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K.A. Owens interviews Don Ray Smith about his new play "Growing Up White On Wilson", about what is was like when white people still lived in the West End of Louisville, KY in large numbers.

Recorded Friday September 1, 2023 3PM.

Barry Levy is a physician and epidemiologist who has studied the health impacts of war for more than three decades. His new book, "From Horror to Hope: Recognizing and Preventing the Health Impacts of War," which was published by Oxford University Press, provides a comprehensive review of the impacts of armed conflict on health, human rights, and the environment and addresses the prevention of war and the promotion of peace.

Dr. Levy has spoken and written extensively on these issues, including the health impacts of Russia's war in Ukraine. Dr. Levy has authored or co-authored more than 250 published articles and book chapters and Dr. Levy previously served as a medical epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control.

He is an Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Tufts University School of Medicine and a Past President of the American Public Health Association.

Patty and Brian discuss the discipline of Logic

This week we are giving you something we are calling a "remix" episode. We have a new interview with former guest Mick Sullivan combined with some of his previous interview way back in 2019.

Amy is traveling this week so we’ve reconnected with former guest Mick Sullivan, who is the curator of guest experience at the Frazier History Museum and is also the creator of the award winning children's history podcast, The Past and the Curious, which grew out of the stories he tells people at the museum. His quirky combo of humor and music keeps both kids and adults interested and sneaks in a little history in the process.

The success of his podcast led to the publication of his first children's book, The Meat Shower, which is a fun telling of the historical event of meat falling from the sky in the 1800s. He has now published a book for older kids called I See Lincoln’s Underpants: The Surprising Times Underwear (and the People Wearing Them) Made History.

This episode is a little something new and something old. In this combo episode, we chat with Mick to see what he has been up to since his last book was published and you can also hear more about his first book which we discussed with him in the early days of the show in episode 27.

You can find more from Mick Sullivan including podcast episodes at https://thepastandthecurious.com/.

For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.

We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover.

Books Discussed in This Episode:

1- The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough

2- The Meatshower by Mick Sullivan

3- I See Lincoln’s Underpants: The Surprising Times Underwear (and the People Wearing Them) Made History by Mick Sullivan

4- Al Capone Does my Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

5- Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontes by Devoney Looser

6- Braiding Sweetgrass For Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

7- Spying on the South by Tony Horwitz

8- Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz

9- Life of Pi by Yann Martel

10- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

Podcasts mentioned—

The Past and the Curious

John-Robert Curtin, Ph.D., author and faculty member at the Univ. of Louisville and Indiana Univ., discusses his book "On Civility: Restorative Reflections" and explains some of the knowledge he has gained from a career in mediation, restorative justice, alternative dispute resolution, and bullying in the workplace and in schools.

We are celebrating five years on the air! To honor science, and the work of scientists, we are dissecting one calendar date (August 28) and describing some of the historical advances that occurred in STEM on that date! Chlorine gas was initially isolated, and the Burgess Shale fossils were discovered on August 28th. The first successful gene therapy trial was performed, and the first human embryos were gene-edited using CRISPR-Cas9 on that day. In addition to the amazing things that happened in science on August 28, we also discuss three pivotal civil rights events that occurred then.

‘Bench Talk: The Week in Science’ is a weekly program that airs on WFMP Louisville FORward Radio 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm, Tuesday at 11:30 am, and Wednesday at 7:30 am.

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On this week’s Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, puts on his overalls and gets down in the weeds with more of the organizers from the Food In Neighborhoods (FIN) community coalition who are pulling together Kentucky’s first-ever People’s Summit on Food Systems and Urban Agriculture on September 8-9, 2023. It is called “Weaving the Food Web” and it will be taking place here in Louisville at 100 Witherspoon Conference Center. You can learn more and register at https://whova.com/portal/registration/agcon_202309/. You can also take the survey for Louisville's Food Vision 2023 right now at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScorrUWOc8ipmJXxYxDg1g5TFfv1f-FH9Q80SmH5iBN6QemUA/viewform

In studio to discuss the Summit are co-organizers:

LeTicia Marshall, who currently serves as the Local Food Systems Justice Coordinator at Kentucky State University's Cooperative Extension Office in West Louisville - their mission is to bring resources, education, and training to limited resource and underserved communities. For the past year, LeTicia has worked to connect and collaborate with leaders, organizations, business owners, and community members who are all passionate about their local food system to find solutions to make our local food system more equitable and sustainable.

Tyler Short, who currently works part-time with FIN, leading facilitation of the planning committee for the People’s Summit. He also works at Valley Spirit Farm in Henry County. In addition, he represents the international peasant movement La Via Campesina in the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism, an essential and autonomous part of the United Nations Committee on World Food Security.

Bethany Pratt, who is the Senior Extension Associate with the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Nutrition Education Program. She works in Louisville and focuses on connecting limited-resource Kentuckians with locally grown produce. She is also the co-coordinator of the Louisville Urban Agriculture Coalition, a part of Food In Neighborhoods Community Coalition.

