(First airdate: July 11, 2018) Cris Wilson talks to best-selling author Melissa Febos about her most recent memoir Abandon Me, published in 2017. She is a featured guest at the 2018 Port Townsend Writer’s Conference and she is a Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Monmouth College.
Compass for the Week of 6/11/2018
This week on the Compass we talk with local folks who help those in the final days of their lives and learn how you can help … and then we talk about the environment with the youngest – and first woman – ever to lead the Nez Perce tribe.
Nature Now #364
Birding by Ear – Part 2 (Encore)
(first aired June 6, 2018). Debaran Kelso hosts an encore broadcast of a June, 2016 show featuring birder extraordinaire Dr. Fred Sharpe explaining several bird sounds heard in our area. Closing music is “Skyline Pigeon,” performed by Elton John.
Sheila Bender
(First airdate: June 6, 2018) Cris talks with our own poet and writer Sheila Bender, host of IN CONVERSATION about her poetry, teaching and most especially her book A New Theology: Turning to Poetry in Time of Grief.
Jeanie Murphy
(First airdate: June 6, 2018) Cris has a great time with Old Time Banjo player and author Jeanie Murphy. Jeanie’s first novel is titled Donna Cody: A Tall Tale. Old-time musicians will enjoy all the musical references, and the literary among you will see a framework that follows the classic tale of Don Quixote by Cervantes.
Tossed Salad for 6/08/18
While Phil Andrus enjoys some time off, Taylor Clark will host this week’s Tossed Salad, a bowlful of local-grown produce for your listening enjoyment:
1:00 – Simon deVoil and Aimee Kelly, writers and singers
2:00 – Rick Jahnke, Port Townsend citizen
2:45 – Nathan Barnett, Brass Screw Steam Punk Festival
3:15 – Nancy Israel and students of the Chimacum Maritime Discovery Program
3:45 – Brett Navin brings students from Blue Heron Middle School
4:30 – Catherine McNabb, reading
#112 Bob Snow, From Spook to Computer Guru
(First airdate: June 5, 2018) BOB SNOW: FROM SPOOK TO COMPUTER GURU. Our Town Host Maryanne McNellis interviews Bob Snow, former counter-intelligence agent. Bob was stationed in multiple countries around the world where he learned to “read” people and discover their weaknesses. He was a behind-the-scenes operative in places as different as the Amazon rain forest to the mountains of Germany. But here in Port Townsend, he has morphed into a Mac computer guru.
Compass for the Week of 6/04/2018
This week on the Compass we look back at the end of a long career of a man – Bill Tennant – who has been looking back himself, almost all his life. And it’s all about history.
Party at the Fort Playback
KPTZ listeners and volunteers enjoyed a festive Friday night, June 1, at Fort Worden’s USO Hall, with long sets of funk music from opening local act Lowire and Seattle-based headliner Polyrhythmics. Thanks to all who came out in support of your party station, KPTZ!
One highlight of the evening was the preview of KPTZ’s new brew, the KPTZ Fortifier APA (American Pale Ale), to be made and marketed by Port Townsend Brewing Company. A portion of each keg or bottle sold will go to the station’s capital campaign, just kicking off to raise funds for KPTZ’s planned move in 2 years into Building 305 on the Fort Worden campus.
Event admissions, along with our sponsor New American Funding and a host of KPTZ Board members and volunteers, made this event happen. If you missed dancing with us that evening, stay tuned for KPTZ’s Party on the Pier at the other summer bookend, Labor Day weekend.
In Conversation – Betsy Howell
(first aired May 29, 2018). Port Townsend author Betsy Howell talks in studio with Sheila Bender about the writing of her second novel, The Marvelous Orange Tree: A Civil War Novel, a story about women soldiers in the Civil War.
