11th Hour Radio
Co-hosts Kristina Stykos & Emily Howe debrief the week with humorous banter relating to the ups and downs of being artist-types trying to make ends meet in rural Vermont. Each episode includes interludes of homegrown music from Kristina and friends. Based on their live radio show broadcast Fridays at 11 a.m. on Royalton Community Radio, WFVR-LP, South Royalton, Vermont.

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including Emily’s dream to record an album of ABBA covers, the Howe Family Christmas gathering, twerking at the nursing home, a pocket history of clogging, who made Santa [a futile discussion], Myra’s olive oil purchase at TJ Max, Emily’s improved ginger bread house-making & sobering pie contest defeat, a recollection and confession of terror concerning the Nutcracker’s five-headed mouse king, Kristina recitation of a table grace about moles & hedgehogs, an honest discussion about Hansel and Gretel, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Patrick Ross [Soldier’s Joy]; Bow Thayer [Born to Be]; Kristina Stykos [Valleys All of Blue].

Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live  streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_7.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 3:26pm EDT

December 20, 2013

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos enjoy a brief, impromptu visit from sugarmaker Mark McKee from Vershire who talks about his new non-profit and future plans to broadcast "Live from the Sugarhouse" T.V. and his mission to show how climate change is affecting Vermont; after Mark leaves, the discussion continues with topics including Emily's mysterious 1/2 hour disappearance from the studio, strange disco interludes from the all night playlist, what's been up at Pepperbox Studio this week & the intricacies of recording acoustic guitars, a horrific ex-husband attack on all of Emily's internet accounts, what's up with the Holiday spirit this year & the weather, a cute video gone awry, the joys of roof shoveling, an ill-fated birthday party at the end of a dead end road in Vershire, Emily getting chewed out by an authority figure, so much more! 

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Martha Seyler and Robert Resnik [Baby Rose; Blue Moon of Kentucky; Your Cheatin' Heart]

Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live  streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_6.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 1:17pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including wool knickers, the kissing balls for sale on Route 110, inappropriate giggling & squirming at the Royalton Radio fundraiser, restless leg syndrome, garbage bags in the road, the “cool” towns of Vermont, deer season’s cramping of Kristina’s hiking urge, a sewing machine injury, Kristina’s cyber birthday vs. the real one, unbridled passion and Carhartts, dresses as tools of the oppressor, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Highwoods Stringband [More Pretty Girls Than One]; Bow Thayer and the Perfect Train Wreck [Noreaster Snow]; Brian Clark [Wishes].

Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live  streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_5.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 4:30pm EDT

December 6, 2013

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including a fascinating excursion to the Christmas tree farm and the tree shaking machine, Kristina's trip to Rite Aid and consequent metaphysical meditation on crappy Chinese-made Christmas junk, a former English major's confession concerning detective novels, why Emily stopped doing landscape photography, Patrick Ross calls in to tell of a chance meeting with Emily's father at deer camp in the forest, home taxidermy, a misplaced car registration, an instructive tale of killing time at the local diner, a discussion of the pros & cons for going back to finish your degree in which Kristina reveals a bad attitude and several gross over-generalizations about both music and college and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Doug Perkins [Jill’s Waltz], Robert Resnik’s [Mad Tom], Kristina Stykos [Wing and a Prayer].

 Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live  streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_4.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:16pm EDT

November 29, 2013

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including Kristina’s analysis of who the slowest drivers really are, a comparative exploration on how to organize colored pencils, Emily’s bag lady fashion sense and its applicability to winter wear, shopping for lettuce on Black Friday, Scandinavian mythological creatures,  Emily’s visit to an epic-bad-motel-room and a mosquito themed Bed and Breakfast, how to tell when animals are annoyed, Holiday cheer, grocery shopping with kids, hanging canoes, negative family trends in dinnertime conversation, and so much more!

 Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Doug Perkins [Jill’s Waltz], Julie James [Something Kind], Keith Murphy [The Stormy Scenes of Winter].

Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live or midnight Tuesdays EST for the rebroadcast, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_3.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 1:27pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including a deer hunting marvel of the over-90 set, dragging kids to museums, Kristina's challenge to the idea that exercise is productive, lunch lady hair-nets, frog shaped humidifiers, Vermonter mind-set a la “don’t get too big for your britches”, Emily's worries about being sued by the Salvation Army, their first live call on-the-air from Jim Abbott who talks about school buses, more talk about mini-horses Dexter and Jelly, the “free-range” bunny at Tunbridge Elementary, Emily's gets run-in with the authorities over licking her knuckes, Kristina makes bookmarks and so much more!

 Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Lizzy Mandell [Isaac], Robert Resnik [Whistle Medley], Miranda Moody Miller [Ghost Riders in the Sky].

Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live or midnight Tuesdays EST for the rebroadcast, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_11-22-13.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 4:48pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including improv. theater, head gaskets, deer-related car accidents, carhartts & male objectification, wood stacking complexities, brownies shaped like the United States, a walk in Victory Bog, magic tricks using live rabbits, a visit to the local nursery, Happy Birthday to Rusty, Emily’s first day teaching ballroom dancing classes to high school seniors, the pilgrims’ tall hats: an analysis and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Mark Struhsacker [Blind Eye], Bow Thayer [Born to Be], Pete Sutherland [Will the Circle Be Unbroken]. 

Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live or midnight Tuesdays EST for the rebroadcast, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_1.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:28pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including flying dreams, a bad night’s sleep, who owns that building in S. Tunbridge, Emily as sub for the PE teacher almost annihilates the first grade class, girl scouts & flag folding, an epic gardening week, how to use your wood stove to improve your health, Emily’s aversion to washing the dishes, bowling with bumpers, Kristina’s mission to save the recording industry, stuffed animals we have know, jealous cats and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Scott Campbell [Nancy in the Mud Bog], Bow Thayer [Got My Attention], Susannah Blachly [It All Goes By].

Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live or midnight Tuesdays EST for the rebroadcast, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 6:10pm EDT

Host Kristina on her own, gives the morning traffic report from Vt. Route 110, talks about her trip to New York City and an ill-fated meeting with a celebrity producer there, details the deeper meaning of moving furniture, making mud pies, and fashioning careers from things we loved to do as children.

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Don’t Call Betty [Extreme Situations], Kristina Stykos [Another Place, Another Time], Abrial [Just Need You], Bow Thayer & the Holy Plow [Suicide Kings], Mark Struhsacker [Little Mountain Road], Julie James [Down to the Bottom Side], Brian Clark [a.m.], Robert Resnik [Come a Long Way], Doug Perkins [Devil’s Dream].

Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live or at 11 pm EST, for the rebroadcast, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_24.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 8:02pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including Emily‘s opinions on wearing hunter orange and a possible “spear season” for Vermont, Kristina’s subsequent idea for a “petting season”, Teddy Roosevelt’s camping trip prior to taking the presidency, a whole CD of wedding photos still stuck in Emily’s computer to her client’s dismay, a dismally rainy apple fest, a trip to WDEV radio in Waterbury VT, Nutty Bars and coffee [please deliver immediately to the station], issues at the town dump, why the show is changing to Fridays and so much more!

 Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Bow Thayer [Cowgirl Madonna], Doug Perkins [Snowflake Jig], Wagtail [Cold Quarters].

 Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live or 11 pm EST, for the rebroadcast, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_22.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 9:03pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including Emily’s problem with her glasses, a trip to the Museum of Everyday Living’s Pencil Exhibit, the mystique of Barnard, Vermont as experienced by Kristina, not feeling part of your rural town, Emily’s food issues & hatred of coffee, Tittles, “having fun” as a distant life goal, cluster fly attack, watching your kids play sports: pros and cons, definition of scummer, town-turnover as a concept, Emily shoots foliage and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Will Patton [Bebop in Pastel], Robert Resnik [Whistle Medely], Spencer Lewis [Change Is]

 Tune in Mondays at 11 am or 11 pm EST to hear this show live, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_9-30-13.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 2:26pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including a paper bag full of apples, Emily’s kids' foot and mouth disease, stealing hydrangeas from the cemetery, hog feed buckets as planters, the problem of being a Red Sox fan while visiting New York State, Kristina’s melt-down in the catfood isle, digressions, Emily’s favorite babysitter, gender differences around pulling up sumac tree roots, the sad smell of the leaves falling and so much more! 

