REBROADCAST: Holiday Special!

Here, in the darkest, dourest, deadliest, bleakest doldrums of
Winter 2020, I don't feel like making any more podcasts, because
what's the point, but I thought I'd slip last year's holiday
extravaganza episode back into your feeds, in which we exploded
the usual format of the show to bring you a star-studded,
Yuletide spectacular that harkens back to the homespun, holiday
podcast specials of days gone by! With special guest appearances
by: Decemberists guitarist Chris Funk, fine arts photographer
Meghann Riepenhoff and friends, TV producer Jesse Ziebart,
Grammy-nominee Korum Bischoff, and restauranteur and businessman
Harvey Wolff from Proper Fish. Come along on a wintry ramble
around the island, chasing away a case of the holiday
blahs! 


The WALKING Podcast Holiday Special is brought to you by Dresden
Stollen Bakers. When Irmgard Maron came to the United States in
1928, she brought a cherished recipe for stollen from her native
Dresden. She began baking for friends and relatives during the
holidays and, at their urging, started a small bakery business.
Ninety-one years later, three generations of her descendants
still gather to bake this deliciously rich holiday bread once a
year and sell it to families like yours around the world.


It has been a comfort these last couple of months, during the
pandemic, to pass by the Maron homestead on my walks and see the
silhouettes of various Marons, all masked up, still busily
packing stollen in the outbuilding to ship around the world,
their long tradition undeterred and unstoppable.