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Grad student Erica G was going to go to Israel as a teenager but things didn’t work out. This is the story of celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Philadelphia Folk Festival instead.
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Journalist Christopher Wink tells the story of his first hitchhiking experience in South Dakota.
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Temple Law student Andrew Thompson talks about anti-Semitic sentiment in New Zealand.
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Philadelphia school teacher Josh Rothstein takes a bicycle ride from Tokyo to Kyoto and is a better man for it.
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Penn researcher Emma Fred-Cassorla once took a road trip that went farther south than expected.
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Story Shuffle 7: Road Trips hit the highway this Saturday, held on a beautiful and later stormy night in the Newbold section of South Philadelphia, hosted by Holly Otterbein.
She and friend Rachel Playe kicked off the night with readings from Kerouac. Listen to that below. As usual, all the stories will run here, one a day in the night’s order.
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Business publications editor Alex Irwin, who hosted Story Shuffle 3 and provided a robust turkey sausage squash chili, hot apple cider and more, told a story about the terrors of tourism horseback riding in Ireland — but he didn’t press the record button!
It’s lost to time. ..And we’re probably dead to him.
It’s not the first time that happened.
Brian James Kirk took a road trip with a replacement teenage girl and it led to a run in with a Tennessee National Park ranger.
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Dana Vachon, left, with friend Jess Victor
Dana Vachon, a software company support administrator, talked about receiving pressure from her art school professors at the College of New Jersey, and how it drove her to drive 16 hours to and from a family New Hampshire cabin with some hiccups along the way.
Unfortunately, there were some, uh, technical difficulties with her recording, so it can’t be posted.
Audio from the other six will be posted, once a day, continuing tomorrow.
