Ann Venz at the organ at the Rabbit Hutch restaurant
(Ann Venz talks about the music at the Rabbit Hutch restaurant)
The first radio piece in our Place + Memory summer series aired Saturday, July 18, 2009. Missed it? Listen in at the Weekend Edition website.
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Our radio story on the Rabbit Hutch restaurant in Logan, AL — the first in the Place + Memory series of pieces for National Public Radio — airs this Saturday (July 18, 2009) on Weekend Edition.
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Tony and his wife were good friends of the Venz family when they were operating the farm and restaurant in Logan, AL. He found this card for us … quite a prize. Talking to strangers with microphones is not something he would normally do, Tony told us, but in support of the Venz’s he made an exception and invited us onto his porch swing (squeak, squeak ;-)). This is an unedited audio clip from that interview.
278 out of Cullman, county route ???? somewhere near Smith Lake–can’t really say how we got there, but we found the building that housed the Venz family restaurant, The Rabbit Hutch, which closed in the mid-ninties. It’s the subject of the first in our radio series, PLACE + MEMORY.
We’re experimenting with something new for us–uploading raw audio clips from the day’s interviews. Getting to talk with everyone is the best part of the road work (that and sampling tasty pies), and we want to share a taste with you.
This is an unedited clip from our first interview with Joe Sides. Joe’s a long-time customer of the Rabbit Hutch and friend of the Venz’s. Joe is talking about taking his friends out to Logan, AL.
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We’ve started work on the Place + Memory project for the Maker’s Quest 2.0 grant (woohoo!!).
Our first target is the Venz Rabbit Hutch Restaurant in Logan, Alabama. This was a family-owned/operated gem, which sadly closed in mid 1990s. Shea’s been talking about this place for years, and we’re finally doing a story about it. Yesterday we drove from NC to Alabama, ate some fine meals, stopped in South Pittsburg, TN to say hello, met Shea’s folks for dinner in Huntsville, and set up interviews for the weekend with members of the Venz family and several former customers.
At the end of a long day, a La Quinta hotel room had never looked so good.
We’re running around the state now, but as soon as we get to sit down again, we’ll upload more goodies.
More to come…
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