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Dartmouth's Morton Farm stands as a model for horse farms throughout the country. Director Sally Batton says its goal is to be as accessible to the local community near the farm as it is to the students on the Dartmouth Riding Team.

Guitar maker Tim White has been pushing the boundaries of guitar design by creating an inflatable version that can rock or be plucked with the best of them. The Museum of Fine Arts owns one of his Chrysalis Guitars and considers his work groundbreaking.

Sebastian Lockwood is a one-man-band performer, poet, and writer who specializes in retelling classic tales - the Odyssey, the Epic of Gilgamesh, The Monkey, and other stories. His success lies partly in his ability to infuse contemporary sensibilities into ancient and sometimes forgotten tales.

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.

Perry Dowst is one half of the design team that created Jetboil, a high-efficiency cooking system that a growing number of casual and extreme campers use. Jetboil. John talks to Perry about the physics involved in successfully increasing heat transfer efficiency.