How I See Me In You
On this episode of The Spark: Martha Woodroof speaks with Jennifer Lockard Connerley, who paints portraits that, she admits, contain something of herself.
View ArticleChirp To Win
On this episode of The Spark: Did you know that some world class performers have beaks?Meet canary expert Andre Dight. Andre is a canary club leader and travels to bird competitions. Bird enthusiasts...
View ArticleEye on the Night Sky
On this episode of The Spark: Martha Woodroof learns more about astrophotography from rising college senior Daniel Stein. Daniel loves nothing better than spending entire nights photographing the...
View ArticleRockin’ and Rollin’ Again
On this episode of The Spark: Patrick Mayerchak is taking retirement in stride and getting the band back together. He and four college buddies started a band back in the sixties, and now that they’ve...
View ArticleIntegrating Mount Jackson's Past
Martha Woodroof speaks with DeLois Warr, who still carries anger from her days growing up in segregated Mount Jackson.She has made a mission out of challenging her community to help her maintain Mount...
View ArticleThe Avtex Legacy
On this episode of The Spark: Ralph Bolgiano remembers being part of the 1989 study that shut down AVTEX in Front Royal and put a stop to a major source of pollution in the South Fork of the Shenandoah...
View ArticleChainsaw Glenn
On this episode of The spark: Meet Glenn Richardson... he has been making art for decades. Now in his fifties, Glenn has settled into sculpting phantasmagoria out of firewood using a chainsaw.The Gate...
View ArticleAn Unexpected Presidency
On this episode of The Spark: Former Bridgewater college... and soon-to-be Sweet Briar college president, Phillip Stone.
View ArticleJean Marie Badar
After running twenty-some marathons, competing in a bunch of triathlons, and spending twenty-five years as a special education teacher, Jean Marie Badar finally felt ready to take on the job of fitness...
View ArticleThe Cruciverbalist
WMRA's Martha Woodroof chats with Staunton's Matt Gaffney, whose puzzles have been published by the New York Times, Newsday, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, GAMES Magazine, the Los...
View ArticleIt all Began with Chickens...
On This Episode of The Spark: These days 83-year-old Bob Brennan busies himself with Percheron Horses and a recalcitrant donkey on his Orange County farm. But he started his farming career raising...
View ArticleA Novel Relationship
On this edition of The Spark, Martha Woodroof speaks with writer Erika Raskin. Erika grew up the child of Marcus Raskin (a human rights activist whom Dennis Kucinich called, "the dean of the American...
View ArticleThe Magic of Radio
On this edition of The Spark, Martha Woodroof sits down for a chat with Lulu Miller. Lulu lives half her life in Charlottesville, half in DC, and spends all her time making NPR’s wildly popular new...
View ArticleAn Eye For Eating
On this edition of The Spark, Martha Woodroof speaks with freelance, commercial photographer Ron Rammelkamp.Ron is not shy. His response to being laid-off by Rosetta Stone, was to knock on the doors of...
View ArticleBoutique Catering
On this edition of The Spark, Martha speaks with Mike Lund. Mike spent seven years in the kitchen of the famed Inn at Little Washington, working his way up to second-in-command under chef/owner Patrick...
View ArticleElementary Club Music
On this edition of The Spark: Martha speaks with Perry Shank. Mr. Shank teaches music to the lucky students of Smithland Elementary School in Harrisonburg. And yes, that involves singing and playing...
View ArticleFinding the Form
On this edition of The Spark: Martha woodroof speaks with Charlottesville’s Susan Bacik. Susan has been creating sculpture out of found objects for over a quarter of a century.
View ArticleAdvising Alger
On this edition of The Spark: Martha Woodroof steps aside and lends the interview chair to JMUPresident Jon Alger.
View ArticleHow I See Me In You
On this episode of The Spark: Martha Woodroof speaks with Jennifer Lockard Connerley, who paints portraits that, she admits, contain something of herself.
View ArticleA Finely Tuned Machine
On this edition of The Spark: Skilled piano technician John Schaldach shows there’s more ways than just performance to be involved in making beautiful music.
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