Caffeinated Politics

A fire that destroys a large portion of Hancock’s Main Street, the career of Stanley Hamilton, the 33-year tailoring job of Gus Lowandowski who builds a house on S. Lake Street, the tragic death of Frank Sigourney, what is playing at the Hancock Theatre, a Booth family wedding, the trial of Elmer Huckins, local sports scores, how a boy in 1929 wants snow for Christmas, along with the comings and goings of village residents makes for a fast paced episode of Doty Land.  The Depression years at Christmastime in Hancock will take listeners back to shopping for gifts with local merchants as former radio broadcaster Gregory Humphrey paints a picture with words. A 38-minute podcast makes it feel as if the latest edition of the Hancock News has been published.

How Do We Find Happiness? Or Does It Find Us? – Doty Land

Send us Fan MailMusicians, singers, and songwriters Tim Grimm and Sergio Webb performed in Madison, Wisconsin. The outdoor house concert was especially special, but the larger message about how life presents people and moments in such random designs begs the question to be pondered. Do we find happiness, or does happiness find us? (Please note there are roughly three seconds–in total–of static as a thunderstorm somehow inserted itself into my recording. Grrrrr.)

1. How Do We Find Happiness? Or Does It Find Us? 12:06
2. Caffeinated Politics Episode: Gun Violence And Civic Strain 10:44
3. Charles Dickens Book At The Bottom Of Ocean, Henry David Thoreau Sets A Forest Fire 05:56
4. Caffeinated Politics Episode: Israeli Vote in Congress, Climate Change Leads Newscasts, And Public Safety With Gun Bans in Cook County And Connecticut 08:37
5. Caffeinated Politics Episode: Founding Ideals, Political Decay, And Coloma, Wisconsin 09:15