Berks County ICE Controversy, Spring Prep Tips, and a New Take on ‘Blue Juniata'

(00:00:00) Gabriel Martinez and Manada Fries of Spotlight PA, discuss an Ice detention facility planned for Berks County. (00:23:14) When Perry County musician Zachariah King wanted to record a cover of the 1844 song “Blue Juniata”, it led him down a rabbit hole of discovery about the song’s writer, Marion Dix Sullivan. Sullivan was from a town near Boston but had once travelled through Perry County around the time of its founding. She was inspired to write Blue Juniata while there. WITF Music’s Joe Ulrich sat down with King to hear about his research on the song and his trip up to find Sullivan’s gravestone. (00:34:17) And Erica Jo Shaffer is back to tell us how to prep for the spring season.Support WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.