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Pete Sutherland [Tesfaye], Bow Thayer and the Perfect Trainwreck [Steady Diet of Worms], Doug Perkins [Three Little Jigs] 

 Tune in Mondays at 11 am or 11 pm EST to hear this show live, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_9-23-13.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 8:55pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including grocery shopping in rural Vermont, just how bad is the birthday song?, Emily’s Facebook post about the Tunbridge Fair, breast-feeding dangers in airports, Eli’s model junk yard wins top prize, wild times at the Fair including bad weather, squishing worms in cider, pigs featured this year, dust mop complications, problems at Trader Joes, Emily legs relationship to each other exposed, chip breath, a year of “no” possibilities, apple fest in Strafford VT, google translates (badly) Kristina’s CD review, and so much more!

 Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Patrick Ross [The Hornless Cow], Highwood String Band [You Ain’t Talking to Me], Will Ackerman [Unconditional]

Tune in Mondays at 11 am or 11 pm EST to hear this show live, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_9-16-13.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 2:21pm EDT

Host Kristina Stykos on her own, discussing: traffic report on Route 110, fun trip to the annual toxic waste pickup, Vermont Yankee nuclear plant closing announced, wind turbine fantasy design, looking across the valley for Ronni and Jean’s house, disappearing into the woods, “benign neglect”, Kristina’s naïve former voice, going to the The Moth at the Flynn theater, complicated fairy tales, the smell of leaf piles, excerpt from essay by Samuel Ogden in 1968 VT life magazine, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians Bow Thayer, [Karla Dupree], Michael Oakland, [The Grand Design], Kristina Stykos, [I Can’t Go Home], Kristina Stykos, [Wing and a Prayer]

Tune in Mondays at 11 am or 11 pm EST to hear this show live, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_9-9-13.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 11:00am EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including summer's end, school lunches, a wedding photography near-disaster, the scarcity of almond croissants in Vermont, New Hampshire's biggest rock and recent castle closings, mini-horse ownership, child snoring, how to gently drag children out of bed by the leg, hoop skirts and door jams, a trip to Moscow, still nights, training a dog to fetch a lobster, why we cook so much pasta, beach towels and gardening, the noise metal lockers make, corrections creations, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians Michele Choiniere [Two Peas], Spencer Lewis [September One], Robert Resnik [Mad Tom], Don't Call Betty [Tell Me]

Tune in Mondays at 11 am or 11 pm EST to hear this show live, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_9-2-13.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 5:25pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including peace symbol earring hand-me-downs, Emily’s Halloween costumes “through the years”, hippies vs. hipsters, Emily finds a Fischer Price gold mine, Myra’s driveway, making scarecrows for the fair, Emily’s photography exhibit at the Tunbridge library, reading the Gazeteer vs. GPS, Emily takes the kids to Clark’s Trading Post, adventures moving a recliner, Why God made Duct tape, Kristina finds the roll of Bitchathane, Ballpoint pen ventilation, the Wellspring School closing, Emily’s mom’s weird obsessions, cousin Steve’s gig with Kate Taylor, other cousins, tricks for driving by cement barriers and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians Abrial, [River Wide], Chris Kleeman, [Shake It], The Cousins Project [Stealing Away]

Tune in Mondays at 11 am or 11 pm EST to hear this show live, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_8-26-13.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 11:00am EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including weird positions while sleeping, why rehearsals can be better than performances, make-you-own-popsicle tips, going to the race track with boys, exercise and entrepreneurial yoga calendars, applesauce, mat cutters, stereo-types about vegetarians, Shelburne Farms wedding gig, taking photos as a bad habit and potential crime, Emily getting yelled at, buying underwear at the hardware store, setting Darn Tough socks on fire and so much more!

Music from Vermont musicians: Bow Thayer [Swimming Hole], Don’t Call Betty [Friend Like You], Erin McDermott [Louise], Julie James [Something Kind]

Tune in Mondays at 11 am or 11 pm EST to hear this show live, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_8-19-13.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 11:00am EDT

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