Cheryl Snyder

The Hershey Chocolate Company, displaying the name of its founder Milton Hershey, established its Pennsylvania workshop on this date in 1894. Gavin and Wyatt run toward the factory in hopes of a non-chocolate dog treat. You are invited to find your own Hershey sweet music treats served up by John at the ear-candy studio on Crosscurrents, 2/9 at 8 a.m.

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Originally a Celtic seasonal festival associated with weather prediction ritual adopted by North American immigrants – Groundhog Day celebrated on this day foretells the end of winter. Gavin and Wyatt find the groundhog who is emerging from underground as John gets down with the music for the show. You are invited to join the groundhog, and marmots of all sorts, as we engage in our own form of down home merriment, on Crosscurrents, 2/2 at 8 a.m.

The first African American woman with a pilot license displayed her aviation skills at airshows while she dreamed of founding a flight school for woman – Bessie Coleman was born on this day in 1892. Gavin and Wyatt hope to go “barnstorming” with Bessie Coleman as she poses on the wheel of her Curtiss JN-4 biplane. You can “soar into the air” as John “broadcasts on the air” to celebrate Bessie Coleman by listening to Crosscurrents, 1/26 at 8 a.m.

Known for his poem “The Raven” and for his chilling tales of the macabre, considered as the inventor of the detective fiction genre – Edgar Allan Poe was born on this day in 1809. Gavin and Wyatt are ready to herd the raven back through the window of Poe’s window. You will not be “alone” near the “pit and the pendulum” when you hear the “Eldorado” “tell-tale heart” as you listen to Poe’s birthday “bells” of “the haunted house” on Crosscurrents, 1/19 at 8 a.m.

Novelist on the questions of life and death, story teller of high adventure, and advocate of social justice – Jack London was born on this date in 1876. With the Gastineau Channel mountains outside his home library window, Gavin and Wyatt help London with his final draft of “Call Of The Wild.” You are invited to join John in the radio library to celebrate the playful, passionate, and sometimes private life of Jack London on Crosscurrents, 1/12 at 8 a.m.