“Like Folding a Fitted Sheet”
Location(s)
Town: Wilton
County: Franklin
Names of people involved:
Melodie Zale
Host intro read by Christian Buckler
Melodie Zale has run a bottle and can redemption business for 39 years in a small town experiencing job loss. She feels the ripple effects of state and corporate decisions on her life. This is a story of how she responds to uncertainty.
Artist Bio
Lynnea Domienik is a Chicago based radio producer and activist. Her work focuses on identity, class and labor issues and ways we can re-imagine the world. Her interest in these topics comes from working as a restaurant server and union organizer and majoring in American Studies at Smith College. Lynnea recently graduated from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies at the Maine College of Art & Design with a graduate certificate in Audio Storytelling.