Radio / Archive
09-09-2010
I believe in bicycles. My bicycle is simple. I move the pedals, which spin the gears, which turn the back wheel. The wheels simply rotate. My bicycle does not need a windshield, heated seats or even a radio.
09-08-2010
This new book of poetry is by an author who grew up in Hollidaysburg, and you'll see signs of central Pennsylvania throughout the poems.
09-07-2010
The StoryCorps oral history project just finished a month of recording interviews in Bellefonte. Jessica Welch and her sister Jennifer Theiss came to StoryCorps to honor their father, Bill Welch, who was mayor of State College for 15 years. Jessica and Jennifer recorded this conversation just before the anniversary of their father’s death.
09-02-2010
I believe in learning from the past. We wouldn’t be who we are now without it. Each moment in time affects us in some way.
09-01-2010
A teenage girl makes for an amazing spy in this new novel. Maybe more exciting is that the author is also a teenager!
08-31-2010
The StoryCorps oral history project has been recording interviews all this month in Bellefonte. Jill Herr talked with her father, John Herr, about his stint in the voluntary service. He served for two years in the time between the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The pair came from Lancaster County to record this interview.
08-30-2010
It’s Ramadan right now, a month when Muslims fast, pray, and purify themselves through good deeds. The recent flooding in Pakistan would seem to be an ideal opportunity for the State College Muslim community to offer help. But as WPSU’s Emily Reddy reports, the mosque in town is afraid to make donations.
08-26-2010
My husband got a call the other night as we finished a late dinner. One of his friends had two extra tickets to the baseball game and wanted to know if he'd like them. Of course he did.
08-25-2010
In this striking debut novel, readers are taken into a small Pennsylvania steel town. The author won the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the LA Times.
08-24-2010
The StoryCorps oral history project is recording interviews all this month in Bellefonte. Sylvia Feldman talks with her mother, Joanne Feldman, about her classical music career with her husband, who she met at Julliard.
