Tavern Tales (Rebroadcast)

Author Donna Ciocca has achieved one of life's impossibilities: she's written books that makes kids laugh out loud. Her most recent work, Tavern Tales tells the semi-autobiographical story of being raised by her strongminded grandmother who ran a tavern in Missouri. Donna will talk about writing humor and will clarify what's fact and what's fiction in her new book.

We close tonight's show with a song that takes place in a bar, but this particular story doesn't share the light-heartedness that characterizes many of Donna Ciocca's tavern tales. Ted Sink is a musician from Portsmouth. He joined us on the Front Porch back in February of last year, and we talked with him about his late-blooming musical career and about his own battles with alcohol abuse. We'll hear a bit of that interview and his song "One Last Time".