In Focus with Carolyn Hutcheson
Join the conversation each weekday on ”In Focus” as host Carolyn Hutcheson talks with: artists, historians, experts, environmentalists, musicians, authors, and other big thinkers and change makers. Carolyn brings her three decades of on-air experience, her curious mind, and her warm conversational style to each episode. We hope you join us and take time to bring your world, In Focus.
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Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Approximately fourteen Rosenwald Schools remain in Alabama from the early twentieth century and the era of segregation. Gorham Bird, Assistant Professor of Architecture at Auburn University, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson of In Focus about efforts to partner with communities to secure grants to stabilize and preserve the structures. The Alabama Department of Archives and History is featuring an exhibit, "History Lives On: Preserving Alabama's Rosenwald Schools," which can be viewed through May 2024.
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Today is Halloween, so River Region artist Lisa Harrison visits the studio to talk with In Focus host Carolyn Hutcheson about her fiber art portraits of black cats, dogs, plants and houses. The various textures make her portraits uncannily realistic.
Friday Oct 27, 2023
Friday Oct 27, 2023
Todd Stacy, host of Capitol Journal on Alabama Public Television, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson of The Newswrap from In Focus about the new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, beforesharing a beast of a Wildcard.
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
The American Chestnut Tree is functionally extinct, according to independent scholar Donald Davis, author of the book, "The American Chestnut, An Environmental History." He talks with Carolyn Hutcheson of In Focus on The Storyline book series about what wiped out the gigantic Eastern Forest trees that witnessed the unfolding of American history. In a future visit with Donald Davis, he will discuss the efforts to bring back the American Chestnut.
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Acclaimed theatre organist Ron Carter talks with In Focus host Carolyn Hutcheson about the 1925 Lon Chaney silent film classic, "Phantom of the Opera." which will be presented Sat., Oct. 28, at the RiverCenter for the Performing Arts in Columbus, Ga. at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time.Carter talks about the film as an early horror movie, accompanied by a musical score that may have been lost to time, since there were no recordings.
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
Joining In Focus on location were Martin McCaffery, Director of the historic Capri Theatre in Montgomery, and John Martello, New York actor, director, and producer, who moved to Montgomery and now hosts a popular classic film series at the Capri. The guests talk with Carolyn Hutcheson about the class and update the listeners on restoration projects at the longest continuously operating movie theater in Alabama.
Friday Oct 20, 2023
Friday Oct 20, 2023
Alabama Public Television's Randy Scott, Reporter and Executvie Producer, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson for The Newswrap on In Focus about the Israeli - Palestinian war caused by the Hamas attack, and its concern among Alabamians. Capitol Journal host Todd Stacy is out of town today. The APT program is now available on YouTube.
Thursday Oct 19, 2023
Thursday Oct 19, 2023
Alabama native Patricia Foster returns to her home state next week for speaking engagements in Auburn. She talks with Carolyn Hutcheson of In Focus about her parents' mining/sharecropping roots in the Depression, which influenced her views of class, race, and what she terms the Southern caste system. Professor Emerita Foster teaches in the University of Iowa MFA program, and her book is "Written in the Sky, Lessons of a Southern Daughter."
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Jonathan Ross, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson of In Focus about the Oct. 18th Day of National Concern About Young People and Gun Violence. The DOJ is working with schools to implement a SAFE Student Pledge to "Stand Against Firearm Endangerment." Schools can find out more about the student certificates by contacting the DOJ Middle District of Alabama office.
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
The Alabama Trails Foundation is bringing the Arts to Flagg Mountain. Cindy Ragland, Executive Director, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson of In Focus about the mountain's history, the Pinhoti Trail, and the "Pines, Poets, and Plein Air Painting" event Oct. 22.