Poems for Company – January 22nd, 2024

“Imagining Our Parents Before We Were Born”: What do you know about the life of either of your parents before you were born?  The three contemporary poems featured on this episode suggest the poets knew just a few facts, perhaps derived from family lore.  Then they speculated or fabricated the rest to achieve some coherent…

The Preservationists – January 16th, 2024

In this debut episode of The Preservationists, host Astronemis Ray speaks with students, past and present, from the Clatsop Community College Historic Preservation & Restoration program, about classes, workshops, and careers in historic preservation. Episode one features a graduate of the Historic Preservation Program, Joshua Gifford & Kristi Jenkins-Smith a current student of the program….

ARTS – Live & Local! January 12th, 2024

Friday, January 12th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Painter & Printmaker Nicholas Knapton with “Conversations with Gavi”, an exhibition of diverse works created in Astoria & Berlin; at Imogen Gallery in Astoria. Lower Columbia Preservation Society’s VP Astronemis Ray and AA Jaime Lump with an update on LCPS, including…

Talk of Our Towns – January 04 2024

Donna Quinn interviews two psychotherapists about the concept of conscious aging and how it can help respond to the challenges of getting older. Longtime friends Katelyn Staecker and Jerry Rousseau exchange their ideas about the results of clinical studies, the experience of aging and how community affects the lives of our elders. This special version…

ARTS – Live & Local! December 29th, 2023

Friday, Dec 29th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: CCC Historic Preservation Program Founder and Instructor John Goodenberger with Ales & Ideas lecture “Searching for Astoria’s Pauper Cemetery” at Fort George Lovell Showroom. Indigo Artist and Weaver Iris Sullivan Daire and son M. Tully Daire, currently a Student and Weaver…