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Rumble Strip

Seniors

High school graduates in robes screaming and smiling and throwing their graduation hats into the air
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St. Johnsbury Academy
Jubilant graduates, Class of 2019, St. Johnsbury Academy, Vermont

A few years ago I interviewed nine high school seniors in the last days of high school at St. Johnsbury Academy. We talked about what they thought their futures might look like...what they were excited about and what they were scared of.

We talked about death. We talked about prom. They were heading to college, to the Air Force, to jobs at car dealerships. One was hoping to become a professional bowler. They were naive and thoughtful and also strangely pragmatic. They were perfect. And Vermont musician Brian Clark set it all to music.

Rumble Strip is a podcast produced by Erica Heilman and distributed on the radio by Vermont Public. Learn more about the show here.

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Erica 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.