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Rumble Strip
Rumble Strip
Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip, Erica Heilman

Good conversation that takes its time, hosted by Erica Heilman.

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Episodes

Thank you For the Best Birthday Present Ever

We raised ALL the money for Forrest's new old truck and we are so GRATEFUL!!!

16 Nov 2024 · 1 minute
Help Forrest Foster Get a New Old Truck

Forrest really needs a new old truck. Will you pitch in a few bucks?

13 Nov 2024 · 6 minutes
Forrest Foster is getting done...for now.

I’ve made lots of stories about my friend Forrest Foster, a dairy farmer in Hardwick. He prides himself on... more

04 Nov 2024 · 15 minutes
Heartbreak Hotel. End of an Era

This summer, a one-in-a-thousand-year flood hit the village of Plainfield, Vermont. A local apartment building, which everyone called the Heartbreak... more

14 Oct 2024 · 27 minutes
The World Under the World

All four of the people in this story are in recovery, but they spent years in the world of active... more

10 Sep 2024 · 29 minutes
Mark Utter Revisited

Mark Utter was born with a form of autism that makes it impossible for him to say what he's thinking.... more

20 Aug 2024 · 23 minutes
Allison after the Flood

On the one-year anniversary of a 100-year flood, Vermont experienced another devastating flood. This is the story of one Plainfield,... more

22 Jul 2024 · 7 minutes
The Aphasia Choir

There are about 15 million people in this world having thoughts and ideas that they can't put into words. People... more

19 Jun 2024 · 20 minutes
Tara

This is a follow-up show to Finn and the Bell. If you haven't heard that story, you might want to... more

22 May 2024 · 19 minutes
Will Staats, Hunting Biologist...Redux!

Will Staats worked for both Vermont and New Hampshire for forty years as a wildlife biologist. He’s also a passionate... more

06 May 2024 · 25 minutes
Sugaring with Forrest Foster

A conversation with dairy farmer Forrest Foster in his sugarhouse in the blessed, FINALLY almost springtime in Vermont.

25 Apr 2024 · 11 minutes
Fifty: A Phoenix Moment. REDUX!

This is a show I made a few years ago that very significantly involves Total Eclipse of the Heart, which... more

10 Apr 2024 · 21 minutes
Kasey is Figuring it Out

Kasey Phipps is transgender and has always been transgender. But Kasey didn’t grow up in a place where the word... more

26 Mar 2024 · 34 minutes
What Class Are You Ashley?

Ashley Messier grew up in Essex, Vermont with an abusive father and with little money, and she found herself repeating... more

15 Mar 2024 · 8 minutes
What Class Are You Ashton?

Ashton runs a concrete business and in his free time he makes community meals at the American Legion in Hardwick.... more

13 Mar 2024 · 7 minutes
What Class Are You Kathleen?

Kathleen lives in Derby, Vermont in a subsidized apartment with two cats, two pugs, and about 400 clocks. She was... more

11 Mar 2024 · 5 minutes
Revisiting Isaac

Many of you got in touch with me after Isaac's story aired in the first week of What Class Are... more

10 Mar 2024 · 19 minutes
What Class Are You Ethan?

When I met Ethan Perry, he was taking a break from his job at Family Dollar in Orleans VT. At... more

08 Mar 2024 · 9 minutes
What Class Are You Mike?

Mike Donofrio moved to Vermont with his family when he was two years old. He grew up, he left... more

06 Mar 2024 · 7 minutes
What Class Are You John?

John Rodgers runs a construction business up in West Glover, Vermont most of the year. He runs a plow business... more

04 Mar 2024 · 8 minutes
What Class Are You? A Conversation with Garret Keizer

In this episode I talk with one of my favorite poets and writers, Garret Keizer. Garret has written extensively on... more

01 Mar 2024 · 22 minutes
What Class Are You Kytreana?

This is episode 5 of What Class Are You. Kytreana was one of the first people I interviewed for this... more

