Dirt Road Radio

Happy Holidays from the Dirt Road Radio Team! We hope you are enjoying your communities today, whether that be family, friends, or online. We are looking forward to this coming year of building the roads to connect the Dirt Road Radio Community of change makers, storytellers, supporters and you! Stay tuned for exciting developments!

Issue #3 of the Dirt Road Dispatch features Small Town Tourist Podcast with Abbey Minke Graves.
https://mailchi.mp/dirtroadradio.com/hey-whats-that-tourist-doing-in-your-backyard?fbclid=IwAR16A5llXzS4OW9LB8ixW8kRMRfNf08XwdPLCKUSPHIXhxjQ6AQzrL8i1ys

Take the back roads with us and discover the Positively No Outlet podcast, our Dirt Road Radio podcast featured in the newsletter. While you're there, sign up! https://mailchi.mp/dirtroadradio.com/dirt-road-dispatch-2

Image description: A white haired man at a vintage telephone switchboard made of dark wood smiles at us. The blue, yellow and orange image includes text that reads Positively No Outlet Podcast. And the tagline in white reads Stories of ordinary people doing ordinary and sometimes extraordinary things.

Take the back roads with us and discover the Positively No Outlet podcast, our Dirt Road Radio podcast featured in the newsletter. While you're there, sign up! https://mailchi.mp/dirtroadradio.com/dirt-road-dispatch-2

Image description: A white haired man at a vintage telephone switchboard made of dark wood smiles at us. The blue, yellow and orange image includes text that reads Positively No Outlet Podcast. And the tagline in white reads Stories of ordinary people doing ordinary and sometimes extraordinary things.

A huge “WELCOME!” to all our wonderful Dirt Road Radio supporters!
This is the inaugural issue of our newsletter, the Dirt Road Dispatch!
Highlight: DRR team member Laurie Lusinski shows off her "resto" car projects.
https://mailchi.mp/dirtroadradio.com/hello-roadie-heres-your-dirt-road-dispatch

Happy 4th from your friends at Dirt Road Radio. There are many roads on the way to the American dream of community, whether yours is paved with concrete or full of potholes, we want to take part in that journey. Have a safe and happy holiday!

Thank you so much for your support of our Kickstarter campaign! Your backing means the world to us! Unfortunately, we fell short of our funding goal, but we’re still moving ahead with our plan to tell a better story about rural America!

Your response to everything we’ve created has been extremely encouraging, and everyone can see right away how it meets an important need in our communities, so we’re going to keep going!

Our number one challenge now is to reach more people. https://dirtroadradio.com/newsletter-sign-up/
You can sign up for the newsletter above. We would also be grateful if you would share our newsletter and our project with your friends, family and followers.
Thank you again!

~ The Dirt Road Radio Team
Full letter here: https://dirtroadradio.com/updates

Celebrating Flag Day with Dirt Road Radio wouldn’t be complete without some backstory.

* Flag Day commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States which occurred on June 14, 1777 by a resolution adopted by the Second Continental Congress. It also marks the birthday of the U.S. Army which congress authorized as “the American Continental Army” on June 14, 1775. The current design is the only one lasting more than 50 years.
* It was designed by a teenager! It was then 17-year-old high school student, Robert G. Heft, of Lancaster, Ohio who submitted the design in a contest in 1958. It was chosen out of over 1,500 submissions by President Dwight Eisenhower.
* Five American Flags have made it to the moon.�You have probably seen Neil Armstrong on the moon with an American Flag, but he is not the only one to plant one on the surface of the moon. Five additional Apollo missions, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17, ended with an astronaut placing a flag on the moon

From https://nationalflagfoundation.org/10-fascinating-facts-about-the-american-flag/

The Dirt Road Radio team came together out of a desire to build something that everyone could share, so we're sharing some of the personal passion projects from members of our team.

The fourth one is from Tim Ely, Program Manager at Dirt Road Radio.

“I came up with this weird idea for a podcast,” says Tim. “AI is such a big deal right now, and since I grew up on a farm, and I know so much of it is getting automated, I wondered what sort of strange things might happen as AI spreads. It’s a little goofy, but I hope folks might enjoy it. I had a blast making it.”
Hear Tim's story at the link. Transcript provided.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1468400278/dirt-road-radio/posts/3828823