ADRIAN — While listening to the podcast “ This American Life ” on his way to work in August, Adrian College Spanish professor Nick Kaplan found himself captivated during a piece called “Letters! Actual Letters!” when the narrator in the episode titled, “Dear Alice,” surprised him by mentioning they had attended Adrian College.
The podcast, published Aug. 16 , is about snail-mail, letters that are sent through the postal service. There are multiple parts to the 59-minute podcast, which Kaplan suggests you hear out, but if time doesn’t allow the relevant part about Adrian College in “Dear Alice,” written by Nicole Piasecki and produced by Chris Benderev, begins around 11:45.
Piasecki graduated with cum laude honors from Adrian College in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English-writing and a minor in Spanish.
The Act One description of “Dear Alice” says, “Writing a letter decades after an event that shaped her life was the only way that Nicole Piasecki could make some sense of it.”