StoryCorps: Bonnie & Michael Rademacher

Kate Sweeney | WABE

June 25th, 2013

StoryCorps

Bonnie and Michael Rademacher are recent transplants to metro Atlanta.

It’s pretty different from where Bonnie got her start, as one of seven children tending a South Dakota family farm in 1950s and ‘60s.

At StoryCorps, Bonnie told her husband about one of the scariest times they experienced.

Broadcast version of story that aired Tuesday, June 25, 2013

StoryCorps Atlanta comes to you in partnership with the Atlanta History Center, host of the Atlanta StoryCorps Studio.

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