Martha Woodroof

Meet art-film festival organizer/ poet/ skate-head/ barkeep Paul Somers.

Glenna Graves talks about growing flowers –gulp– competitively. 

Mesmerizing hip gyration and fluid arm movement are second nature to Julia Skinner, who,  while living in Hawaii, spent many childhood hours in the obligatory hula-instruction.  Julia still hulas and shares some stories. 

Long time Shenandoah Bach Festival organizers and performers join us --including Ken Nafziger, Les Helmuth, and Jeremy Nafziger. 

Bear right at the mountain-sized turkey (according to an antique map).  Off our coast on a French-made nautical chart, exaggeratedly large French warships dwarf and scare wimpy British ships.  In his new book, Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War, map expert Bill Wooldridge notices how we once pictured our own land and how the world-beyond once pictured Virginia. 

Eliza Doolittle is among the best-loved fictional flower-sellers.  Mary Jo Swartzendruber is a real flower seller --and she grows her own too.

How does one pick a bushel of tomatoes without kneeling? It depends on how they're strung up. Though he'd humbly disagree, many Harrisonburg folks think that Singers Glen farmer, Marlin Burkholder, knows all there is to know about growing tomatoes.