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Beaconites!

Zachary Rodgers

Beaconites! is a podcast about Beacon, New York and the people who live here. Interviews with artists, business owners, educators, students and other local figures provide a window on Beacon and a point of entry for listeners to get involved.

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100 episodes

  1. Traditional music is not an artifact, with fiddler Bruce Molsky 38:45
  2. The history of Beacon's Black community, with Andrea Barrow-Williams 36:02
  3. Why film and theater can still challenge us, with Jenny Tibbels 36:59
  4. Kids come alive in a garden, with Land to Learn's Nicole Porto 30:28
  5. Lastar Gorton wants Beacon to stop caving to developers 38:15
  6. Paula and Justin King, the married couple behind Rexhill Studio 40:00
  7. The many facets of Vibeke Saugestad 50:44
  8. Everyone needs help, with disability rights advocate Beth Poague 47:34
  9. The Zach Rodgers interview 48:57
  10. Finding magic in a drop of water or a nighttime walk, with Julie Winterbottom 48:02
  11. How food stabilizes community, with Mike Diago 44:35
  12. The choral-cosmic works of Heather Christian, MacArthur Fellow 47:24
  13. Carolyn Glauda is an optimist in dark times 44:27
  14. How's the cell phone ban going? With Beacon teachers Christina Dahl and Lesli Tomkins 37:53
  15. Making art through life's changes, with Margot Kingon 46:26
  16. In pursuit of connection, with Gracelyn Woods 46:06
  17. Beacon needs bikes, with Meg Lazaros 38:23
  18. Gen X women are not done, with Lena Rizkallah 49:21
  19. How Sergei Krasikov turned his love of nature into a civic purpose 45:23
  20. Paulette Myers-Rich's art book collaborations 36:23
  21. Raising animals builds compassion, with Kim Pennock 38:22
  22. We're all gonna die, with Riverview Funeral Home director Pat Halvey 39:01
  23. The strange history of Pollepel Island and Bannerman Castle, with Neil Caplan 33:09
  24. The two sides of Curtis Harvey 1:02:36
  25. Are the little kids alright? With pre-K educator Meredith Hairston 40:14
  26. Ordinary Devotion, with Kristen Holt-Browning 47:34
  27. Sam Anderson 52:38
  28. Meet Yvette Valdes Smith, the Democrat trying to flip NY State Senate District 39 45:37
  29. Beacon Occultism! With Amy Wilson, owner of Otherworldly Waxes 42:05
  30. America vs. Amerikaland, with author Danny Goodman 41:29
  31. Firefighters of Beacon 34:29
  32. How to become who you are, with Taylor Jackson (aka Black Satin Venus) 39:15
  33. Transitioning, with Lucy Sante and Hannah Brooks 49:19
  34. The amazing and true adventures of Bob Bozic 45:17
  35. Shane Killoran, dramaturg and performing arts curator 36:06
  36. Fifty-plus years of music, with the Towne Crier owner Phil Ciganer 35:14
  37. Adam McKible on his book, 'Circulating Jim Crow' 38:06
  38. Ruth Danon, Poet and Literary Instigator 42:06
  39. Should we build vertically or protect the view? With council member Pam Wetherbee 26:54
  40. Confronting Beacon's housing crunch, with Ward 1 council member Molly Rhodes 41:31
  41. Art, archeology, and the 'neolithic package,' with Greg Slick 41:12
  42. Zandy Mangold, ultrarunner and coach 37:18
  43. Episode 100! With Beacon High School principal Corey Dwyer 39:38
  44. Soon Is Now, with Eve Morgenstern and Gary Hilderbrand 41:00
  45. George Mansfield moves on from Dogwood and city council 32:29
  46. Twenty years of change, with Beacon beat reporter Jeff Simms 40:58
  47. A passion for movement, with Calli Rothberg 38:57
  48. Singer-songwriter Noga Cabo 30:06
  49. Building a pollinator highway through Beacon, with One Nature's Blair Patterson 39:00
  50. Building a climate movement in Beacon, with Thomas Wright and Erin Ashoka 41:38