Erica Heilman
Reporter and Producer at Vermont PBS
Heroic stories about regular people, carefully edited.
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1 week ago |
vermontpublic.org | Erica Heilman
Isaac McDonald is from Newport, and this year, he’s a freshman at Columbia University in New York City on a full scholarship. Producer Erica Heilman interviewed Isaac previously about growing up poor in the Northeast Kingdom. In the latest installment of "What class are you?," she caught up with Isaac on his first trip home from college. They talked about class dynamics at Columbia and what it feels like to be on a full scholarship there. This interview was produced for the ear.
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1 week ago |
vermontpublic.org | Erica Heilman
Ryan Palmer is the sheriff of Windsor County. In this episode of What class are you?, reporter Erica Heilman drives around the county with Sheriff Palmer and they talk about the challenges of being middle class in an increasingly expensive part of the state. This interview was produced for the ear. We highly recommend listening to the audio. We’ve also provided a transcript, which has been edited for length and clarity. Erica Heilman: What class are you? Ryan Palmer: What class am I?
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1 week ago |
vermontpublic.org | Erica Heilman
Tom Burdick grew up on a ranch in a town of about 1,500 people in northeastern Utah. After high school, Tom worked to put himself through college and then medical school, and now he works as an interventional radiologist at Dartmouth Health. In this installment of our occasional series, What class are you?, Tom talks to producer Erica Heilman about the challenges of breaking into higher education, and raising children in a different class from the one he grew up in.
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1 week ago |
vermontpublic.org | Erica Heilman
Joe Wills is a filmmaker and software engineer from Richford, Vermont, currently living in Burlington. He put himself through the University of Vermont, working three part-time jobs, and still graduated with more debt than any of his friends. In this episode of "What class are you?," Joe talks with producer Erica Heilman about the challenges of higher education when you come from little money and have no college graduates in the family. This interview was produced for the ear.
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3 weeks ago |
vermontpublic.org | Erica Heilman
"What Now Sounds Like" is a periodic series I make about the sound of right now, and it's made up of recordings that listeners send to me from all over the world. My hope is that when you listen to all these recordings together, they start to make something that sounds familiar to you, something that is more than the sum of their parts.
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Third installment of What Now Sounds Like. Recordings, sounds, primal screams from around the world that I hope they will keep us all company in a strange time. https://t.co/Gqd83R2zhI
Stellar article @ the the Civic Standard in @NewYorker. So many writers get Vermont wrong. They leave out all the salt and subtlety. Chelsea Edgar KILLED it here. This shit is next level. Also best coining of phrase 'cheese and shit'. Ever. https://t.co/e6wTEla1Ta
Forrest Foster found a new old truck. It's a Christmas miracle. I went up and drove around with him and we talked about the truck and his weird stint as a sexton and I complained about feeling old. https://t.co/GszjfyCQiV
