The Gale Hill Radio Hour

In the first segment, Frank Satullo, the creator of ohiotraveler.com , talks about five fascinating places to visit around the state. Each inspires awe in its own way. The first is the John Rankin House in Ripley. A National Historic Landmark on the Ohio River near Cincinnati, this was the home of Presbyterian minister John Rankin and his large family. The Rankins are said to have been among Ohio&...

Retired newspaperman Sheldon Zoldan found himself with time on his hands during the pandemic lock-down in 2020, so he did what a lot of us do: He scrolled the internet, particularly music videos on YouTube. That mindless pastime became a passion project  requiring research, creativity and discipline. Every day, Sheldon publishes an article featuring a Song of the Day. He uses different criteria fo...

New York City-based Mike Forfia is a musician, a teacher and career adviser, and a design thinker. While seemingly very different, these jobs have one thing  in common: they all fascinate him in one way or another. Besides that, as a bass player, "The role I'm usually playing is to make sure everyone around me has what they need," he says. In all his various roles, he supports other...

 Kicking off this episode, Kate Jones interviews bookstore owner Kate Schlademan, who's also a city councilwoman and, during the summer, an avid golfer. The main topic of conversation is their shared fondness for beautifully written and well-designed small books, although they also discuss influential books, including Run for Something, which proved helpful to Schlademan as a first-timer to p...

This episode opens with Jack Torry, author of "The Last One Out," a new book chronicling the life of Yates McDaniel, a daring reporter in World War II. McDaniel was a foreign war correspondent for the Associated Press who took enormous risks to provide newspapers with accurate and riveting firsthand coverage of the war. He's considered the equal of legendary World War II corresponde...

In this episode, host Kate Jones has the pleasure of having conversations with two creative women about work and life. In the first segment, Gretchen Bierbaum talks about her "light-bulb moment" that led to her becoming a collage artist. She went on to study Islamic art in Iran, became an art educator and administrator, and has enjoyed doing bicentennial and other commissions, including...

In November 2017, Justin Alan Hayes voluntarily checked himself into a hospital's psych ward after years of dealing unsuccessfully with anxiety and other issues. That decision put him on the path where he is today. Since 2017, he's been teaching marketing at the college level as well as serving as a career coach to his students. Along those lines, he wrote a guide to help young people pr...

Christina Forward, co-owner and Director of Operations at the recording studio PodPopuli, talks about Posterity Podcasts which, she explains, are basically audio books for seniors or others who want to create lasting gifts of stories, messages and life lessons to pass on to friends and family members. Christina, who has a bachelor of science in accounting and most recently worked in investment ban...

Two neat freaks — in a good way! — share their experiences, insights and stories. One is a professional and the other just can't help himself. Listen and learn with Lottie Washington, owner of Key's Blessed Hands, and Mike Villegas, producer, owner and mix engineer at Area 67 Recording. To reach Lottie, visit Key's Blessed Hands on Facebook or email Lottie at keysblessedhands@gmail....

Belt Publishing released "Rust Belt Vegan Kitchen: Recipes, Resources, and Stories," edited by Meredith Pangrace, on Dec. 2, 2021. It's a proudly unpretentious collection of delicious-sounding recipes, from pierogi to paprikash, chitterlings to chimichurri. Meredith, an artist and graphic designer, is the creative director at Belt. She's also a musician who sings, plays the acc...

An opportunity to travel internationally with a friend fell into Berenice Kleiman's lap, but before she even left the States, she took a literal fall at the Newark Airport. Rather than having that mishap ruin her vacation before it truly began, Berenice turned it into an opportunity to make new friends. There's a certain alchemy in the way Berenice deals with life's challenges. She...

In the first segment of this episode of The Gale Hill Radio Hour, Kate interviews photographer Inga Smith, who was 8 years old when she and her family walked out the door of their home in Augsburg, Germany, and boarded a train in the dark of night. They would end up in America, but Inga didn't know that at the time. Nor did she know, until much later, how fortunate her family was to get out o...

In this episode, Mike Villegas — musician, owner of Area 67 Recording in Akron, Ohio, and former accountant — offers a primer on cryptocurrency. He explains crypto's importance and why this form of currency is not going away. In fact, he maintains, it's our financial safety net. "People need to get educated on crypto," Mike says, noting that a site called Coinbase is a good pla...

Adrian S. McNeal is an elder of The Word of God Community Church in Canton, Ohio. He's also a husband, father and nationally recognized fiber internet salesman whose passion for history stretches back to childhood. In eighth grade, for example, he borrowed Adolph Hitler's Mein Kampf from the local library and read the entire book. “I didn’t know any other African American eighth-graders...

Welcome to the debut of The Gale Hill Radio Hour, a podcast with interviews, feature stories and commentary. I'm your host Kate Jones, beginning appropriately enough with a segment on podcasting. In this first episode, I talk with Mike Villegas, who was an early adopter of this form of entertainment and information. Then I segue into a brief segment about how I learned to bounce back from adv...