Wouldn’t you know it? Good Friday, the bleakest day on the Christian calendar, also marks my tenth anniversary on Facebook. This page was created on March 29, 2014, to promote my specialty shows and to keep contact with my listeners, after hosts were booted off the air at WWFM for the first time for financial reasons. So began a dark period during which most of the afternoons were filled with reruns of our specialty shows (with new ones airing at their regularly assigned times). At least I was still getting paid to generate new content. The rest of the day was spackled in with music from a streaming service in the Midwest, with no connection whatsoever to our community, bringing listeners fragments of larger works, plenty of vacuous, chatty commentary, and dumbed-down music history and background (observations I borrow from one our loyal supporters, who has since sadly passed away). But in this season of redemption and hope for the future, I won’t belabor the point. The local hosts were restored to their regular, live air shifts in 2016, and things returned, more or less, to normal, until COVID unhorsed us all.*

*Except management