Series: A Grain of Sand
Produced by Charles McGuigan
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Weekly series featuring real stories that spring from the well of memory. Every narrative illuminates our shared human experience. At least that's the hope of producer Charles McGuigan.
I want to achieve the effect of a short story but told in a way that makes the listener feel part of evolving action.I love stories and believe narrative that flows directly from the well of experience illuminates like arc light, strikes with the force of iron.
29 Pieces
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Oldest First
Abbie Catherine Waters
was just nine years and two days old when she left this world. I have heard men and women who knew Abbie refer to her as an ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 00:55:07
Page Wilson was a singer and a song writer and host of the most popular music show in Richmond, Virginia. Called the Out of the Blue Radio Revue, i...
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 00:55:45
A bell tower that has been mute for 70 years at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia is about to get a voice thanks to Diane Watkins.
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 00:55:55
Edward Harden Peeples V was a racist practically from birth. But once out of the orbit of Richmond, Virginia, he went through a transformation whic...
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 00:55:38
Mattie River looked like a puppy when we first found her. She was small and frightened, could barely stand on her own paws. Her wants seemed so ins...
- Added: Jun 30, 2011
- Length: 00:30:12
Page Wilson had an ego the size of Texas but a heart and generosity of spirit toward his fellow musicians, that was on par with Alaska. To say he’l...
- Added: May 14, 2011
- Length: 00:26:19
Richmond Virginia's Folk Festival led to the creation of a sister city relationship with Segou, Mali. In time, these two cities will be exchanging ...
- Added: Oct 30, 2009
- Length: 00:27:41
Sammy Marques learned how to do warm-ups. He learned how to read a room, how to ingratiate himself to the audience. But it all gets back to the sto...
- Added: Oct 12, 2009
- Length: 00:25:27
Sammy Marques tells stories, one-man-shows that last an hour and more. The stories within the bigger stories are chapters of his life. And becaus...
- Added: Oct 12, 2009
- Length: 00:25:28
Sammy Marques, descended from Portuguese seamen, was expatriated from his native America by his missionary father. When he returned stateside he ma...
- Added: Sep 18, 2009
- Length: 00:27:20
For three generations, Sammy Marques’ family was stuck in a sort of revolving door of emigration from Europe to the United States and back again. I...
- Added: Sep 18, 2009
- Length: 00:28:28
Rolanda Scott, an art teacher and glass sculptor, has had one bout of cancer after another for the past eight years. When her time comes Rolanda's ...
- Added: Jun 22, 2009
- Length: 00:29:23
Rolanda Scott is a glass sculptor. But she also molds young minds as an art instructor. About eight years ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer ...
- Added: Jun 19, 2009
- Length: 00:28:20
Pirates love the water. It’s their sustenance, it’s their highway, it’s their haven. Lester Blackiston loved the water.
As a matter of fact, I di...
- Added: Jun 01, 2009
- Length: 00:29:31
Lester Blackiston, the pirate of Shockoe Bottom carried an assortment of weapons, a switchblade, a hatchet that hung from his belt at the small of...
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 00:28:13
Blackbeard the pirate may have had as many as 14 wives, the last one being a 16 year old girl who he gave to his crew after he deflowered her. Nobo...
- Added: May 24, 2009
- Length: 00:27:56
Lester Blackiston was a pirate. Almost everyone I talked to told me as much. And like a pirate, Lester plundered. He couldn’t help himself, it se...
- Added: May 08, 2009
- Length: 00:27:04
Lester Blackiston was a minor Beat poet who lived most of his life in Richmond's warehouse district. He was charming and downright mean. He was the...
- Added: Apr 30, 2009
- Length: 00:26:19
Lester Blackiston, a poet of the Beat generation, was kind of, sort of, an inventor, a businessman, a seamen, and other things,too. Mainly, though,...
- Added: Apr 23, 2009
- Length: 00:28:14
The Ip family had escaped both the Nazis and the Soviets. Once in the United States, Israel Ip carved out a life for his family. Jay married, took ...
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- Added: Apr 09, 2009
- Length: 00:27:47
- Purchases: 1
