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Executive Director Tijuana Fulford talks about the nonprofit Butterfly Effect Project that she founded in 2014 to empower young girls on the East End of Long Island and beyond to become a generation of strong, independent and successful women. (Broadcast on WPKN February 26, 2026)
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Peggy Lauber, president of North Fork Audubon Society, talks about the many ways this flourishing local organization serves and protects not only the environment and ecosystem but also what it offers visitors and those who live and work on the North Fork. (WPKN, October 1, 2025)
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Minerva Perez, Executive Director of OLA of eastern Long Island, talks about building this Latino-focused nonprofit advocacy, aligning its activities with the East End’s governance structure and now implementing a rapid response plan to train volunteers to witness, document and accompany individuals and families during moments of crisis. (WPKN, August 6, 2025)
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Amy Folk, Southold Town historian, talks about the North Fork Project and its goal of naming all the town’s enslaved people, describing the process of finding the enslaved as well as their enslavers. (Broadcast during WPKN‘s Black History Month, February 1, 2023)
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Steve Schott, Marine Botany/Habitat Restoration Educator at Cornell Cooperative Extension, talks about sugar kelp and eelgrass, crucial to protect and restore the waters around Long Island, and the responsibilities that come with managing the ecology of our estuarine habitats. First broadcast on WPKN August 4, 2021, rebroadcast June 4, 2025.
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Greenport native Candace Hall talks about being Greenport’s Village Clerk along with some candid personal revelations: the complexities of being part of a large family in a small town, being the first young black woman to achieve community prominence and the psychological importance to her of black representation. (WPKN May 7, 2025)
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Nick Krupski, Municipal Solid Waste Coordinator for Southold Town, talks about the town’s waste management policies and practices, the challenges he faces now and those he anticipates he will meet in the future. (Broadcast on WPKN on April 2, 2025)
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Mary Foster Morgan, co-founder of Drawdown East End, and co-columnist for East End Beacon’s Climate Local Now, talks about the amount of food wasted by America’s families when they could be turning their leftovers into compost. Listen as Mary takes us deeper into this story. (WPKN April 5, 2023)
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Mark MacNish, historian, fifth-generation North Fork resident and Executive Director of the Cutchogue-New Suffolk Historical Council, talks about his family’s direct connection to the Orphan Train Movement and the Children’s Aid Society that moved children from America’s cities to rural areas for adoption and foster care between 1854 and 1929. (WPKN, February 5, 2025)
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Bob Jester, resident of Greenport, returns as North Fork Works guest for a third time, 11 years after he told us about being a chimney sweep, scientist and teacher and seven years since he talked about his terrible accident.This time he tells us what he has learned about pain management, including the use of narcotic […]
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.
