New Documentary Honors Topsail Island Roller Rink Legend

Courtesy of Nicole Triche

Doris Jenkins has led customers in roller skating fun and games for over 50 years from her rink on Topsail Island, NC.

She is the locally famous subject of a new documentary premiering at 4 p.m. on Friday, April 7 as part of this year's Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

Host Frank Stasio talks with filmmaker and director Nicole Triche about the film, and its septuagenarian subject.

Jennifer Brookland

Jennifer Brookland is the American Homefront Project Veterans Reporting Fellow. She covers stories about the military and veterans as well as issues affecting the people and places of North Carolina.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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