28 Feb 2024 · 9 minutes
What Class Are You Kate?

This is episode 4 of a special series called What Class Are You, wherein I drive around asking people to... more

26 Feb 2024 · 8 minutes
What Class Are You Irfan?

Irfan Sehic and his family fled the war in Bosnia when he was seventeen, and landed in Barre, Vermont. Irfan... more

23 Feb 2024 · 7 minutes
What Class Are You Isaac?

What Class Are You is a series about money and privilege and how much or little of it you've got.... more

21 Feb 2024 · 11 minutes
What Class Are You Susan?

First episode in a series called What Class Are You? This time...Susan Randall, a private investigator in Vermont, talks about... more

19 Feb 2024 · 6 minutes
Makeup For Special Occasion Valentines Day Redux!

This is a rerun of what could be called a VALENTINE’S DAY SPECIAL, and I hope you enjoy it. Last year... more

13 Feb 2024 · 9 minutes
A 100 Year Flood

These are some stories from Vermont's 100 year flood last July in Vermont. It devastated our state. In my hometown... more

25 Jan 2024 · 12 minutes
Little League Playoffs

This is one of my all time favorite shows. I made it for Vermont Public in 2019 and I think... more

11 Jan 2024 · 8 minutes
East Hill Tree Farm Please Buy Their Trees

East Hill Tree Farm is my new sponsor. It’s the place where I buy all my trees and berry bushes... more

15 Dec 2023 · 4 minutes
Forrest and I Sit in the Truck and Talk About Pain

I got in a car accident. For some reason I thought it would make me feel better to talk with... more

10 Dec 2023 · 12 minutes
John Rodgers Weed Farmer

John Rodgers is a stonemason in West Glover. He also runs a construction business, plows driveways and rents properties, and... more

30 Nov 2023 · 24 minutes
Ode to Village Life

A lot of people in rural America live near small towns or villages. Here in Vermont, a lot of small... more

30 Oct 2023 · 11 minutes
Taylor Swift Music for the End

My friend Kelly Green is a defense attorney who represents people accused of murder. She spends a lot of time... more

20 Oct 2023 · 11 minutes
Susan on the Train Tracks

Susan’s been a private investigator in Vermont for 24 years. She defends people who are accused of crimes, which often... more

04 Oct 2023 · 16 minutes
Forrest Foster Lays Karen to Rest

Forrest Foster is a dairy farmer in Hardwick, Vermont and a friend of mine. This past spring, on Memorial Day,... more

04 Sep 2023 · 24 minutes
The Homesteading Game

I am a terrible vegetable gardener. And I have friends who are GREAT vegetable gardeners, who also raise their own... more

16 Aug 2023 · 12 minutes
The Civic Standard in the 100 Year Flood

We just had a massive, devastating flood here in Vermont. And Hardwick got hit pretty hard. This all happened exactly... more

27 Jul 2023 · 15 minutes
The Civic Standard

Rose Friedman and Tara Reese were in the early stages of starting the Civic Standard, an organization that gives the... more

06 Jul 2023 · 57 minutes
Let's Talk about Guns

This is a show about guns. I made this story for Brave Little State, a podcast of Vermont Public, which invites... more

31 May 2023 · 48 minutes
Nightwalking 1, from Constellation Prize

This is a guest episode by my friend Bianca Giaever, producer of the podcast Constellation Prize. This is the first... more

08 May 2023 · 29 minutes
What Class are You?

For years I've been wanting to make a show about the terrible cultural divides growing in our country, but I... more

30 Mar 2023 · 29 minutes
Mary Lake Sheep Slaughterer

Mary Lake is a sheep farmer and sheep shearer and itinerant slaughterer. She is a tall, muscular woman in bib... more

15 Mar 2023 · 15 minutes
It's Town Meeting Again

It's town meeting day here in Vermont. In most of New England, town citizens become legislators for one day a... more

07 Mar 2023 · 30 minutes
Winter's Bear

Sheila LaPoint wrote a post in Front Porch Forum asking if there was anyone in town who could turn her... more

21 Feb 2023 · 16 minutes
Speaking Whale

Tom Mustill is a conservation biologist and he makes beautiful films about where nature and people meet. He’s worked with... more

26 Jan 2023 · 36 minutes
Police Log: The Fanny Pack Edition

This show is about crime. Really crimey crime.

