The Porch Swing

Series produced by WFHB

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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

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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