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The Last Stop Cafe: Trades and Recruits

 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Trades and Recruits
And pluck till time and times are done...
 
 
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Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
Are there more lawyers than players in  pro sports?
This Episode Recorded 3/12/2006 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Last Stop Cafe: When a Bat is a Weapon

 
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Last Stop Cafe: When a Bat is a Weapon
Rough Play!
 
 
Thursdays, 10 AM
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
After the game is over, and the bodies are removed from the arenas and grounds. The lions are satiated. The children who failed to go to bed on time have all been devoured. Play Ball!
This Episode Recorded March 3, 2026 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Last Stop Cafe: The Eisenhower Show 2/5

 
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Last Stop Cafe: The Eisenhower Show 2/5
Bombs Away
 
 
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Hosts: James Boyd, Mike Cuccherini, John Case
At the conclusion of WW2 Eisenhower visited the Nazi concentration camp, over 80 years ago now. This is what he repotedly said: “Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
This Episode Recorded Feb 5, 2026 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Poetry Show: Safe Harbors

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Unexpected Poetics -- Seeking, and Finding Safe Harbor
 
 
Poets Dinah Hawken, Tracy K Smith, Ralph Williams, Don Hynes visit the peace of harbors.This poem by David Gregory, Reading the Bar/Whakatane Harbour, like the sea, does not encourage adjectives.
 
Reading the BarWhakatane Harbour
 
Such a liquid languagelisping between the headlandswith a slight disturbance of syntaxover the rocks, fresh and salt;the river knuckling under.
Read the slurred waves.Air as brailleagainst the skin, hair;always more episodes of driftwood.An interrogation of gullsdemand their livingoff the backs of water.
The sea is notcontained by adjectives– sullen, playful, unforgiving –the insult of ignorancehas a sure response.
A woman stands aloneliterate in grief.
 
David GregoryBased on a True Story, Sudden Valley Press, 2024
 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Is it Really Over?

 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Is it Really Over?
How do you know its the End of the Road? 6 3 4 5 7 8 9
 
 
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Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, James Boyd, John Case
Well, I started out down a dirty road; Started out all alone. And the sun went down as I crossed the hill And the town lit up, the world got still I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, the good old days may not return And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn
This Episode Recorded March 5, 2026 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Poetry Show: The Outer Planets

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The Outer Planets and beyond: What are we really looking at?
Sarah Doyle, David Sutton. Derek Walcott and Ada Limon answer.
Broadcasts LIVE: Wednesdays, 10 AM Eastern Time.
Hosts: Janet Harrison and John Case
This Episode Recorded 2/17/2026
 
 
In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa
by Ada Limon
Arching under the night sky inky with black expansiveness, we point to the planets we know, we pin quick wishes on stars. From earth, we read the sky as if it is an unerring book of the universe, expert and evident. Still, there are mysteries below our sky: the whale song, the songbird singing its call in the bough of a wind-shaken tree. We are creatures of constant awe, curious at beauty, at leaf and blossom, at grief and pleasure, sun and shadow. And it is not darkness that unites us, not the cold distance of space, but the offering of water, each drop of rain, each rivulet, each pulse, each vein. O second moon, we, too, are made of water, of vast and beckoning seas. We, too, are made of wonders, of great and ordinary loves, of small invisible worlds, of a need to call out through the dark.
 
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