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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Episodes
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
English artist and naturalist Philip Henry Gosse spent most of 1838 in Pleasant Hill, Alabama, teaching and painting plants and insects in the Blackbelt. Gary Mullen, AU Professor of Entomology Emeritus, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, about Gosse and his upcoming OLLI lectures and the companion exhibition.
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
In Focus host Carolyn Hutcheson visited writer Jerry Ellis in his hometown of Fort Payne, Alabama, to talk with the Pulitzer Prize nominee about his heritage and two of his books, "Walking the Trail, One Man's Journey Along the Cherokee Trail of Tears" and "Marching Through Georgia, My Walk with Sherman."
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Monde Donaldson, Vice-President of the Better Business Bureau EducationalFoundation, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, about customer reviews and how to discern those that are questionable.
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Crime reporter Jeremy Gray talks with In Focus host Carolyn Hutcheson about criminal women in Alabama history. He shares stories from his book, "Wicked Women of Alabama," featuring in this segment Bugsy Siegel's girlfriend, Virginia Hill, as well as Nannie Doss and Mary Perkins, convicted poisoners.
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Hope Cates, Park Ranger at the James H. "Sloppy" Floyd State Park in northwest Georgia, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, about the Pinhoti Trail, which passes through the park from Alabama. She also discusses the American Chestnut and the park's role in restoration efforts.
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Playwright Jim Harris talks with In Focus host Carolyn Hutcheson about his musical,
We'll Meet Again," which chronicles the experiences of Henry Stern's family as they escaped Nazi Germany in World War II and settled in Opelika, AL.
The world premieres are held in Savannah, GA, and Opelika, AL.
The Opelika performance is Aug. 30 at the Opelika Center for the Performing Arts.
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
As investors consider digital assets as a hedge against inflation, Amanda Senn, Chief Deputy Director of the Alabama Securities Commission, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, about Non-Fungible Tokens and possible red flags.
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Journalist T. J. English, author of the book, "The Corporation, An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld," talks with In Focus host Carolyn Hutcheson about the anti-Castro forces among the Mob, the CIA, and Cuban exiles in his look back at 20th century American history.
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
Professor Martin Olliff, Director of the Wiregrass Archives at Troy University's Dothan campus, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, about his new podcast, "It Came From The Archives," and an episode about the Weems family of African American landowners near Columbia, Alabama.
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Monday Aug 15, 2022
On The Exchange from In Focus, Amanda Senn, Chief Deputy Director of the Alabama Securities Commission, talks with host Carolyn Hutcheson about digital, or virtual, assets that investors are using as a hedge against inflation. The risk to investors is that digital assets are uninsured.