This Conversation

Adam Mullins operates a store on Main Street in Abingdon, called Grounded. He sells CBD oils and other hemp derivatives as well as products containing THC. In This Conversation, he updates listeners on the products he sells, the purpose they serve, and the laws that govern his business as well as the sale of marijuana in Virginia. Recorded June 1, 2022. Mentioned in this episode: WEHC 90.7 FM is t...

Dr. Merisa Richmond is the guest on This Conversation in June 2021. The show was rerun in 2022 to focus again on LGBTQ Pride month. As a transgender woman, Dr. Richmond is a long term activist on issues of human rights and has served as President of the Tennessee Transgender Coalition and as a board member of a variety of organizations that work for equal rights for LGBTQ causes. Mentioned in this...

Todd Stanley is a Licensed Professional Counselor and the Director of Counseling Services at Emory & Henry College. In this interview, he talks about the issues he sees with college students and his stories give insight into taking care of your own mental health. At the time of this recording, the Counseling Center was looking for a new employee. Mentioned in this episode: WEHC 90.7 FM is the...

Aaron describes the experience of a mental health break during graduate school, plus his time in the hospital and the journey to recovery. The conversation took place during the WEHC fundraiser so there are some donation requests. Mentioned in this episode: WEHC 90.7 FM is the Voice of Southwest Virginia. Stay tuned, connected, informed and entertained. This is listener supported radio. www.wehcfm...

Rev. Dr. David St. Clair talks about the split in the Methodist Church over the issue of gay pastors and gay marriage. Mentioned in this episode: WEHC 90.7 FM is the Voice of Southwest Virginia. Stay tuned, connected, informed and entertained. This is listener supported radio. www.wehcfm.com

Jayne Hillman knows what it's like to spend weeks in the hospital with COVID and to be left with ongoing struggles, including lungs that doctors say are like crushed glass inside. Her story now includes an ever-present oxygen tank and she tells us what she wants us to know in this interview from July 2021. Mentioned in this episode: WEHC 90.7 FM is the Voice of Southwest Virginia. Stay tuned, conn...

Dr. William Turner talks about his book The Harlan Renaissance : Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns, based on the lessons of community he learned growing up in Harlan, Kentucky. Mentioned in this episode: WEHC 90.7 FM is the Voice of Southwest Virginia. Stay tuned, connected, informed and entertained. This is listener supported radio. www.wehcfm.com

Hear about life on the road in the national Broadway touring company of Dear Evan Hansen from singer/actress Haile Ferrier -- born in Abingdon, Virginia with ties to Emory & Henry. How does a newly minted Elon College graduate wind up in a role that is the envy of every young theatre graduate. She's special to us at This Conversation -- and her talent is obviously very special! Mentioned in th...

Dr. Michelle Ferrier began her academic career at Emory & Henry and has recently been recognized with international awards from the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. The honor was designated for the work of the organization she founded, called Trollbusters. The organization is designed to combat cyberbullying directed at journalists. She talks about the award with a brief r...

Concert pianist Pravda Sikorski talks about her parents Alys and Ludwik Sikorski just prior to their being named Emory & Henry Legends of the Arts.. She became an icon of music in her own right. Pravda lives in Emory and stands as one of the many legacies of the Sikorski contributions to the college and community. Mentioned in this episode: WEHC 90.7 FM is the Voice of Southwest Virginia. Stay...

David McClaskey has worked with more than a thousand companies in his career as a business consultant and helped lead eight companies to the Baldridge Award, the nation's highest honor for well-run businesses, presented each year by the US President. In this conversation, he outlines the fundamentals of leading a business from ordinary to extraordinary. Mentioned in this episode: WEHC 90.7 FM is t...

Scrapper Broady was the first African American athlete at Emory & Henry College and still holds the college record for career interceptions. He's a member of the EHC Sports Hall of Fame. In this interview, he talks about his passion for finding his own family history. Specifically, he talks about the mysteries of his 6th great grandfather, a slave who was freed before the Civil War and was giv...

