435 Voices

Dave Ziedelis – General Manager, Frederick Keys A lovely Friday evening brought us to Harry Grove Stadium in Frederick, MD. 29 years ago last night and we saw a big crowd watch a doubleheader between the Frederick Keys and the Durham Bulls. Dave Ziedelis wasn’t yet in Frederick but he has been in charge of … Continue reading Low Mileage Tour Day #17: Frederick, MD The post Low Mileage Tour Day #17: Frederick, MD first appeared on The Project to Find America.

Kevin Heilbronner – Onetime Voice of the Prince William Cannons Being the play by play broadcaster for a Class-A baseball team can feel pretty futile – even more so than being a player at that level. Major League players, after all, typically don’t play past the age of 40; major league broadcasters often work well … Continue reading Low Mileage Tour Day # 16: Prince William – Woodbridge, VA The post Low Mileage Tour Day # 16: Prince William – Woodbridge, VA first appeared on The Project to Find America.

My guest on this episode of the Low Mileage Tour on the 435 Voices podcast is North Johnson. One of the great guys of minor league baseball, North is the new President of the Northwest League this season but in 1991 he was in the midst of a long run as the General Manager of … Continue reading Low Mileage Tour Day #15: Kinston, NC The post Low Mileage Tour Day #15: Kinston, NC first appeared on The Project to Find America.

About three hours north of Charleston we continued our run through the South Atlantic League on a Friday evening as the month of May drew to a close in 1991. Today’s guest on the Low Mileage Tour is Sammy Batten. Sammy is a longtime sportswriter at the Fayetteville Observer. He’s covered minor league baseball , … Continue reading Low Mileage Tour Day #10: Fayetteville, NC The post Low Mileage Tour Day #10: Fayetteville, NC first appeared on The Project to Find America.

When I set out to begin a podcast to go along with the series of brief videos I was planning to correspond with the stops we made on “Bill & Sue’s Excellent Adventure in 1991, my vision was that the guests I interviewed would be people that would know the ballpark in question in a … Continue reading Low Mileage Tour Day #9: Charleston, SC The post Low Mileage Tour Day #9: Charleston, SC first appeared on The Project to Find America.

Tonight on the Low Mileage Tour on the 435 Voices podcast we’re paying a virtual visit to Augusta, Georgia and talking about the stadium that the Augusta Pirates began play in when they relocated from Macon in the 1998 season…Heaton Stadium. My guest is longtime Augusta Chronicle Golf Editor David Westin, who, in addition to … Continue reading Low Mileage Tour Day #8: Augusta, GA The post Low Mileage Tour Day #8: Augusta, GA first appeared on The Project to Find America.

EA Park #50 Today’s podcast on the Low Mileage Tour on 435 Voices looks back at a baseball landscape that is now long gone. May 25, 1991, brought Sue Easler and I to our 50th park of that season, Municipal Stadium in West Palm Beach, Florida. The Montreal Expos stopped playing after the 2004 season … Continue reading Low Mileage Tour Day 4: West Palm Beach The post Low Mileage Tour Day 4: West Palm Beach first appeared on The Project to Find America.

Today on the Low Mileage Tour on 435 Voices we visit with Kevin Derby, a Florida political writer and baseball fan about Wolfson Park, the longtime home of the Jacksonville Suns and ballpark #38 on Bill & Sue's Excellent Adventure" The post LMT Day 3: Jacksonville first appeared on The Project to Find America.

Excellent Adventure: Day 38 This episode of the Low Mileage Tour on 435 Voices includes the second part of my interview with baseball historian and sportswriter Rob Grubbs. This time we’re talking about the second of two stops we made in historic Georgia ballparks, this one, unfortunately, washed out by rain – we’re visiting about … Continue reading Low Mileage Tour Stop #2 The post Low Mileage Tour Stop #2 first appeared on The Project to Find America.

Bill Craib comes home, in a way, to Macon, Georgia where his career as a Minor League baseball executive began and ended 34 years ago. In this episode, he visits with Rob Grubbs, a local baseball historian, sportswriter and baseball kindred spirit. The post Day 37: Macon, GA first appeared on The Project to Find America.

Nerd alert. There is a “cool” (well, at least I think so) tool at the web site FiveThirtyEight.com that allows you to play with the way congressional districts boundaries are drawn. It shows the current district map and then seven alternatives based on tilting toward your party of choice (gerrymandering), geographic compactness, a desire for … Continue reading 435 Voices – Georgia-13th

Growth is a good thing. At least it is generally considered better than the alternative. Just last week on 435 Voices we heard guests from South Dakota and West Virginia discussing a challenge that faces many rural areas across the country, the brain drain that results from young people packing up from their small towns … Continue reading 435 Voices – Oklahoma-5th

Bill Craib talks with Dave Mistich, Senior Reporter and Statehouse Correspondent at West Virginia Public Radio on the 435 Voices podcast about the outcomes that matter most in his state heading into 2020 elections. Among the topics: the energy future of West Virginia, refuting stereotypes and diversity.

Bill Craib talks with Cara Hetland, Director of Radio News and Broadcasting at South Dakota Public Radio and Lisa Hager, Assistant Professor of Political Science at South Dakota State University on the 435 Voices podcast about the outcomes that matter most in the Mount Rushmore State heading into 2020 elections. Among the topics: The nature of the state's agricultural economy, what to do about the brain drain that pulls young talent out of many rural states and the diverse landscape of the...

September 4, 2019 This is the pilot episode of the new 435 Voices podcast, produced by Project to Find America. I hope you will enjoy it and subscribe using your favorite podcast player. Prezi Link mentioned on the podcast https://prezi.com/view/SY12Y88ArDuJjDHZgq71/ Music from https://filmmusic.io“Imagefilm 013” by Sascha Ende (https://www.sascha-ende.de)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)