Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer
Segments air during Issues & Ideas (Wednesdays from 1 to 2 p.m.)
Tom Wilmer’s Lowell Thomas Award-winning travel podcast — recorded live on location across America and around the world — showcases the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine and spirits, brewpubs, the culinary arts and more. He covers nouns and verbs: people, places, things, and action — everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls, and interviewing the "real" Santa Claus in the Arctic. Tom's feature, recorded live at Harland & Wolfe Shipyards in Belfast Northern Ireland, celebrating the centenary of the launch of the Titanic was the recipient of a Best Travel award from Outdoor Writers Association of California.
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Bob Kendricks, President of Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City Missouri shares powerful stories of the era of segregated baseball
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Historian Erik Brun shares fascinating insights about U.S. Army joint field maneuvers in Atascadero that included the legendary U.S. Army’s 9th Cavalry, known as Buffalo Soldiers.
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Experiencing Milwaukee, Wisconsin's Harley Davidson Museum with curatorial Director, Jim Fricke.
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Mary Durusau shares insights about Louisiana’s old state capital in Baton Rouge and a visit aboard WWII destroyer USS Kidd permanently berthed on the Mississippi
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Author Joan Gelfand shares cool tales from her book, Outside Voices--a moment in time in Berkeley back in the 1970s
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Georgia Durante talks about her journey from mob wife to Hollywood stunt driver
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Virginia’s Montgomery Museum of Art & History offers vivid insights into the region’s past and present.
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Join Joyce Beliveau for a visit with correspondent Tom Wilmer at her farm/winery in the New River Valley not too far from Blacksburg, Virginia.
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Katya Cengel recalls her hospitalization in a psychosomatic unit as a 10 year-old.
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Susan Sink shares her fascinating family story that started with a dairy in 1980 that was eventually reimagined as Virginia's most popular Pumpkin farm.