight like a folded handkerchief slanting through the window that night Georgia, Georgia just a sweet and simple song… and our whole life laying out like a road still ahead of us.
 
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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: July 29: Mirror Images

The Turd Sandwich Cafe: The Olympics!

 
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The Turd Sandwich Cafe: The Olympics!
The Decimation of Trump, and the Rise of Cooperative, Olympic values, is at Hand. Else - make your reservation NOW for the TS Cafe.
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30 AM Eastern
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
James Boyd, formerly of Berkeley County, WV joins our program as a co-host. James, a Vietnam veteran, has a long record working to save lives threatened by opioid addiction, prison and poverty. In both West Virginia and New Jersey. He now resides in New Jersey. Mike does the sports and Olympics report. Then we dig into the stakes for the US and the world in the next 100 day campaign to elect Kamala Harris. and decimate the Confederate forces behind the Trump phenomenon. Case goes to 1860, and Lincoln, searching for a comparable context.
This Episode Recorded July 29, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Winners and Losers: Hey Stranger!

 
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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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The Poetry Show: West Virginia Poet Ruth MacQuade

 
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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: The Storytelling Hour: July 22: Lunacy