Overdueing It: The Rhode Island Library Podcast

Historian Ged Carbone tells the story of Brown & Sharpe, the Rhode Island manufacturing powerhouse that designed and built the precision tools that enabled the creation of our modern world.

The story of Brown & Sharpe follows the story of U.S. manufacturing and tells us how we got from being an industrial center to the place we’re in today.

Ged Carbone is a journalist who reported for the Providence Journal. He’s a graduate of Brown University with a Master’s degree in Public Humanities, and he’s the author of two biographies on George Washington and Nathanael Greene.

His most recent work has been investigating Rhode Island’s industrial history, including writing a book on Brown & Sharpe.

New & Notable Books brings you book recommendations from Rhode Island Librarians. Listen to new reviews every week, and find something wonderful to read.

Is This Really Love? with Jennifer

• Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz

• Who I Was with Her by Nita Tyndall

• Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson

Join Lloyd Kaplan and Tom Shaker for an inside look at four trailblazing vocal groups featured in Lloyd and Tom's new book In Harmony: Early Vocal Groups Remembered & Celebrated.

Explore the careers of The Mills Brothers, The Golden Gate Quartet, The Boswell Sisters, and The Delta Rhythm Boys, and hear remarkable performances with breathtaking vocal fireworks.

Lloyd Kaplan is a music educator who served as Chair of the CCRI music department from 1974-1980 and retired as Professor Emeritus in 1995. He teaches at URI and Coastal Carolina University through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

He is also a musician who has played clarinet and saxophone for the U.S. Army Band, the Tony Abbott Orchestra, and The Aristocats.

He was inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame in 2018.

Dr. Tom Shaker is a college professor, a radio DJ, a documentary filmmaker, and an expert on Rhode Island jazz.

His radio show The Soul Serenade, featuring classic soul music from the 1960s and 1970s, airs on WICN on Mondays at 7 p.m.

His award-winning film with Norm Grant Do It, Man! The Story of The Celebrity Club tells the story of the legendary Celebrity Club, the integrated 1950s nightclub in Providence’s Randall Square neighborhood.

His book with Dennis Pratt A Treasury of Rhode Island Jazz & Swing Musicians is a biographical collection of jazz and swing musicians who have played in Rhode Island and a sequel to Who's Who in Rhode Island Jazz: c. 1925-1988 by Rhode Island musicians and historians Lloyd Kaplan and Robert Petteruti.

New & Notable Books brings you book recommendations from Rhode Island Librarians. Listen to new reviews every week, and find something wonderful to read.

The Best of Modern Irish Fiction with Mary Anne

• Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic by Colum McCann

• The Sea and Snow by John Banville

• The Gathering and Actress by Anne Enright

• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and Love by Roddy Doyle

• Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married and Grown Ups by Marian Keyes

• Room and The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

• Light a Penny Candle and A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy

• The Devil I Know by Claire Kilroy

• In the Woods and The Trespasser by Tana French

Today we’re talking Rhode Island Food Trends, with Stu Meltzer of Fearless Fish on the West Side of Providence, located at 425 W. Fountain St.

For those of us who live in Li’l Rhody, we know this tiny state offers a feast of options for the home cook. As the pandemic continues to keep us away from our favorite restaurant dining rooms and rooted in our kitchens, there’s one thing a curious cook might want to know. What are people cooking at home in Rhode Island?

To begin answering this question, we start with a local business that provides the raw materials for the makings of some of our favorite seafood meals. “Cookbook Librarian,” Jessica D’Avanza chats with Fearless Fish owner, Stu Meltzer about running a business during a pandemic, becoming a father, seafood trends, and cookbook suggestions for the busy home cook.

- Find the daily catch and order online at fearlessfishmarket.com.

Here are the cookbooks mentioned in this episode:

- The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters

- Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking by Mark Bittman

Follow the “Cookbook Librarian” on Instagram @inthelibrarianskitchen.

New & Notable Books brings you book recommendations from Rhode Island Librarians. Listen to new reviews every week, and find something wonderful to read.

Two Cozy Mysteries with Mary Anne

• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

• The Chinese Orange Mystery by Ellery Queen

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a performance of traditional Irish tunes by Austin Bradford Burns.

As the pandemic of 2020 carries on into 2021 and traditional celebrations are cut short, we bring you a St. Patrick’s Day treat to enjoy wherever you might be and with whomever you’re with.

Austin Bradford Burns is a performer, composer, and arranger in New Bedford, MA and a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music where he received his Masters degree in vocal performance.

Austin has appeared throughout New England, including at Marble House in Newport, the Rotch-Jones-Duff House in New Bedford, Hamilton House in Maine, the Harvard Club, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and Boston Public Library.

See and hear more performances by Austin on YouTube, his website, and Facebook.

New & Notable Books brings you book recommendations from Rhode Island Librarians. Listen to new reviews every week, and find something wonderful to read.

Rock ’n’ Roll Fiction with Mary Anne

• Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

• Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Within weeks of the state's COVID-19 shutdown in March 2020, the Rhode Island COVID-19 Archive was established. It began collecting submissions from Rhode Islanders to preserve their stories and experiences during the pandemic. In this episode, you’ll learn how the archive was created as a partnership between Providence Public Library and the Rhode Island Historical Society and hear from team members about its evolution, now a year later.

We hope you will be inspired to make your own contributions, in whatever form feels comfortable to you: photo, video, written word, audio recording, artwork, etc. The archive accepts submissions by anyone who wishes to document their experience of the pandemic in Rhode Island. To submit, visit ricovidarchive.org and view “Contribute an Item.” You will be asked to create an account before uploading your submission. You are welcome to identify yourself as the creator of the work or submit it anonymously if you prefer. Your experience matters and will shape how history comes to understand what it was like to live through COVID-19.

Contributions mentioned in the podcast:

Golden Thread by Anthony Savino.

Toy Theater I created during the first weeks of isolation by Eli Nixon with video edits by Jonah M. David and Music by Matt Schreiber.

Write R.I. Collection: Our Lives Now.

Sista Fire RI with artwork by member Selene Means (contribution via Yuselly Mendoza, Project Coordinator for Latinx/Spanish-Language Outreach & Promotion).

Please feel free to contact [email protected] for help with a submission or to learn about becoming a Community Partner.

New & Notable Books brings you book recommendations from Rhode Island Librarians. Listen to new reviews every week, and find something wonderful to read.

Native American Chapter Books with Christine

• I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day

• The Case of Windy Lake by Michael Hutchinson

• Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis

• In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall III

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