Mad Marchal, who is the Urban Agriculture Manager at Louisville Grows. They run the Louisville Grows annual plant sales, manage the Community Garden Grant program and are the Louisville program manager for the Giving Grove National Community Orchard Program.

FIN and the Cooperative Extension Program of Kentucky State University have partnered to organize The People’s Summit in Louisville on September 8–9, 2023. It includes caravan tours to raise awareness about local food apartheid and grassroots efforts to increase healthy food access as well as spotlight the work of urban growers. The Summit will have workshops-style events involving popular education and in-depth political strategy discussions.

Exciting food justice initiatives will be featured and the input of participants - through dialogue, art and celebration - will be gathered during the day. Hot breakfast and lunch, ASL and language interpretation will be offered, along with childcare. Grow Appalachia is offering free registration for beginning farmers. Be part of food justice history and join us on September 8 and 9! Learn more and register at http://foodinneighborhoods.org

As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW!

Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at http://appalatin.com

K.A. Owens interviews Ron Brown of-The Spot. Ron shares with us his story and the experience of working with today's at risk youth.

Recorded Friday August 25, 2023, 2PM.

On this week's show we bring you conversation about the Roots of Environmental Injustice in Appalachia with historian Ron Eller that recorded live on June 29, 2023 by the Kentucky Resources Council as part of their Kentucky Environmental Leadership Institute (https://www.kyrc.org/our-work/kentucky-environmental-leadership-institute).

Ron Eller is a Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Kentucky. Originally from southern West Virginia, Ron Eller has spent over forty years writing and teaching about the Appalachian region. A descendant of eight generations of families from Appalachia, Dr. Eller served for 15 years as the Director of the University of Kentucky Appalachian Center, where he coordinated research and service programs on a wide range of Appalachian policy issues, including education, health care, economic development, civic leadership, and the environment. A former Rockefeller Foundation Scholar, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is widely known as a scholar of Appalachian history and the study of rural economic development and social change.

He has published more than sixty articles and reports but is most well known for his award-winning books Miners, Millhands and Mountaineers: The Industrialization of the Appalachian South, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1983, and Uneven Ground: Appalachia Since 1945, published in 2008. He has served as Chairman of the Governor’s Kentucky Appalachian Task Force, the first Chairman of the Kentucky Appalachian Commission and as a member of the Sustainable Communities Task Force of President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development. Among other awards, he is the recipient of the Jim Wayne Miller Award for Distinguished Service to Appalachia, two East Kentucky Leadership Foundation Special Awards (1999 and 2009), and the University of Kentucky William E. Lyons Award for Outstanding Public Service. He has worked on projects in rural education reform with the Ford Foundation, the American Council on Education, and the American Association of Community Colleges and has served as the John D. Whisman Visiting Scholar for the Appalachian Regional Commission in Washington.

Dr. Eller’s most recent book, Uneven Ground: Appalachia Since 1945, was the winner of the 2008 Willis D. Weatherford Award for the best publication about Appalachia by the Appalachian Studies Association and the 2009 V.O. Key Award for the best book on Southern Politics by the Southern Political Science Association. The book examines the impact of government programs and economic development on Appalachia since World War II. He is retired and splits his time between his cabin in western North Carolina and his home in Lexington, Kentucky.

On Truth to Power each week, we gather people from around the community to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! It's a community conversation like you won't hear anywhere else!

Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 4pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at forwardradio.org

A few weeks ago we talked about journeys and this week we are completing the circle with an episode about destinations; specifically about places we have visited in the last few years. Do you read books about the places you travel before or during a trip? We talk about how it can enrich both your reading and travel experience.

For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.

We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover.

You can find books we've talked about and other curated lists at our Bookshop page at https://bookshop.org/shop/PerksOfBeingABookLover

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Broadway Butterfly by Sara DiVello

2- When You Find My Body by D. Dauphinee

3- Alice the Cat by Tim Cummings

4- Tell the Rest by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

5- Burying My Dead by Bettie Lennett Denny

6- Martin Marten by Brian Doyle

7- Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan

8- The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

9- The Highland Witch by Susan Fletcher (Corrag)

10- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

11- The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's

First Serial Killer by Skip Hollandsworth

12- Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

13- 44 Scotland Street (#1) by Alexander McCall Smith

14- Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

15- My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith

18- West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

19- City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab

20- The Tale of Halycon Crane by Wendy Webb

21- The Crow Road by Iain Banks

22- The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

23- Blacktop Wasteland by SA Cosby

24- Razorblade Tears by SA Cosby

25- All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby

5 Star Recommneded Read By a Fellow Booklover - Ivana @MissTuned

1- Swear on This Life by Renee Carlino

Shows mentioned--

1- The Bear (Hulu)

2- Beef (Netflix)

3- Romeo and Juliet (1968)

Articles mentioned--

https://www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna98970