Gabe and Peggy Leasure of Rockbridge County talk about shoemaking and their late shoemaking father/husband Glen Leasure.
An essay by Eric LaFreniere.
In honor of Black History Month, a MLK-memorial sound piece by Elliot Majerczyk.
Bob Bersson debuts a new occasional feature on The Spark, short, creative non-fiction, with his story “The Cairo Rooster.”
Jeff McCormack’s long relationship with plants includes starting Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, Garden Medicinals and Culinaries, co-founding Virginia Plant Savers, and being lead author of Bush Medicine of the Bahamas, an ethno-botanical study of the native uses of medicinal plants on San Salvador Island.
JMU student Shanell Dowling reads “Won’t You Celebrate With Me” a poem by Lucille Clifton, in honor of Black History Month.