We talk to Steve Curd as he's finalizing plans for his Fall 2021 fashion show in Glade Spring, Virginia. Mentioned in this episode: WEHC 90.7 FM is the Voice of Southwest Virginia. Stay tuned, connected, informed and entertained. This is listener supported radio. www.wehcfm.com

Jibreel Khazan recounts his experience as one of the Greensboro Four who staged an ongoing sit in at a lunch counter, protesting segregation and insisting that they be served a meal. He joined three of his fellow first year students at North Carolina A&T University in this act of civil disobedience that started a movement. Mentioned in this episode: WEHC 90.7 FM is the Voice of Southwest Virgi...

Jerry Jones is the author of Go and Come Again: Segregation, Tolerance, and Reflection. In this interview, Jones previews his presentation in recognition of Martin Luther King Day at St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Jan. 13, 2022. He talks about his education in segregated schools, reasons for his choice of a college, and his 50 year career as a teacher. It's not an every day occurrence that you hea...

Author Elizabeth Boyd looks at the perpetuation of racism, sexism, and classism through sorority rushes, beauty pageants, and a Confederate pageant, held annually in Natchez, Mississippi. The book is scheduled for publication in August 2022. Mentioned in this episode: WEHC 90.7 FM is the Voice of Southwest Virginia. Stay tuned, connected, informed and entertained. This is listener supported radio....

Rev. Paul Seay is co-author of From Heaven to Earth: Christmas for New Believers, Old Believers, and Nonbelievers along with college friend and roommate Rev. Wil Cantrell. These days, Seay serves as pastor of Methodist Churches in Abingdon, Virginia. Cantrell serves as pastor of Concord United Methodist Church in Farragut, Tennessee. In this interview, prior to Christmas 2021, Seay addresses some...

Charles Vess is a fantasy artist and is known for his work with Marvel Publishers where he worked on Spider-man. Later he wrote and drew the Spider Man graphic novel Spirits of the Earth. In this October 2021 interview he talks about his forthcoming 2022 calendar and explains how he wound up living and working in Abingdon, Virginia. Mentioned in this episode: WEHC 90.7 FM is the Voice of Southwest...

In November, 2020, Virginia voters approved a Constitutional Amendment establishing a bi-partisan commission to fix the problem of gerrymandering and take redistricting power away from the legislature. When the new commission was unable to agree on a map, the Virginia Supreme Court took over, as specified in the amendment. New voting maps are now in place. How have things changed? Is the new syste...

Shayne Weister of Glory Ridge Farms is all about bees. He says his bees make the best honey and it's available at Orr's Farm Market in Martinsburg, West Virginia. He points out that bees are responsible for feeding cows and what you can do to help save them as he describes the basics of a bee hive. Aired Dec. 1, 2021 on This Conversation with host Teresa Keller on WEHC. Mentioned in this episode:...

Dr. Jessica Moerman, Sr. Director for Science and Policy with the Evangelical Environmental Network, talks from her point of view as both a climate scientist and a Christian. Hear her details about trusting in both God and Science ... and the evidence she says shows that humans have contributed to planet warming that goes far beyond normal cycles and endangers our survival. Mentioned in this episo...

Dr. Douglas Pote found rural southwest Virginia for a career in medicine and also found an outlet on the stage. writing about for his passion for music history and the Bristol recording sessions' big bang in country music. Stay tuned to the big screen where "Keep On the Sunny Side" may show up to share the Carter Family story with a national audience. Mentioned in this episode: WEHC 90.7 FM is the...

Lou Buantello has been driving the big rigs for many years -- and he loves it. As Junior Brown's song says, he's "semi-crazy." And he's our guest from the back of his big rig while his partner is taking a shift in their long haul from Virginia to California and back. Get an insight into a truck driver's view of the four wheelers and hear advice to those who are driving the little sedans alongside...

Sullivan County, Tennessee school officials do not like for their students to hear about White Privilege -- unless an opposing view is presented. They suspended teacher Matthew Hawn for sharing a profane poem about white privilege on video by Black poet Kyla Jenée Lacey in a high school class on "Contemporary Issues." One wonders what the opposing view that there is white privilege would be. What...

Dr. Jessica Moerman is Sr. Director for Science and Policy with the Evangelical Environmental Network. Her Ph. D. is in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from Georgia Institute of Technology. In This Conversation with Teresa Keller, originally aired on WEHC-FM, Emory, Va., Dr. Moerman talks about her work in studying God's creation, and the evidence that humans are the cause of the warming planet. Me...