STRAIGHTtalk: With Frida Waara
This month, Brian Cabell probes the mind of realtor-writer-adventurer Frida Waara, and finds out what makes this ever-enthusiastic, winter-loving woman tick. BC: You were raised in Wixom in the Lower Peninsula. Was it a happy childhood? FW: Oh, tremendous. I was outside all the time. I lived near a lake with plenty of room to […]
STRAIGHTtalk: With Chip Truscon
Marquette, MI – A frank talk with a retired public health administrator, researcher and professor–and self-proclaimed Socialist–about radical politics, his love of Marquette, our future, and death. BC: You were raised downstate. How would you characterize your childhood? CT: Very unusual. My father was a family doctor and my mother sang opera and light […]
STRAIGHTtalk: With Kathleen Heideman
Brian Cabell interviews poet and painter Kathleen Heideman, who’s also the president of Save the Wild UP, and the daughter-in-law of Fred and June Rydholm. Kathleen explains how a Wisconsin farm girl ended up in Antarctica for two months and now finds herself enchanted by the Yellow Dog Plains. BC: What were you like as […]
STRAIGHTtalk: With Sue Kensington
Marquette, MI – May, 2014 – This month on STRAIGHTtalk: Conversations With People You Should Know, Brian Cabell sits down with Sue Kensington, community activist, former City Commissioner in Marquette, and all around interesting woman about town… BC: When you were a little girl downstate back in the Fifties, what did you want to be […]
StraightTalk: With State Representative John Kivela
Marquette, MI – April, 2014 – This month, on StraightTalk, Brian Cabell sits down with State Representative John Kivela at Babycakes in Marquette. BC: A few years ago you were selling cars and repairing cars, and now you’re in the state legislature. How’d that happen? JK: It really started with someone asking me to serve […]
