#67: Virginia Stem Owens

Update: 2023-04-11

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In Episode #67 of Rewrite Radio, Virginia Stem Owens muses on the difficulties, disappointments, and goodness of real communities. She encourages her audience to seek genuine “local habitations” over abstract “airy nothings.”

This talk was recorded live at the 1994 Festival of Faith & Writing.

Theme music is Modern Attempt by TrackTribe and June 11 by Andrew Starr.

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