The world’s longest-running radio show turns 100 years old on November 28, 2025. From memories of Loretta Lynn, Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton, WSM radio announcer Grant Turner, and others, this tribute looks at how classic country music still resonates across the land. Heartfelt memories galore! Podcaster and former radio broadcaster Gregory Humphrey takes listeners on a journey from his Hancock home to the stages of country music shows. The fiddles are warming up, now. “Let ‘er go boys!”
Christmastime In Hancock: Depression Years 1929-1932 – Doty Land
Send us a textA fire that destroys a large portion of Hancock’s Main Street, the career of Stanley Hamilton, the 33-year tailoring job of Gus Lawandowski 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 wirh 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.
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