Erica Heilman
Reporter and Producer at Vermont PBS
Heroic stories about regular people, carefully edited.
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2 weeks ago |
vermontpublic.org | Erica Heilman
This episode of Rumble Strip 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. Bryan Pfeiffer: Lemme see if I can get him to turn towards us. No, he's happy there. Erica Heilman: Oh, he's singing! What’s he singing about? Bryan Pfeiffer: He’s singing for a mate. He’s singing about, "This is my turf, and I want to find a mate."Erica Heilman: That's it? Bryan Pfeiffer: That's basically it.
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3 weeks ago |
rumblestripvermont.com | Erica Heilman
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House was intentionally built to straddle two nations and two communities. Three quarters of the building is in Stanstead, Quebec and one quarter is in Derby Line, Vermont. It's been the local library for both communities for over a century. The main entrance to the library is in the U.S., and for as long as anyone can remember, Canadians have been allowed to walk the 70 feet of sidewalk around the building to that front entrance.
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4 weeks 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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4 weeks 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 month 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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Larry Massett died last week. He was my favorite radio producer and my mentor and all week I'm running his stories. Today is a conversation btw Larry and Joe Frank about the Porsche and BMW and which is better. Also it's a drag race. https://t.co/1uvNcILCi4
Here's a story about an awesome library that straddles the US/Canadian border and a recent visit to this library by our Secretary of Homeland Security, @KristiNoem, where she behaved in a way that was profoundly and objectively embarrassing. https://t.co/JnVq9dUHT3
Podcast and radio people. Are there new apps/methods for gettting good, warm sound in phone/internet interviews? I'm interviewing someone in another country and want good sound but don't want someone in room w her while I interview. Advice?
