Stitch by Stitch by Javier Colon

Justin Starr Explains Intraplate Quakes in Connecticut

words by Dick Allen, Music by William Bolcom, performed by members of St. Patrick/St. Anthony Church Gallery Choir.

Solace

Connecticut's poet laureate Dick Allen reads his own poem in memory of the victims of the Newtown Tragedy.

Dick Allen Reciting "Solace"

Ladysmith Black Mambazo Ofana Naye (live)

Ladysmith Black Mambazo Homeless (live)

Voices of MB Biskupski, Renata Vickrey, Ewa Wolynska (CCSU Polish Studies Program) 

The Catholic Church as a center for the Polish immigrant community.

Msgr. Plocharczyk talks about becoming a priest in New Britain CT. 

Monsignor Daniel Plocharczyk of Sacred Heart Parish, New Britain CT

Msgr. Daniel Plocharczyk talking about Sacred Heart parish in New Britain, and the impact of his predecessor Msgr. Lucyan Bójnowski. 

Msgr. Plocharczyk on Msgr. Lucyan Bójnowski

Charla Nash Clip

Charla Nash 911 Clip

On WTIC's afternoon drive show, Pastor Will Marotti shied away from the scandal facing his predecessor, former Governor John Rowland. He started off the show by talking about UConn basketball, and the low attendance at this weekend's Hartford Wolf Pack game. Marotti asked his listeners to call-in and talk hockey. The first caller didn't get very far.

Pastor Will Marotti Gets Trolled On WTIC

WNPR's Patrick Skahill talks about his new blog 'The Beaker,' and about reporting on the history of Ham Radio. 

The Beaker: The History of Ham Radio

Michael Roth On The Colin McEnroe Show

JS Bach Prelude In F Major BWV 927

What it sounds like when you slow a hummingbird's call down.

Listen Closely: There's A Song Hidden In This Hummingbird's Chirp

The story of Ed Thrall and his contentious dance hall, produced by WNPR's Catie Talarski. Aired on Colin McEnroe Show 09/30/2014

Ed Thrall's Hall

The late cellist and teacher Ettie Minor Luckey was an enthusiastic proponent of the arts along Connecticut’s shoreline. She will be remembered at an event later this week.

More from WNPR's Diane Orson:
http://wnpr.org/post/musician-who-made-things-happen-along-shoreline

Elite Syncopation Plays Scott Joplin's "Bethena"

Men who served Delta Company, a paratrooper unit in the Vietnam War, became heroes after a fierce battle in March of 1968. A radio documentary called  "We've Never Been the Same, A War Story" by Adam Piore shares their story. Piore explains how he got interested in this particular unit in the U.S. Army.

More from WNPR's Lucy Nalpathanchil:
http://wnpr.org/post/veterans-who-fought-together-vietnam-reunite-and-heal

Photo: A Bravo company commander inspects the smoking ruins of the NVA base camp on the morning of March 19, 1968 after the big battle. By Earl Van Alstine for the U.S. Army.


Veterans Who Fought Together Reunite and Heal

WNPR's Ray Hardman talks with Middletown resident Chris Hinze, who discovered the factory site where the first Indian motorcycle was built in 1901.

Middletown's Chris Hinze discovers the first Indian motorcycle site

Blue Whale calls recorded in the Atlantic Ocean. NOTE: Sounds have been sped up 10x from their original speed. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

The Sounds of Atlantic Blue Whales

WNPR's Ray Hardman talks with Yale Law School prof. Judith Resnik about the recent "Time-In-Cell Report" which tallied the number of prisoners in the U.S. being held in solitary confinement.

Interview with Yale Law Professor Judith Resnik

Inmates from the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, Connecticut talk about Dante.

More from WNPR's Betsy Kaplan:
http://wnpr.org/post/connecticut-inmates-travel-through-dantes-inferno

Inmates Talk Dante on The Colin McEnroe Show

Lee 'Aca' Thompson, Artist Collective Master Choreographer, talks about teaching in Hartford, dancing and singing, and how he stays so active at 82.  Photo by Shana Sureck.

