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Porchlight
Yellow stylized text that reads "Porchlight with Tom Roznowski"

Porchlight with Tom Roznowski offers WFIU listeners a weekly invitation to visit the familiar and the forgotten through recorded song, original story, and the occasional everyday expert.

State Fair Coliseum.
Beatles
Tom Roznowski
The Beatles wrote, performed, and recorded all of their songs in a little over 7 years.
Birds
Tom Roznowski
Hollywood Park
Spirit
Tom Roznowski
Postcard of Steeg Park, Terre Haute, Indiana
Walk
L. Clyde Caldwell.
Radio
Tom Roznowski
  • The language of flowers.
    Language
    Tom Roznowski
    For those rare and wonderful times when you realize you can't describe it in words.
  • Philosopher's Press.
    Thought
    Tom Roznowski
    Happiness is a feeling rather than an equation because we can never solve it the same way twice.
  • Hey Brothers Ice Cream Clock.
    Summer
    Tom Roznowski
    Will the words "summer vacation" become like phone booths and trading stamps, ceasing to have any real meaning in the everyday lives of Americans?
  • Union Square.
    Handwritten
    Tom Roznowski
    If we are not exposed to someone's handwriting, that is one less distinctive characteristic available to us.
  • Moon and Stars
    Tom Roznowski
    When space is referred to as the “final frontier,” does that imply that we need to explore it to better control it or rather strive to understand it so to better control ourselves?
  • Three Point Motel, Elkhart, Indiana
    Automobile
    As cars are becoming safer to drive, we are becoming less safe driving them.
  • Postcard of the Wabash River in Terre Haute, Indiana
    River
    From source to sea, the course of a river can provide life and explain it, as well.
  • A postcard from Main Street in Alma, Nebraska
    My Collection
    Celebrating the deep interaction between a human and the material that is maintaining a vast collection.
  • Buddy
    Tom Roznowski
    One of the greats of early rock 'n' roll, remembered in story and song.
  • Vintage postcard of Hapsburg Inn
    Family
    John Bailey
    Our age-old response to this life on earth: yours, theirs, all of ours.