The Apple Seed

Interviews and stories included in this episode:

Tammy Hepps

Interview: Tammy Hepps

Site: tammyhepps.com

Notes: Producer, Andy Bay, spoke with genealogist Tammy Hepps at the 2014 IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy. Tammy, a Harvard educated technologist, is a noted speaker, presenter and developer, and the founder of the family history blog, treelines.com

Jane Neff Rollins

Interview: Jane Neff Rollins

Site: www.apgen.org/jane

Notes: Host, Sam Payne, speaks with Jane Neff Rollins- medical writer, professional genealogist, and speaker. Jane belongs to the Genealogical Speakers Guild, the Association of Professional Genealogists, several local societies, and runs the blog, kitchensinkgenealogy.com

Stories and songs included in this episode:

Joseph Sobol ft. Kathy Cowan & Tom Orf

Song 1: I Am of Ireland

Teller: Joseph Sobol ft. Kathy Cowan & Tom Orf

Site: www.josephsobol.com

Notes: Joseph Sobol & company sets this William Butler Yeats poem to majestic music.

Yvonne Healy

Story 1: Lugh, the Shining One

Teller: Yvonne Healy

Site: www.yhealy.com

Notes: Lugh is one of the most well-known and best loved of the Irish mythological characters.

Brian Fox Ellis

Story 2: Ossein and the Isle of Tier na Nog

Teller: Brian Fox Ellis

Site: foxtalesint.com

Notes: Ossein proves himself to be just as great a hero as his father.

Brian Fox Ellis

Story 3: Ossein and the Isle of Tier na Nog

Teller: Brian Fox Ellis

Site: foxtalesint.com

Notes: Finn MacCoul is the classic mythical hunter-warrior hero of Irish mythology.

Norah Dooley

Story 4: Molly O' Donahue

Teller: Norah Dooley

Site: www.norahdooley.com

Notes: A clever but shy girl learns that stories are worth telling and life is worth living.

Paddy Tutty

Song 2: Lough Erne

Artist: Paddy Tutty

Site: www.prairiedruid.net

Notes: A beautiful farewell to Ireland.

Stories included in this episode:

Joseph Bruchac width=Story: The Boy Who Lived with Bears

Teller: Joseph Bruchac

Site: josephbruchac.com

Notes: For over thirty years Joseph Bruchac has been creating poetry, short stories, novels, anthologies and music that reflect his Abenaki Indian heritage and Native American traditions.This story is the title track from the album, "The Boy Who Lived with Bears."

MotokoStory: The Invisible Wall

Teller: Motoko

Site: motoko.folktales.net

Notes: A native of Osaka, Japan, Motoko first came to the U. S. as an exchange student and has performed professionally since 1993, going to hundreds of schools, libraries, museums and festivals.This story is from the album, "Like A Lotus Flower."

Every once in a while, Dr. Eric Eliason's folklore class at from the Brigham Young University English Department joins us in Studio 6 to share their command of storytelling. Hear stories of lost cats, lost people, broken cars, mishaps, mistakes, and new discoveries. In this story slam, the stories follow the theme of "Lost, Broken, Banished" and are being collected in coalition with The UVU Theatre Department and the Noorda Children's Theatre who recently premiered The Milk Dragon, a new play by renowned children's playright, Susan Zeder. To learn more about The Milk Dragon Project, visit www.themilkdragonuvu.com

Like the ingredients of a good jambalaya, these stories are delicious on their own or mixed together. Stories included in this episode:

Megan Hicks

Story 1: Davy and the Devil

Teller:  Mary Hamilton

Site: www.meganhicks.com

Notes: Davy whistles a tune on the open sea and gets more adventure than he expected.

Michael Reno Harrell

Story 2: Stover Mason, Trader

Teller: Michael Reno Harrell

Site: www.michaelreno.com

Notes: A taste of life in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. 

Mary Hamilton

Story 3: The Farmer's Daughter

Teller: Mary Hamilton

Site: www.maryhamilton.info

Notes: A clever farmer's daughter outwits a greedy king. 

Bruce Walker

Story 4: Stories from the Checkout Line

Teller:  Bruce Walker

Site: www.brucestoryteller.com

Notes: A medley of stories found swirling all around, from big box stores to gas stations.

Stories included in this episode:

The StorycraftersStory: The Goats and the Bear

Teller:  The Storycrafters

Site: www.storycrafters.com

Notes: Jeri Burns, PhD and Barry Marshall believe in the time tested wisdom of traditional stories and sharing that wisdom with today's audiences. This story about the family of a mischievous baby goat and one greedy bear is from the album, "Yarns of the Brothers Grimm."

