Worthington Stories

10/17/2024

A sad update today. Worthington has lost a great lady. Carole Hershey Durell founded the High Road Gallery and brought so much art to life for our city. I was fortunate to be able to interview her for an episode almost a year ago. You can hear her tell about the founding of the gallery in that episode. She'll be missed.

09/06/2024

New episode up! A visit to the Ozem Gardner House and Flint Cemetery... did you know that there were several families active in Worthington on the Underground Railroad? Do you know what a Union Cemetery is? Listen and find out more!! Check your Apple and Spotify Podcast feeds, listen at www.WorthingtonStories.com, please share and let me know what you think!!
This photo is of Elaine Russell, office manager for the Flint and Walnut Grove Cemeteries, in front of the Ozem Gardner house.
Oh, and, errrrrr if you downloaded it this morning, you'll want to refresh your download... errors fixed!! It's been a long month!

06/26/2024

Grabbing a bubble tea, found this in the parking lot off of West New England and another around the corner. Have you checked out the new Art Walk? Super fun to encounter these around town!!
Check out Experience Worthington's website to learn more about the art: https://www.experienceworthington.com/artwalk
And remember, you can listen to my episode on Art and Artists of Worthington to learn more about how the Art Walk came to be: https://www.worthingtonstories.com/some-art-and-artists-of-worthington/

06/19/2024

Hey, Worthington Historical Society has a very cool activity coming up on June 21 - a bus tour of historic neighborhoods. Register, and then listen to our very first episode at www.WorthingtonStories.com on the history of our city!

06/13/2024

Newest episode is up!! Did you know we've had a chamber music school right here in Worthington for almost 30 years?? Take a listen and find out more!

Debbie Price interview

05/24/2024

Season 10 of Songs at the Center premiers this week on PBS stations nationwide!
Check out https://www.wosu.org/television/schedule and search for Songs to find times. It looks like Saturday at 8pm on WOSU Plus and Sunday, May 25 at 12am on WOSU's HD channel.
You can listen to my interview with Eric Gnezda - Songwriter and Speaker at www.WorthingtonStories.com to hear all about how he came to produce this nationally syndicated show that tapes right here in Worthington!

Tales old and new from Worthington, Ohio... Talks with musicians, artists, historians, visionaries... a little bit of Did You Know, a lot of Who are we, how did we …

05/09/2024

Anyone taken Worthington's new Art Walk yet? This looks like a fun one!
To hear more about how the Art Walks came to be, take a listen to Episode 4 of Worthington Stories at https://www.worthingtonstories.com/some-art-and-artists-of-worthington/ - subscribe to the podcast there, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other platforms.

05/03/2024

1. Listen to our interview with conductor Antoine Clark about the WCO’s great concert series at www.WorthingtonStories.com.
2. Go see the third and final concert of the season this Sunday at the Worthington United Methodist church at 5pm!

05/02/2024

Worthington Chamber Orchestra conductor Clark

05/02/2024

Music Miniseries continues! Check out www.WorthingtonStories.com to hear my chat with Antoine Clark, artistic director and conductor of the Worthington Chamber Orchestra!

04/04/2024

Walking down by the river in the Olentangy Parklands, the official WS mascot and I happened on Parks Supervisor Shawn Daughterty planting a native sycamore. More trees will be appearing throughout the spring. You can learn all about Worthington's stewardship of the trees throughout our parks and neighborhoods, and our title as a Tree City USA, in Worthington Stories' second episode. (https://www.worthingtonstories.com/tree-city-usa/)

04/01/2024

Everyone needs some more music in their lives!
1. Listen to our latest podcast episode featuring Eric Gnezda - Songwriter and Speaker -- Click on the link in our bio or just see www.worthingstories.com -- to listen to the first miniseries featuring Worthington musicians.
2. Sign up to go see tapings of Eric's nationally-syndicated show Songs at the Center at the MAC coming up next week and the week after.

Songs at the Center continues to grow on PBS . . . Welcome Amazon Web Services as a New National Sponsor! . . . Tapings in April . . . Artist news and more!

03/19/2024

It's live! New episode: Eric Gnezda. This is the first episode in a miniseries about the musicians of Worthington!
Eric was kind enough to sit down with me and tell me about how he came to be a singer-songwriter and how his career has morphed over the years. And he talked about how he came to start Songs at the Center, a PBS show that's been broadcast nationwide from right HERE in Worthington for a decade now!
https://www.worthingtonstories.com/music-miniseries-first-eric-gnezda/
Check it out, let me know what you think, and subscribe on your favorite podcast app.

03/08/2024

Been working hard and episode 6 is on the way... and it's the first one in a miniseries! Can you guess what it will be about?