(Airdate: March 5, 2025) This week Nature Now hosts, Jackie Canterbury, Nan Evans, and Debaran Kelso, got together to share their best reads and top “wish list” books to read in the coming year. As naturalists, the choices include some great natural history picks. But their eclectic tastes range across poetry, philosophy, history, personal reflections of authors, and art. Tune in to hear their conversation and to share in the fun they all had doing this program.
In this edition of Community Tides, Chris Bricker and Siobhan Canty visit with Ben Wilson, founder of Color of Sound and curator of Black Film in the Pacific Northwest, a weekend celebration of regional Black Cinema that takes place March 14 through 16. Port Townsend Film Festival is co-presenter with Color of Sound for this inaugural event at the Rose Theater.
Also joining our discussion will be filmmaker Anthony Tackett, Director of “June” and “Perspectives on Violence.” along with Port Townsend Film Festival’s Executive Director, Danni McClelland.
(Airdate: March 4, 2025) We’re in the town of Zhangye, and we’re now looking for something to do. We think it’s time for something different, so we decided to visit one of the small ethnic minorities along the Silk Road. It just so happened that 60 kilometers west of Zhangye is the county seat of Sunan, home of the horseback- riding, mutton-eating, milk-tea-drinking Yugu, living along the flank of the Chilean moutains.
On March 3, KPTZ 91.9 hosted David Grisman and Tracy Grisman at our Fort Worden studio for an interview and the performance of three original songs. Topics included his storied musical history and collaborations throughout his career. Other topics included his Acoustic Disc record label and his connection to Port Townsend. The songs included a tune written for his daughter for her wedding. Charlie Bermant conducted the interview. Chris Bricker managed the sound.
(Airdate: March 3, 2025) KPTZ is bringing back Democracy Now on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11am to noon. In this Attention Please! we talked about the reasons for making this change. We started with some information sent in by KPTZ Program Coordinator Karen Anderson (who was unable to join us on-air). KPTZ General Manager Taylor Clark was joined live by Founding Program Coordinator Larry Stein and Board of Directors President Jon Pinnow. Listen in to learn more about your community radio station.
(Airdate: March 3, 2025 – Prostitution) Port Townsend notorious for its many brothels and saloons.
This month Dr. Allison Berry, Public Health Officer for Clallam and Jefferson Counties, and Willie Bence, Director of Emergency Management for Jefferson County gave a report to the Board Of County Commissioners about communicable diseases, earthquakes, and community emergency prep. Dr. Berry also answered listener questions. There is a public information session on Neighborhood Prep at the the Jefferson County Library in Port Hadlock at 10:30am on March 20. Also, if you want to report on what you FELT when the earthquake happened this morning (10 miles deep off the coast of Orcas Island on 3/3/25 at 5am) go to https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/uw62078906/tellus.
(Airdate: February 28, 2025) This week, County Commissioner Heather Dudley-Nolette and co-host Jim Burke welcome Jefferson County Tax Assessor Jeff Chapman to discuss how tax assessments are made, the difference between regressive taxes like sales tax and property taxes which are actually more fair, plus the fact that Jeff is in “the middle” between the County Commission and the citizens who pay the taxes. The song outro is from the band Trampled By Turtles, The Middle.
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and co-host Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro get together again with Danny Milholland and Zak Moser from The Production Alliance to talk more about the upcoming Connectivity Summit, which will take place March 7, 8, and 9 at Chimacum High School. More information here: https://www.theproductionalliance.org/events/connectivity If you want to hear a special moment in this show, go to 11:57 where John asks a great question about motivation and gets a great answer from Danny about the importance of connecting community. This is why we have community radio.
(Airdate: February 26, 2025) Join Jackie Canterbury as she talks again with Brittaney Drake about science visualization and bird illustration techniques. In Part I we talked to Brittaney about teaching nature at the Pearl Remote Democratic High School in Seattle, Washington, with focus on the democratic classroom. Today we will explore science illustration which is ‘art in service of science’ and discuss how bird illustration is used to teach art and nature in her democratic classroom. Brittaney uses a variety of bird illustration tools including black ink, gouache watercolor, colored pencil, and digital illustration to teach bird illustration.
Note: Nature Now provides credit for songs and calls of Pigeon Guillemot to xeno-canto, Thomas G. Graves, XC663793 http://www.xeno-canto.org/663793
