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Drianne Benner and Anne Murray, members of North Fork Civics of Southold,  take us through a the history of their hamlet’s civic organizations and the factors leading to the formation of the North Fork Civics coalition and how this larger group of seven individual civic organizations functions and regulates itself. (Broadcast on WPKN May 3, […]

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)

Co-founder and former paramedic Steve Muth, talks about NYC Medics , a small, nimble volunteer emergency medical team of paramedics and doctors based in New York City who are ready to be boots on the ground in global disaster areas within 48 hours. (WPKN March 8, 2023)

Aimee Weldon, coordinator with the Atlantic Coast Joint Venture of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service works with a team to conserve and restore saltmarsh habitat for the Saltmarsh Sparrow whose steadily declining population has been described as the canaries in the coal mines for saltmarsh ecosystems. Weldon explains how she and her colleagues, along […]

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)

Chris Antal, Staff Chaplain and Dr. Peter Yeomans, Staff Psychologist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Philadelphia talk about understanding the suffering of moral injury among U.S. combat-deployed Veterans and their facilitation of a 12-week Moral Injury Group and Community Healing Ceremony in which Veterans’ burdens are shared by the community made more […]

Aanchal Malhotra speaks to Tidings from Delhi about her beautiful book “Remnants of Partition: 21 objects from a content divided“, in which survivors of Partition talk about the one precious object they carried across the border  that created India and Pakistan in 1947—and the power these remnants have  to tell a story we might not otherwise […]

Denise Civiletti, journalist and founder of Riverhead Local, talks about starting and running a local digital newspaper as a family business in keeping with her values as a journalist. (WPKN November 2, 2022)

In this episode of Tidings from Hazel Kahan, Noam Cohen, author, journalist and Wikipedia editor, takes us inside Wikipedia to show us how its articles actually come into being as a bastion of sources-based truth and bulwark against fake news, used by Google, Siri and YouTube among others to answer our questions. (Broadcast on WPKN […]

Diana (Dinni) Gordon, political scientist, Greenport resident talks about her book Village of Immigrants, Latinos in an Emerging America (Rutgers University Press, 2015), the story of Latino immigration to Greenport, NY and to small town America. (First broadcast on WPKN, April 6, 2016.  Produced by Tony Ernst.)

About Hazel

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…

About Leafages

"Credo" statement

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.