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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A new mother remembers vivid details of her experience delivering new life into the world; Nursing goats presents a challenge to survival of the fi...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 29:22
Working with rescued baby chimpanzees offers unique lessons in motherhood; A nature enthusiast witnesses the food chain in action.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 28:53
- Purchases: 1
An older-but-not-old hippie recalls a harrowing encounter with Mother Nature; A local lore master shares lessons learned about the blinding nature ...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 29:03
A high school bully gets his comeuppance at a class reunion; A woman on her way to a family funeral has a maddening scrape with airport security; C...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 28:55
- Purchases: 1
A high-flying gross-out tale of tigers and trapeze artists in the Ringling Brothers circus; A touching tale of the awkward beginning of a lifelong ...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 28:18
An extra sip of cough medicine paves the way to hilarity in a high school choir recital; An outing with Dad flirts with catastrophe; A mother share...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 24:41
A crafty hen that lays green eggs flies the coop and escapes a farmyard massacre; Fishing stories are usually tall tales, but here's a true story o...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 29:15
Emily Brown sings and dances her way through two embarrassing moments in high school; A seafood market clerk is terrified by a feisty crustacean; A...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 27:31
A wilderness adventurer deals with an adult situation in the middle of nowhere; Medication gives an unlikely traveler an unlikely experience in an ...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 29:35
A middle child discovers her Scottish heritage on a family vacation; A New Jersey baseball fan meets a kid named Mickey Mantle; A juvenile delinque...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 29:17
A tricked-out van plays demolition derby with a bully in a pickup truck; An American in Senegal offends her host family by eating catfood; A tween ...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 27:31
A traveler in Africa runs into characters both inspirational and shady; A fake nametag fools a friend on a bus trip to Churchill Downs; A rough cro...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 29:34
Bouillon cubes make lousy Halloween candy; A teenager with serious family problems has nowhere to go; An innocent teenage romance is memorialized b...
- Added: Jan 25, 2012
- Length: 27:25
No pen can hold an impulsive pig; A master storyteller recalls a chilling tale of murder on a college campus; A deflowered art student isn't sure G...
- Added: Feb 07, 2012
- Length: 29:18
A Boy Scout in full dress uniform smokes a joint in Haight-Ashbury during the Summer of Love; A new home reveals the ever-present flow of blessings...
- Added: Feb 07, 2012
- Length: 29:05
An amateur brewer goes to great lengths to bring homemade hooch home for the holidays; A first-time mother isn't sure what to expect when contracti...
- Added: Feb 07, 2012
- Length: 29:55
A professional cartoonist recalls her strange path to print; A six-year-old learns that bad things happen to good people; Grab her ass and she will...
- Added: Feb 07, 2012
- Length: 28:43
Forest campers try to keep wild animals out of the trash; A rural historian explores the motivation behind storytelling through evocative vignettes...
- Added: Feb 07, 2012
- Length: 29:06
Deep in hill country, a writer meets folk with an authentic sense of place; A former teen runaway offers frank insights into life on the run impers...
- Added: Feb 07, 2012
- Length: 28:22
A master storyteller recounts the little-known story of a member of the Lewis & Clark expedition; A ripe railroader makes headlines while detained ...
- Added: Feb 07, 2012
- Length: 28:44
