Friday, March 15th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Captain Thron Riggs with his book ‘A History of Pilotage on the Columbia River Bar” at the CC Historical Society TNT @ the Fort George Lovell Room. Authors Kama O’Connor and Deb Vanasse with The Writer’s Guild of Astoria in honor…
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Michael McCusker remembers the birthday of Albert Einstein, born on this day in 1879. He also discusses Pi Day, March 14, and recounts the embarrassing history of women’s suffrage in the US.
Kirsten Norgaard joins Mac & Alana for an in-depth discussion about advocacy, growing up in Astoria, and becomes the first guest in our history that we had to “bleep”!
Finches
Forest Poets Event featuring Reba Owen, Jim Dott, Lauren Mallett, Logan Garner, and Dr. Robert Michael Pyle
Marianne Monson interviews Mike Stark
Friday, March 8th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Rita Smith, Denise Cox & Ann Erickson with Peninsula Players production of “Nunsense” at the River City Playhouse in Ilwaco, WA. Soprano Camila Parias & Hideki Yamaya on vihuela present “Songs of the Spanish Renaissance” at Peace First Lutheran Church in…
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Talk of Our Towns – March 07 2024
Donna Quinn interviews guest Elizabeth Hayes, the President of the ENCORE, about the classes their organization offers. These classes cover across a range of subjects in the interest of our elder community members. They discuss the importance and benefits of providing a place for seniors to learn and grow together.
In honor of Women’s History Month, Michael McCusker shares an essay from the World Women’s Congress, entitled, “Women Are The Mothers of Earth.”
Teresa interviews Kayla Fermin from Lewis & Clark National Park.
Broken stoves, landfills of spinach, citrus
Living with Trees
Mac & Alana welcome Floyd Holcom to the big show. Highlights include Pier 39, Robert Gray School, snapshot journalism, and Mac does his impression of FDR.
Friday, March 1st at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Band member Jack ‘Yankl’ Falk on Trio Deloria concert of Klezmer, Romanian & Hungarian fiddle virtuosity and more at the Larsen Center in Astoria. Tolovana Arts Colony Program Coordinator Andrew Tonry on the fourth annual Cannon Beach Comedy Festival. Astoria H.S. production of…
Michael McCusker takes us out of Black History Month and seques into Herstory Month on a Leap Day.
Bird Count Results
“Frederick and Anna Murray Douglass”: Though Frederick Douglass grew up not knowing his exact birthdate and even uncertain just how old he was, historians presume he was born in February 1818. Douglass wrote, “I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday.” His master “deemed all such inquiries…
Mac bores Alana and special guest Fred Pynes with stories of a poker game. Far more interesting, is Fred talking about the Astoria Column
Friday, February 23 at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Anna Kaufman, NCCWP Astoria Coordinator with Poet Jennifer Nightingale, on the North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection Forest Poets Event in the Lovell Taproom at the Fort George in Astoria. From the 27th annual Fisher Poets Gathering: Nels Ure (Commercial Fishermen…
Michael McCusker talks about a recent ranking of US presidents, an assessment which rated Donald Trump at the very bottom.
Batch cooking and Linda’s delicious recipe mistake.
Hibernating Animals
Part two of the Clatsop Community’s College’s Historic Preservation and restoration program students. This month’s host, Astronemis Ray, continues her conversation with a current second year student, Kristi Jenkins-Smith. And we get introduced to first year student Marcus Lucero as they discuss some of the workshops, classes, and various careers path in preservation & restoration.
Mac & Alana talk about Japanese in Clatsop County and their removal during World War II. Plus, Mac complains about prizes in Cracker Jack’s. Alana judges.
Friday, February 16 at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Founder Virginia Carlson and Candy Nichols with the 2024 Sunday Afternoon Live season at the Historic Raymond Theatre in WA. Bette Lu Krause, Rita Smith & Christl Mack of The Oyster Crackers in concert at KALA in Astoria. Adria Badagnani on…
The Great Backyard Bird Count
A conversation with Peter Thomas Ferrero III about discipline, tough love, and gill netting.
Roger Rocka speaks with Ed Johnson
Host Sean Davis speaks with author Kase Johnstun.