WFPC Podcasting

Welcome to WPFC Podcasting! This is a weekly look at news, information and the people in and around Pike County! Today’s visit is with long friend of Pike County, a fellow who started prating dentistry here in Petersburg in 1960!  Dwight Eisenhower was President!  But 65 years later, Howard Dunigan still has the driven energy of many 30 year olds…. Thanks for joining us for this program of WFPC Po...

Welcome to WPFC Podcasting! This is a weekly look at news, information and the people in and around Pike County! This week begins, an annual tradition that has been going on at Hornady Park, it’s current location, for nearly eighty years! It is the Pike County Fair! Today’s visit is with Brooke Gobel, the Extension Educator through Purdue University.  She is stationed right here in the Pike County...

Welcome to WPFC Podcasting! This is a weekly look at news, information and the people in and around Pike County! Most people that know much about me, know that I appreciate history. Family history, Pike County History… Petersburg history. My dad was a history teacher… I married a history teacher! When somebody asks me a history question above my pay grade… it’s a call to Sandy McBeth! She is the q...

Welcome to WPFC Podcasting! This is a weekly look at news and information in and around Pike County! Today is July 4th! The 249th anniversary of our nation’s independence! There is no better guest for today’s program than Tom Morrison. Tom is a retired Social Studies Teacher, Government & History, from Pike Central High School. Tom is a true patriot. He is decorated with the Bronze Star from h...

Welcome to WPFC Podcasting! This is a weekly look at news and information in and around Pike County! Our heritage of Coal Mining in Pike County is a deep vein. Fact check me, but I think 38% of our geography has been coal mined.  That, in part, is why our 334 square miles of land, only has about 12,500 inhabitants.  Our foot print is larger than that of New York City! One of the coal mines, this o...

Welcome to WPFC Podcasting! This is a weekly look at news and information in and around Pike County! Nestled in the western rolling hills of Clay Township, on the border of Gibson County, is a hidden garden, a forrest preserve, that has brought thousands of visitors to this neighborhood for quite a few years. It is the Azalea Path Botanical Garden and Arboretum, we call it the “The Azalea Path." I...

Welcome to WFPC podcasting! This is a weekly program to serve as a news and information program for Pike County. Our guest today has the task of joining the businesses, industry and people of Pike County together to blend our individuality together in one cohesive solid front to make Pike County an Even Better place to live and call home.

Welcome to WFPC podcasting! This is only our 2nd podcast, with a new one to be released weekly, however, If you’ve been around Pike County a while this is WFPC 2.0. Back in the mid 1980’s we had a radio station, and because of economics, it was sold to a larger group in 1999. The world has changed since those early days of WFPC.  Our neighbors have changed, Pike County has changed, people change,...

Welcome to WFPC Podcasting, your local source for the heart and history of Pike County, Indiana. Our host, Randy Harris, is joined today by Randall Hedden who is the creator of the Gil Hodges Mural in Petersburg, Indiana. Follow WFPC to get informed about the latest episodes!