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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.

Vintage postcard of a Gary, Indiana glass factory.
Work
Tom Roznowski
I got a few skills and I means to use ‘em.
Button Factory, Warsaw, New York
Wardrobe
C.G. Conn Musical Instrument Factory in Elkhart, Indiana
Handmade
Tom Roznowski
Maryland Casualty Building
Time
Tom Roznowski
An early 20th-century classroom.
Childhood
  • Negro League baseball team The Homestead Grays.
    Baseball
    If baseball ever ceases to be America’s pastime, it says far more about the nation than the sport.
  • 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
    Yes, they depart for warmer climates in the winter. But their intention is always to return.
  • Hollywood Park
    Spirit
    Tom Roznowski
    To have a spiritual life is to believe without explanation.
  • Postcard of Steeg Park, Terre Haute, Indiana
    Walk
    Babies often learn to walk at 9 months, about the same amount of time it takes them to become babies.
  • L. Clyde Caldwell.
    Radio
    Tom Roznowski
    The image of a single disc jockey broadcasting lonely and live from a small radio station in the overnight hours - as epic an American icon as the cowboy.
  • 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.