The name “Katrina” took on a whole new meaning twenty years ago when a category five hurricane devastated the Gulf Coast. Today, John Benton tells In Focus what he witnessed and why he keeps volunteering to help those communities.
On today’s Newswrap, Randy Scott, APTV executive producer of Capitol Journal, discusses the Alabama governor’s race and its newest candidate. And the Wildcard is about a critter whose Thanksgiving tipped over into happy hour!
Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina left a path of destruction along the Gulf Coast. Today’s In Focus brings you the story of a cat who survived the storm and was adopted from a shelter two thousand miles away.
The nation’s first bookmobile began in 1905 and was pulled by a team of horses. And it wasn’t long before the idea spread to Alabama.
Read the article: https://today.troy.edu/news/it-came-from-the-archives-bookmobiles-provide-books-to-rural-folks/
The Natchez Trace Parkway in our neighboring state of Tennessee contains a mystery – the 1809 death of Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Was it suicide or murder? Colonel Bryan Morgan explores the possible answer on In Focus.
In Focus celebrates “Giving Tuesday” with food writer, Becky Diamond, whose “Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook” is a special premium in support of Troy Public Radio.
Today on In Focus, we honor the legacy of Rosa Parks and her friendship with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in an interview with the director of the Troy University Rosa Parks Museum.
On The exchange from In Focus, we look ahead to Small Business Saturday with the U.S. Small Business Administration and a Dothan entrepreneur.
November is Native American Heritage Month, and archaeologist Teresa Paglione visits In Focus to discuss Native American foods we still serve today.
TROY Public Radio producers are preserving funny and heartwarming conversations with loved ones in the Library of Congress as part of Storycorps’ The Great Listen.
