The Porch Swing
Series produced by WFHB
A weekly showcase of true stories told by real people
Our stories are our lives. Stories bring us together. They reveal our differences and celebrate our common experiences. We share ourselves through stories as we gather with friends, family, and strangers around kitchen tables and campfires, in backyards and on front porches. Have a seat on The Porch Swing for true stories told by real people.
110 Pieces
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Local author and nonagenarian Henry Swain recounts a timeless moment of father to son wisdom;
Veteran storyteller Mike Lierly warns of the calamit...
Bought by KREV-LP
- Added: Oct 27, 2011
- Length: 29:11
- Purchases: 1
Longtime Bloomington activist Marc Haggerty recalls the establishment of People’s Park as a tent city in the late 1960s amid political and racial s...
- Added: Oct 27, 2011
- Length: 31:50
Mystery storyteller "Sarah" fakes pregnancy to escape robbery while trainhopping south of the border;
A catlover who is allergic to cats recounts ...
- Added: Oct 27, 2011
- Length: 29:48
IU student Barton Girdwood says other people's big moments are big moments for him too;
Local movie store owner Dave Walter spins a twisted yarn o...
- Added: Oct 27, 2011
- Length: 29:32
Lisa Loew tries in vain to encounter a grizzly;
Cricket Gage recalls a drunken teenage misadventure;
Jim Amstutz recounts his time in Europe with...
- Added: Oct 27, 2011
- Length: 29:33
Louis Malone pays tribute to an unpredictable friend in a series of vignettes;
Native American folklorist Blue Butterfly Woman reveals to her gran...
- Added: Oct 27, 2011
- Length: 29:26
WFHB manager Will Murphy gives us chills with two harrowing tales of encounters with things that should not be;
An anonymous storyteller punished ...
- Added: Oct 27, 2011
- Length: 28:00
Author Julia Karr calls the cops on a hairy-legged intruder;
Being a stickler for security pays off for Betty Moeb when the FBI shows up;
Frederi...
- Added: Oct 27, 2011
- Length: 29:33
Local actress Breshaun Joyner shares a story of redemption set in Barbie's Dream House;
Compassion and goodwill triumph over misfortune on Christm...
- Added: Oct 27, 2011
- Length: 29:13
96-year-old Mary contrasts her adventures as a young mother in New York City with her grandmother's life in Brown County; A hunter pursues a bear i...
- Added: Oct 27, 2011
- Length: 29:07
A seven-year-old tells a quick tale of a water gun fight gone wrong; A young man recalls a younger version of himself as he chased "scientific" dis...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 29:09
A Vietnam Vet stages a campus sit-in that sparks a Supreme Court decision on public obscenity law; Teaching kids on a Navajo Indian reservation spa...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 28:21
A photographer and his gal pal find strange new friends in a Chicago gay disco; A clumsy college student desecrates a Buddhist meditation; A high s...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 29:09
Caring for new mothers in a hospital maternity ward grosses out nurse Stephanie Mize; A 12-year-old girl regrets accepting a ride from a stranger w...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 28:21
Craig's dad throws himself on a firecracker on the seat of their new '51 Chevy; Lucille Bertuccio traces her ancestry in a four-part oral history s...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 29:32
A comedic cautionary tale of breakup etiquette; Brown County elder Hank Swain recalls the attention to detail required of him as a teenage handyman...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 29:32
College students are haunted by ghosts in a dormitory that used to be an insane asylum; A tourist faces off against teen thieves while skinnydippin...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 29:12
A worried family fears the worst when their 94-year-old grandmother sleeps for two days; In a pair of stories about her parents, Fredericka recount...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 28:51
A panicky traveler jumps off a moving train in the middle of nowhere; A gas station attendant smashes the window of a would-be thief; A fan of The ...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 28:20
Just because you hang out at the library and have a huge beard doesn't mean you're homeless; A temperamental toddler tests a teen teacher who disco...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 1
