This week on the Compass we take a tour of Naval Magazine Indian Island with an unlikely group of tourists—Quakers and other peace activists. Host: Steve Evans.
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In Conversation – Laura Kalpakian
(first aired January 24, 2017). Host Sheila Bender speaks via phone with Bellingham novelist Laura Kalpakian about her writing and her work with the Red Wheelbarrow Writers community.
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Nature Now #296 Botanizing in Olympic National Park
(first aired January 25, 2017). Host Debaran Kelso interviews field biologist Patrick Loafman in the KPTZ studio, and discusses 20 years of botanizing in Olympic National Park and a guide he is producing that will identify the plants in the park. Closing music is “Rain,” sung by Patti Griffin.
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Compass for the Week of January 23, 2016
This week on the Compass we attend the Port Townsend branch of an unprecedented international protest of the inauguration of a new American president, with marches proclaiming the rights of women, immigrants, and minorities and calling for economic, social and environmental justice in hundreds of cities and towns around the world.
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Nature Now #295 Trumpeter Swans (Encore)
(first aired January 18, 2017). Host Mary Robson includes new mystery sound, observations and upcoming events in this rebroadcast of a Feb. 2017 discussion about trumpeter swans with naturalist Bob Boekelheide. Closing music is “Swan,” sung by Right Said Fred.
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#79 Jeanette Best
(First airdate: January 17, 2017) DOING HER BEST FOR ART IN THE NORTHWEST. Our Town Host Maryanne McNellis interviews Jeanette Best, one of the founders and the guiding spirit behind the Northwind Arts Center. This unique institution connects arts and the community through a variety of innovative programs with partners, including the Boiler Room, the Port Townsend Library and the Rose Theatre. The Center’s two galleries often feature art that’s not even for sale – something rather unusual in the world of galleries.
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Compass for the Week of January 16
(First airdate: January 16, 2017) This week on the Compass we talk with a group of local women who are each in their own way contributing to make the impending Womxn’s March, a truly historic event. (Interviews with Emelia de la Rosa, Nan Evans, Sheila Khalov, and Marcie Perlstein).
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In Conversation – Sayantani Dasgupta
(first aired January 10, 2017). Host Sheila Bender talks via phone with frequent visitor to Port Townsend, author Sayantani Dasgupta, about her poetry and creative nonfiction.
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Nature Now #294 Sea Otters of the Washington Coast – Part 2
(first aired January 11, 2017). Host Nan Evans welcomes to the KPTZ studio Jim Bodkin, Scientist Emeritus of the U.S. Geological Survey, and finishes their discussion of sea otters off the outer Washington coast. Closing music is “Silent Sea,” performed by K. T. Tunstall.
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Compass for the Week of January 9, 2016
(First airdate: January 9, 2016) In a repetition of history that has nightmare qualities for many residents of Whidbey Island, the U.S. Navy is once again proposing to vastly increase its Field Carrier Landing Practice operations, along with the number of the noisy Growler aircraft at Ault Field and the Outlying Landing Field in Coupeville. Because of its uncanny relevance today, this week on the Compass we reprise a show originally produced three years ago, about a Port Townsend community meeting protesting the Navy’s plans at the time of the last proposed expansion.
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