Making Trouble in the Theater
Amanda McRaven was born and raised in Free Union. She’s a country girl, who fell in love with theater at an early age, and now she runs her own company Fugitive Kind in Los Angeles. She’s in Staunton...
View ArticleUp On the Roof
On this episode of The Spark: Twenty-one year old Richy Rohrer took his first roofing job for a paycheck. He’s still at it because: a) he likes the challenge of the job; and b) he wants to be as good a...
View ArticlePruning Love
On this episode of The Spark: Mary Stickley-Godinez, of Countryside Farm and Nursery in Crimora, tells how she and her husband Raul met over plant pruning. And a bit about the art and science of...
View ArticleAn Operatic Life
On this episode of The Spark: Australian-born Miriam Gordon-Stewart, who sang all over the world before moving to Charlottesville to co-found Victory Hall Opera.
View ArticleFrom Chocolate to Hope
On this episode of The Spark: Harrisonburg’s Brad Burrow’s business adventures in the world of fair trade chocolate.
View ArticleAmerican Revolutions
On this episode of The Spark: Alan Taylor, Pulitzer Prize winning historian, speaks with Martha about his new book, "American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804."
View ArticleA Sheepish Way of Life - Part 1
On this episode of The Spark: Hillary 'Bill" Clemmer spent several years working mostly alone on isolated New Zealand sheep stations. This is part one of her adventures.
View ArticleA Sheepish Way of Life - Part 2
On this episode of The Spark: Hillary 'Bill" Clemmer continues her conversation about a day’s work on a New Zealand sheep station.
View ArticleESPN "Cheat Sheet" Maker
WMRA's Martha Woodroof and college football "spotter" Tony Britt (bonus: also CBS Sports/ESPN legend Brent Musburger) discuss Tony's special "cheat sheets" he developed for ESPN reporters and other...
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.
View ArticlePressing 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 ArticleVirginia's Climate... a Story of Change
On this episode of The Spark: Martha speaks with climate journalist and research scholar Stephen Nash. He discusses his passion for telling the stories that illustrate climate change in our state and...
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