Simon BrooksStory: The Three Feathers

Teller: Simon Brooks

Site: www.diamondscree.com

Notes: Simon Brooks is an award-winning British storyteller, educator, and artist who uses his voice talents to breathe new life into stories with classic themes. This fairy tale about a humble woodcutter and the great dragon sorceror is from the album "Second-hand Tales."

Stories, interviews, and songs included in this episode:

David Holt & Bill Mooney

Story: Why the Dog Chases the Cat

Teller:  David Holt & Bill Mooney

Site: www.davidholt.com

Notes: Long ago, Dog and Cat used to be the best of friends.

Margaret Read MacDonald

Story:  Miera Miera Meow!

Teller: Margaret Read MacDonald

Site: www.margaretreadmacdonald.com

Notes: In this French folk tale, cat and sheep work together against the mean old wolf.

David Hold & Bill Mooney

Story: Why the Cat Washes its Paws After it Eats

Teller: David Holt & Bill Mooney

Site: www.davidholt.com

Notes: Cat gets an etiquette lesson.

Lynea Lattanzio

Interview:  Lynea Lattanzio

\*\*Site: www.cathouseonthekings.com

Notes: \*\*Lynea Lattanzio is the owner of the largest no-kill, no-cage cat shelter in the United States.

Charlotte Blake Alston

Story: Why Cats Live with Women

Teller: Charlotte Blake Alston

Site: www.charlotteblakealston.com

Notes: Cat finds companionship.

Priscilla Howe

Story: Cat and Mouse

Teller:  Priscilla Howe

Site: www.priscillahowe.com

Notes: Cat and Mouse used to be the best of friends.

David Holt

Story: The Cat Came Back

Teller:  David Holt

Site: www.davidholt.com

Notes: This darn cat just can't stay away.

Stories included in this episode:

Lani Peterson

Story 1: Fireworks

Teller: Lani Peterson

Site: lanipeterson.com

Notes: First job apprenticing at a summer theatre in the sound department.

Antonio Sacre

Story 2:  The Leprecano

Teller: Antonio Sacre

Site: antoniosacre.com

Notes: A story in English and Spanish about growing up in a multi-cultural family.

Donna Washington

Story 3: The Tiger, The Man, and the Mouse

Teller: Donna Washington

Site: donnawashington.com

Notes: When it comes to being nice and smart, there are three types of people.

Liz Weir

Story 4:  The Boy with Knowledge

Teller: Liz Weir

Site: www.lizweir.net

Notes: A young man traveling home happens upon a strange farmhouse.

Sean Buvala

Story 5: Fundevogel

Teller: Sean Buvala

Site: seantells.com

Notes: A little boy found in a tree grows up in a woodcutter's home.

Kevin Cordi

Story 6: Ma Liang and His Magic Paint Brush

Teller: Kevin Cordi

Site: www.kevincordi.com

Notes: Wisdom is not about being rich and wealthy, but rich in a whole new way.

Today's episode features the enigmatic drama "The Case of the Shooting Star" produced by our friends at  Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater. Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater, established in 1982, is a grass-roots theater group on the Cape headed by Steven Oney whose purpose is to revive and extend the genre of radio mystery theater through a series of original mysteries and suspense thrillers. Join us in another Captain Underhill mystery as he and Doctor Scofield, check into the science and history of meteors, as well as the laws of probability, when a man is struck dead by a flying object.

http://www.ccrmt.com/

Stories included in this episode:

Mitchell G. Capel

Story 1: William Carney

Teller: Mitchell G. Capel

Site: www.gjbug.com

Notes: An account of the first African-American soldier to be awarded the Medal of Honor.

Kate Dudding

Story 2: Being on The Outside

Teller: Kate Dudding

Site: www.katedudding.com

Notes: The stories of Wendell Smith and Jackie Robinson are intertwined in a momentous period in baseball history.

Interviews from storycorps.org

Interview 1: Ruth Ballard tells her minister, Ramonia Lee, about moving to Tuskegee, Alabama during World War II.

Interview 2: Roscoe Brown, Jr., telling his friend Javier Henriquez about being a Tuskegee Airman.

Interview 3: Alton Yates tells his daughter, Toni, about being part of a small group of Air Force volunteers who tested the effects of high speeds on the body, and helped prove that space travel was safe for humans.

Interview 4: A.P. Tureaud Jr. tells his friend Steven Walkley about becoming the first African-American undergraduate at Louisiana State University in 1953

Interview 5: Alton Yates tells his daughter, Toni, about being part of a small group of Air Force volunteers who tested the effects of high speeds on the body, and helped prove that space travel was safe for humans.

Interview 6: Frank Scott remembers his father, Wendell Scott, who was the first African-American NASCAR driver, and was posthumously inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame earlier this year.

Interview 7: Carl McNair remembers his brother, physicist Ronald E. McNair, who was the second African American to enter space who was aboard the NASA Challenger mission STS-51-L which tragically exploded on January 28, 1986.