Roughly Speaking

a retired Master Sergeant and U.S. Army Green Beret talks about workplace safety.

Four acres of woodlands might not sound like much, but in the city of Baltimore it constitutes a forest. Fairwood Forest is a patch of huge trees along a ridge in the middle of a residential neighborhood in northeast Baltimore. Thousands of hawks visit its treetops every year. The non-profit Baltimore Green Space has been working with community organizations to acquire the land and save it from development. On the show: A hike along Fairwood's trails with Miriam Avins, the organization's founder and executive director, and Katie Lautar, Baltimore Green Space's program director and director of its forest stewardship program. Check out photos from Fairwood on Dan's Facebook page.

A hike along Fairwood Forest's trails with Baltimore Green Space

Scientists believe Tangier Island, in the Virginia waters of the Chesapeake Bay, could vanish within the next 25 years. Two-thirds of Tangier's land mass has disappeared since the time of the Civil War, and in recent years sea-level rise caused by global warming took more acres from the island. Fewer than 500 people remain there. Many of them voted for Donald J. Trump, share his rejection of climate change as the reason for their existential challenge and insist that a seawall around the island would save it from further ----wave erosion.---- The deeply religious islanders have frequently been in the media spotlight, often the subject of derision and ridicule for their climate change denials and support of Trump. Journalist and author Earl Swift spent more than a year on Tangier, learning about the island way of life and the work of the watermen who've harvested blue crabs and oysters for generations. Swift has written an elegiac book about the place and the people who could well become the Chesapeake's first climate change refugees. The book is, ----Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island,---- published by Harper Collins.In this episode: A talk with Swift following his appearance at the 2018 Baltimore Book Festival; excerpts of a CBS News report, a Stephen Colbert monologue and ----Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.----

Clarence M. Mitchell Jr., born in Baltimore in 1911, became one of the leading civil rights activists of the 20th Century, serving as chief lobbyist for the NAACP when Congress passed landmark legislation on civil rights, voting rights and fair housing. Mitchell spent so much time in the halls of Congress he became known as ----the 101st Senator.---- Three decades earlier, Mitchell was a newspaper reporter for the Baltimore Afro-American, and it was his experience as a journalist on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in October 1933 that influenced his decision to devote his life to civil rights advocacy. Mitchell reported on the lynching of a black man named George Armwood. In this podcast, Clarence Mitchell describes his experiences in Princess Anne, the town where Armwood was tortured and murdered by a mob 85 years ago. Armwood’s killing was the most recent of at least 44 lynchings in Maryland, where a movement to acknowledge\u160\uand reconcile this dark history is gaining momentum.\u160\uMitchell sat for a recording for the Maryland Historical Society in 1977.Links:https://bsun.md/2ML4tmBhttp://www.baltimoresun.com/features/bal-blackhistory-mitchell-story.htmlhttp://www.mdhs.org/underbelly/2017/10/12/an-american-tragedy/https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/013700/013750/html/13750bio.html

When they were boys, Ken Bancroft and John Bruce were warned to never cross the bridges over the Jones Falls. Bancroft, who is white, grew up in Remington and was told he would be attacked by blacks who lived on the western side of the 28th and 29th street bridges. Bruce, who is black, lived in Gilmor Homes and was told that members of the Ku Klux Klan resided on the eastern side of the bridges. Fifty years later, the two men serve as local leaders of a faith-based group, Be The Bridge, that encourages conversations toward racial understanding and reconciliation, a challenging but important — and timely — project. Bancroft and Bruce crossed a once-forbidden bridge and now want others to do the same. Links:https://beabridgebuilder.com/

At the B----O American Brasserie in Baltimore, bartender and cocktail historian Brendan Dorr pulls out bottles of rum for a world-class tutorial and taste test.Rum has many uses in refreshing cocktails, but, as Dan discovers, some of the aged brands are best sipped neat.Also on this show, Brendan Dorr talks about — and offers us a taste of — the South American cousin of rum, cacha\u231\ua, the basis of Brazil's national drink, the Caipirinha.

In the late summer of 1859, the fierce abolitionist John Brown assembled a small army in a farmhouse in rural Maryland and prepared to raid the federal arsenal across the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry. Brown hoped to inspire a rebellion and establish a government of liberated slaves in the Appalachian Mountains. Among Brown's band of raiders were five African-American men, one of them an escaped slave, who have been largely overlooked by historians — John Copeland, Shields Green, Dangerfield Newby, Lewis Leary and Osborne Perry Anderson. Their stories are now told in ----Five For Freedom,---- a new book by longtime journalist Eugene Meyer, a former reporter and editor of the Washington Post. In this episode: A visit to the Kennedy farm where Brown's army stayed in the weeks before the raid and a conversation with Gene Meyer about Brown and the five African-American raiders who joined his cause.Eugene Meyer is scheduled to speak at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore on Thursday, Sept. 20 at 6:30 pm. Photo credit:\u160\uAcroterion/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)Links:http://johnbrown.org/https://www.nps.gov/hafe/learn/historyculture/john-brown.htmhttp://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/five-for-freedom-products-9781613735718.phphttp://eugenelmeyer.com/http://calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/writers_live_mike_reiss_springfield_confidential#.W5-r_ZNKjcMhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

In Part II of A Film Critic’s Favorite Films, we hear about some of Linda DeLibero’s favorites: Three Westerns (----The Searchers,---- ----The Wild Bunch,---- ----McCabe and Mrs. Miller----), one Hitchcock (----Shadow of a Doubt----), one Kubrick (----Barry Lyndon----), one film directed by Orson Welles and starring his voice (----The Magnificent Ambersons----), one Coppola (----The Conversation----), a film directed by Terence Malick (----Badlands----), one directed by Kenneth Lonergan (----Margaret----) and one film directed by someone you probably never heard of (----Killer of Sheep----).Linda DeLibero is director of film and media studies at Johns Hopkins University. You can hear Part I of A Film Critic's Favorite Films in episode 421, with Christopher Llewellyn Reed of Stevenson University.Links:https://krieger.jhu.edu/film-media/directory/linda-delibero/

Linda's list includes Westerns, Hitchcock, Kubrick, and one by someone you probably never hear