"I grew up in Senath (Judy Toombs). My earliest memory of KBOA is watching my mother reach up to the radio on top of the refrigerator, turn the dial then say, "It’s time for Hometown News." Later, in the third grade, my Brownie troop went to the studio on a field trip, and there I was thrilled to watch someone behind a glass window fiddle with some strange-looking machines and then make the sounds the song "Purple People Eater" come into the room where I sat (an early cultural experience that contributed no doubt to my existing love for the arts)."

Judy Kidd
Juneau, Alaska
October 18, 1997