beyond the valley

so my friend got one of these wonderful gadgets that allows you to surf thousands of radio channels from across the world.

here is a quick video of a recent search for ohio content.

Oddly, even though there were 173 stations for Poland, only 10 instantly appeared for the Buckeye State.

so switching from a favorite station from Košice (featured in today's nytimes), this was found:



our signal stretches out far beyond the Mahoning Valley.

(a point driven home, given yesterday's article about Youngstown and its revitalization efforts in the Australian Financial Review found here)

speaking of beyond the valley . . .



incense and peppermints.