JAM Podcasts & Audiobooks

Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. 

Our guest provides insight into their experience of moving to the Upper Valley from a more urban and suburban environment and what it’s like to integrate into Upper Valley schools, identifying how we function in multiple layers of bubbles that sometimes need to be burst.

To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: [email protected]

Edited by David Eric for JAM

Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. 

Our guest points out the challenges of access to community as a single parent, and as a proponent of environmental and food justice whose work in the trenches of identifying community members’ needs and meeting these through funding opportunities shapes their vision of the multiple layers and diverse issues that arise when we talk about community and what it means to belong, to be valued and inclusive.

To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: [email protected]

Edited by David Eric for JAM

Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. 

Our guest shares their rich personal experience of community, of diversity, of inclusion and of exclusion in far off places including the Middle East and Africa, as well as in the United States, while pursuing a career as a member of the Air Force.  They describe how their curiosity has informed their deeply rooted sense of community, and how this has evolved since moving to a small Vermont town a few years ago, and the challenges and rewards of becoming a part of the community fabric.

To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: [email protected]

Edited by David Eric for JAM

Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. 

In our 14th episode, our guest shares what he has learned about being a Vermonter, after moving to the Upper Valley just before the pandemic, and provides insights into how he approaches building community through volunteering.

To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: [email protected]

Edited by David Eric for JAM

Podcast #1: An overview of Senior Solutions and Aging Successfully in Vermont. Brought to you by Jim Collins and Joann Erenhouse for Senior Solutions the Council on Aging for Southeastern Vermont.

Senior Solutions mission is to promote the well-being and dignity of older adults. Our vision includes providing access to services and programs that provides support to enable every person to age in the place of their choice with the opportunity for meaningful relationships and active engagement with their community. We will present programs and interviews to inform and encourage us all to age successfully here in Vermont

Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. 

In our 13th episode, our guest shares a positive experience of community anchored in a rich family tradition of openness and caring, in a place where kids answered the call of the street lights coming on as the signal to get back home, where elders sipped coffee and shared cake in fellowship.  They describe how they have managed to maintain and cultivate a sense of belonging in the Upper Valley, using dialogue and mutual respect as the cornerstones to build their local community.

To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: [email protected]

Edited by David Eric for JAM

Jim Kenyon of the Valley News joined jamCAMP: Breaking News & Multimedia Journalism to share his expertise in the practices of responsible local journalism.
July 2022

Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. 

Our guest shares an experience of community informed by her early upbringing in Southern California, and the contrast with her experience here in the Upper Valley, where there is a huge difference in her sense of belonging.  Despite active efforts to get involved in local community, she has experienced little to no acceptance.

To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: [email protected]

Edited by David Eric for CATV

Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. 

Our 11th episode takes us into the experiences of community of a person who has deep, long term ties to the Upper Valley, having moved here as a teen, and now transitioning towards retirement in the near future.  Our guest shares his strong sense of self founded in family, in church and in theater, and invites us to make the effort to reach out to take our own responsibility to actively build community as the only way to develop true inclusion.

To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: [email protected]

Edited by David Eric for CATV