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Talking Main Street With Stepheny
by Stepheny Houghtlin
Enjoy 5-minute episodes with Stepheny Houghtlin who brings her storytelling style to Main Street. The backdrop for this podcast series is preservation, restoration and repurposing that saves commercial and residential architecture. It is about honoring the history, people, and sense of place that is singularly unique to every Main Street. With a bit of straight talk, nostalgia, and reminiscing, Stepheny is waiting for you on her downtown Rocky Mount, NC bench.
Episodes
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Season 2: Episode 12 - The Way it has Always Been in rocky Mount, NC
Stepheny met a lovely lady on Washington St. while taking photographs of the wonderful restored facades along the block. She tells us that she pays careful attention to the people who come into her life. From their conversation, the lady said that nothing ever changes, no matter who the…
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Season 2: Episode 11 Chocolate Eclairs and Peter Varney
This 5-minute podcast, Talking Main Street with Stepheny, tells a childhood story of Chocolate Eclairs from the Davis Street Bakery in Evanston, IL. After reading the schedule for the hiring of a new Rocky Mount City Manager, she climbed into the Dempster Dumpster to console herself with so much…
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Season 2: Episode 10 - Another Day Older in Rocky Mount, NC
Welcome to the 5-minute podcast, Talking Main Street with Stepheny. Here she reflects on her birthday and offers this to the collective thinking we all contemplate. Who am I, is it too late to change and grow, can I make a difference? Stepheny tells us how everything she set out to do has now...
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Season 2: Episode 9 - Living Above the Store on Main Street in Rocky Mount, NC
Thanks for taking the time to listen to this 5-minute Podcast, Talking Main Street with Stepheny. She's excited to tell you about her time at the open house for Andrew & Nicolle Clark's Music City project where the two apartments above the store are finished. She reports on the finished roof top...
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Season 2- Episode 8: A Plan for Rocky Mount, NC
In this 5-minute podcast, Stepheny tells a story about running away. She talks about those who have run away from Rocky Mount. You will like her plan to change the culture on the City Council, redirect the policies for the preservation, restoration and repurposing the commercial and residential...
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Season 2: Episode 6: Rocky Mount City Council Elections - Crystal Times-Anderson
Today, Crystal Wimes-Anderson joins us on this 5-minute Podcast: Talking Main Street with Stepheny. She is a candidate running for Mr. Joyner's seat. Accomplished with a heart for service, Crystal is equipped to bring her leadership to the task of helping her neighbors and to all who live in the...
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Season 2 -Episode 5: A Rocky Mount NC Day to Remember
Stepheny's 5 minute podcast today involves remembering her mother-in-law, Jane Saunders Houghtlin, born and raised in Jackson, MS. What she calls a 'Stepheny kind of day,' included going downtown to Larema Coffee House for the church bookclub, and then lunch at Books and Beans out at Rocky Mount...
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Season 2- Episode 4- Publication of New Book -Repairers of the Breach - Rocky Mount NC
Stepheny is excited to announce the publication of her 3rd novel, Repairers of the Breach. On Amazon you will find an E-book version and paperback. Part of the book is dedicated to the repairers of the breach in Rocky Mount, NC and to the Prisms of Light who are involved in the revitalization of...
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Season 2 - Episode #3 City Council of Rocky Mount,NC. 'Point of Order"
Thank you for taking time to listen to this 5-minute podcast, Talking Main Street with Stepheny. Whatever the subject is for the podcast, it has to do with preservation, restoration and repurposing of Main Street and beyond. In this weeks audio podcast, 'Point of Order" is predicated on the City...
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Season 2- Episode 2: The 'What's in it for Me Housing Strategy'
During this 5-minute podcast, Talking Main Street with Stepheny, she talks about the possibilities that are available on Main Street in Rocky Mount.NC. She mentions her reading life that includes books on the life and times of English gardeners and the urban activist, Jane Jacobs, who wrote a...
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Season 2 - Episode 1: 2022 Rocky Mount Housing
Welcome to the 1st 5-minute podcast in 2022: Talking Main Street with Stepheny. Kenneth Grahame, who wrote The Wind in the Willows, has something to do with Stepheny's story telling as she talks about saving residential architecture throughout Wards 1-4. This podcast is produced on Wednesdays....
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Episode 30: The Lights of Christmas in Rocky Mount, NC 2021
Welcome to the 30th 5-minute podcast, Talking Main Street with Stepheny. She continues to talk about the Preservation, Restoration, and Repurposing that is part of the revitalization of Rocky Mount and issues all Main Streets encounter. She talks about The Five Points area that is reinventing...
