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Thomas Little is a North Carolina-based artist, writer, illustrator, philosopher and proprietor of A Rural Pen Inkworks. a small operation that makes iron-based ink and pigments by dissolving firearms in acid. Speaking in this Tidings interview as both amateur ink historian and ink and pigment maker, Thomas examines his own work through the lens of […]
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North Fork resident, civic activist and leader Charlie Gueli talks about his book Fixing Federal Dysfunction: A Guide to Saving Democracy in which he urges citizens to inform themselves before casting their vote and provides ways in which voters can claim their rightful power by engaging in ongoing constructive dialogues with their representatives. (North Fork […]
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Rhodes Scholar Suchintan Das talks to Hazel Kahan on Tidings about mass detention, the subject of his D.Phil thesis at Oxford University: Empire, War, and Mass-Detention: A History of Encampment and Internment in India (1937-1967). Through case studies, Das shows how encampment and internment in wartime and post-war India illuminate mass detention policies and practices […]
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Author and gerontologist Bonnie Stock talks about her novels and nonfiction guide inspired by a career in the adult care industry. (WPKN April 23, 2026)
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Author, editor and environmental journalist Tara Lohan talks to Hazel Kahan on Tidings from Bend, Oregon about her new book Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Lifein which she describes the building of dams and the growing movement to remove them. (WPKN, March 2. 2026 (WPKN, March 2, 2026)
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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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Born in Jerusalem, Robert Massoud, is a Palestinian-Canadian activist, entrepreneur, who came to Canada as a child. In 2004, he founded Zatoun, a grassroots organization to support Palestinian farmers in the West Bank by promoting and selling their olive oil in North America for fair trade prices. Speaking to us from Toronto, Robert explains […]
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Chuck Collins, author, researcher, storyteller and campaigner based at the Institute for Policy Studies, talks about his new book Burned by Billionaires: how concentrated wealth and power are ruining our lives and planet. Chuck also shows us how we can reduce the impact of this wealth concentration on our lives.(WPKN December 1, 2025)
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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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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, September 10, 2025 )
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.
