Erica Heilman
Reporter/ProducerErica 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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John Rodgers and his family turned their dairy farm into a full-fledged cannabis growing operation.
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Fox Market and Bar is a community hub in central Vermont for queer and queer friendly people. All are welcome for a beer, a coffee, a board game and, now and then, speed dating.
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Marilyn Skoglund was a Vermont Supreme Court associate justice for 23 years, and retired in 2019. She’s lived in the same house in Montpelier for 40 years, and just recently, she’s decided to downsize.
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Susan Randall was robbed by a person suffering from an addiction, and it has provoked some soul searching.
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"The post office, the general store, the Grange, these are nodes of human connection. So you know, the big question, like, 'What are we going to lose when we lose these villages?' We're going to lose the physical infrastructure for certain kinds of unplanned connections with people."
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Bob Popp recently retired as Vermont's state botanist after over 30 years in the field. He talks about plants and his connection with nature over the years.
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Pär Winzell and Karen Meisner say they've met more people in the three weeks following the July flooding than they did in the previous two years of living in Plainfield.
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In this month's Rumble Strip, we're heading into the archives. Kid expert Brett Berk talks to Erica Heilman about his book, The Gay Uncle's Guide to Parenting, and the sometimes hilarious things kids do and how their adults react.
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Jada and James Anair talk about losing their home to the July floods, in a time when homes are hard to come by.
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Karen Meisner and her family, who lived in a 200 year old home in Plainfield, experienced this week's flood as fully as any family might. They spent the night upstairs, while the Winooski River tore through the downstairs. Vermont Public's Erica Heilman caught up with Meisner while she was staying temporarily with a friend in East Montpelier.