Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast

There are many common questions surrounding dieting and other nutrition matters.

Kate Niemczyk, a librarian in the Business, Science, and Technology Department, interviewed Robin Spence from Union Memorial Hospital and asked her some of these questions.

Recorded On: Thursday, February 21, 2008

 Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 – November 26, 1985) was an African-American surgical technician who helped develop the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s. He was an assistant to Alfred Blalock at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and later at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Without any education past high school, Thomas rose above poverty and racism to become a cardiac surgery pioneer and a teacher to many of the country's most prominent surgeons.

 Presidential Historian and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author 

An equally gifted historian and storyteller, Doris Kearns Goodwin illustrates lessons in leadership relevant to today’s issues and headlines from some of the country’s greatest figures. 

With stories and anecdotes from the inner circles of wives, friends and close associates who surrounded our president's, Goodwin brings the past alive, allowing listeners to learn from the talents, skills, and human failings of some of our most fascinating leaders, as well as providing insight in to the proper boundaries between private and public lives.

Doris Kearns is the 2007 recipient of Enoch Pratt Free Library's Lifetime Literary Achievement Award and delivered this keynote address at the Pratt Society Dinner on November 10.

Recorded On: Saturday, November 10, 2007

discusses her new book, Sole Sisters: The Joys and Pains of Single Black Women

More black women today are single -- and likely to remain single -- than are married, in numbers that have reached historic heights.

Drawing on interviews with 125 single black women from around the country, journalist Deborah Mathis has compiled a funny, poignant and thought-provoking chronicle of the realities of being single, black and female today.

Deborah Mathis is a print and broadcast journalist, teacher, and author whose work has appeared in countless publications. She is the author of Yet a Stranger and What God Can Do. 

Recorded On: Tuesday, November 27, 2007

talks about "The Impact of Ghetto Mores, Attitudes and Lifestyles on American Culture."

Cora Daniels is an award-winning journalist and the author of GHETTONATION: A Journey into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless and Black Power, Inc: The New Voice of Success. She is currently a contributing writer for Essence, and her work has appeared in numerous national publications. An expert on diversity and business issues, Daniels has served as a commentator on ABC News, CNN, CNBC, BET, NPR, and "The Charlie Rose Show."

Cora Daniels graduated from Yale University, with a B.A. in History, and earned an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University.

Photo of Cora Daniels by Jamel Toppin, from her Random House author page.

This program is part of the Brown Lecture Series. Additional support has been provided by Alpha Kappa Alpha, Epsilon Omega chapter, in Baltimore.

Recorded On: Thursday, November 29, 2007

Find out the answers to all your flu shot questions. Dr. Anne Bailowitz, a pediatrician with the Baltimore City Health Department, is interviewed while providing free flu shots at a public health flu clinic at the Enoch Pratt Free Library.

Stay healthy this winter -- get a FREE flu shot!

Recorded On: Friday, November 9, 2007

 Hosted by the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Yusef Komunyakaa, Carl Phillips and Natasha Trethewey gave a special reading as part of the 30th anniversary celebration for Callaloo , the premier journal of literature, art, and culture of the African Diaspora. Founded in 1976 by editor Charles H. Rowell in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Callaloo publishes original works and critical studies of black artists and writers worldwide.

Yusef Komunyakaa's numerous books of poems include Neon Vernacular (1994), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Komunyakaa is a chancellor of The Academy of American Poets and a professor in the Council of Humanities and Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.

Carl Phillips' collection The Rest of Love (2004) won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His recent collections are Quiver of Arrows and Riding Westward. Phillips is Professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University.

Natasha Trethewey won the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for her first collection of poems, Domestic Work (2000). Since then she has published two more collections of poetry and received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Native Guard (2006). Trethewey teaches creative writing at Emory University.

Recorded On: Friday, October 26, 2007

Author and national radio personality Garrison Keillor reads from his new Lake Wobegon novel, PONTOON.

Evelyn was a Sanctified Brethren woman of good standing, a devoted mother, a serious quilter. Only after she dies in her sleep, as she always wished she would, do we find out that she has been living a secret life. Garrison Keillor's latest Lake Wobegon novel is about courage and transformation in a town stuck in its ways.

Keillor is the host and writer of the public radio program, A Prairie Home Companion, now in its 30th year. He is the author of 16 books, most recently the New York Times bestseller Homegrown Democrat.

Recorded On: Saturday, October 27, 2007

This performance was part of the Playin' o' the Green Casual Concert series at Central Library, which featured traditional irish folk music. Recorded March 14, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.

Wild Mountain Thyme -- First recorded by Francis McPeake (of Ulster, Ireland) in 1957

This performance was part of the Playin' o' the Green Casual Concert series at Central Library, which featured traditional irish folk music. Recorded March 14, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.

Planxty Fanny Power -- composed before 1728 by blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738).