The Story

Thomas Moor and Valinda Dyer both graduated from Park View High School, in South Hill Virginia in the spring of 1970. Thomas and Valinda’s class was integrated in their senior year. Thomas moved to the all white school from nearby East End High.  At Park View, Thomas and Valinda became friends. They graduated and got on with their lives. But when it came time to celebrate reunions, to reflect back on those times, it turns out that Valinda, the white student, had a lot more trouble than Thomas. Valinda never went to the regular high school reunions, until this year. The two friends join Dick Gordon to talk about the legacy of integration in their small town. Also, a yarn bomber.

Cathy Wilkerson survived an infamous event of the 1960s - the explosion of a New York City townhouse on March 6, 1970. Cathy was a member of Weatherman, an anti-war group that broke off from the mainstream to undertake more violent acts of resistance to the Vietnam War.

Producer David Schulman goes on a search for digital sound that can compare to the acoustic sound of a Stradivarius violin.

Selma Yablonick Constant graduated from the City College of New York in 1950. She'd planned to become a teacher. However, she was asked to leave the school of education because she walked with a cane. Selma had polio as a kid and was considered disabled. Also in this episode, poet Paul Guest.