Every booth at the Mt Airy Village Fair offers an interactive experience, and at the Northwest Philly Neighbors Podcast booth we invited fairgoers to sit down and tell a story. Sixteen people (ages 8 to 73) accepted, and their stories spanned the spectrum from poignant to entertaining, informative to funny.

Here they are, with links for more about some of the tellers and their projects:

  1:11 - Mike Gross - Helping remove a state law loophole that promoted segregation
  3:50 - Terry List - The Australian Lilly Pilly and me
  6:36 - Evan Mohr - Serving breakfast using a domino run
  8:11 - Joanne Fleisher - The hardest thing I’ve faced and overcome
12:54 - Nathan Long - My favorite pet, Glenn Bergman
13:55 - Leif Taylor - How I got my puppy
15:00 - Jen Sheffield - Decades of daily journaling
17:10 - Andrew Kirkpatrick - Harry Potter voices, live
19:47 - Walt Bader - My son the muralist
21:20 - Mila Shane - Climbing a Vermont waterfall
23:03 - Keith Murphy - Pete Seeger and the Golden Vanity
28:33 - Michele Zipkin - Producing podcasts
30:37 - Jan Alter - The highlight of 38½ years as a Philly public school teacher
33:15 - Patty Skuster - Women on Wheels in the Wissahickon, and soup
35:34 - Dan Vidal - Pain recovery with Neurosomatic Therapy
38:11 - Cheri Black - From Kansas farm to Jamaican B&B

Podcast website: https://nwphillypodcast.net