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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Tuesday May 10, 2022
Tuesday May 10, 2022
Professor Diane Orlofsky, Director of Troy University Choirs, discusses with Carolyn Hutcheon, In Focus host, the power of choral music to affect our emotions and lives. As her career transitions to part-time status, she will resume performing at concerts and working on her next book about psychologist Jerome Bruner's theory of learning. A born teacher, Professor Orlofsky reminisces about the Concert Chorale's performance at Carnegie Hall and the contributions her former students are making as professionals in the field of choral music.
Tuesday May 10, 2022
Tuesday May 10, 2022
Economist Judson Edwards, Dean of the Sorrell College of Business at Troy University, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, about inflation and the economic outlook for vacation travel. Edwards also hosts the podcast, The Double Dome, "where two heads are better than one."
Thursday May 05, 2022
Thursday May 05, 2022
Alabama archaeologist Ben Hoksbergen talks with In Focus host Carolyn Hutcheson about a prehistoric dugout canoe that was pulled from the Tennessee River in 1948. The canoe was displayed outside Cathedral Caverns, then gradually disintegrated, and remnants were lost. This is a History in Your Hands segment in a series with the Alabama Archaeological Society and is a cautionary tale about the mishandling of important artifacts. The dugout canoe was a rare aboriginal watercraft retrieved from the Tennessee River and only the second known canoe of its type from Alabama.
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
National Public Gardens Day is May 7th, and William Hollman, Executive Director of Dothan Area Botanical Gardens talks about the gardens with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host. He also discusses the Wiregrass Birding Trail.
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill talks with In Focus host Carolyn Hutcheson about voter registration deadlines and absentee voting procedures for the May 24th Primary Election.
Next week, in Part Two of his interview, Secretary Merrill will discuss the Primary Election ballot.
Monday May 02, 2022
Monday May 02, 2022
According to the Better Business Bureau, cryptocurrency scams are the second most prevalent scams in the U.S. Monde Donaldson, Vice-President of the Better Business Bureau, Serving Central and South Alabama, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, about how cryptocurrency scams work.
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
The Moth Radio Hour is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a return to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival on May 7th. Catherine Burns, Artistic Director, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, about how the program got started in coastal Georgia and is now worldwide in its mission to cultivate storytelling.
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Artist Lava Thomas talks with In Focus host Carolyn Hutcheson in a preview of her Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Homecoming exhibition of drawings created from the mugshots of thirteen women who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott of the 1950s. The exhibition curator is Associate Professor of African American Studies and Art History Bridget Cooks of the University of California Irvine.
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Grammy nominee Shaun Murphy and Blues Power deejay Gil Anthony talk with In Focus host Carolyn Hutcheson about Shaun's recording career and the April 30th Wiregrass Blues Fest in Ozark, Alabama, sponsored by the Wiregrass Blues Society.
Monday Apr 25, 2022
Monday Apr 25, 2022
Monde Donalson, Vice-President of the Better Business Bureau, Serving Central and South Alabama, talks with Carolyn Hutcheosn, In Focus host, about the uptick in vacation scams the BBB is monitoring.