Truro AirWaves
By Truro Public Library
Thank you to Mark van Bork for our theme music!
Truro AirWavesSep 22, 2020
Author Gary D. Schmidt speaks with student Anya Vargas
Season 2: Episode 3
Guest host Anya Vargas talks to award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt about his latest young-adult novel The Labors of Hercules Beal.
Interview with Carol Harris of Truro’s Climate Action Committee and Emily Beebe, Truro’s Health and Conservation Agent.
Season 2, Episode 2
This month we talked to the chair of Truro’s Climate Action Committee, Carol Harris and Emily Beebe, Truro’s Health and Conservation Agent about changing habits and small actions the individual can do to make a difference in climate change.
Interview with Joe Paprzycki, Fermin Rojas, and John Dennis Anderson of the Truro Playwright Collective.
Season 2, Episode 1
Welcome back to the Truro Airwaves podcast, I’m your new host Justine. This week I talked to three talented people about the newly formed Truro Playwright Collective – Founder, Joe Paprzycki with Fermin Rojas and John Dennis Anderson.
Interview with Grace Freundlich about her book, "Enough of all That"
Grace did not know. How long would it take to figure it out? How did the child of Holocaust survivors become a survivor herself? It was a mystery that took a lifetime to unravel. Until then, through the many difficulties she experienced, the lodestar that helped her was that "It could have been worse." The hand she was dealt was having been born in New York to a damaged family of Jews who came out of late 1930s Germany. It took her until she was in her eighties to understand her life, the ways she sabotaged herself, and why. PTSD and transgenerational trauma, the latter only being studied now, are the keys. Now she knows. Grace shares insights with us in this interview, along with excerpts from the book. You can find more at her website, enoughtofallthat.com
The Outer Cape Mock Caldecott with Barbara Klipper: Its History and Current Virtual Incarnation
How did the Outer Cape Mock Caldecott begin? At the outset of our seventh Mock Caldecott, Barbara Klipper shares the story of how her own experience with the American Library Association's Caldecott Medal award segued, with Youth Librarian Maggie Hanelt's participation, into the Truro Mock Caldecott and, a few years later, the Outer Cape Mock Caldecott. In 2020-21, it is the Virtual Mock Caldecott! To hear the anecdotes not found elsewhere, listen here.
Interview with Anne Makepeace and Jennifer Weston: We Still Live Here
Anne Makepeace (Makepeace Productions, Inc.) and Jennifer Weston (Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project & Wampanoag Mashpee Wampanoag Language Department) join Galen on Truro Airwaves to discuss We Still Live Here (Âs Nutayuneân). The film, co-produced by our guests, tells a remarkable story of cultural revival by the Wampanoag of Southeastern Massachusetts. The podcast covers the concept for the film, highlights from the story, the status of the project today, the associated project Our Mother Tongues, and information about how to #StandWithMashpee. Thank you to our guests for sharing your time, knowledge, and insights with us!
00:00 Airwaves Intro
00:33 Introductions: Anne, Jennifer, We Still Live Here
01:55 How the Film Came to Be
08:21 WLRP, Ten Years Later
22:31 WLRP Success Inspires Others
24:25 The Wônpanâak Dictionary
27:41 One's Language, One's Culture
29:08 The Bible in Translation
32:25 Conversion Revisited in Marginalia
35:15 OurMotherTongues.org --Nationwide
38:41 A 1752 Petition
40:50 A 2020 Petition and More: Stand With Mashpee
45:47 Thank yous, "So Long" for Now
Interview with Nathaniel Philbrick: The Mayflower
As the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival in the New World approaches, Nathaniel Philbrick joins Galen on Truro AirWaves to talk about his book Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, War. Mayflower delivers a thoroughly-researched story that tackles the myths of the Pilgrims and recognizes the complexities and realities of their arrival and its impact on their own lives and the lives of those who already lived here. The podcast covers the myths around the Pilgrims, some highlights from the book, and history as a window into a past that can—but doesn’t necessarily—illuminate the present. Thank you to Nathaniel for spending this time with us!
00:00 AirWaves Intro
00:31 Welcome, Nathaniel
01:15 Philbricks in Truro
02:12 Myth, Pagentry, and a Complicated Reality
03:41 Pilgrims Improvise
05:57 Effects of a Devastating Pandemic
08:36 History is Personal: Effects of Alliances
11:00 A Brutal Raid and Echoing Chaos
14:00 A First Thanksgiving; Violence and Division; a History that Haunts us Still
16:04 Patterns in Hindsight; Humility in the Present?
18:00 King Philip's War; Lessons to Learn
19:48 Thank yous and Farewell