Here’s our last show, which also happens to be show number seven.
- In this show you heard
- Cheering healthcare workers in Barcelona and Toronto
- Greg’s son practicing trumpet on a rainy night in Plainfield, VT
- Brooke in Denver Colorado
- Rob on the accordian in Adamant, VT
- Bianca in Brooklyn, NY
- Gideon and his mother Kathryn in High Falls, NY
- Liv singing in Los Angeles, CA
- Toria in Boulder, CO
- Edward and his daughter in Forth Worth, TX
- Shane singing about dinosaurs in Minnesota
- The 5pm one song concert in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn
- Ali cheering the healthcare workers on her porch in Putney, VT
- And this is Mary and her dad Ted in Lincoln, VT
The incomparable associate producer for this series is Samantha Broun. Thank you to Larry Massett and Scott Carrier and Tobin Anderson. Our Show is made in collaboration with Transom, the birthplace of excellent radio.
I think this is our last show everybody. I’m not getting the same volume of recordings as I was a month ago. I think maybe we’re into a new stage of this pandemic experience, and maybe it’s more internal, where people don’t want to talk as much. If that changes again, and people suddenly have lots they want to say, and the recordings start building up again, then I can always make more. But for now I think we should congratulate ourselves for making an amazing thing together.
Thank you ALL for the remarkable privilege of listening to your recordings from all over the world. It has carried me through this time and I am so grateful.
I’ve just found your podcast and have listened to each. A couple of them twice. Very sentimental, sweet and rich with honesty. Thank you for sharing! I will keep looking for more postings. Be well. Be safe.
Erica,
Thank you, thank you, thank you and all of the people who shared, produced and contributed to all of these shows. Sitting in my house in rural Vermont I appreciated hearing the stories of people from all around the world. This dreadful and difficult time is also a time of connection and you helped to make that happen.
With much gratitude,
Wendy Scott
You captured and created something that is absolutely wonderful, tragic and timeless. I’m absent of what I feel the appropriate words should be regarding my gratitude for your work and all the donated audio clips. It’s painful to think this is where it ends however, much less than if it never was. Be well.
Thank you Dick. This made me very happy.
E
Aw. Love the show. Will you still be able to give updates on Leland once in a while? xo Stay well
Absolutely. I plan to interview Leland if he’s willing this spring, as always. I miss him.
Hi Erica – I’m a fan in Burlington and I lost track of Rumblestrip for a while. I just this week discovered this amazing cache of audiologs from the early pandemic weeks. Listening now, in late July seems sublime. So much has – and hasn’t changed. Thank you for this amazing audio journey.
Thank you Nancy. I’ve been wondering what it would be like to revisit those shows now. Certainly in a year…five years…I think it will be remarkable to revisit these recordings. Strange, strange times. Thank you so much for listening.
Two years on as I sit in my bedroom just outside of Melbourne, Australia, tripled vaccinated and fortunate enough to not know anyone who died of covid while also still recovering from some of the strictest, longest lockdown measures in the world I found myself smiling, and crying. These recordings have been moving, cathartic, tragic, and wonderful. Thank you to all who participated, and especially to you Erica and to Samantha for creating this wonderful snapshot of the early pandemic. Now in the late stages of the pandemic (we hope) revisiting the cohesion of the moment as well as the fear has been a painful pleasure.