Frank Turner’s old garage, a Rockingham County folk-landmark, is now the site of Ralph’s Auto Service, whose owner, Billy Campbell, talks about his lonnnnnng relationship with vehicles.
Front: Carla Martinez, Kate Le, Lauren Whetzel, Clarissa McIntyre, Victoria Meador, Nora Valente. Back: Mrs Pamela Iwanicki, Savannah Turner, Pablo Santibanez, Edith Ortega-Sanchez, Briannah Cline, Wilson Smith
Montevideo Middle School art teacher Pamela Iwanicki's students are making the letters L, O, V, and E in a project that partners with the Virginia Department of Tourism.
After serendipitously discovering clay, potter Nan Rothwell has been throwing pots (or in the old-timey Southern phrase, turning pots) on the wheel for many happy decades. Martha talks with Nan about life, clay, and "wiggling".
Sara Taylor created Rapunzel’s Coffee and Books back in 2001 to give Nelson County folks a place to hang out and listen to music. At a time when so many independent book stores have succumbed to Amazon or Books-A-Million, her enterprise carries on.
WMRA's Tom Graham mentioned his troubled childhood during a recent episode of Virginia Insight. (online audio, around the 34min mark). When Martha asked him to come on The Spark and talk about himself, he chose to talk further about his past and how it informs his current professional and personal life.
Wayside Theatre alumnus and past Chicago theatre organizer Chris Markham combined his love of stage, science, and schoolkids to create Impressions Theater. Lately, the childrens' theater troupe he founded has him costumed as Redbeard The Pirate.
"Sounds good" sometimes is a specialized professional opinion. Tom Carr has been engineering sound professionally for almost 40 years --including for Lucasfilm and other big names.
Two sisters and their mother (with some help from little brother) turn Mama Raymond’s veggie burgers into the thriving Charlottesville business, NoBull Burgers.
