Truro AirWaves

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Truro Public Library Podcasts. At the Truro Public Library, we have books and much more for our vibrant coastal community on Outer Cape Cod. Thank you to Mark van Bork for our theme music!

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Author Gary D. Schmidt speaks with student Anya Vargas

Season 2: Episode 3 Guest host Anya Vargas talks to award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt about his latest young-adult novel The Labors of Hercules Beal.

Jun 08, 2023•22 min•Season 2Ep. 3

Interview with Carol Harris of Truro’s Climate Action Committee and Emily Beebe, Truro’s Health and Conservation Agent.

Season 2, Episode 2 This month we talked to the chair of Truro’s Climate Action Committee, Carol Harris and Emily Beebe, Truro’s Health and Conservation Agent about changing habits and small actions the individual can do to make a difference in climate change. https://www.truro-ma.gov

Apr 27, 2023•40 min•Season 2Ep. 2

Interview with Joe Paprzycki, Fermin Rojas, and John Dennis Anderson of the Truro Playwright Collective.

Season 2, Episode 1 Welcome back to the Truro Airwaves podcast, I’m your new host Justine. This week I talked to three talented people about the newly formed Truro Playwright Collective – Founder, Joe Paprzycki with Fermin Rojas and John Dennis Anderson. www.truroplaywrightcollective.org

Mar 09, 2023•31 min•Season 2Ep. 1

Interview with Grace Freundlich about her book, "Enough of all That"

Grace did not know. How long would it take to figure it out? How did the child of Holocaust survivors become a survivor herself? It was a mystery that took a lifetime to unravel. Until then, through the many difficulties she experienced, the lodestar that helped her was that "It could have been worse." The hand she was dealt was having been born in New York to a damaged family of Jews who came out of late 1930s Germany. It took her until she was in her eighties to understand her life, the ways s...

Apr 24, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 4

The Outer Cape Mock Caldecott with Barbara Klipper: Its History and Current Virtual Incarnation

How did the Outer Cape Mock Caldecott begin? At the outset of our seventh Mock Caldecott, Barbara Klipper shares the story of how her own experience with the American Library Association's Caldecott Medal award segued, with Youth Librarian Maggie Hanelt's participation, into the Truro Mock Caldecott and, a few years later, the Outer Cape Mock Caldecott. In 2020-21, it is the Virtual Mock Caldecott! To hear the anecdotes not found elsewhere, listen here....

Dec 03, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Interview with Anne Makepeace and Jennifer Weston: We Still Live Here

Anne Makepeace ( Makepeace Productions, Inc. ) and Jennifer Weston ( Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project & Wampanoag Mashpee Wampanoag Language Department ) join Galen on Truro Airwaves to discuss We Still Live Here (Âs Nutayuneân). The film, co-produced by our guests, tells a remarkable story of cultural revival by the Wampanoag of Southeastern Massachusetts. The podcast covers the concept for the film, highlights from the story, the status of the project today, the associated project Our...

Sep 22, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Interview with Nathaniel Philbrick: The Mayflower

As the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival in the New World approaches, Nathaniel Philbrick joins Galen on Truro AirWaves to talk about his book Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, War . Mayflower delivers a thoroughly-researched story that tackles the myths of the Pilgrims and recognizes the complexities and realities of their arrival and its impact on their own lives and the lives of those who already lived here. The podcast covers the myths around the Pilgrims, some highlights fr...

Sep 22, 2020•20 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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