(Airdate: November 5, 2024) Scott Wilson, long time editor and publisher of the Port Townsend Leader stops by to talk with Cris Wilson about his book Working Port: 100 years of the Port of Port Townsend. This is a book for everyone as it is filled with so many great stories and characters. Some of these men and women are people still here making Port Townsend the unique and fabulous town we love!
(Airdate: November 5, 2024) After a trip to the Tibetan center of Labrang, we’re back in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province. Lanzhou has never been renowned for its beauty, and it’s sliding fast toward the ugly end of the scale. Still, there are a few places worth visiting while we await the next bus out of town—Five Spring Mountain Park, and across the Yellow River, the White Pagoda, both full of history and legend.
(Airdate: November 4, 2024) Scott Wilson, former publisher of the Port Townsend Leader and retired County Commissioner Kathleen Kler join host Phil Andrus on this day before Election Day. Questions: When and why did Jefferson County, especially Port Townsend, come to so strongly support Democratic Party candidates. What might the retirement of Derek Kilmer mean to Jefferson County? What effect might come from the change in our district’s delegation to the State Legislature?
This Month on the BOCC Health Report, Dr. Allison Berry says all respiratory viruses are low in Jefferson County. Flu season is starting on the east coast, so we can expect it here in about a month – around the holidays,” says Dr. Berry. Willie Bence says we can expect more seasonal wind events, and that the precipitation will be higher than average during the winter, with lower than average temperatures, so prepare for power outages now.
(Airdate: November 1, 2024) Co-hosts County Commissioner Heidi Eisenhour and Jim Burke welcome Eron Berg, Port Director of the Port of Port Townsend and Scott Freeman of the Jefferson Timber Collective. They discuss the new Airport Industrial Park that the Port is developing between the Airport and Four Corners which will be an incubator for new and growing companies. Some are working with the Jefferson Timber Collective which is working with local foresters, sawyers and makers, to provide materials and local timber to GROW local businesses.
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro discussed the ‘elephant in the room’, namely the recent articles in the Port Townsend Leader about City Manager Mauro.
(Airdate: October 31, 2024 – A Halloween Telling of Twisted Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm)
(Reprise airdate: October 30, 2024) We join Nature Now host Debaran Kelso on a fall mushroom hunt with fellow fungiphiles Maxwell Fisher, Baylin Speidel, and Shawn Gisriel! This is part 1 of a two-part series.
(Airdate: October 29, 2024) Maryanne interviews Sara Ybarra Lopez and Mark Stevenson, the artists who helped save Port Townsend’s iconic Haller Fountain. As unbelievable as it may seem, our iconic fountain was actually originally ordered out of a plumbing catalog. Dozens – perhaps hundreds – of identical statues were sold across the country. Over the decades the fountains all suffered from damages, whether from weather, playful climbing, or even vandalism. Few remain. PT’s statue was literally in pieces when concerned citizens decided to do something about it. The artists were commissioned to recreate it. Recasting the statue in bronze was no simple matter. Sara even wrote a book about it – Galatea: The Heart of Port Townsend. More about their work is at website: carapacearts.net.
(Airdate: October 28, 2024) We’re in Gansu Province at the Tibetan Buddhist Center of Labrang, a seven hour bus ride south the Linxia. Most of the people who visit Labrang are Tibetan pilgrims, but Chinese and an occasional Western tourist or two also make the trek.
