Common Ground Radio 8/13/20: Keynote Address – Farmer to Farmer Conference – 2012

Producer/Host: C.J. Walke, MOFGA

Program Topic: Keynote Address – Farmer to Farmer Conference – 2012

-History of MOFGA and organic farming in Maine
-Growth of organic farming sector in Maine
-Organic farming as we move into the future

Speaker: Russell Libby, MOFGA, Unity, ME (in 2012)

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 8/13/20: Electronic Cottage in Washington?

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

We doubt that politicians and officials in Washington actually listen the Electronic Cottage but we are very happy to see that issues that we’ve featured on the program over the past few months – for example, smart phones disgorging a person’s location data; facial recognition technology – seem to be getting increased attention in parts of the nation’s capital. Listen for some examples.

Here are some of the links mentioned in today’s program:

Limiting Location Data Exposure

NIST Study Evaluates Effects of Race, Age, Sex on Face Recognition Software

NIST Launches Studies into Masks’ Effect on Face Recognition Software

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Talk of the Towns 8/12/20 Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument: Celebrating the 1st 4 Years

Producer/Host: Ron Beard

Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument: Celebrating the first four years

•What led to the creation of the monument? What were some of the highs and lows in that journey?
•What would a visitor find in a visit today, four years after the monument opened? How would they get there? Where might they stay? What would they experience?
•How does the history and culture of Native Americans figure into the story?
•What is the role of the Friends of Katahdin Woods and Waters? What are some of your current projects and activities?
•What will the long-term impact of the monument have on the ecosystem, regional bio-diversity?
•What are your hopes for the future of the monument… what would you want visitors to the region now and in the future to “take away” from their experience?

Guests:
Lucas St. Clair – Founder and President of Elliotsville Foundation
Andrew Bossie – Executive Director, Friends of Katahdin Woods and Waters
Tim Hudson or Jeanne Roy – KAWW Park Superintendent / Chief of Interpretation
Lindsey Hill Downing – Owner of MtChase Lodge in Mt Chase, Me
Jennifer Neptune – Member, Penobscot Nation, artist and registered Maine Guide

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 8/11/20: Interview with Glen Holland of Holland boat shop

Producers/Hosts: Mike Joyce & Alan Sprague

Program Topic: interview with Glen Holland of holland boat shop,boatyard news, lobster boat races.

-interview with Glen Holland, lobster boat builder and racer
-lobster boat races
-jon johnansen has been carefully visiting a few boatyards

guests:

Glen Holland at his shop
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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