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Paris on the Potomac: A Hard Rain is Fallin’

 
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Paris on the Potomac: A Hard Rain is Fallin'
 
Special Guest: Zach Shrewsbury:
Bluejay Rising is Spreading Across West Virginia
Bluejay Rising is a community action driven political movement. Zach Shrewsbury's historic US Senate campaign was just a beginning of a new kind of politics. The floods in southern West Virginia exposed the utter incompetence -- and indifference -- of the very noisy Trumpers running the WV state government's response to a serious crisis wiping out hundreds of families.
This Episode Recorded February 28, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: February 17: Valentine's Day

Paris on the Potomac: Special Guest Joe Grey

 
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Paris on the Potomac:
Tens of thousands of loyal, devoted Federal Workers Summarily Fired
SHAME!!!! BETRAYAL!!!!
 
 
Fridays, 7:30_ish AM Eastern -- LIVE
Special Guest: Joe Grey
The people who serve the American people, under sacred civil and moral codes, have been betrayed by a scrum of billionaires masquerading as populists. Special guest Joe Grey joins us. Joe is a retired federal worker, a friend, frequent guest and commenter on this program for a number of years. His recollections of the codes of duty and sacrifices of federal workers now frame a memoir as a painful eulogy.
This Episode Recorded Feb 14, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Poetry Show: Love Poems (romantic) on Valentine’s Eve

 
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To the Marriage of True Minds
 
 
Love poems both ideal and sensual, married and seasoned: Yeats, e.e. cummings, Willie the Shake, Rilke, Neruda.
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Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded Feb 12, 2025
Sonnet XI
by Pablo Neruda
 
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes, and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.
 
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Labor Beat Radio: The labor movement: guardian of democracy

 
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Labor Beat Radio: The labor movement: guardian of democracy
Special Guest: Constitutional historian Ray Smock.
 
 
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Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall
 
Guests: Ray Smock
Retired director of the Byrd Legislative center at Shepherd University
Description: Ray Smock is a retired offical historian of the US House of Representatives, and a powerful, eloquent commentator on the current political scene and the emergent constitutional crisis.
This Episode Recorded February 11, 2014 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: February 10: Football fun and fantasy

The Poetry Show: Telescopes

 
 
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Between the Blaze and the Black: Thru the Lens
 
 
Janet says she went looking for planet poems, after pondering the stars. She was not satisfied, but found -- beautiful poems on the theme of telescopes: Get to know the planets, and stars, and ourselves, better. Ted Kooser, Louise Gluck, Emma Trelles, Jessica Young, Diane Thiel, Kewayne Wadley report in verse.
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Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded February 6, 2025######
Night of the Telescopes
by Emma Trelles
I have buried my share and hardly anyone knows. A house must hold ghosts, writing Names across funereal woods and windows Good for viewing the lingering past. This night of telescopes fixes the cold October sky—a Saturn so delicate as if Sketched by moths holding to nearby stones For their lives. The sutures of the moon drift Into sharpness and a hand points to the inevitable screen Another haunt in this dim garden where voices ride Across pines and the invisible fountain locked In the same little song. Here is the Sea of Crisis And I would recognize its expanse anywhere Having visited often, even beneath my lids when I disappear At night to visit with a father who no longer knows me Or the dead who always do, and glow like the rain or a rose Finished with the business of becoming. I can’t say the worst Because I’ll keep living it. Machine of the mind. Belt Of the hunter. I can spot his patient blade from either coast— The one where I drown the one where I love the one Where I keep rowing through the blaze and the black.
 
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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: February 3: Football crazy