This Week's Letter
Dear KPFT:
I haven't contributed for a while. I've been out of touch with radio and a lot of other things...
I've started listening again recently. Your radio station is good for my mental health (no Lone Star commercials, for examples). I'm not sure how you do it, but you make me feel as if I'm a part of what you're doing.
Keep it up,
C<REDACTED>
Editor's Note
Dated March, 1977
The fall fund drive at KPFT has reached just over 1/3 of its goal.
This week's letter expresses two common sentiments; that listeners sometimes step away from radio and that when they find their way back to KPFT the community is there waiting for them.
In one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States it is easy to feel like you don't have a community nearby. KPFT can help create that sense of community if you take the time to find something on the dial that makes you feel at home. In support of that this site has published a one-stop-shop for everything on the KPFT schedule: New Schedule Promos has brief samples and descriptions of almost all of the station's current roster.
Have a listen and find your community radio.
And, if you are able, please visit https://kpft.org/ to donate on the web, https://cash.app/$KPFTHouston via Cashapp, or Paypal at https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YZG5MU43UZU3C.
As always, comments, corrections, and additions are welcome. Contact Us
About The Mailbag
The letters posted here were among the boxes recovered from 419 Lovett Blvd, as documented in The Mighty 90 Project post and are reminiscent of the work done at Found Magazine and PostSecret. The vast majority of letters date from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, although some newer materials of more recent vintage have been supplied by programmers.
Historically KPFT would, on occasion, read letters on the air and in some cases the letter writers explicitly ask NOT to be so presented. Attitudes towards consent and personal privacy are very different in 2022 as compared to the time these letters were mailed and no one then writing could have imagined the modern internet, much less this type of public sharing.
Accordingly, whenever a letter has personally identifiable information from a correspondent it will be lightly redacted to protect the privacy of the original author.
