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ArchivesFounding MothersBy Laura Knoy on Wednesday, March 23, 2005.NPR news analyst Cokie Roberts book examines the role of the women who also played a large part in the founding of our country…. Martha Washington, Abagail Adams, Eliza Pinckney all women who had their hand in the Revolutionary war and the forming of our the politics of our early republic. They are mostly wives, sisters, mother of key men of Founding fathers but their influence was essential and until now, unknown. Laura's guest is Cokie Roberts. listen:
 A Veritable SmorgasbordBy John Walters on Wednesday, March 23, 2005.A round-up of some of our favorite interviews! We hear excerpts from past Front Porch conversations including grammy-award winner Will Ackerman who talks about how he met George Winston, and how they came to record Winston's best-selling album "Autumn" on a shoestring. Betty Lauer, the author of Hiding in Plain Sight masqueraded as a Polish Catholic when she was a teenager; she recalls what the constant danger of living in Nazi-occupied Poland was like. Also from the archives, John Walters' interview with Bill Whyte, the former carpenter turn businessman, and inventor of Badger Balm, designed to soothe even the driest skin. And finally, the man who golfed his way across Mongolia, Andre Tolme who is effusive about Mongolian hospitality, and describes some of the unusual foods he ate during his unusual journey. listen:
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