Memorial Day special, May 2021.
Episode
Mac & Alana spend some time talking about the Stonewall Riots, this week in local history, and Bruno the Seaside Lifeguard Dog. Plus, Mac gets distracted by the word “produce.”
Killdeer.
Linda and Merianne celebrate summer produce and share cookbook pet peeves.
It’s prom time! Steve Wright, Seaside City Councilor and President of the Seaside History Museum, is on hand to talk about the museum and the 100th anniversary of the Prom.
Friday, June 18th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Liberty Theatre Executive director Jennifer Crockett on the North Coast Performing Arts Alliance, 45th Parallel Universe Orchestra and A Block Party. Sarah Buckmaster, Astoria Visual Arts & Astoria Writers Guild newest Writer in Residence, on her work in progress,…
On the next Story Told, Michael McCusker presents a program balancing between the Magna Carta and Juneteenth, featuring, from Kenneth C. Davis “Juneteenth Is for Everyone.”
A biography of Grafton Tyler Brown – the first Black professional painter in the Pacific Northwest.
Over a year since the lock-downs, how has Covid changed the way we interact, do business. How has it changed our outlook. Did you gain a new skill, form a new habit?
Host Teresa Retzlaff talks about when things go wrong, and how to troubleshoot frustrating setbacks in the farms and gardens of the lower Columbia Pacific region.
Summer Solstice.
He is Oregon’s all-time winningest high school baseball coach. He has five state titles and seven state championship game appearances. 18 league titles, including 5-for-5 with Astoria High School. In 30 years of coaching, his teams never missed the playoffs. He took the Astoria baseball team to the state championship game four times and won…
Get ready for non-stop action. . .Clatsop Community Action! Mac and Alana learn all about the organization when they chat with Director Viviana Matthews. Plus, guess who cares about the anniversary of the Gong Show – Mac or Alana?
A conversation about joy and gratitude.
Friday, June 11th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Chairperson and Vocalist Dida DeAngelis tells all about Lower Columbia Q Center’s celebration of Astoria PRIDE. Artist Stan Peterson with “Out on a Limb” wood sculpture opening at Imogen Gallery for Astoria Art Walk. Ally Bruser and Thandi Rosenbaum…
On the next Story Told, as much about women’s rights as can be packed into a half hour, including, but not limited to, “Leaving abortion to the states makes them agents of oppression,” by Ruth Marcus, and also, “The Virgins of Spring,” by Michael McCusker.
Linda and Merianne announce the winners of the Covid Cooking Haiku contest!
Ok kids, class is in session. Local education legend Leila Collier is on hand to grade Mac & Alana. Alana gets an “A” for coming prepared, asking excellent questions, and being so charming. Mac gets an “F” for comparing the British Museum with the Clatsop County Historical Society and for needlessly plagiarizing from Vegas Vacation.
Friday, June 4th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Helena Graves and Cheryl Capellen with the North Coast Chorale’s concert “A Belated 30th Anniversary” live at the Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts. Artist Steph Littlebird, curator of “Phot Choch” featuring an all-Indigenous collection of traditional and…
A biography of America Waldo – a former slave and the matriarch of a northwest Black pioneer family.
A biography of Carrie Halsell Ward – the first Black graduate of Oregon State University.
Host Donna Quinn speaks with Shelby Meyers, Executive Director of the Astoria Sunday Market. They talk about all things Astoria Sunday Market including longtime and new vendors and the evolution of the market during CoVid times.
Part 2 of Mental Health, focusing on trauma and available treatment methods.
On the next Story Told, Michael takes a look at the “U.S.A. Today.” Additionally, a piece from Andrew Gawthorpe titled “Republicans are trying to rewrite the history of the capital attack. Don’t let them,” and from Coral Murphy Marcos “Five Oregon counties plot to move to Idaho to be with conservative friends.” Finally, poetry from the late, and great, Allen Ginsberg, “Falling Asleep…
Wanda the Wolverine.
A Woman, two Rabbis, and a Priest walk into a bar in Denver. . .Kassia Nye, the Executive Director of the United Way of Clatsop County, join Mac & Alana this week for a very special show. Bonus Feature: find out what a “hookless fastener” is!
Friday, May 28th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Tenor Guitar Foundation president Harriet Balmer on the 11th annual Tenor Guitar Gathering virtually in the TGG capital of the world, Astoria OR.. Artist and director of the Cannon Beach Gallery Scott C. Johnson on “Beauty Deconstructed”, AIR, Summer…
On the next Story Told, Michael gives memoriam to the original Memorial Day, before it moved into its current role as a convenient three day weekend in “Recruiting Tomorrow’s Dead.”
A conversation about mental health and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.