Frances Hubbard Flaherty collaborated on every Robert J. Flaherty film and devoted her life after his death, according to the Flaherty Seminars website, "to the articulation and explanation of Robert Flaherty's view on documentary film, both in her writings... and especially her establishment of the Seminars."   The Flaherty Seminar is now based in Brooklyn and continues the Flaherty legacy as 'The Flaherty'. 

 The Flaherty's daughter, Monica Flaherty Frasseto, added sound to Moana and directed the Flaherty Study Center in Dummerston for many years before she died in Dummerston in 2008. An obituary of her life appeared in the local Brattleboro Reformer here. 

Other sources include A Documentary Life, 1883-1922, published in 2005 by Robert J. Christopher, which provided insight into the years Flaherty spent in northern Canada making Nanook of the North and Robert and Frances' 1914-16 diaries and correspondence.  Hidden and Seeking (1971) directed by Peter Werner, is another source for those interested in delving deeper into the Flaherty phenomenon.

Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.  Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work.

This episode was produced and hosted by Lissa Weinmann with guest Sandy Rouse. It was edited, composed and mastered by Alec Pombriant and taped at BCTV with help from Van Wiles. 

Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.  Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work.

Script, Audio Production/Editing, Narration: Donna Blackney; Production Assistance and Executive Producing: Lissa Weinmann.
Commentary/Research: Nancy Olson with additional research from: Marilyn Blackwell (U. Mass Amherst), Dan DeWalt (also original piano composition and performance) and Rolf Parker-Houghton. Voice of Clarina: Shannon Ward; Voice of Sen. Joseph Barrett: John Loggia

Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.  Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work.

Audio Production and Narration: Donna Blackney, with assistance from Sandy Rouse of the Brattleboro Literary Festival. Executive Producer, Lissa Weinmann. Mastering for podcast Alec Pombriant from  Brattleboro Words Trail segments mastered by Guilford Sound. Theme music Ty Gibbons. 
Interviews and Readings:
Beena Kamlani, Bellow’s long-term editor at Viking Penguin Press reading: A Race Against Time by Beena Kamlani 2015

 https://lithub.com/a-race-against-time-editing-saul-bellows-last-novel/ Photo of Beena Kamlani and Saul Bellow provided courtesy of Beena Kamani and Lit Hub

Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.  Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work.

This episode was researched, produced and narrated by Donna Blackney with production assistance from Sandy Rouse of the Brattleboro Literary Festival. Mixing and mastering was done by Alec Pombriant from masters done for Brattleboro Words Trail app for Guilford Sound. Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons. Executive Producer, LIssa Weinmann. Many thanks to Saul Bellow’s biographer Zachary Leader, his long-time editor at Viking Penguin Press Beena Kamlani, his friend Larry Simons and the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society for their archival footage of Bellow and help.  

For more info on Project, visit BrattleboroWords.org. 

All audio clips of Saul Bellow from The Writing Life with Saul Bellow are reproduced by permission of HoCoPoLitSo, the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society, www.hocopolitso.org. To hear the entire interview, visit www.youtube.com/hocopolitso.

Excerpt(s) from HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow, copyright © 1958, 1959, 1974, renewed © 1986, 1987 by Saul Bellow. Used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

Excerpt(s) from HERZOG by Saul Bellow, copyright © 1961, 1963, 1964, renewed 1989, 1991, 1992 by Saul Bellow. Used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from RAVELSTEIN by Saul Bellow. Copyright © 2000 by Saul Bellow, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.

References:

The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune 1915-1964 uby Zachary Leader. Published by Knopf 2015.

The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife 1965-2005 dby Zachary Leader. Published by Knopf 2018.

Saul Bellow: Letters, by Saul Bellow (Author), Benjamin Taylor (Editor) Penguin Books 2012

“Vermont: The Good Place” from There Is Simply Too Much To Think About, a collection of essays by Saul Bellow. Edited by Benjamin Taylor. Penguin Books 2016. Copyright 2015 Janis Bellow.

A Race Against Time by Beena Kamlani 2015 https://lithub.com/a-race-against-time-editing-saul-bellows-last-novel/

Episode Photo: Courtesy of the Nobel Prize 

Music:

Part 1: ‘Now or Never’ by Michael Vignola (storyblocks.com)

Part 2: ‘Backed Vibes Clean’ by Kevin MacLeod (freemusicarchive.org)

‘Cool Jazz’ by Bobby Cole (storyblocks.com)

Part 3: ‘Just A Thought’ by Michael Vignola (storyblocks.com)

‘Empty Days’ by Alan Spiljak (freemusicarchive.org)

Part 4: ‘Just A Thought’ by Michael Vignola (storyblocks.com)

Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.  Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work.

Chuck Collins, a nationally acclaimed, Guilford, Vermont based writer and economic inequality activist,  shares the story of how 'the seeds were planted' for his lifelong interest in uprooting the  growing economic inequality that is subverting American democracy.  The piece includes  an overview of his family history. He  details the books he's written, organizations he's formed such as Inequality.org and his program at the Institute for Policy Studies.

Collins describes how the Covid pandemic 'supercharged' the wealth gap and how climate change and inequality are 'webbed together.' He speaks of his early work helping mobile home owners in Western Mass buy the land under their homes and the fruits of these housing efforts.  He also discusses his ties to the southern Vermont and western Massachusetts area and shares a bit of life on Springs Farm along with its history as a 'water-cure' and water bottling facility in the past. He discusses the need to 'rewire the economy toward shared prosperity' and how 'wealth dynasties' are increasingly undermining everything we care about. 

Collins has published his first novel, Altar to an Erupting Sun, Green Writers Press, in May 2023. 

Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.  Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work.

This episode was produced by Reggie Martell with Nancy Olson and Lissa Weinmann. Editing and narration by Reggie Martell. Original mix and master Guilford Sound;  Podcast mastering by Jack Pombriant.  Brattleboro Words Trail theme music Ty Gibbons. Photograph of Jody Williams is by Annie Leibovitz.  For further reading on Jody Williams, see her book: My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize, published in 2013, University of California Press. Also see current work Jody supports at  https://www.stopkillerrobots.org

Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.  Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work.

This trailer podcast was produced by LIssa Weinmann and Jack Pombriant with help from Sally Seymour. The Brattleboro Words Trail theme song is by Ty Gibbons.  The Trail is a product of the Brattleboro Words Project, which was inspired and supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It has worked with hundreds of local citizens to produce more than 100 audio stories linked to places one can explore through a free, gps-triggered app and website, 'Brattleboro Words Trail'. Large ceramic landscape murals exhibited in the town are updated as new content is added; Free printed maps based on the murals guide folks along. The Project also published a 278-page, richly illustrated companion book called "Print Town: Brattleboro's Legacy of Words." Lissa Weinmann  directs the Brattleboro Words Project with an Advisory Team comprised of William Edelglass PhD, Shanta Lee, Starr LaTronica, Rolf Parker-Houghton and Sally Seymour.  Partners in the Project include the Brattleboro Literary Festival, Brooks Memorial Library, Brattleboro Historical Society, Write Action. Marlboro College was a principal partner until it closed in 2020. The Vermont Folklife Center is now the Brattleboro Words Project's fiscal sponsor. 

Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.  Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work.