This is my radio story which aired on NPR in 2024! It's about my 101-year-old friend, Pat Bartevian, who works in the antique shop next to my old college dormitory. A fellow Emerson College alum, Pat graduated with the class of 1944 and went on to Golden Age Hollywood, where she and her sister Priscilla performed as a hillbilly singing duo known as “The Hickory Sisters,” crossing paths with legends like Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra, and Marilyn Monroe. I did all the reporting, writing, editing, producing, scoring, and sound design.
After quietly working on this independent passion project for two years, my story was picked up by senior producers Steve Drummond and Lauren Migaki and sold to NPR. It means the world to me that Here and Now chose to air my story on Pat's 101st birthday and that Pat and I were able to sit together in her antique shop as the broadcast went live!
