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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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Yaron Matras, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester, speaks from the UK via Skype, about his book The Romani Gypsies. The interview includes a modern version of Gelem Gelem, often used as the anthem of the Romani people. It was composed by Zarko Jovanovic who personally experienced incarceration by the Nazis in WWII. (The shorter version of the […]
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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 […]
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Do you know where your passport is? Listen and you’ll hear my personal reflections along with what my son, grandson and two friends have told me about their feelings about their passports. Could my neurotic feelings be a legacy from my refugee parents?(First broadcast March 14, 2012) Blog post here.
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Dr. William Grevatt, Los Angeles-based educator and Jungian analyst and President of the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California, talks about his new book The Alchemy of Tyrann: A Jungian Perspective, in which he explains why, 75 years after the end of Hitler, what he calls “the dark shift to the right”, the pendulum swinging […]
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Mike Bottini, wildlife biologist at Seatuck Environmental Association, talks about the emerging coyote presence on Long Island’s East End and how our communities can coexist with them. Broadcast onWPKN on April 7, 2021.
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Will Paulson, fourth-generation woodworker, talks about his Swedish heritage, his philosophy about his tools, his craft and his sculptures and how he feels about wood and trees. (First broadcast on WPKN May, 2014)
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Kim Tetrault, an expert not only on the “spat”, which is what baby oysters are called after they have spawned, but also the head of the SPAT program at the Suffolk Project in Aquaculture Training at Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Marine Education Learning Center in Southold, his brainchild twenty years ago and still his responsibility today. Kim Tetrault is […]
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Why do the words socialism and democratic socialism get Americans so riled up these days?? What’s so fearful about “From each according to ability; to each according to need”? As I searched for answers to these questions, I was fortunate to come across an article by philosophy professor Luc Bovens in which he traces the […]
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Well-known botanist and conservationist Tom Rawinski talks about moving from his work in the field educating northeast region towns how to manage the connections between their forests, their deer and their hunters to becoming a Fellow in the coveted Harvard Forest Bullard Fellowship Program where he’ll be writing a book to explore the deer abundance issue […]
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.