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Episode 29: The Tar River Orchestra and Chorus, a Rocky Mount, NC Gem
Listen to the 5-minute Podcast, Talking Main Street with Stepheny. After attending the performance of the Tar River Orchestra Chorus and Carolina Brass, Stepheny weaves a few of her 'growing up' stories of being introduced to music listening to The Chicago Symphony. The outstanding performances…
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Episode 28: Rocky Mount, NC's Version of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Stepheny retells a version of C.S. Lewis's novel, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. There is the evil white queen who placed a spell on the land of Narnia so that it is always winter and never Christmas. The Dwarf is one of the Witch's evil henchmen and right-hand man. Maugrim is a wolf and…
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Episode 27 -Robbing Peter to Pay Paul (Redistricting)
Welcome to Talking Main Street with Stepheny, a 5-minute podcast, about the preservation, restoration, and repurposing of Rocky Mount, NC's commercial and residential architecture; the revitalization of the Main Street historic district and beyond. Today Stepheny talks about the redistricting of…
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Episode 26- Twin County Hall of Fame -After the Lights Go Out
Talking Main Street with Stepheny is about a special event; the Twin County Hall of Fame will induct 9 new members into The Hall of Fame. The organization's purpose is to preserve the history of the Twin Counties and recognize and honor the citizens of Edgecombe and Nash Counties. Those who have...
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Episode 25: Stepheny Is Cheerleading for You
Stepheny thinks of herself as your keen observer, your researcher, your tour guide looking at the shotgun and bungalow housing in need of a new life. In her enthusiasm, she hopes to have you feel that way too. She believes in the downtown stakeholders and writes about them, so you come to know…
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Episode 24: RESPECT - Troy Davis Cuts the Ribbon of Opportunity: Living Above the Store
Like the children's game, "Telephone" everyone that attended the ribbon cutting last Friday evening for Davis Lofts will report on it differently according to their experience and memories. It was a grand event where friends, family, and prospective renters, came to pay their respect to Troy…
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Episode 23: What Does Charing Cross Road Have To Do With Main Street?
In this podcast, Talking Main Street with Stepheny, she tells a story about how visiting Charing Cross Road in London influenced her thoughts about the City Council, March 2022, election. The revitalization of Main Street Rocky Mount, or any Main Street in Eastern North Carolina, have in common…
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Episode 22: The Proposed City Land Grant
Welcome to the 5-Minute Podcast: Talking Main Street. Stepheny attended the meeting the other night on the proposed Community Land Trust. Land Trusts are community-run, nonprofit landholding organizations that aim to help low-income buyers obtain homes; a form of permanently affordable housing...
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Episode 21: The Moe Deloach Generation: Picking Up The Right End of The Stick
The energy behind today's 5-minute podcast started over lunch at Lillie May's relocated restaurant on Washington St off Main Street. Moe Deloach sat down next to Stepheny on another bar stool. Upon reflection of their conversation, Stepheny has added to the X generation and the others, a new...
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Episode 20- The Railroad Detective, Fred Holdsworth, the Rocky Mount Train Families, and a Question
Listening to this 5-minute Podcast, Talking Main Street with Stepheny, she asks the question, "Who Stands to Gain?" Against the background of the railroad that helped Rocky Mount grow and prosper, she talks about the families in the historic districts, Villa Place and Edgemont. She begins with…
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Episode 19: Adding Another August to Our Memories
In this 5-minute podcast, Talking Main Street With Stepheny, on the last day of August, she looks at the Withdrawal from Afhganastan through the lens of past summer memories while growing up. She asks the age old question, "Where did the summer go?" She wants to know if your memories surfaced out...
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Episode 18: Rose Street is on Fire - The Susan Cole Home Deserves the Cover of a Preservation Magazine
This 5-minute podcast, Talking Main Street with Stepheny is all about Rose Street and the preservation and restoration that is taking place in bungalows down the street. There the magnificent Victorian home belonging to Susan Cole deserves the cover of a preservation magazine. Research states…
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Episode 17: We Will Have Only Ourselves to Blame
This episode is a result of Stepheny watching hours of the Afghanistan news. Insights about accountability, how history judges the leadership of today, the significance of betrayal, and the power of leadership that corrupts. Listen to this 5-minute podcast framing Stepheny's point of view...
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Episode 16: Let's All Go Out and Make Some Ripples
In this new 5-minute Episode of Talking Main Street, Stepheny tells us that she'd hoped to revisit some of the summers of her youth by walking barefoot on the wet morning lawn and sitting on a beach covered in suntan oil getting the perfect tan. What happened that those things didn't happen? What...
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Episode: #15: It Is Time For a Change
In this 5-minute podcast, Stepheny announces that she is the new Campaign Manager, Blogger, and Podcaster for the upcoming election March 8, '22 for four available City Council Seats. She has experience, a cause, and a rallying cry, IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE. In this episode she sets the stage for...
