The Whimsy Farm Podcast

Episode Twenty-Six: Happy Birthday Utah Phillips

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2466190/fan_mail/new] I celebrate May 15, Utah Phillips' birthday. For the last two years I've been researching and writing about Utah. This year marks the 91st anniversary of his birth.  My first guest is his old and dear friend Mark Ross. Utah met Mark in Greenwich Village in 1969, and they remained friends until Utah's death in 2008. Mark shares trivia and remembrances about Utah with us.  My second guests is Utah's younger son Brendan. Brendan shares memories of his father as well as details about an exciting project he's working on. He's currently restoring Utah's old flanger car, transforming it into the Utah Phillips Library.  For more information or to donate to Brendan's project:  https://www.gofundme.com/f/restore-utah-phillips-caboose-and-library?lid=lwlp5hn0n00i&utm_medium=email&utm_source=product&utm_campaign=t_email-campaign-update& For more information on the Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture: https://www.bbcrc.org Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2466190/support]

Episode 25: May Day as Labor Day with Patrick Muffin

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2466190/fan_mail/new] Welcome everyone, to Episode Twenty-Five of the podcast.  The month of May is Utah Phillips month here on the pod, since he was born on the 15th and left us on the 23rd of May. On this episode, I’m honored to speak with author and labor historian Patrick Murfin, an old and dear friend of Utah Phillips. Patrick wrote the final chapter of the book The IWW: Its First Seventy Years. He once worked as a labor writer for the Chicago Seed and was an integral part of the Chicago industrial labor movement in the 1970s, as was Utah Phillips. Fifty years later, Murfin still writes prolifically for his blog called Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout:https://patrickmurfin.blogspot.com Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2466190/support]

Episode 25 Teaser: May Day as Labor Day with Patrick Murfin

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2466190/fan_mail/new] Coming up May 1:  The month of May is Utah Phillips month here on the pod, since he was born on the 15th and left us on the 23rd of May. On this episode, I’m honored to speak with author and labor historian Patrick Murfin, an old and dear friend of Utah Phillips. Patrick wrote the final chapter of the book The IWW: Its First Seventy Years. He once worked as a labor writer for the Chicago Seed and was an integral part of the Chicago industrial labor movement in the 1970s, as was Utah Phillips. Fifty years later, Murfin still writes prolifically for his blog called Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout:https://patrickmurfin.blogspot.com Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2466190/support]

Episode Twenty-Four: Poetry Sustains with Maryam Barrie

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2466190/fan_mail/new] Celebrating National Poetry Month and Earth Day: Poetry Sustains with Maryam Barrie Show Notes for Poetry Sustains 4/15/26    Maryam and I read and discuss the following poems:  “A Short Story of Falling” by Alice Oswald “Ichthysaur Speaks: Notes from the Benthos” by Kyle E Miller/An excerpt from his novel The Idiot’s Garden  “Trying Hard Not to Become a Nature Poet” by W. Joe Hoppe “Exhausting Weather” by Maryam Barrie  “Between” by J.C. (Chris) Olander  “A Litany for Survival” by Audre Lorde  “A Shadow Under the Boughs” by Maryam Barrie From “The Cure of Troy” by Seamus Heaney For comprehensive show notes, see my YouTube channel: Carolyn Crane and Whimsy Farm   Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2466190/support]

Episode Twenty-Four: Poetry Sustains with Maryam Barrie

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2466190/fan_mail/new] Celebrating National Poetry Month and Earth Day: Poetry Sustains with Maryam Barrie Show Notes for Poetry Sustains 4/15/26    Maryam and I read and discuss the following poems:  “A Short Story of Falling” by Alice Oswald “Ichthysaur Speaks: Notes from the Benthos” by Kyle E Miller/An excerpt from his novel The Idiot’s Garden  “Trying Hard Not to Become a Nature Poet” by W. Joe Hoppe “Exhausting Weather” by Maryam Barrie  “Between” by J.C. (Chris) Olander  “A Litany for Survival” by Audre Lorde  “A Shadow Under the Boughs” by Maryam Barrie From “The Cure of Troy” by Seamus Heaney For comprehensive show notes, see my YouTube channel: Carolyn Crane and Whimsy Farm           Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2466190/support]