Season 2: Episode 3 
Guest host Anya Vargas talks to award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt about his latest young-adult novel The Labors of Hercules Beal.

Season 2, Episode 2

This month we talked to the chair of Truro’s Climate Action Committee, Carol Harris and Emily Beebe, Truro’s Health and Conservation Agent about changing habits and small actions the individual can do to make a difference in climate change.

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Season 2, Episode 1

Welcome back to the Truro Airwaves podcast, I’m your new host Justine. This week I talked to three talented people about the newly formed Truro Playwright Collective – Founder, Joe Paprzycki with Fermin Rojas and John Dennis Anderson.

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Grace did not know. How long would it take to figure it out? How did the  child of Holocaust survivors become a survivor herself? It was a  mystery that took a lifetime to unravel. Until then, through the many  difficulties she experienced, the lodestar that helped her was that "It could  have been worse." The hand she was dealt was having been born in New York  to a damaged family of Jews who came out of late 1930s Germany. It took  her until she was in her eighties to understand her life, the ways she  sabotaged herself, and why. PTSD and transgenerational trauma, the  latter only being studied now, are the keys. Now she knows. Grace shares insights with us in this interview, along with excerpts from the book. You can find more at her website, enoughtofallthat.com

How did the Outer Cape Mock Caldecott begin? At the outset of our seventh Mock Caldecott, Barbara Klipper shares the story of how her own experience with the American Library Association's Caldecott Medal award segued, with Youth Librarian Maggie Hanelt's participation, into the Truro Mock Caldecott and, a few years later, the Outer Cape Mock Caldecott.  In 2020-21, it is the Virtual Mock Caldecott! To hear the anecdotes not found elsewhere, listen here.

Anne Makepeace (Makepeace Productions, Inc.) and Jennifer Weston (Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project & Wampanoag Mashpee Wampanoag Language Department) join Galen on Truro Airwaves to discuss We Still Live Here (Âs Nutayuneân). The film, co-produced by our guests, tells a remarkable story of cultural revival by the Wampanoag of Southeastern Massachusetts. The podcast covers the concept for the film, highlights from the story, the status of the project today, the associated project Our Mother Tongues, and information about how to #StandWithMashpee. Thank you to our guests for sharing your time, knowledge, and insights with us!

00:00 Airwaves Intro

00:33 Introductions: Anne, Jennifer, We Still Live Here

01:55 How the Film Came to Be

08:21 WLRP, Ten Years Later

22:31 WLRP Success Inspires Others

24:25 The Wônpanâak Dictionary

27:41 One's Language, One's Culture

29:08 The Bible in Translation

32:25 Conversion Revisited in Marginalia

35:15 OurMotherTongues.org --Nationwide

38:41 A 1752 Petition

40:50 A 2020 Petition and More: Stand With Mashpee

45:47 Thank yous, "So Long" for Now

As the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival in the New World approaches, Nathaniel Philbrick joins Galen on Truro AirWaves to talk about his book Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, War.  Mayflower delivers a thoroughly-researched story that tackles the myths of the Pilgrims and recognizes the complexities and realities of their arrival and its impact on their own lives and the lives of those who already lived here. The podcast covers the myths around the Pilgrims, some highlights from the book, and history as a window into a past that can—but doesn’t necessarily—illuminate the present. Thank you to Nathaniel for spending this time with us! 

00:00 AirWaves Intro

00:31 Welcome, Nathaniel

01:15 Philbricks in Truro

02:12 Myth, Pagentry, and a Complicated Reality

03:41 Pilgrims Improvise

05:57 Effects of a Devastating Pandemic

08:36 History is Personal: Effects of Alliances

11:00 A Brutal Raid and Echoing Chaos

14:00 A First Thanksgiving; Violence and Division; a History that Haunts us Still

16:04 Patterns in Hindsight; Humility in the Present?

18:00 King Philip's War; Lessons to Learn

19:48 Thank yous and Farewell