Let’s Talk About It 2/12/21: Mother and Daughter

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: Jackie Lee McLean

Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse

Guest:
Jackie Lee McLean, musician daughter of the host of this radio show talks with her mother about the abuse in the home while she was growing up.

Topics include: 
How domestic abuse impacts each family member differently, not talking about it and then breaking your silence, breaking free, turning trauma into art.

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.

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Common Ground Radio 2/11/21: Native plants in our landscape

Producer/Host: C.J. Walke, MOFGA

-Cultivating native plants for healthy ecosystems
-Methods to encourage the growth of native plants
-Methods to control invasive plant species

Guests:
Cathy Rees, Native Gardens of Blue Hill, Blue Hill, ME
Avy Claire, Native Gardens of Blue Hill, Blue Hill, ME
Julie Beckford, Rebel Hill Farm, Liberty, ME
Molly DellaRoman, 5 Star Nursery and Orchard, Brooklin, ME

About the host:
C.J. Walke, host of Common Ground Radio, has been involved in Maine agriculture for over 20 years and has worked in numerous capacities for the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) starting in 2006. Since 2012, C.J. has worked as farm manager for College of the Atlantic’s Peggy Rockefeller Farms in Bar Harbor, Maine, where he works with students to grow organic fruits, vegetables and livestock products. He holds degrees in park management/environment education and library science. Common Ground Radio debuted in June of 2010 and C.J. has been the show’s host since 2014.

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 2/11/21: Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Think today’s Internet and Web, what many refer to as Cyberspace, has turned out to be what early netizens envisioned? Turns out that 2021 is the 25th Anniversary of a document that hoped to address what Cyberspace would become. It is called “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace.” Let’s take a listen and see what you think.

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Talk of the Towns 2/10/21: A Valentine to Ruth Moore and her writing

Producer/Host: Ron Beard

Who was Ruth Moore?
-Upbringing and family life on Gotts Island
-Her work, including with Reader’s Digest
-Her novels
-Later life in Bass Harbor
-What contributions did Ruth Moore make to American literature… why does her writing resonate?

Attending to Ruth Moore’s legacy and body of work
-Gary Lawless on his role at Blackberry Books, noting Sandy Phippen’s role as editor of High Clouds Soaring, Storms Driving Low (the letters of Ruth Moore)
-Gordon Bok’s role in republishing Cold as a Dog and the Wind Northeast
-Dean Lunt’s plans to republish Ruth’s novels at Islandport Press

Guests:
Dennis Damon, former State Senator, former board chair, Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries
Muriel Davisson, niece of Ruth Moore, President of Tremont Historical Society
Gary Lawless, poet, Gary Lawless is a poet, co-owner of Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick and owner of the publishing company Blackberry Books in Nobleboro.
Dean Lunt, born on Frenchboro, owner of Islandport Press, based in Yarmouth
Emily Trask-Eaton, niece of Ruth Moore and executrix of her literary estate, doctor of family medicine in Norridgewalk

About the host:
Ron Beard is producer and host of Talk of the Towns, which first aired on WERU in 1993 as part of his community building work as an Extension professor with University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Sea Grant. He took all the journalism courses he could fit in while an undergraduate student in wildlife management and served as an intern with Maine Public Television nightly newscast in the early 1970s. Ron is an adjunct faculty member at College of the Atlantic, teaching courses on community development. Ron served on the Bar Harbor Town Council for six years and is currently board chair for the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor, where he has lived since 1975. Look for him on the Allagash River in June, and whenever he can get away, in the highlands of Scotland where he was fortunate to spend two sabbaticals.

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BoatTalk 2/9/21

Producers/Hosts: Mike Joyce & Alan Sprague

a)boatyard news
b) reports on talisker whisky atlantic challenge, vendee globe round the world race, and america’s cup.
c) art piane’s zoom presentation
d) long interview with leroy weed, known as ask leroy on youtube, stonington fisherman

guests:
Leroy Weed Maine Coastal Fisheries Center
Jon Johansen roving reporter

About the hosts:

Alan Sprague a.k.a. Flounder of the Soul Show, has been a programmer at WERU since the glaciers receded. For thirty years at community radio he has worked his way from being an unpaid volunteer to being an unpaid volunteer today, and he says he’s worth every cent of it. In 2003 he and Mike Joyce started the monthly call-in show Boattalk which has become a boating related show without piers (pi). Mike and Alan met many years ago while both were working at the Hinckley Company. Alan was the head service carpenter at the Hinckley skunkworks called Bass Harbor Marine or sometimes Kibbee’s Kennels. He worked there for nearly thirty years and saw yachts of stories to tell yawl. As part of Boattalk they organize the annual WERU Boattalk Cruise in late June for a fun pot-luck trip up Somes Sound, America’s former fiord. Quite cunning Mike and Alan are to work a free scenic boat trip with fine food for themselves.

Mike Joyce bio to follow

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BoatTalk 2/9/21

Producers/Hosts: Mike Joyce & Alan Sprague

a)boatyard news
b) reports on talisker whisky atlantic challenge, vendee globe round the world race, and america’s cup.
c) art piane’s zoom presentation
d) long interview with leroy weed, known as ask leroy on youtube, stonington fisherman

guests:
Leroy Weed Maine Coastal Fisheries Center
Jon Johansen roving reporter

About the hosts:

Alan Sprague a.k.a. Flounder of the Soul Show, has been a programmer at WERU since the glaciers receded. For thirty years at community radio he has worked his way from being an unpaid volunteer to being an unpaid volunteer today, and he says he’s worth every cent of it. In 2003 he and Mike Joyce started the monthly call-in show Boattalk which has become a boating related show without piers (pi). Mike and Alan met many years ago while both were working at the Hinckley Company. Alan was the head service carpenter at the Hinckley skunkworks called Bass Harbor Marine or sometimes Kibbee’s Kennels. He worked there for nearly thirty years and saw yachts of stories to tell yawl. As part of Boattalk they organize the annual WERU Boattalk Cruise in late June for a fun pot-luck trip up Somes Sound, America’s former fiord. Quite cunning Mike and Alan are to work a free scenic boat trip with fine food for themselves.

Mike Joyce bio to follow

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