Let’s Talk About It 9/11/20: Best Friends Saving Each Other

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: “Just A Bully” co-written with Patrisha McLean and Nora Willauer in a collaboration with DocSong. Performed by Willauer.

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

Guests:
Nicky and Kathi. These best friends and business partners discuss how they each were lured and trapped into dangerous relationships and how they helped each other escape.

Topics include:
Emotional abuse, financial abuse, isolation, power of friendship.

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 9/10/20: COVID-19 Impacts on Maine Agricultural Fairs

Producer/Host: C.J. Walke, MOFGA

-Structure of Maine Agricultural Fairs
-Decision making process in response to COVID-19
-Impacts on Maine agricultural sector and fair season

Guests:
Sarah Alexander, MOFGA, Unity, ME
B) Missy Jordan, Maine Dept. of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Augusta, ME
C) Barry Norris, Maine Association of Agricultural Fairs, Augusta, ME
D) Sandra Savage, Union Fair representative, Union, 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 9/10/20: CBP & License Plate Readers

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Maine is the only state that borders only one other state, which means that we have very long national borders with the ocean and with Canada. That, in turn, means that most, if not all of Maine, is within 100 miles of a US national border, and that fact gives the Customs and Border Protection Agency the ability to do a lot of things in the name of border protection that would not happen beyond that 100 mile border. One of those things is the ability to use license plate reader technology on any car on Maine roads without any warrant or warning. CBP’s recent “Privacy Impact Assessment for the CBP License Plate Reader Technology” describes the risks to our personal privacy of that program. The link is here It’s worth reading. Here’s why.

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Talk of the Towns 9/9/20 The Exiles: A Conversation with Christina Baker Kline about her novel

Producer/Host: Ron Beard

The Exiles: A Conversation with Christina Baker Kline about her novel, published in by William Morrow, August, 2020

-Who are the major characters in The Exiles, and how do their lives intertwine?
-What in your own background or previous writing/research intrigued you about aboriginal peoples and the notion that they have often been made exiles of their own land, displaced?
-Speak briefly about the three strands that prepared you, unknowingly, for writing this novel (your own time in Australia, interviewing mothers and daughters, and teaching women in prison)
-In the light of the decolonization movement and Black Lives Matter, their act of “adoption” is revealed as part of the enormous underlying racism that we confront today… and which you confronted in your earlier novel, Orphan Train.
-Talk about your research to prepare you to write The Exiles

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 9/8/20: boat shop and fish sandwich news, books, the maine island trail

Producers/Hosts: Mike Joyce & Alan Sprague

Program Topics:boat shop and fish sandwich news, books, the maine island trail

-jon johansen reports on lobster boat racing, roadside boats, fish sandwich, books
-Project 20/20 oil paintings of 20 islands to benefit mita
-mike speaks about the environment

Guests:
Matthew Russ Project 20/20 Maine Island Trail Association
jon johansen Maine Coastal News

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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