Country Hardball Author
Inspired by three unpublished murder mysteries and his own life along the Louisiana/Arkansas border, writer Steve Weddle's book Country Hardball is in bookstores.
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Dawn Miller grew up listening to her parents play music. So, naturally, she started making music as soon as she was old enough to carry a tune.
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Dan Smith of Crimora services pipe organs and also can hybridize them with 21st Century digital technology.
View ArticleThe Sound of Silents (Fri 6:20pm)
Silent film wasn't silent: a theater keyboardist would play along to the on-screen action. Ben Model is a professional film accompanist for MoMA and numerous historic theaters. WMRA's Martha Woodroof...
View ArticleMarvin VanRoane Jr
He sold pizzas. He sold drugs. He did time. Now Marvin VanRoane Junior hopes to turn his life around with art. WMRA's Martha Woodroof chats with the newly self-made artist behind the "Urban Art...
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WMRA's Martha Woodroof meets longtime JMU Women's Basketball coach and vanquisher of Wahoos, Kenny Brooks.
View ArticlePressing On (Fri 6:20pm)
Emily Hancock loves language and words and also loves old-fashioned methods of printing them: vintage foot-powered or hand-cranked presses, newly hand-carved illustration blocks. On WMRA's "The Spark",...
View ArticleA Lady's Last Sermon
In 1978, she was in the vanguard of female pastors (being only the second-ever ordained Presbyterian woman in her state). Ann Held remembers the long and winding road she took to first become a pastor,...
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Bill Fawcett, WMRA's intrepid engineer, has happily gone to the dogs...
View ArticleCountry Hardball Author
Inspired by three unpublished murder mysteries and his own life along the Louisiana/Arkansas border, writer Steve Weddle's book Country Hardball is in bookstores.
View ArticleMiller's Music
Dawn Miller grew up listening to her parents play music. So, naturally, she started making music as soon as she was old enough to carry a tune.
View ArticleUpdating Organs
Dan Smith of Crimora services pipe organs and also can hybridize them with 21st Century digital technology.
View ArticleThe Sound of Silents
Silent film wasn't silent: a theater keyboardist would play along to the on-screen action. Ben Model is a professional film accompanist for MoMA and numerous historic theaters. WMRA's Martha Woodroof...
View ArticleMarvin VanRoane Jr
He sold pizzas. He sold drugs. He did time. Now Marvin VanRoane Junior hopes to turn his life around with art. WMRA's Martha Woodroof chats with the newly self-made artist behind the "Urban Art...
View ArticleHOOs Cryin' Now?
WMRA's Martha Woodroof meets longtime JMU Women's Basketball coach and vanquisher of Wahoos, Kenny Brooks.
View ArticlePressing On
Emily Hancock loves language and words and also loves old-fashioned methods of printing them: vintage foot-powered or hand-cranked presses, newly hand-carved illustration blocks. On WMRA's "The Spark",...
View ArticleA Lady's Last Sermon
In 1978, she was in the vanguard of female pastors (being only the second-ever ordained Presbyterian woman in her state). Ann Held remembers the long and winding road she took to first become a pastor,...
View ArticleCanine Engineer Bill Fawcett
Bill Fawcett, WMRA's intrepid engineer, has happily gone to the dogs...
View ArticlePaul Heitsch - The Spoken Word
This time on the Spark, Martha speaks with audio book producer Paul Heitsch.
View ArticleReclaiming Bonhoeffer Author
Charles Marsh, the acclaimed author of Reclaiming Bonhoeffer discusses his new book, Strange Glory: A life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, which the Wall Street Journal calls “truly beautiful and...
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