Folk Music DNA: The Seeger Family, Antioch College and WYSO – WYSO

Folk Music DNA: The Seeger Family, Antioch College and WYSO
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WYSO has aired lots of different kinds of music in its 56-year history, but folk music, the soundtrack of the 1960s, is particularly well represented in our audio archives. Students and volunteers recorded many folk concerts and festivals at Antioch

Activate Now – The March Concludes…And Yet It Continues – WYSO

Activate Now – The March Concludes…And Yet It Continues
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Walter Anderson, Antioch College's first African American professor, sang We Shall Overcome, the anthem of the civil rights movement. Local ministers offered solemn prayers, and the editor of the Yellow Springs News, Kieth Howard, introduced the

Antioch College Welcomes Students First Day Of Class After Closure

The first day of class begins Tuesday at Antioch College. After closing in 2008 because of financial problems, it opens to thirty five new students called the Horace Mann Fellows. This inaugural class gets free tuition, and plays an important role building on the traditions of Antioch. But as Emily McCord reports, the students also feel a responsibility to resurrect the school for a community eager to see a thriving college again.