What has 2020 taught you about race?
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Host Jessica Schleif interviews Astoria fiber artist, natural dyer, and baker Iris Sullivan Daire about fiber arts and the beauty offered to us by plants.
On this episode of An Adventure in History, Mac and Alana talk about. . .milk. Somehow, it is still the best show ever.
This Thanksgiving, on the next Story Told, a diversion from the traditional pilgrimage celebration, in which America gives thanks that it’s been given back it’s democracy in “Donald Trump is Leaving Behind Blueprints to End Democracy,” by Timothy Egan. Additionally, in memoriam, “Auld Lang Syne” for Mathew Joseph Snyder.
A discussion about native and indigenous culture, history and issues during Thanksgiving week.
A biography of Mary Jane Holmes Shipley Drake – one of Oregon’s the first African Americans to live nearly their entire life in Oregon and was the matriarch of a large family of early Black residents.
An Adventure in History.
Friday, Nov 20th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Executive director Jennifer Crockett on The Liberty Theatre’s first Virtual Gala. Alyssa Evans, editor of the Coast Weekend on the CW Book Club starting with Swedes in Oregon; and more.
On the next Story Told, Greta Thunberg responds to what may be the most important question of this generation and the last – Is there any candidate on the right or left who gets the severity of the climate? Her response: No, in “Beauty and the Beast.” Additionally, a list of “Freedoms According to the Right,” by Charles Hillestad….
Do we create the narrative, or does the narrative create us?
Host Teresa Retzlaff talks with Nehalem farmer and florist, Sarah Zwissler of Neahkahnie Blooms, about her journey and process in operating a cut flower garden on the Oregon coast.
Friday, Nov 13th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Painter and Tattoo artist Aaron Toledo showing at Imogen Gallery. Rob Russell, Bay City Arts Center president and KAYN radio station manager, with news from both.
A biography of William Badger – a Gearhart business owner and the first Black city councilor in Oregon.
On the next Story Told, a brief history of The Vietnam Veterans Against The War, including the defecationing of the Pentagon, titled “Winter Soldiers.”
Graham Nystrom hosts an election reflection.
Roger talks about next week’s reopening of the Astoria Warming Center in the face of COVID-19, with Executive Director Kathleen Sullivan, Center Manager Cheryl Paul, and board president Rick Bowers.
The Tillicum Foundation Annual Member Meeting is an opportunity to hear messages from the KMUN staff and Board, Board candidate messages, programmer and volunteer awards, Directors’ Award and election results. It’s been quite a year! Welcome to our new Board Members Kathleen Sayce and Todd Lippold, as well as returning Board Members Sarah Lu Heath…
Friday, Nov 6th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Two guests from the 33rd annual Stormy Weather Arts Festival in Cannon Beach: Official Festival poster artist Hazel Scaling Schlesinger showing at Northwest by Northwest Gallery. Artist & Cannon Beach Gallery director Scott Johnson with an overview of…
A biography of Hannah and Eliza Gorman – Benton County’s first Black residents and landowners.
Host Donna Quinn reads inspiring poetry and prose, offering tips on how we can calm ourselves during times of intense stress.
On the next Story Told, with an uncalled election left hanging in the air Michael reads “Divided We Fall,” and in a letter to The Astorian newspaper, plus an excerpt from Albert Einstein, an argument for socialism simply titled “Why Socialism.” Additionally, “The Fury Against Trump Has Begun a Democratic Awakening,” by Fahad Manjoo, and lastly, in a possible premature catharsis…
Rural Race Talks host LaNicia Duke leads a discussion on eugenics, social Darwinism and superficial ideologies created to separate us.
Local farmer Teresa Retzlaff talks with Carolina Lees of Corvus Landing Farm on Neskowin Creek about the end of the season and running a farm business in the era of the coronavirus.
Hosts Linda Perkins and Merianne Myers talk about what they’re cooking, baking, eating, and sharing in this twice-monthly locally produced program about all things delicious.
A biography of Dr. DeNorval Unthank – a revered Portland physician and a civil rights champion.
Friday, Oct 30th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: The Writers Guild founder Marianne Monson & Board member LinMarie DiCianni with the Literary Masquerade at RiverSea Gallery in Astoria Sculptor, painter, wordsmith & architect Don Stastny, featured at NWxNW Gallery for Stormy Weather Art Festival in…
On the next Story Told, Michael simmers one week from the election with “Redefining Democracy,” and on a particularly pertinent note “What Will You Do if Trump Doesn’t Leave?,” by David Brooks. In addition to confronting the next election, Dr. Robert Brake is also “Confronting Racism.” Lastly, on the cease of the Cuban Missile Crisis,…
Special guests from The Harbor Terri Steenbergen and Jordan Okoniewski discussing The Harbor’s services as well as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.