23 Jan 2023 · 3 minutes
Fishing with Jay

Jay Allison makes the kind of radio that made me want to make radio. It isn’t news, and it doesn’t... more

07 Jan 2023 · 23 minutes
Nature's Top Deck, with Forrest Foster

Forrest Foster was loading up the tractor with kindling for deer camp. It was two days before deer season. I... more

02 Dec 2022 · 17 minutes
Nick Paley and a Very Small Shell

Nick Paley is a writer, editor and director for film and TV, and a co-writer on the recent film, Marcel... more

21 Nov 2022 · 23 minutes
An American Life

Vaughn Hood was a 118-pound barber when he was drafted into the Vietnam War. And in Vaughn’s war, most men... more

10 Nov 2022 · 32 minutes
Armand's Garden

Armand Patoine sat with me in his tea house, deep inside his garden, which leads down to a stream. He... more

14 Sep 2022 · 17 minutes
The Neighborhood

My son is leaving for his freshman year of college in a week and I am feeling maudlin. I listened... more

26 Aug 2022 · 11 minutes
Leland is Moving On

Leland is my neighbor and for the last seven years, we’ve been getting together in the spring to talk about... more

15 Aug 2022 · 19 minutes
Makeup for Special Occasion

Tiana and I talk about what she has planned for her 1-year anniversary with her boyfriend.

27 Jul 2022 · 9 minutes
The Farm from THE BIG PONDER

Ira Karp lives on a farm in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, surrounded by music, puppets, and a family of incredible storytellers.... more

18 Jul 2022 · 28 minutes
Bell Rising

This show is a kind of coda to Finn and the Bell.... At long last, the bell is in its tower... more

07 Jul 2022 · 10 minutes
More than a Dog

It seems that a lot of people feel like they have to hide the amount of grief they experience when... more

31 May 2022 · 23 minutes
Puppy Diaries

I've been thinking of getting a dog for years but even though I have an eighteen-year-old son, I've never felt... more

11 May 2022 · 32 minutes
Forrest Foster, Independent Dairyman

He’s always practical and always generous and these things are always the same thing.

04 Mar 2022 · 22 minutes
Helena Becomes an American

Helena is taking her citizenship test. I asked her to record what it feels like to become an American.

04 Feb 2022 · 20 minutes
It’s New Years. Remember Grant Owen.

I was cleaning and listening to Foreigner and I thought of Grant Owen. The perfect company for New Years.

01 Jan 2022 · 8 minutes
Awful Sisters Christmas. Pandemic Year Two.

It's been another hard year for Pam and Andrea and Amanda.

20 Dec 2021 · 15 minutes
Will Staats, Hunting Biologist

A hunter and wildlife biologist takes me bird hunting.

17 Dec 2021 · 24 minutes
Finn and the Bell

Finn Rooney killed himself in Walden, Vermont. This is a story about who he was and what he left.

02 Nov 2021 · 33 minutes
Hill Farm. A Tribute to Peter Dunning

After forty years farming this land, Peter Dunning is getting done.

28 Oct 2021 · 20 minutes
The Defense.

A show about the people who stand with the accused

04 Oct 2021 · 57 minutes
The Defense

In cases where a defendant seems unjustly accused, the defense attorney is our hero. But if they seem guilty...or if... more

04 Oct 2021 · 57 minutes
Susan Asks, For Who? For What?

Susan delivers a dead owl to the Fairbanks Museum and then we talk about Covid.

05 Sep 2021 · 22 minutes
Virtual Justice

What does justice lose when human contact is lost?

27 Aug 2021 · 22 minutes
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Finn Rooney killed himself in Walden, Vermont. This is a story about who he was and what he left.