Michael and Carrie Kline, Talking Across the Lines

58:11 | Mar 24th, 2020

[Excerpted from the CD jacket of Riding Freedom's Train: The Underground Railroad in the Upper Ohio Valley] Wherever there are instances of institutionalized oppression and cruelty, history provides u...Show More

1:03:28 | Jan 9th, 2020

"Gathered at the Ohio River" is a 63-minute audio piece produced from interviews recorded in the 1990s by Talking Across the Lines for the Wheeling Spoken History Project. Co-sponsored by the Wheeling...Show More

58:06 | Nov 29th, 2019

Born & Raised in Tobacco Fields is a 58-minute audio documentary telling the vivid and complex story of the Tobacco Buyout in Calvert County, Maryland in 2003, the most monumental change in the econom...Show More

08:19 | Oct 25th, 2019

Etta Persinger of Beckley, West Virginia describes a life of close knit family and church members, full of love and care. Close to her heart is shape note singing and "the old songs," as she calls the...Show More

15:40 | Sep 17th, 2019

This production, layered with local voices and music, aired on West Virginia Public Broadcasting in 2008 and remains current today. Radio producer Jean Snedegar produced this 15-minute documentary in ...Show More

08:57 | Aug 9th, 2019

Charlie Blevins is an extraordinary musician and storyteller. A coal miner who made his home in southern West Virginia, he owned and operated the Red Robin Inn in the coalfields of Mingo County. Tune ...Show More

10:59 | Jul 5th, 2019

To rockin' tunes and blues numbers, Nathan Shelton and Brenda Jackson, alumni of Mount Hope High School in Fayette County, West Virginia, each tell of their own devastating collision with racism in th...Show More

15:25 | May 30th, 2019

Remembering Blair Mountain was written and produced by Miranda Brown while interning with Talking Across the Lines. Brown weaves oral history interviews recorded by Michael and Carrie Kline and music ...Show More

1:40:26 | May 9th, 2019

Revelations: A Staged Reading Celebrating Appalachian Resiliency in GLBTQ People, was performed for its 17th time in Shepherdstown, West Virginia April 12, 2019 as part of the SpeakStory Series and is...Show More

22:49 | Apr 18th, 2019

To the tune of country blues and jazz, played by coalfield bluesman Nat Reese on guitar and Ralph Gordon on bass, African American educators and esteemed community members talk about the obstacles and...Show More