Evie Rodenbaugh
Sangamon Experience Graduate AssistantEvie Rodenbaugh served as a graduate assistant for the Sangamon Experience in 2024-2025 researching, curating, and producing Radio That Listens to You: 50 Years of NPR Illinois.
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What was it like when public radio first hit the airwaves in Springfield? In the second installment of Radio Rewind, host Evie Rodenbaugh takes listeners back to the voices of 1975. -
UIS grad assistant Evie Rodenbaugh expands on her research into a half century of 91.9 FM in Springfield. In this first episode, she goes back to the beginning. Lincoln Library exhibit, now-May.
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The exhibit opened Sept. 18, 2025, at the Lincoln Library, Springfield's Public Library (directions/hours) as "Radio that Listens to You: 50 Years of NPR Illinois." It will run through May 2026. Michel Martin, NPR Morning Edition co-host, helped open the exhibit along with current and former staff, volunteers, students, donors, and friends (see slide show).
