Pressing On
On This Edition of The Spark: Emily Hancock loves language and words, and also loves old-fashioned methods of printing them. She revels in using vintage foot-powered or hand-cranked presses, and...
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 ArticleBringing Music to the Valley
On The Spark: Dennis Lynch first came to the Valley fresh out of college to work at the Wayside Theater. But he stayed to run the Shenandoah Valley Music Festival.
View ArticlePast Pets and Their People
On this episode of The Spark: Ann-Janine Morey is an English and Religious Studies professor at James Madison University, as well as Associate Vice Provost for Cross Disciplinary Studies. A.J. began...
View ArticleLife Recycled
On this edition of The Spark: A conversation with Eric Walter, who’s mid-life reinvention took him from running his own IT business in Chicago, to running his own recycling business in Crimora.
View ArticleCaring for a Horse with Special Needs
On this edition of The Spark: JMU Graphic design Professor Trudy Cole’s special relationship with special needs horses.
View ArticleThe Quest for a Sustainable Life
On this episode ofThe Spark: Renard Turner came to Louisa County in 1996 for two reasons: to work at the University of Virginia hospital and to work towards establishing a sustainable lifestyle on his...
View ArticleThe Band is Just the Beginning
On this episode of The Spark: Recent college graduate Danny DeMarais talks about his very business-like plans to make his band Too Indecent into his career.
View ArticleRemembering a Champion Liar
On this episode of The Spark: The late Mack Swift, State two-time tall-tale-telling champ.
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.
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