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Programs - What's Your Story?
Every one has a story. Don Dale engages people in conversation to find out their stories. Listed in reverse chronology, most recent interview is first. To locate a specific conversation, type a portion of the person's name in the search box to the left. Each program is approximately 30 minutes.
David Pippin, What’s Your Story?
David Pippin is one of Richmond’s most respected floral designers and horticulturists. It’s a profession he’s pursued since he was in high school in Louisa County. He talks with host Don Dale about his life, his profession, and his passion: teaching. He also talks about what he’ll be growing this season in his urban garden behind his home in the Carytown area and the pleasure of eating the first tomato of the season right from the vine.
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Chris Semtner, What’s Your Story?
Poet and author Edgar Allan Poe spent much of his life in Virginia, but even here much of what we know about him is simply wrong. An expert on Poe, Chris Semtner, Curator, Poe Museum in Richmond, discusses Poe’s life, his tales of terror, and his haunting lyric poetry on “What’s Your Story?”
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Ruth Eccleston, What’s Your Story?
Ruth Eccleston is a regular listener to the Virginia Voice, with one foot in Mexico and the other in the United States. She was born in what is now a suburb of Mexico City to a Mexican father, whose family was run out their home by Pancho Villa. Her father later married an American and returned to Mexico to raise his own family. He was also the author of a controversial book that cast doubt on whether Davy Crockett died fighting at the Alamo, and instead surrendered (along with his Tennessee boys) before being executed. Ruth discusses her life in Mexico, her marriage to an American and how she came to live in Richmond.
About 35 minutes.
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Amy Black, What’s Your Story?
Amy Black knew that she wanted to be an artist from the time she could speak. Following art school she found an unusual way to express her talent: she specialized in working with the human body as her canvas, becoming a respected tattoo artist. She’s now the owner of Trademark Tattoo in Carytown. One of her newer interests is creating tattooed nipple and aureole reconstruction for breast cancer survivors.
About 29 minutes.
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Sonja & Bud Brodecki, What’s Your Story?
Sonja and Bud Brodecki are survivors of the Holocaust. Sonja, who is now in her 80s, is the talkative one. Bud, who just celebrated his 90th birthday, sits nearby, mostly quiet. Sonja and Bud were born in Poland before World War II. They met as displaced persons right after the war ended. Their story is one of horrifying brutality and hardship, but Sonja credits an underlying faith in the future and in mankind for carrying them through unimaginably difficult times. Their optimism shines even today.
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Bill Martin, What’s Your Story?
Bill Martin, director of the Valentine Richmond History Center, talks about his early life and how he got involved with history museums, and discusses the past and the future of one of Richmond’s most important cultural resources.
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Bobbie Barajas, What’s Your Story?
Bobbie Barajas, who is the music director and classical music host for WCVE FM in Richmond, talks about her early life in Texas, the development of her love of classical music, and a secret: she also likes Appalachian music.
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Jill Melichar, What’s Your Story?
Jill Melichar is a writer, editor and teacher of astrology. If you’re a skeptic, you’ll be amazed to hear her stories of astrological charts to correctly predict–twice!–who would be named director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (where she once worked) and her thoughts on who’ll win the 2012 Presidential election.
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Sue Griffin, What’s Your Story?
Sue Griffin, who won accolades for her lavish costume designs for the recent production of “My Fair Lady” at Richmond’s Empire Theatre, talks with Don Dale about her long career with the Virginia Museum Theatre, Theatre IV and Barksdale Theatre. What’s the most exciting show she’s ever worked on? “The next one,” she says.
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Estelle Blostein – What’s Your Story?
Estelle Blostein remembers the Great Depression, World War II and — most of all — the love story that was her 62-year marriage to Ted Blostein, a boy she had known for as long as she could remember. They met as infants when her mother and Ted’s mother used to push their baby strollers together through the park. What’s her secret to such a long and loving marriage? Find out on “What’s Your Story?” with Don Dale on the Virginia Voice.
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