Other Voices

Other Voices

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Other Voices episodes

  • David McDonald, using a sense of place to create a film — Feb. 28, 2019
    David McDonald, a filmmaker who lives in Hudson, has written a screenplay about Ella Fitzgerald’s early life. Her mother died when she was 15. The elegant Queen of Jazz, he says, was then abused by her mother’s boyfriend and ended up living on the streets of Harlem where she took a job as a lookout for a bordello. After her arrest, she suffered abuse at the Training School for Girls in Hudson and escaped back to Harlem, winning an Amateur Night competition at Harlem’s Apollo Theater, which launched her career. McDonald is drawing on local talent for a theatrical production of “Ella the Ungovernable” in Hudson. McDonald speaks passionately about having a sense of place and about the need for creativity in today’s America.

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    42 min
  • Vic DiSanto and the joys of raising sled dogs — Feb. 14, 2019
    Vic DiSanto lay in a hospital bed with a painful back injury when he received a visit from a therapy dog, which lifted his spirits. He decided to adopt a dog from the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society. When DiSanto worked as overseer of the John Brown Farm Historic Site in the Adirondacks, he took a ride on Mirror Lake with John Houghton’s Thunder Mountain dog sled team and now is a musher himself. He tells of the history and joys of sled-pulling dogs in this week’s podcast with Mountie, one of his Siberian huskies, trained to pull a sled.

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    30 min
  • Theresa Schillaci, Tackling Child Trafficking In Albany County — Jan. 31, 2019
    Theresa A. Schillaci, who coordinates the Safe Harbour program for the Albany County Department of Children, Youth and Families, speaks in the week’s Enterprise podcast about child sex trafficking in our midst. According to data from Safe Harbour reported in 2017 by 25 counties statewide — the safety next is to be extended eventually to all 62 counties, Schillaci says — 2,366 youth were identified as trafficked or at risk. Kids in middle school — aged 11, 12, and 13 — are particularly vulnerable, says Schillaci, who noted “red flags” that parents and school staff should be aware of.

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    29 min
  • Don Rittner, exploring both personal and local history — Jan. 17, 2019
    Don Rittner, who teaches, has made a film, and written many books — including one underway about the Altamont Fair — says you can't understand where you are if you don't know where you've been. He believes history is important and has helped build a replica of a 1600s Dutch ship, the Onrust; served as the city of Albany's archaeologist; and a half-century ago pushed for the preservation of the Pine Bush.

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    38 min
  • A Year In Review for The Enterprise — Jan. 3, 2019
    Enterprise reporters Elizabeth Floyd Mair, H. Rose Schneider, and Sean Mulkerrin talk with editor Melissa Hale-Spencer about local news in 2018. Reporters reviewed their favorite stories they covered, ranging from a fatally-ill child's wish for a backyard to dairy farming in the Hilltowns.

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    44 min

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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…