Overdueing It: The Rhode Island Library Podcast

Discover how you and your family can enjoy a family outing with a scavenger hunt at Brayton Cemetery in Apponaug Village in Warwick, Rhode Island.

Pegee Malcolm, chair of the Warwick Historic Cemeteries Commission, walks us through people and monuments to search for in a safe activity during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Scavenger Hunt Checklist

Explore Warwick's historic cemeteries with more episodes of 166 Historic Cemeteries.

This is a special bonus episode to accompany our earlier author interview and reading of the 2020 Reading Across Rhode Island selection Rising: Dispatches From the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush. We are excited to present Living Literature - a collective of Rhode Island-based artists and educators - as they present a dramatic performance of Rising. If you haven't already, you can find the author interview and reading in your podcast feed. They were both released on 9/15/2020 (episodes 5 & 6).

Our thanks to the Rhode Island Center for the Book and Director Kate Lentz, Elizabeth Rush, Ocean State Libraries, the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services, and the Pawtucket Credit Union for making this presentation possible! Our theme music is Pure Water by Meydän and Rhody Radio is a project of the Office of Library & Information Services and is made possible by a grant from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.

This episode is a special bonus episode to our earlier interview with the 2020 Reading Across Rhode Island author Elizabeth Rush of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore. 

What you are about to hear is a reading by Elizabeth of the opening chapter of Rising titled The Password. In addition, we have a second bonus episode recorded by Cranston Public Library and Living Literature, a Rhode Island based collective of artists and educators performing Rising in the form of readers theatre. You can find the author interview and the episode featuring Living Literature’s performance of Rising in your podcast feed. They were both released on 9/15/2020 (episodes 5 & 7).

This podcast is a project of the Office of Library & Information Services and is made possible by a grant from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.

Book Recommendations from Elizabeth Rush:

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains by Kerri Arsenault

Surging Seas mapping tools

Anthropocene Alliance & Higher Ground flood survivor network

Nationalize Grid 

Sunrise Movement 

This episode was originally planned as a live in-person event on March 12, 2020. It was canceled due to COVID-19. You can learn about the original partner organizations that were working with the library to bring Elizabeth Rush to Barrington.

Barrington Land Conservation Trust 

Change for the Better 

Friends of Barrington Public Library 

Ink Fish Books

Reading Across Rhode Island & Center for the Book 

This podcast is a project of the Office of Library & Information Services and is made possible by a grant from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.

Greg Abate is an internationally-acclaimed jazz  musician and composer who’s regarded by many as one of the best  post-bebop alto saxophone players in the world today.

Hear Greg play original compositions from his album Road to Forever, and learn how he got started, what life on the road is like, and how it feels to play around the world. Listen the interview along with four of Greg's tunes:

• Interview

• Road to Forever

• Seasons

• Red Fish Boulevard

• Take the Crowell Train

Greg  was born in Fall River, Massachusetts and grew up in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. After graduating from Berklee College of Music in Boston, he started his career as lead alto saxophone with the Ray Charles Orchestra and later played tenor saxophone with the Artie Shaw Orchestra.

Greg  is an adjunct professor of Jazz Studies at Rhode Island College, a  Conn-Selmer Instrument Company jazz clinician, and a 2016 inductee into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.

Discover more at Greg Abate.

Barrington Public Library's Community Engagement Librarian, Jessica D'Avanza is joined by Kara Provost, a professor who teaches in the writing program at Curry College. Kara shares with us the many ways that poetry is used to process difficult emotions, pain, times of uncertainty and of course—joy! She shares two haiku she wrote while teaching a socially distant haiku writing workshop for the library on Zoom.

Here are links to many of the poets and poetry resources mentioned in this episode:

Kara Provost has published two chapbooks, Topless (Main Street Rag, 2011) and Nests (Finishing Line Press, 2006), in addition to six microchapbooks with the Origami Poems project (origamipoems.com). Her poems have appeared in the Skinny Poetry Journal, Connecticut Review, Ocean State Review, Main Street Rag, The Newport Review, Ibbetson Street, New Verse News, and other journals. Kara’s work can also be found in a number of anthologies, including Credo: Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing (Cambridge Writers’ Workshop 2018); Nuclear Impact: Shattered Atoms in Our Hands (Shabda Press 2017); Shifts: Women’s Growth through Change (MuseWrite Press 2016); the Wickford Art Association 2013 exhibit catalog, Poetry and Art; Lay Bare the Canvas: New England Poets on Art; and In Praise of Pedagogy: Poetry, Flash Fiction, and Essays on Composing, edited by David Starkey and Wendy Bishop.

This week we have an excerpt from the Cranston Public Library's podcast Down Time with Cranston Public Library. Our host, Tayla, chats with Rebecca from the Tiverton Public Library and Alyssa from the Cranston Central Library about all things romance novels, with a quick introduction to the genre and their top ten picks for some steamy summer reading. If you’d like to hear more, search for Down Time with Cranston Public Library in your podcast player of choice or visit anchor.fm/down-time-cpl for full episodes. Enjoy!

Hear Rhode Island Celtic harpist Mary King play the  traditional Irish tunes she grew up with. Learn about her family in  Ireland, and find out about the musicians she’s worked with and known.

Listen to the interview along with traditional songs and original tunes by Mary:

• Interview

• Aran Boat Song/Sally Gardens/Hard Times

• Carrickfergus/The Women of Ireland

• Ned of the Hill/Inisheer/Southwind

• The Foggy Dew/The Minstrel Boy

• Have You Seen My Brother Tommy?

• Sheskinarone/Brigid-Mary & Mick

Mary  King studied with New England harpists Terry Coe, Soranna Rus, and Bob Coletta. She is a Master Celtic harpist with the Southern New England  Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. She is a founding member of the  touring show Celebrating Ireland in Story & Song.

She lives in Smithfield, Rhode Island. Her parents are both Irish.

Discover more at Mary King Harpist and Facebook.

Rhody Radio is a new podcast bringing you voices from your neighbors around the Ocean State. Enjoy lectures, stories and conversations with local artists, performers, experts, and scholars selected for you by Rhode Island librarians, and stay tuned for weekly episodes starting in August 2020!

Rhody Radio is a project of the Office of Library and Information Services and is made possible by a grant from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.