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Marine scientist Christopher Gobler holds the Endowed Chair of Coastal Ecology and Conservation in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University explains the four “Horsemen of the Apocalypse” stressors affecting the waters and marine systems of Long Island’s bays as well as the Island’s human population. Then, Professor Gobler critically assesses […]
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Garrett Cutler of Mattituck spends every day of the year exploring the woods and waters of the North Fork with his dog Gracie. He talks about what he observes and experiences in each season and how he mourns the prospect of losing it all to development. (Broadcast on WPKN radio on April 6, 2022.)
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Amy Folk, historian of Southold Town on the North Fork of Long Island’s east end, talks about the North Fork Project and its goal of naming all the town’s enslaved people. Folk describes the process of finding the enslaved as well as their enslavers, considers how Southold’s residents will respond to the project when it […]
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As a special, I have selected four interviews from North Fork Works and Tidings, to honor and celebrate Black History Month: Amy Folk, Southold Town historian, one of the contributors on the North Fork Project’s goal to name all its enslaved people; author Mark Torres’ book documents North Fork’s migrant labor camps; Eleanor Morris Lingo, 95-year old […]
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North Fork environmental activists Mark Haubner and Margaret de Cruz, talk about zero waste, the circular economy and biomimicry, linking these concepts to the product stewardship paradigm, extended producer responsibility and the right to repair movement which gives consumers the right to repair their devices themselves. The discussion ends with the upcoming Repair Cafe in Greenport. (Broadcast […]
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Debbie O’Kane and Laura Klahre, members of the North Fork Dark Sky Coalition, talk about why the dark sky–a crucial natural resource–is important, not only to astronomers and nature lovers, but to many many species of birds and insects, our agriculture and tourism economies and to our own sense of wellbeing and wonder. (First broadcast […]
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In this North Fork Works episode, Sister Margaret Smyth, who founded the North Fork Spanish Apostolate in 1991 in eastern Long Island’s towns of Riverhead and Greenport, talks about the changes she is seeing in the economy, structure, integration and power of the area’s Hispanic immigrant population. (Broadcast on WPKN December 1, 2021)
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Beth Young, journalist-founder of the East End Beacon newspaper and 13th-generation member of a North Fork founding family, talks about the very different North Fork her brand new granddaughter will call home. It’s part lament, part hard-nosed reality seen through the eyes of one of our leading journalists. (Broadcast on WPKN October 6, 2021)
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Scientists, including scientific divers, talk about a groundbreaking exploration of the waters around Plum Island, New York and why so much such passion has accompanied calls for conservation of its subtidal communities as well as its terrestrial ecology. The project was directed by Save the Sound and New York Natural Heritage Program. Broadcast on WPKN on September 1, […]
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Labor and employment attorney Mark A. Torres, tells the true and shameful story about the scores of migrant farm labor camps in Suffolk County that housed hundreds of migrant workers on the North Fork and other of Long Island’s east end towns and villages between 1943 and 2000. The book chronicles the many aspects of […]
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.
