And if you're around Westport today, don't forget to stop by the annual antiques show benefitting our high school radio station, WWPT.
NOV. 27-28: The 27th Annual Westport Holiday Antiques Show will have 65 exhibitors of fine arts, prints, silver, glass, textiles, and American, English and European furniture. Bedford Middle School, 88 North Ave., Westport. Nov. 27, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Nov. 28, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $8. Call show manager Lillian Gilman at 222-2259.
(Usually the show's at Staples, but its still under construction)
Thanksgiving break always makes me think of WWPT anyway -- when we were at Staples, we used to do a Thanksgiving marathon where we would broadcast straight from Wednesday's half day of school until Sunday night, with pledge breaks between the songs to beg our family and friends for donations to the station (usually the station would only broadcast live from 3pm when school got out until 10 or 12 at night I think). It was one of the best highlights of the year -- and especially when you were an upper classman and got to snag the coveted graveyard shifts (not sure why I thought it was so cool then to get the midnight to 6am spot since definitely no one was listening at that hour, but it was exciting I guess to be up and on campus in the middle of the night. I even flew back early from Thanksgiving in Seattle one year so that I could make a late shift (and some of the guys who were on air at the time paged me in the airport on the way back which was pretty exciting at the time as well).
Mark was the GM of the station, I was news director (and had a blast doing election coverage for school board elections and the 1992 presidential primaries where we had Mr. Green and Darin doing color commentary in the studio while Stephanie and others were sent out into the field to interview people at each of the campaign HQs). Katy and I had a show Sunday mornings from 9-noon where we played pretty much anything we wanted and had a great time dancing around the studio. Brett had a show before any of the rest of us and I remember hanging out during his show - I guess the summer between freshman and sophomore year maybe? We were even all featured once on MTV (though poor Mark had food poisoning or something that day) talking about the station and feeling quite cool.
Posted by Emily at November 28, 2004 06:26 AM