Yellow Springs

A retired chef and his husband have started a soup kitchen in Yellow Springs, Ohio. They're calling it "Who's Hungry" and want it to be a place where people can find community.

This episode has interviews with filmmaker Nelson George, YSFF director Eric Mahoney, and Yemi Oyediran, who just released a documentary about Cincinnati's King Records.

This week's episode of Poor Will's Almanack has notes from Bill Felker's archives of forty years of observation of what happens in nature in the Miami Valley and beyond.

Jonas Bender is a former Yellow Springs resident who became one of the first Black Marines. He was stationed at Funafuti and the Ellice and Marshall Islands during WWII.

This week's episode of Poor Will's Almanack has notes from Bill Felker's archives of forty years of observation of what happens in nature in the Miami Valley and beyond.

Orlando Brown, a Black real estate developer in Ohio, dealt with backlash from his church and family when he built an apartment complex in his small village in the 60s.

Charles Benning, a Black man from Yellow Springs, Ohio, dropped out of high school to join the army during WWII. He later participated in the D-Day invasion in France.

The Brown v Board of Education decision concluded that racial segregation had no place in public school. Leanora Brown taught at Dayton Public Schools when that happened.

The Ohio Department of Development has contributed $1.6 million toward the Ohio village’s water infrastructure updates since 2021. Now, the Ohio EPA is contributing over $176,000 for additional improvements.

Through an initiative called Light Up Navajo, outside visiting utility workers come to install equipment so dozens of homes can be connected to the electric grid for the first time.

In this week's episode, notes from Bill Felker's 40 years of observing what happens in nature.

In this week's episode, notes from Bill Felker's 40 years of observing what happens in nature.