(Airdate: December 19, 2024) Life with Santa and Mrs. Claus – It’s Not What It Seems.
Podcasts
#702 What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
(Reprise airdate: December 18, 2024) Please join Nature Now host Debaran Kelso as we explore the fascinating world of screech owls! Renowned ecologist Dr. Carl Safina is our guest, speaking about his most recent book Alfie & Me – What Owls Know, What Humans Believe, which describes his family’s raising of an orphaned Eastern Screech Owl and how this changed their lives.
Silk
(Airdate: December 17, 2024) On the way back to the town of Wuwei, we had stopped to gaze at the spire of a pagoda thirty-meters high, named after a Buddhist monk and famed translator named Kumarajiva. We learned last time how the Chinese General Luguang had been sent to subdue the Silk Road Kingdom of Kucha and bring back Kumarajiva. Upon returning to Wuwei, he found a new emperor on the throne, so he refused to return the monk and created his own kingdom with the dusty garrison town of Wuwei as its captal.
Leila Block
(Airdate: December 16, 2024) Host Jim Burke talks with Leila Block, filmmaker, ceramicist, and Education and Gallery Assistant with Northwind Art, about her art as well as the great things to see at the galleries this holiday season.
Jason Ricci and Lorenzo Farrell
(Airdate: December 12, 2024) KPTZ’s Taylor Clark welcomed New Orleans-based harmonica virtuoso Jason Ricci along with keyboardist Lorenzo Farrell to Blues Journey. Jason Ricci & The Bad Kind were live at the Palindrome on December 13, 2024.
County Connections
(Airdate: December 13, 2024) This week on County Connections co-hosts Jim Burke and Commissioner Heidi Eisenhour welcome Jefferson County Department of Public Works Director/County Engineer Al Cairns. They discuss the state of recycling, including the discontinuation of glass recycling here in the county.
Brewocracy Now ~ 12/12/24
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro welcomed Jeff Bohman of the Peninsula Trails Coalition. We talked about the history and future of his organization and of the Olympic Discovery Trail.
A Fool and His Banana Are Soon Parted
(Airdate: December 12, 2024) A Fool and His Banana Are Soon Parted.
#701 – Wildlife Conservation Essays
(Airdate: December 11, 2024) Please join Nature Now this week as host Debaran Kelso speaks with author Betsy Howell about her recently published book of essays Wild Forest Home- Stories of Conservation in the Pacific Northwest. Betsy is a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Forest Service and has been on our program several times over the past years speaking about her work on the Olympic National Forest, but this interview focuses on her personal experiences as a writer working in the forests she’s come to love.
#256 Craig Dotson of Bonita’s Pet Store
(Airdate: December 10, 2024) Maryanne interviews Craig Dotson, the owner of Bonita’s 4-legged friends pet store. Craig was a foster child in California but ultimately the siren call of Port Townsend lured him here. Actually, his wife had spent summers here as a child. He had some experience with pet stores so it was natural for him to end up at Bonita’s. After her death he purchased the shop and hasn’t looked back. There are now Bonita’s stores in both PT and Sequim. He’s regularly expanding his wares. He’s a big proponent of the mantra “no corn, wheat or soy” in your pet food. So all the pet food they sell is made without corn, wheat, or soy.
