Monthly Archives: September 2013

Podcast

The River Runs Through Us, Episode Six: Russell Powell, A Sense of Place & Series Highlights

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Russell Powell (photo by Bar Lois Weeks)
Russell Powell
(photo by Bar Lois Weeks)
Thomas_Cole,_The_Oxbow
Thomas Cole — “The Oxbow”

Writer, artist and historian Russell Steven Powell talks with Drew Adamek about the intersection of the natural world and our place within it, as it relates to the Connecticut River, the metaphorical spine that flows through our region. And in this, our last episode in our special series The River Runs Through Us, we also air highlights from previous episodes in the series.

Our thanks to Mass Humanities for their support for this series.

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Russell Steven Powell Reads “Border Crossings”

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Russell Powell (photo by Bar Lois Weeks)
Russell Powell
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Russell Steven Powell is a publisher, writer, artist, poet, filmmaker, blogger and agricultural historian based in Hatfield Massachusetts. For decades, he’s written about the arts, the environment, agriculture and education in the Connecticut River Watershed. He spoke about his work on Episode Six of Writers Voice’s special series, The River Runs Through Us.

Powell’s work is deeply committed to the intersection of the natural landscape and our presence in it. His work searches for meaning in the natural world and finds it in paying attention to the subtle, the present and the ever-changing landscape. His writing and artwork can be found at his blog, russpowell.net. Here he reads his essay, “Border Crossings.”

Our thanks to Mass Humanities for their support for this series.

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Richard Heinberg, SNAKE OIL & Bill McKibben, OIL AND HONEY

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Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben
Richard Heinberg
Richard Heinberg

When it comes to fracked fossil fuels, are we being sold a bunch of snake oil? Energy analyst Richard Heinberg talks about his riveting new book, SNAKE OIL: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future. And journalist Bill McKibben helped spark the global mass movement to save the climate. McKibben tells the story of how that movement developed — and a parallel story of his neighbor in rural Vermont who just happens to be a foremost beekeeper. McKibben’s latest book is OIL AND HONEY: The Education of An Unlikely Activist.

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Ivy Pochoda, VISITATION STREET & Sandra Boynton, FROG TROUBLE

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Ivy Pochoda
Ivy Pochoda
Sandra Boynton
Sandra Boynton

Novelist Ivy Pochoda talks about her new work of fiction, VISITATION STREET. And children’s book Sandra Boynton discusses her new book and CD set of country music songs, sung by some of country music’s greatest. It’s called FROG TROUBLE.

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