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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.

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
Vintage postcard of Hapsburg Inn
Family
John Bailey
Randy
John Bailey
Man with bird
Footprints
John Bailey
  • The Ancient Greek scientist Archimedes of Syracuse
    Smoke
    John Bailey
    Everything in moderation, it has been said -- including moderation.
  • Practice
    John Bailey
    Inside the journey of discovery, which takes you past the intersection of curiosity and forgiveness.
  • Dancing waiter
    French Lick Redux
    John Bailey
    A return to Orange County to recapture the magic of its bygone jazz festivals.
  • Jazz legend Louis Armstrong sitting backstage
    French Lick
    John Bailey
    A trip back in time to French Lick, Indiana, for a 1958 jazz festival.
  • The interior of a pantry
    Pantry
    John Bailey
    The available bounty of the natural and the creative can sustain you season by season.
  • Postcard of High Grove Farm, Leesburg, Indiana.
    Harvest
    John Bailey
    Recalling a time when farm-to-table dining wasn't a movement, it was just how things were.
  • Van Morrison in performance in 2010. (flickr/sahlgoode)
    Van
    John Bailey
    A salute to the prolific, diverse, and earthy musical wanderings of Van Morrison.
  • Neighborhood cyclist, summer of '65
    Solstice '65
    John Bailey
    Reflections on the summer of 1965 in story and song.
  • Bake
    John Bailey
    A tribute to an activity that combines all the basic elements.
  • Too Soon
    John Bailey
    Remembering some greats who departed before their time.