Erica Heilman
CorrespondentErica Heilman produces a podcast called Rumble Strip. Her shows have aired on NPR’s Day to Day, Hearing Voices, SOUNDPRINT, KCRW’s UnFictional, BBC Podcast Radio Hour, CBC Podcast Playlist and on public radio affiliates across the country. Rumble Strip airs monthly on Vermont Public. She lives in East Calais, Vermont.
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Rumble StripPeter farmed, mostly alone, for nearly 40 years. We sat at his kitchen table and talked about what it's like to farm for a whole life, then see it go fallow. -
Rumble StripSheila LaPoint wrote a post in Front Porch Forum back in the fall of 2022, asking if there was anyone in town who could turn her grandmother's fur coat into a teddy bear. -
In celebration of the season of turkeys — and catching them, and eating them — here is a conversation with hunter Barry Forbes. -
Rumble StripI went to a party and spent the whole time lying down in the guest room. I asked people at the party to send me recordings about what happened at the party. -
Rumble StripThis is a story about a 118-pound hairdresser when he was drafted into the Vietnam War, and in Vaughn’s war, most men didn’t survive their first three-month tour. -
Rumble StripCarl Blaisdell is private. He only goes to town to get something he needs. His life is close to the ground, to his dogs, and to the outside. -
Rumble StripI asked listeners to send me recordings from wherever they were, about whatever they wanted. -
Rumble StripIt's not a nursing home. It's a house where old people live together. -
East Hardwick farmer Rob MacLeod has no more water, and like many farmers, he's heading into winter with limited feed. -
Rumble StripPart 2 of a conversation with Captain J.P. Sinclair, who was at the center of hundreds of major crime investigations with the Vermont State Police.
