The Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge (ELK) is growing. Artist Pam Halls started the project a decade ago on Newfoundland's Northern peninsula. The newest edition co-authored with Jerry Evans shares some of the rich knowledge of the Mi'kmaw community of Miawpukek near Conne River.

Long Lost sisters tells the story of an amateur genealogical sleuth who helped reunite two sisters who didn’t know about each other. Separated by the Atlantic ocean and seven decades. Sheila and Carol Ann meet face to face for the first time here.

In light of the guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin and the global focus on racism and policing, I am re-airing an interview with poet and activist El Jones, She was asked by the Halifax Board of Commissioners to define defunding the police. The chair said El Jones with the contacts she has in the community will give us the information we need.

This week on Atlantic Voice, CBC New Brunswick’s Myfanwy Davies brings us the story of Laura Stairs

- a loving and generous young woman and by all accounts an incredible hugger. This is the story of her heart and how it brought together two families.

Shaina Luck takes us into a dry cell. It’s a windowless prison cell with no working plumbing. The lights are always on and there’s 24-7 monitoring. Guards wait and watch for days, even weeks for prisoners to expel suspected contraband from their bodies. Some consider dry cells torture.

Today on Atlantic Voice, I'll speak with Wendy Bergfeldt who is launching a new CBC series called “Ready and Able" about the Nova Scotia government’s commitment to make the province fully accessible to all - by 2030.

Wendy is going to introduce to some of the advocates behind this progressive new legislation.

We herald the first signs of spring with poet, fisherman and environmental activist Harry Thurston, an award-winning writer who’s been published in Audubon, Canadian and National Geographic and many more. His memoir Lost River: The Waters of Remembrance traces the changing riverscape of Nova Scotia and how those changes have impacted work, life and nature.

Andrea McGuire introduces us to the world of conlangers. “Constructed languages” (or “conlangs” for short) is a term used for languages that are deliberately and consciously created. Esperanto, for instance, was invented by a Polish eye doctor in the late 19th-century. J.R.R. Tolkien created multiple languages for the Lord of the Rings series. And over the last 25 years, Jamin Johnson, a man living in Halifax, N.S., has nimbly invented over nine languages.

This week on AV, debut Cape Breton novelist Morgan Murray. His debut novel was longlisted for Canada Reads this year and Giller winner Will Ferguson said of Dirty Birds, "Canadians Rejoice, Our Vonnegut has arrived! Morgan Murray's debut is a great brawling, sprawling, muscular glory of a story, funny dark and wholly original." This week a chat with Morgan about his experience as a writer and the creative community of Mabou, Cape Breton where he resides.

A documentary from Isabella Zavarise of CBC PEI that explores a possible solution to the region's many under-used convents. In Charlottetown, Sister Sue Kidd created Visitation Place - university students are invited to live in the convent - no strings attached - while they explore their role in the community.