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John Christian Phifer is executive director of Larkspur Conservation and president of the Conservation Burial Alliance. Speaking to us from Tennessee, he describes how, after 15 years in the funeral industry, he transformed his focus to natural burial practices and the protection and stewardship of land through conservation burial. (WPKN, April 10, 2024)
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Riverhead farmer Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht talks about the twenty years of growing her Garden of Eve Farm and advocating for organic farmers, most recently as Northeast Region Farmer Representative of OFA, the Organic Farmers Association. (Broadcast on WPKN, March 3, 2024)
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Michelle Berry Lane, poet, writer and former science teacher, describes how human creatures in these times of late-stage capitalism and modernity have separated from and forgotten their relationship to the earth and all its other creatures. Citing Ivan Illich among others, she shows us how conviviality and mutuality can help use re-member ourselves to the […]
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Craig Jobes, Environmental Analyst at Southold Town, talks about his role in managing the overpopulation of white-tailed deer, as well as hunting and hunters, new State legislation and, now, the arrival of coyotes on the scene. (WPKN, February 7, 2024)
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Social thinker, writer and speaker Dougald Hine talks about his new book At Work in the Ruins, Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies. Explaining why he believes the world as we know it is coming to an end, he proposes how we might live […]
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Amy Folk, author and Southold Town historian, talks about the North Fork Project which works to uncover the names of all the enslaved people and the enslavers who have ever lived on the North Fork. She also talks about rewriting some of the town’s history for greater accuracy and engaging the Town’s people in her […]
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Michael Zweig, Stonybrook professor emeritus, labor scholar and activist, talks about his new book Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism and why he wrote this book for young activists and leaders. Professor Zweig is founding director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life at the State University of […]
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Wendy Zuhoski, native of Mattituck on the North Fork of Long Island, talks about the deli she opened 30 years ago when she was 23 and how Wendy’s Deli has become the place for not only her mother’s much appreciated soups and sandwiches but also a hub for the community’s people helping each other in […]
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Robert Massoud, Palestinian founder of Zatoun, speaks to us from Toronto about the organization as his life’s work and how it has become his voice and the story of Palestine as it also speaks for Palestinians who often lack a direct voice of their own.(First broadcast on WPKN on September 13, 2023.)
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Filmmaker Jim Morrison‘s latest shorts –“The Clam Kid” and “Rent a Neighbor”– depict with humor and insight some of the encounters a resident faces when his hometown has become a tourist destination. In this North Fork Works interview with Hazel Kahan, Morrison describes the challenges a filmmaker faces in his quest for a place on […]
Born to German Jewish refugee physicians in Lahore (now Pakistan, then British India) Hazel has lived, studied and worked in many places–India, England, Australia, Israel and the United States. She makes her home in the woods of the eastern end of Long Island, New York where she produces the art of leafages, the radio sounds of Tidings and writes about growing up Jewish in Lahore. Read more about Hazel…
Leafages by Hazel Kahan are made from real leaves, vines and tendrils interwoven with calligraphy, decorative pen and ink flourishes and imaginary Latin botanical names. Leafages contain a philosophical or inspirational thought, quotation or verse from sages, poets or religious texts. Some leafages are specially created for an individual, a couple or a family with words or leaves reflecting their personal narrative. They are available on the Leafages shop on Etsy although the supply is low right now, all my energies having been absorbed by the book I’ve been writing. Do come back soon when the shop will be full of new leafage abundance or contact me.
