Overdueing It: The Rhode Island Library Podcast

Rhody Recommends brings you a short segment on our off weeks where we tell you what we’re reading, watching, and listening to. Almost everything you hear about in this segment is available at your local library, or freely available online.

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Rhody Eats is a segment in which we rank the most popular foods in Rhode Island. In this episode, we rank the top 5 places to get ice cream in Rhode Island.

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Rhody Recommends brings you a short segment on our off weeks where we tell you what we’re reading, watching, and listening to. Everything you hear about in this segment is available at your local library, or freely available online. This episode is all about the Queen of Mystery - Agatha Christie. 

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Did you know one of Rhode Island's Public Libraries was once a fully operational Hockey Rink? In today's episode, Stef Blankenship, current director of the Mayor Salvatore Mancini Union Free Library in North Providence, discusses Rhode Island's deep hockey history. She also interviews the newest inductee of the RI Hockey Hall of Fame, Tom Mellor, and his father Don Mellor. 

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Join Howard S. Veisz, a dedicated volunteer in the Watercraft Department at the Mystic Seaport Museum since 2009, as he shares the story of Henny Sinding Sundø and Gerda III, the boat Henny used to save Jewish lives during the Nazi occupation of Denmark. Veisz's book, Henny and Her Boat, provides a fresh perspective on the Danes' defense of their Jewish countrymen during years of Nazi occupation and, ultimately, their heroic rescue of the Danish Jews on a fleet of fishing boats and other small craft.

This podcast is presented in collaboration with the Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center Baxt Lecture Series, an annual event that brings Holocaust education to the greater Rhode Island community.

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In 2009 Howard S. Veisz left a litigation career and went to sea. After a two-year sailing voyage around the North Atlantic, Howard and his wife settled on Connecticut’s Mystic River, and Howard began work as a shipyard volunteer at the Mystic Seaport Maritime Museum. Howard worked in the rigging shop for a massive project: restoring Mystic’s 1841 whaling ship, the Charles W. Morgan, and getting it under sail for the first time in 93 years. As the whaling ship project wound down, Howard’s interest in Gerda III, also docked at Mystic Seaport Museum, arose.

With a father and grandparents who barely escaped Nazi Germany, Gerda III’s role in rescuing Denmark’s Jews drew Howard in. While helping to preserve Gerda III, Howard began a four-year mission to reconstruct its history. Howard traveled to Denmark to locate and interview descendants of the people who carried out Gerda III’s rescue missions; scoured Danish archives; visited the docks from which Gerda III set out; gathered accounts by leaders of the Gerda III rescue group that had never appeared in English; and assembled translators to uncover the fascinating story that had been buried in those writings for  over seventy years.

Rhody Recommends brings you a short segment on our off weeks where we  tell you what we’re reading, watching, and listening to. Everything you  hear about in this segment is available at your local library, or  freely available online.

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This week we’re sharing an excerpt from an episode of Down Time with Cranston Public Library in which host Tayla talked with Lorén Spears, Executive Director of the Tomaquag Museum and Honorary Chair of this year's Read Across Rhode Island program, and Angeline Boulley, author of Firekeeper’s Daughter. We discuss this year’s Read Across Rhode Island pick Firekeeper’s Daughter and indigenous representation in books and movies. You’ll also hear our regular segment, The Last Chapter, where we discuss a library or bookish question. This week we answered the question: Who is your favorite elder from Firekeeper’s Daughter?

Thanks for listening! Theme music for this episode is Day Trips by Ketsa. New episodes of Down Time with Cranston Public Library are released every Tuesday. Each week, host Tayla Cardillo chats with staff from Cranston Public Library about what they’ve been reading, what they’ve been watching, and what they’ve been loving! You’ll also hear from guests from outside the library community sharing their work and passions. Down Time is available anywhere you find podcasts - subscribe so you never miss an episode!

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Rhody Radio is proud to be a resident partner of the Rhode Island Center for the Book and is brought to you by library staff and community members all around the Ocean State. You can find more from Rhody Radio on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram,  and if you enjoyed today’s episode, subscribe to Rhody Radio and give  us a review on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen  to help us reach more Rhode Islanders. Rhody Radio is funded by a grant  from the American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grants for Libraries, an  initiative of the American Library Association made possible with  funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities through the  American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Thanks again for listening!

Rhody Recommends brings you a short segment on our off weeks where we tell you what we’re reading, watching, and listening to. Everything you hear about in this segment is available at your local library, or freely available online. 

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April is National Poetry Month, and we're celebrating with Zach Berger, adult services librarian at Cranston Public Library. For the past year, Zach has been recording a new poem every week for On the Line - a call-in poetry service that Zach maintains. Each week, Zach records a new poetry reading that patrons can hear simply by dialing 401-900-1090, no Internet or computer required. In this episode, Rhody Radio team member Dave Bartos sits down with Zach to discuss his lifelong love of poetry and how he came to launching this project.

Call 401-900-1090 to hear a new poem each week, and to learn more about On the Line visit https://cranstonlibrary.org/ontheline.

Thanks for listening! Theme music for this episode is Twilight in Your Head by lemonmusicstudio. Rhody Radio is proud to be a resident partner of the Rhode Island Center for the Book and is brought to you by library staff and community members all around the Ocean State. You can find more from Rhody Radio on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and if you enjoyed today’s episode, subscribe to Rhody Radio and give us a review on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen to help us reach more Rhode Islanders. Rhody Radio is funded by a grant from the American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grants for Libraries, an initiative of the American Library Association made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Thanks again for listening and happy National Poetry Month!