Episode Notes

My interview with songwriter, folklorist, community music organizer and roving female banjo player, NORMA JEAN HAYNE. Her MUSIC - her singing and banjo-playing is what makes this interview really come alive. Check out the radio debut of some of her orginal songs and witness the mesmerizing purity of her voice and poetry of her lyrics.

Cassandra Koutalidis discusses her childhood in Maine. She talks about looking through a window well as a 2 year old (her earliest memory), mischief at Halloween and how her older sister convinced her that a spirit lived inside a cigarette lighter! She also has a great answer to this question: if you could return to your childhood with your adult mind, would you do it?

A conversation with Steve Freiman about his childhood. He talks about getting an electric shock in a synagogue at the age of 4 and learning what happens to the garbage on barges as a kid. He also reflects on how accessing the vulnerability we had as kids is what leads to love.