Lynchburg Neighborhood

Billy Hansen
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Lynchburg Neighborhood

A podcast about the Lynchburg neighborhood, its people, and its history. By getting to know our neighbors and hearing their stories, we can feel more connected to this place. By learning this area's backstory, we can better understand how Lynchburg works, how it has changed, and where it may be headed. Billy Hansen is a commercial real estate broker, appraiser, writer, and teacher in Lynchburg, Virginia.

  1. Episode 33: Henry Fulcher - The Voice of Farmville

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    Episode 33: Henry Fulcher - The Voice of Farmville

    For 69 years and counting, 87-year-old Henry Fulcher has been telling stories and playing music on the radio. Starting out in 1956 at WFLO, Henry has been a consistent presence on local radio for seven decades and is known to many as The Voice of Farmville. More than anything else, Henry wanted the listener to feel that he loved them and was speaking right to them. With his focus on playing country, western, and bluegrass music, Henry befriended so many popular artists of that era, even appearing on the popular Hee Haw program alongside Roy Clark. In this episode, Henry recounts moments in music and radio history from his legendary career, but there's so much more to his story including a childhood battle with polio and countless stories of the amazing things he's seen, heard, and experienced throughout his life.

    2 hr
  2. Episode 32: Charlie Layne - The Man with the Roses

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    Episode 32: Charlie Layne - The Man with the Roses

    In this conversation from Summer 2024, I talked with my 94-year old neighbor Charlie Layne about growing up in Lynchburg in the 1930s and 40s, serving in the Navy, working in the family printing business, falling in love, caring for a family, dealing with loss, leaving a legacy, and tending roses. After his stint in the Navy in the 1950s, Charlie joined his father in the family business at Service Printing, which has served the Lynchburg community from 1922 to today.

    1h 6m
  3. Episode 31: Let's Skip the Bull with Daryl Calfee

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    Episode 31: Let's Skip the Bull with Daryl Calfee

    In this episode, I get a chance to sit down with my dear friend Daryl Calfee to discuss his newly released book "Let's Skip the Bull: Lessons from Dad After Your Mom Died" and talk about life, death, grief, creativity, and love.

    58 min

  4. 07/07/2024

    Episode 30: Noland Skinner + The Country Store

    In this episode, I sit down with 92-year-old Noland Skinner on his front porch on the Fourth of July to hear about what it was like in the old days, growing up in a country store during the Depression, boxing on Navy ships in the Pacific during World War II, going out dancing all the way into his nineties, and much more.

    1h 25m
  5. Episode 29: Funeral Flowers + The Last Round

    06/24/2024

    Episode 29: Funeral Flowers + The Last Round

    In this episode, we have a special guest appearance from the Farmer of Mimosa Hill to talk funeral flowers before we hear the story of The Last Round, which was first told fifteen years ago at my father's funeral.

    23 min
  6. Episode 28: HopeX + The Story of Two Boys

    06/17/2024

    Episode 28: HopeX + The Story of Two Boys

    The story of how two boys born 50 years apart became dear friends. This story was told live at the HopeX storytelling event hosted by Lynchburg Beacon of Hope at the Academy Center of the Arts in downtown Lynchburg in March 2024.

    24 min
  7. Episode 27: Laura Hamilton + Beacon of Hope

    03/14/2024

    Episode 27: Laura Hamilton + Beacon of Hope

    In this conversation with Laura Hamilton, we learn what it was like growing up as a city manager's kid, how she got from Nebraska to Virginia, her public policy work in the Clinton administration right out of college, her work as executive director of Lynchburg Beacon Of Hope, the backstory on their HopeX storytelling event, and a deep dive into Beacon's history and their ambitious mission to provide support, opportunity, and hope to students of all ages in our community.

    1h 58m
  8. Episode 26: Deb Smith + Jones Memorial Library

    10/13/2023

    Episode 26: Deb Smith + Jones Memorial Library

    "Library history is community history." In this conversation with Deb Smith, we learn about her work as executive director of the Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia, take a deep dive into the library's founding, early history, and the characters that shaped what it became, and explore the important discoveries still being made in the Jones archives to this day.

    1h 29m
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    A podcast about the Lynchburg neighborhood, its people, and its history. By getting to know our neighbors and hearing their stories, we can feel more connected to this place. By learning this area's backstory, we can better understand how Lynchburg works, how it has changed, and where it may be headed. Billy Hansen is a commercial real estate broker, appraiser, writer, and teacher in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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    • Creator
      Billy Hansen
    • Years Active
      2018 - 2025
    • Episodes
      33
    • Rating
      Clean
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      © All rights reserved

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