Home Away from Haiti
Friday, January 29 2010
Home Away From Haiti
Darline Blanchard Williams (top) and her adopted parents, Rebecca and Jerry (bottom)
Last week, Haitian teenager Darline Blanchard Williams arrived in Florida to live with her adoptive parents. Darline says she thinks she survived the quake because she'd attended a funeral instead of school that day - her school collapsed. Also joining the conversation is her adoptive mother Rebecca Williams. Dick Gordon talks to them both about how they managed to get Darline out of Haiti and into the U.S. - and how Darline is adjusting.
- Learn more about Rebecca's organization, Promised Provision
- See photos of Darline and Rebecca
- Follow efforts in Haiti to care for infants
- Music in this story: Jou a rive performed by Boukan Ginen for the album Jou a rive
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Hot Drums
Kip McCabe
Kip McCabe is the drummer for the Chicago indie rock band Dianogah. A few years back, he and his band mates had just come home from touring. They were too lazy to unload their van, so they left their gear in the back for a couple of weeks. It was all locked up in a big wooden box, so they weren't too worried. Sure enough, thieves broke in and stole Kip's drum set. When he called the Chicago police to report the crime, they refused to investigate. Angry, and needing his drums back for gigs, Kip got on the case, and tracked down the thieves. He talks to Dick about doing the cops' job for them, and meeting the guys who stole his stuff, face-to-face.
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Remembering Salinger
J.D. Salinger
The author J.D. Salinger died this week at 91. Jim Sadwith is one of the lucky few who got to talk to the reclusive author of "The Catcher in the Rye." Jim was taken with the book in high school and wanted permission from the author to perform it as a play. Salinger said no, but as Jim tells Dick, that taught him an important lesson. This story originally aired on July 9, 2009.
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