Final preparations are in full swing for this weekend’s Wooden Boat Festival, so we bring you two related stories – one about the joys and pains of wooden boat maintenance, and the other about a Port Townsend resident who is once again providing the festival with the benefit of his family’s generations of experience in building carousels.
Mara Lathrop discusses gleaning.
Mara Lathrop talks about local garlic.
Host Sheila Bender interviews Seattle poet and teacher Carolyne Wright about her background and career, and looks into the history of her co-authored anthology, “Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace.
Host Kate Dwyer interviews Mary Robson (then a guest and now a Nature Now producer) and discusses spiders in this show originally broadcast in September, 2014.
This program, a repeat from 2013, features the late Ruth Silver and Irene Weiss. Ruth Silver married her partner Jean Parsons when Ruth was 95 years old. She died July 6, 2015.
Monday Night – 7pm WEST COAST LIVE featuring the program recorded recently at the Maritime Center. Guests: Crow Quill Night Owls, Abakis, Jonathan Evison, Daniel Evans of the Race to Alaska. From Port Townsend, the Maritime Center and KPTZ. Sedge Thomson’s West Coast Live, now on Monday nights at 7, KPTZ
Host Nan Evans interviews Port Townsend Marine Science Center Americorps staff person Allison Kellum, and discusses a squid dissection performed by young people at the Center’s summer camp.
Host Debaran Kelso welcomes Jeanmarie Morelli to discuss dealing with drought in a native plant garden. Closing music is “Drought Tolerant Plants,” performed by ZunZun.
