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Lead Investigative Reporter for Carolina Public Press, Kate Martin was our guest to recap her story on "North Carolina Counties Struggle To Find Qualified Dept. of Social Services Workers." The discussion included unqualified individuals being hired for social services jobs and inconsistent employee pay from county to county. This conversation aired on March 30, 2022.

Larry Perlman has combined a successful 30-year career in sales, sales training and public speaking with teaching spiritual classes and acting as a Minister for Emissary Ministry. Recently Larry has performed at Tellabration, The Tarheel Teller’s Festival, Roadhouse Inn and The Old North State Storytelling Festival and placed first at the Mad Robot Storytelling Slam. www.larryperlman.comAired 4/3

In the Carolina textile mills there are many stories of practical jokes pulled on unsuspecting co-workers and supervisors. In this story Mr. Young has the Clemson University faculty behooved as to how a loom shuttle went through a small hole without breaking the glass.

Justin Golden expands the tent of what we think of as blues music by both pointing back to the Piedmont blues, fingerstyle guitar tradition of his native Virginia, and by charting a new direction of his own. As he said in our interview, one thing people tend to get wrong about blues music is thinking that it is all about electric guitar jams: “acoustic blues was about expression, you know, especially the country blues. It's not really jammable music if you don't know the song.

This narrative poem tells about Jack and his dog Flower, and the adventures they had playing hooky on a beautiful morning one fine spring day. “That night as Jack lay remembering the day, He decided it was quite perfect. For the scolding he got, and the supper that was not, Had certainly been very well worth it.

Kyra Freeman writes poems, tells stories, and dances in the kitchen in Morganton, North Carolina. A former school librarian turned massage therapist, she was raised in Vermont not too far from the Appalachians. She lives with her family and infamous pets and goes outside in the yard as much as possible. She is a member of the Asheville Storytelling Circle and the N.C. Storytelling Guild. A collection of her poetry and photographs entitled: Second Life: Poems of Re-emerging was released by Redhawk Publications in the summer of 2021.

The history of Western North Carolina has long been a subject of study for local and international scholars. Many of those efforts have been focused on only a portion of the culture and experience of the region. With its exhibit Jagged Path: The African Diaspora in Western North Carolina in Craft, Music, and Dance, the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum, or BRAHM, is working to provide a fuller picture of creativity throughout the history of Appalachia.

The day before Author Christy Smith was scheduled for a book signing at the Orchard at Altapass, she sat down with WNCW's Friday Feature Interview. Christy shared details about her book, Lost Cove, North Carolina - Portrait of a Vanished Appalachian Community 1864-1957. Learn where the Lost Cove community was located and how its people survived.

A collaboration of The Earl Scruggs Museum, Tryon International Equestrian & Resort Center, WNCW, and event sponsors present the inaugural Earl Scruggs Music Festival, on Labor Day weekend. This Friday Feature helps prepare you for the event, as you hear from Tryon Equestrian Center Director of Events and Entertainment, Jeff Fissel. The lineup of performers is incredible!

For the first time, WNCW welcomed South Carolina Public Radio and their Upstate Multimedia Reporter, Scott Morgan to More to the Story. Scott recapped his recent story about how the state's industries fell behind due to the pandemic and how there is now vast improvement. He also talked about how automation continues growing and that the United Way is helping with housing assistance.