Learn more about Keney Park and Albany Avenue at the Radius Project: 
http://radiusproject.org/radius/keney-park/ 

Radius Project: Lee 'Aca' Thompson, Artists Collective Master Choreographer

Radius Project co-host Julia Pistell interviews women from the Mount Olive Church turkey drive, the day before Thanksgiving. Photo by Shana Sureck. 

For more stories, visit http://radiusproject.org.

Radius Project: The Ladies of the Mount Olive Turkey Drive

WNPR's Diane Orson profiles Connecticut veterans Pete Roe and Melinda Burnham. Both served as musicians for the U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq.

Songs Of War: A Conversation With Military Musicians Pete Roe and Melinda Burnham

WNPR intern Timothy Cohn interviews his mother Patricia Cohn, neice of "Radium Girl" Mae Keane.

Remembering Waterbury "Radium Girl" Mae Keane

We spent so much time this morning making fun of our own show topic — namely: prog rock — and our own lead guest — namely: Mr. Dankosky — that Colin almost couldn't make it through the prerecorded intro to our hour.

Here's the whole show, which includes more recognizable words and somewhat fewer laughs:
http://wnpr.org/post/show-never-ends

Colin Loses It Over Prog Rock

Recorded at Indian Well State Park in Shelton. Credit: Chris Wisniewski, Southern Connecticut State University / Image Credit: Ann Froschauer/USFWS

The Echolocation Call Of A Big Brown Bat

Dr. Dev Roy is a palliative care doctor, and the chair of bioethics at Montefiore Nyack Hospital and Sound Physicians in Nyack, NY. He tells me how their new musical tradition began.

Listen to the whole episode of Us in the Time of Coronavirus: https://www.wnpr.org/post/helpers-helping-helpers

How Montefiore Nyack Hospital uses music to play Covid survivors back into the world

Brock Hamilton is an X-ray technician at Yale New Haven Hospital, but he’s been re-assigned to a support team helping with some of their sickest Covid-19 patients. They’ve been playing Andra Day's "Rise Up" every time one of those patients is released from their hospital, and I asked him how it all got started.

Listen to the whole episode of Us in the Time of Coronavirus: www.wnpr.org/post/helpers-helping-helpers

How Yale New Haven Hospital helps patients "Rise Up" and go home after Covid-19

Even if you’re not in the dating world, you’ve probably heard of Tinder or OK Cupid. The photo of the person you’re checking out is prominent, and in milliseconds, you either choose to dig a little deeper and see what they’re about, or you swipe ‘em into oblivion.
 
But there’s a new app - S’More, which stands for “Something More”, that makes the photo the LEAST accessible feature... and its launch just this January may have come at the perfect time. 

People seem to be less interested in hookups, and more interested in substantial romances that can be more suited to navigating life in a pandemic.

I asked the President & CEO of S’More, Adam Cohen-Aslatei, why he designed the app this way. What’s at the heart of why photos are NOT the initial priority of his dating app?

A Conversation with the Founder of the Dating App, S'More, Adam Cohen-Aslatei

Kathy Shea Mormino of Suffield, Connecticut, is better known as “The Chicken Chick”. She’s the author of “The Chicken Chick’s Guide to Backyard Chickens: Simple steps for healthy, happy hens”, and she’s got almost 800,000 folks following her advice and almost daily educational livestreams on Facebook. I asked her what kind of changes she’s seeing in the chicken world since the pandemic hit.

Extended Conversation with Kathy Shea Mormino, "The Chicken Chick"

We had so many great stories about tattoo coverups for our show, that we had to make a second collection of 'em!
Thanks to everybody for telling me their story! 
Check out the on-air broadcast here:https://www.wnpr.org/post/change-art-stories-about-tattoo-coverups

Audacious Tattoo Coverup Episode - WEB EXTRA

Colin McEnroe's closing essay from the Season Two finale of Pardon Me (Another Damn Impeachment Show?).

More from Connecticut Public Radio's Pardon Me:
https://www.wnpr.org/post/acquitted-or-dorothy-were-not-phillydelphia-anymore

Colin's Closing Thoughts from Pardon Me, Season Two

We started off our conversation defining what exactly a superstition is and isn't. 
Listen to the full show: https://www.wnpr.org/post/are-you-very-superstitious-or-little-stitious

Audacious Extended: DR McElroy on Superstitions

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