The Mountain Life

The Edge of Summer with Wade Rouse (Viola Shipman)

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Author Wade Rouse joins the show to tell the poignant story of being a queer kid in a conservative community in the Ozarks and his relationship with his father. Then about his new book, a fiction published with the pen name of his grandmother, Viola Shipman, The Edge Of Summer.

Sarah Ervin

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Pete Stoughton

Pete Stoughton is the Brand Relations Manager at Trail and Ultra Running as well as the Director of Programs at CCPC. Basically, he is the behind the scenes guy at TAUR. When he's not getting his TAUR on, or running 2-3,000 miles a year. His own personal running ranges from 100 mile races to track workouts. Nevertheless, a scenic run with friends is were he finds inner peace.

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