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Episode #14: Listening to Armand Gamache and the Choices We All Must Make
Once again Stepheny's reading life influences her approach to the 5-minute podcast, Talking Main Street with Stepheny. She suggests an independent watch dog committee over the $1.4 million Hud grant coming Rocky Mount's way. She begins with a conversation in a mystery novel about making choices....
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Episode 13: If only Planting a Tree Were Enough
Stepheny tells another story while Talking Main Street today. In part, this episode is about a childhood book she searched for and found in a bookstore in Salem, OR. The story is applicable considering the grant money from HUD that has been given to Rocky Mount's Main Street and surrounding...
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Episode 12: The Bungalows of Rocky Mount - Another Architectural Asset That Needs Advocates
I was born in Chicago, but grew up in Evanston, IL Part of who I am and the story telling I bring to these podcasts involve sitting in the back seat of my parent’s car looking out the windows at the ‘city of neighborhoods, at the architecture along the outer drive and growing up with Evanston’s...
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Episode 11: Celebrating the 4th of July With Patriotic Hearts
In this 5-minute episode, Stepheny talks about memories of the 4th of July that must not br erased. Times when we sat on the curb waving our American flags watching the parade go by. When we decorated our bikes with red, white and blue crape paper ribbon. Today, there are people trying to cancel...
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Episode 10 - $1.4 million - Grant Money From HUD
In this 5-minute episode, Stepheny is 'over the moon' as she says, about Grant Money from HUD that is coming to Rocky Mount, NC. The money is designed exclusively to create affordable housing for low-income households.These grants are used to build, purchase and/or rehabilitate affordable housing...
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Episode 9: "Every Brick Wants To Be Something"
In this 5-minute podcast, Talking Main Street With Stepheny, she encourages you to place your hand on a brick wall in remembrance of the craftsman, architects and long lasting results brought forth and stands before you. With some storytelling woven in for good measure, learn something new today...
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Episode #8 "I Want To Save The Old Houses Too."
In this 5-minute Podcast, Talking Main Street With Stepheny, she weaves another story into the theme of this episode about Preservation. Her point of view on the subject always includes a bit of nostalgia that she feels is significant to the rhyme and reason of preservation.
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Episode 7 - Playing The American Game at Stith Talbert Park
Talking Main Street with Stepheny in this episode takes you into Ward 1 where the Stith Talbert Park is located. Here is an iconic baseball setting with its manicured fields. It is a setting meant for families, for children, and dogs on leashes as the neighborhood gathers to support their youth....
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Episode 6: Learning the Language of Mainstreet
Stepheny talks about the economic driver having people living downtown bring;.a vitality that doesn't end at 5:00PM. It is the decision making that must ensure economic stability, saving the edges around Main Street for future growth and above all else the question must be asked, "Is this putting...
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Episode 5: Saying 'Yes' to Rocky Mount Every day
In this episode Stepheny tells more stories in support of the revitalization of Rocky Mount. As a young girl she was taken to a performance of Peter Pan at the Schubert Theater in Chicago. Peter comes to the front of the stage and begs the audience to clap in order to save Tinker Bell life. Enjoy...
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Episode 4: What Do You Do With A Problem?
Revitalization of Main Streets come with problems. In Rocky Mount we are blessed with those I refer to as Repairers of the Breach. Great young people placing their flag downtown, opening new businesses, saving the commercial architecture that is as fine as any in Eastern North Carolina....
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Episode #3 - Main Street Revitalization Leads To Successful Results
5 minute Episode: Change is on Stepheny's mind today - two sides of a coin -
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Episode #2- Drawing Large Circles
In this 5-minute audio podcast, Stepheny talks about drawing circles large enough to include everyone. She tells several stories of what she would have missed if living in a small circle. Main Street is large enough to hold everyone.
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Talking Main Street With Stepheny - Episode 1
Episode 1 is an introduction to Stepheny's new podcast, Talking Main Street. In this episode, she tells why she can be found these days, on Main Street, Rocky Mount, NC. This episode tells you about Stepheny the architect and journalist. She mentions Studs Terkel, the Chicago Tribune columnist…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Enjoy 5-minute episodes with Stepheny Houghtlin who brings her storytelling style to Main Street. The backdrop for this podcast series is preservation, restoration and repurposing that saves commercial and residential architecture. It is about honoring the history, people, and sense of place that is singularly unique to every Main Street. With a bit of straight talk, nostalgia, and reminiscing, Stepheny is waiting for you on her downtown Rocky Mount, NC bench.
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Stepheny Houghtlin
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Enjoy 5-minute episodes with Stepheny Houghtlin who brings her storytelling style to Main Street. The backdrop for this podcast series is preservation, restoration and repurposing that saves commercial and residential architecture. It is about honoring the history, people, and sense of place that...
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