Other Voices

By The Altamont Enterprise & Albany County Post

Often, truth isn’t handed down from public officials but comes from listening to other voices. Once a week, you can hear a wide variety of views from people who shape our corner of the world in New

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May 30, 2021 Faith Borkowski and Georgia Burtt, ending a pandemic with a music festival
Best friends: Faith Borkowski and Georgia Burtt play Jay Ungar’s “Ashokan Farewell” in this week’s podcast. Georgia has named her violin — made in Germany in the 1800s — Aphrodite and says it is her most prized possession. Faith’s violin originally belonged to her mother. Her father, too, is a violinist and she has enjoyed playing with him at nursing homes. The duo are Young Leaders in the Empire State Youth Orchestra and are organizing a Volunteer Music Festival that will be held on Sunday, June 13, at Altamont’s Orsini Park from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. They have partnered with the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York and will be collecting monetary and food donations for the food bank during the festival. Both of them aspire to careers as musicians and will soon be submitting performance tapes to Julliard.
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30min
May 26, 2021 Jason Brinkman, Albany Dutchmen baseball

Jason Brinkman, who grew up in Guilderland, is the general manager and vice president of the Albany Dutchmen, one of 16 teams throughout New York State in the Perfect Game Baseball League. After being closed out last summer by pandemic restrictions, the team is moving to Dutchmen Field at Roger Keenholts Park in Guilderland this season. Brinkman, in this week’s podcast, calls the ballpark, with lights for night games and new chair-back seating as well as picnic areas, “a hidden gem tucked away.” The Dutchmen’s home opener is Saturday, June 5. College players from across the country — including from Vanderbilt, Louisville and Old Miss — converge for a summer season “with the hopes and dreams of … being drafted by Major League Baseball,” said Brinkman. The team is looking for local families to host players — with information at dutchmenbaseball.com. All that’s needed is a spare bed, said Brinkman, and the bonds can last a lifetime. Brinkman thinks a sense of normalcy will return with the boys of summer. He said, “I’m thrilled to have baseball back.”

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32min
May 25, 2021 Phil Teumim, "contemporary folk" and Old Songs
Phil Teumim of Delmar creates art from recycled objects and music by drawing on past traditions and on personal experiences. He describes it as “contemporary folk” or “acoustic Americana” in this week’s podcast. “The songs are the keepers of the stories of the day. They are the compass rose that help us find our way,” say the lyrics to “Old Songs,” which Teumim wrote to benefit the local group that holds concerts, dances, and festivals to keep traditional music alive. Teumim is president of Old Songs Inc. and worked with other musicians to build the organization a home in Voorheesville in what was once a church and later a library. — Photo from www.philibuck.com
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40min
May 08, 2021 Vaclav Sotola, from Czechoslovakia to Guilderland
Vaclav Sotola left Prague, Czechoslovakia with his mother, fleeing a politically constrained communist country before the fall of the Berlin wall. He experienced a recurring dream when he first arrived in the United States, via Yugoslavia and Austria: he would go for an evening walk in the woods until he heard steps behind him and large men were following to capture him, he would run, they would pursue, and then he would wake up. Now, a teacher in Canajoharie and swim coach for Guilderland and Voorheesville, Sotola is ready to retire and still sometimes thinks and dreams in Czech. Listen to more of his story on the latest podcast.
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36min
April 30, 2021 Willard Martin — plays bring community together
Willard Martin, on the stage set at the Old Stone Church in Esperance, displays an album capturing scenes from an Hysterical Players’ production.
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31min
April 22, 2021 Ed Chevrette — tales from general aviation
Ed Chevrette, dressed in his pilot's clothes, relaxes in his Guilderland home. His Learjet lapel pin was earned, not bought.
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27min
April 17, 2021 John Hughes, between Hameenlinna and Altamont
John Hughes of Altamont stands at the Aulanko Nature Reserve in Finland near Hameenlinna, a city north of Helsinki where he lives with his Finnish wife, Tuulikki. The couple met at an educational media conference in Honolulu — she was a college professor in Finland; he was a media producer for SUNY. Both are retired now. They married last April, in the midst of the pandemic, in front of the Guilderland Town Hall, and now split their time between Altamont and Hameenlinna. For the fourth year running, a report sponsored by the United Nations has named Finland the happiest place in the world. The joke in Finland, Hughes says in this week’s podcast, is: “It wins that year after year because all the sad people kill themselves.” Finns have a very dry wit, he said. But, he said, there is a feeling of safety and contentment in the country with a socialized medical system that takes care of needs, and faith in the government and the police.
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30min
April 12, 2021 Alexis Pris — Delmar's first female Eagle Scout
Alexis Pris, an Eagle Scout, proudly wears the shoulder patch of her patrol — the Dangerous Cupcakes. She is a founder of Boy Scouts of America Troop 1075G based in Delmar and the troop’s first girl to earn Boy Scouts’ highest rank. She and her patrol mates chose the name, Lexi says in this week’s podcast, to show their feminine side but also to show that they are strong, independent females.
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31min
April 03, 2021 Carol Maslowsky — Belle View Farm in Westerlo
Carol Maslowsky has lived most of the history of her family’s century-old farm in Westerlo. Her late father, Clayton Barber, remembered moving from his home on West Woodstock Road to the farm on Woodstock Road on his third birthday, Dec. 6, 1920 — in a hay wagon pulled by a horse. Years later, his wife — a city girl from Schenectady who had studied French — would sit on the porch of the mid-19th Century farmhouse there and, looking out at a vista that reached to the Catskills and Vermont, would give the farm its name: Belle View.
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42min
March 26, 2021 Gudrun Bellerjeau — A Knox shop as a place to get away
Gudrun Bellerjeau values cultures from around the world and has collected “quality-made” goods from far-flung places to sell in a 200-year-old barn she and her husband own in Knox — the Pleasant Valley Exquisitum. “You don’t have to buy junk stuff,” she says, adding, “The shop is really a psychology center … a place to get away from the hassles, from the phony stuff. You’re stepping into a different world.” Bellerjeau was born, raised, and educated in Germany in a “very poor family,” she says in this week’s podcast. Her father was killed in Russia at the age of 27, leaving his 23-year-old wife, pregnant with Gudrun’s brother, to raise two children. Bellerjeau recalls riding a train to the city with her grandmother and staring, transfixed, at the beautiful things in shop windows.
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42min

FAQs about Other Voices:

How many episodes does Other Voices have?

The podcast currently has 423 episodes available.