The Telling Takes Us Home

A Celebration of American Family Stories

Podcasts

Episode 1

THE TELLERS: Kevin Burke - Joke with the Pony Cart - Alan Hayashi - As Long As I Have You – Maria Mazziotti Gillan - The Yearbook - Michael Pritchard - The Johnstown Flood - Eric Funk and Bill Durbrow - Opera Day and Chopin Waltzes - Olga Andreyev Carlisle - The Necklace - James Farris - The Smartest Man I Ever Knew - Betty Farmer - Those Beans Worked Me Hard

THE MUSICIANS: Kevin Burke – The Ink Spots – Cafe Noir – De Dannan - Les Balalaikas des Tziganes Russes – Tony Rice – Martin, Brogan, and Armstrong

Episode 2

THE TELLERS: Les Purce - The Fortune Teller - Stan Miller - The Reunion - Joanna Robinson - The Fire - Frank Orlando - A Healthy Dose of Vitamin S - James Houston - Why We Tell Family Stories - Billy Cornette - A Civil War Story - Izzy Martin - Get Me to the Church on Time! - Skip Houser and Kevin Arnold - Bits of Folly

THE MUSICIANS: Allen Toussaint – Itzhak Perlman – from the film South Pacific (Mitzi Gaynor - vocalist) – Swedish band J.J.P - Reed Island Rounders – from the film My Fair Lady (Stanley Holloway - vocalist)

Episode 3

THE TELLERS: Thomas Moore - Tragedy on the Lake - John Olmstead - The Secret Lakes - Ellen Duffy and Beverly McHugh – A Love of Books - Richard Bausch - The Car Salesman - John Eliason - The Powered Toboggan and Music Machine - Beth Goodwin - Whatever It Takes - Irene Paul - A Passion for Democracy

THE MUSICIANS: Patrick Cassidy – Taj Mahal – Jimmy Durante – Rolling Stones – from the film Oklahoma (Gordon MacRae – vocaist ) – Ray Charles

Episode 4

THE TELLERS: Andrew McBride – Courtship During Difficult Times – Alasdair Fraser – The Healing Power of Music - Bruce “Utah” Phillips - Taking Down the Rope - Laurie Lewis - The Light - Robert Butcher - Too Many Chickens! - Judith Parkhurst - How the World Changed in an Instant - Judy Neilsen - Buying a Hotel

THE MUSICIANS: Alasdair Fraser – Utah Phillips – Laurie Lewis – Red Clay Ramblers – The Animals

Episode 5

THE TELLERS: Howard "Rusty" Hamer – The Crash - John Lilly – Grandma’s Outlandish Tales - George Daugherty – Uncle Dennis - Nancy Knoerzer –The Gift - Oleta Singleton – Five Turkeys - John Wheeler – Lunch in a Pickup Truck - Agnes Holt – The Magic of Radio - Estelle Chun – The Greatest Sacrifice

THE MUSICIANS: Dianne Reeves - Ink Spots - Wizard of Oz – Reed Island Rounders – Phil and Ann Case - David Grisman and Andy Statman

Episode 6

THE TELLERS: Bruce Perry – the Dentist and the Indians - Bob Walsh – Grandfather Was an Aviator - Nancy Knoezer – Buck Rogers Meets Arsenic and Old Lace - John Yeager and Ricki Yeager Cooley – Dad and Buck Rogers - Lee Smith – Great Uncle Was a Musician - Dave Johnson – Father Confronts the Church - John Barbato – A Poem For My Dad

THE MUSICIANS: Skip Gorman – Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (Ron Goodwin composer & conductor) – Double Decker String Band – Junior Brown


Episode 7

THE TELLERS: Vic Meyers - My Two Families - Al Dover - My Tough Grandfather - Angelica Santamuro - The Miracle - J.P. Fraley - An Ill-Fated Baptism - Brian Dooley - Mother's Special Knowing - Jo Lakota - The Coat - Bill Knight - ZZ Top - Patty Looman - The Haunted House

THE MUSICIANS: Woody Guthrie – from the film Big Night (Matteo Salvatore – vocalist) – from film Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou (Alison Kraus - vocalist)  Johnny Cunningham -  ZZ Top – Halloween Stomp)