This is Rumbel Strip. I'm Erica Heilman. Before I start, I want to apologize for something I said in my last narration

when I introduced the, what class are you show. I said that I thought talking about politics was boring and it's not exactly what I meant.

I think what I mean is that I am tired of cyclical doom loop conversations about politics where we are working with a different set of facts.

I am tired of that and my hope is that this series gets underneath some of that and maybe gets at some of the precipitating gets it

some of the precipitating factors of where we are right now.

That's kind of what I meant, but I shouldn't have said boring

because Lord knows politics right now is not boring.

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that is East Hill Tree Farm. On to the second episode of what class are you, Isaac.

A lot of the time in the winter I'd leave my house and I'd walk.

Sometimes I'd go down by the lake and I'd sit at the lake and that's one place I found a lot of peace is sitting there but sometimes it'd be too cold, but I'd rather sit there in discomfort than sit at my home.

That's Isaac McDonald. He's talking about Lake Memphra Magog up in Newport, Vermont, which is actually mostly in Canada.

Newport is as far north as you get in Vermont.

It's a town with a beautiful lake and a really great store called the Pick and Shovel which sells everything.

It's also a town with a state prison and a lot of drugs and poverty.

I met Isaac at a Writers Group which meets once a week in town at Nevermore Bookstore. Isaac is 18. He loves to read and write and this

spring he's graduating from Lake Region High School. I asked if he would be

willing to talk with me about class and he was. Here's Isaac.

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