Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer KCBX
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- Society & Culture
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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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Time travel back to 1774 at Smithfield Plantation on Virginia Tech’s campus
A conversation with historians at historic Smithfield Plantation at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg Virginia
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Exploring Christiansburg, Virginia’s Old New River Books, antiques and art
Exploring Christiansburg, Virginia’s Old New River Books, antiques and art
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The future is present at Virginia Tech
A conversation with John Provo, Executive Director of Virginia Tech’s Center for Economic and Community Engagement in Blacksburg, Virginia
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Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee’s Lexington, Virginia connection
Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits Stonewall Jackson’s home in Lexington VA and Washington & Lee University where Robert E. Lee presided post-Civil War
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Nashville’s Jim Lauderdale--a songwriter’s songwriter
Songwriter/musician Jim Lauderdale shares his musical journey with correspondent Tom Wilmer
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Jake Blount- Stomps, handclaps and fiddle reinvents old-time roots music
Musician Jake Blount shares his passion for propelling Afro-futurist music
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