A five-part podcast about a school shooting that didn’t happen, the line between thought and crime, and a Republican governor in a rural state who changed his mind about gun laws. Listen here.
Categories: Radio • Tags: gun laws, podcast, school shootings, Vermont
Brave Little State is a people-powered podcast from Vermont Public Radio, hosted by Alex Keefe and me. Check us out and get involved.
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For NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday. Vermont musician Jamie Masefield has been improvising on the jazz mandolin for decades. He’s recorded six albums, including one with Blue Note Records, and brings everything from folk and funk to the literature of Leo Tolstoy to the stage. But some years back, his eclectic creativity brought him to an unexpected second career. It involves some heavy lifting.
Categories: Radio • Tags: Jamie Masefield, Jazz Mandolin Project, Jon Fishman, Masonry
For Here and Now. The legendary Cadys Falls auctioneer lives on in the memories of his family and followers, and left a legacy that complicates the idealization of the “real” Vermont. A longer version of this story originally aired onVermont Public Radio.
Categories: Radio • Tags: auctioneering, Nathan Benn, Peter Miller, Photography, Vermont History, Willis Hicks
For NPR’s Weekend All Things Considered. At a time when many people are connected to hundreds, if not thousands, of people on social media, Front Porch Forum is building smaller networks — of neighbors.
Categories: Radio • Tags: Front Porch Forum, neighbors, Vermont
This story for NPR’s series on color aired on Weekend Edition Sunday. For the artist Peter Milton, colorblindness opened up a world of black and white.
Categories: Radio • Tags: color, colorblindness, Michael Marmor, Peter Milton, printmaking
For NPR’s Morning Edition. From a spoof of Kanye West’s “Bound 2” (called “Hardcover Bound 2”) to click-bait classic novel titles, millennials that smart content and Internet frippery aren’t mutually exclusive. This story was part of New Boom, NPR’s special series on millennials.
Categories: Radio • Tags: #newboom, Annabelle Quezada, Arika Okrent, Buzzfeed Books, Isaac Fitzgerald, Janet Potter, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Lashea Delaney, millennials
I talked to Marketplace Weekend’s Lizzy O’Leary about Slow Money, a nationwide effort dedicated to connecting food producers with investors right in their community, and making investing accessible to the everywoman. How will they do that? With Beetcoin. This interview came out of a story about Slow Money’s launch in Vermont that I first reported for Vermont Public Radio, and a follow-up interview that VPR’s Mitch Wertlieb did with Slow Money founder Woody Tasch.
Categories: Radio • Tags: Beetcoin, Slow Money, Vermont
For NPR’s Morning Edition. A project that provides new Americans with the opportunity to raise and sell goats to members of their community is growing, thanks in part to its ability to make use of an abundant – and often unwanted – class of animal: male kids from goat dairy farms. An earlier version of this story aired on Vermont Public Radio on March 23, 2014.
Categories: Radio • Tags: chevon, goat meat, goats, Karen Freudenberger, new Americans, refugees, Shirley Richardson, Vermont Chevon, Vermont Land Trust
For NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday. Two cyclists walk into a bar. Then they get on stationary bikes and pedal like crazy.
Categories: Radio • Tags: ArtsRiot, beer, Burlington, cycling, goldsprints, racing, Vermont
For NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday. Randonneurs are in it for the ride, not the race. To stream the story, click here.
Categories: Radio • Tags: Henri Desgrange, Oregon Randonneurs, randonnee, randonneuring, Randonneurs USA
More and more writers are setting their novels and short stories in worlds, not unlike our own, where the Earth’s systems are noticeably off-kilter. The genre has come to be called climate fiction — “cli-fi,” for short. For NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday. To stream the story, click here.
Categories: Radio • Tags: cli-fi, climate fiction, nathaniel rich, odds against tomorrow
