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Porchlight

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.

Hudson Bay Company
Neil
Tom Roznowski
Neil Young has been at times hard to listen to. But no one can doubt his honesty in trying to make us hear him.
The Rex Theatre in Leland, MS.
Movies
Tom Roznowski
Kentland, Indiana train depot postcard
Train
Tom Roznowski
Polar bear at the zoo.
'20s
Tom Roznowski
Constantinople.
Coffee
Tom Roznowski
  • Tamar Kander painting
    Canvas
    Tom Roznowski
    A painting communicates and connects without words, without sound. Just one sense and your feelings.
  • Catskill Game Farm.
    Animals
    Tom Roznowski
    Perhaps we might consider ourselves mammals first, humans second.
  • They'll Do It Every Time
    Comics
    Tom Roznowski
    With daily comic strips, it’s either a laugh with the next installment or a problem that may not be solved until tomorrow. The lesson either way is that life is short.
  • Carl's Bookstore, Greencastle, PA
    Books
    Tom Roznowski
    Books allow us to communicate the deepest meaning between time periods, between cultures, between total strangers. Wherever it is, we can be there.
  • The Ogunquit Playhouse.
    Act
    Tom Roznowski
    Acting up and acting out are usually considered behavioral problems.
  • The Horn & Hardart Automat in Times Square.
    Cash Money
    Tom Roznowski
    Cash money rewards conscious action in the moment. You have it. You spend it. Or not.
  • O' Henry Schoolhouse.
    Story
    Tom Roznowski
    More than anything else, story helps us define what is true and what is worth remembering.
  • Greyhound bus terminal and restaurant in Scranton, PA.
    Leap
    Tom Roznowski
    The steps taken immediately before a leap will determine the distance covered.
  • Cattle horn car.
    Past
    Tom Roznowski
    The past has too many witnesses to establish any certainty as to what actually happened.
  • East/West Germany.
    Friends
    Tom Roznowski
    The value of genuine acceptance outside of the family you were born into cannot be underestimated.