The Golden Age of Radio marked the beginning of a new era when people could experience history as it happened, instead of waiting the next day for the newspaper. One of the reasons World War II casts such a large shadow is because radio could bring the war into peoples’ homes.
Bob Jackson probably knows this better than anyone. He learned to fix radios during the war, and 50 years later he is still fixing them at his home in Traverse City. Chris Haddlesey visited and prepared this report.
Chris Haddlesey was part of our radio storytelling workshop this summer at Interlochen’sCollege of Creative Arts.