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Author Bernice L McFadden explains how she used her own family tree as inspiration for the book, Nowhere is a Place, a novel about slavery and racial inequality that spans six generations of American history

We talk with Ross Kelbaugh about Maryland’s Civil War Photographs: The Sesquicentennial Collection, the largest collection of Maryland-related Civil War photographs ever published.

Lyricist Adam Trice and resonator guitar man John Decker are joined by poet Steve Matanle on the new Red Sammy release, These Poems with Kerosene.  The trio talks with Aaron Henkin about its penchant for barroom existentialism.

This week (July 15 & 16, 2011) on The Signal…

Baltimore handyman John Decker once accepted a guitar as payment for some work he did on a house.  It wouldn’t be until years later that he really understood why he was meant to have that musical instrument.  We hear John’s story, we meet his new musical collaborator, Red Sammy, and we listen to him play his vintage 1931 National Resonator Guitar.