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NNCPR Honored with two National Edward R. Murrow Awards Corning plant manager Joseph W. Neubert, flanked by Ellen Rocco (left) and Sandy Demarest. |
Canton, NY, Monday, May 18, 2009-Corning Canton Plant Manager Joseph W. Neubert presented North Country Public Radio Station Manager Ellen Rocco with a $6,000 check today representing Corning Incorporated Foundation's annual grant in support of North Country Public Radio's local and national news coverage and Readers & Writers on the Air literature series. NCPR has been the grateful recipient of Corning support since 1982.
"The Corning Incorporated Foundation has invested in and encouraged the work of North Country Public Radio for many years. That support has played a tangible role in the station's development of an award-winning regional news service and on-going cultural programming. We are deeply grateful for this generosity to the station and the people who live in the North Country," said Ellen Rocco.
NCPR presents New Garrison Keillor Film
Canton, NY, Wednesday, May 13, 2009—A new film about American author, humorist and public radio host Garrison Keillor will be shown at three locations in the North Country next month. Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes profiles the well-known host of A Prairie Home Companion, which is heard every Saturday from 6 to 8pm on North Country Public Radio.
Produced and directed by award-winning documentary maker Peter Rosen, the 90 minute film goes behind the scenes of America’s most popular radio show and inside the imagination of the man who created it. The film follows Keillor as he takes his skits, music and stories across the country in his traveling radio show, mingling fact and fiction to create one of America’s favorite places, Lake Wobegon.
North Country Public Radio will present three screenings of this new film on Sunday, June 14. Tickets are $10 each. Screening times, locations, and box office phone numbers are as follows:
- 3 pm: Lake Placid Film Forum, Lake Placid Center for the Arts
518-523-2512
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5 pm: Clayton Opera House
315-686-2200
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5 pm: Gulick Theatre, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
877-388-6277
In the best tradition of Will Rogers and Mark Twain, Keillor mixes storytelling and humor to give us a light hearted but deeply felt reflection of ourselves. His down-home commentary and love of the authentically American, have made him into an “everyman philosopher.” A prolific author with more than 20 books to his credit and a weekly column, he is also a highly sought after speaker and lecturer. He is credited with reviving the virtually lost art of live radio entertainment in America; his weekly radio show, started in 1974, has more than 4 million listeners and is broadcast on 558 stations. Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes has received accolades at screenings at film festivals across the country, and will be shown on PBS this summer as part of the American Masters series.
NCPR'S Stories, Food Life Wins 2009 Independent Publisher Regional Book Award
Canton, NY, Monday, May 11, 2009-The results of the 2009 Independent Publisher Regional Book Awards (IPPYs) were announced today. North Country Public Radio's Stories, Food, Life, edited by station manager Ellen Rocco, is the recipient of a Gold Medal for Best Regional Non-fiction.
The IPPYs spotlight the best regional titles throughout North America. Over 700 entries were received from across the U.S. and Canada. Books were judged alongside books for and about their regions only, based on their quality and regional significance.
Stories, Food, Life is a collection of evocative food memoirs, recipes, and photographs. The book paints a portrait of family and community, food traditions and celebrations. More than 150 recipes are included along with dozens of photographs from renowned photographer Nancie Battaglia. Also included is a CD audio sampler of food and harvest stories from NCPR's archives. The book was published by Adirondack Life and designed by Steve Keetle of Keetle and Company.
"Oh, this is lovely. Like a fabulous potluck dinner, this book came together because so many people cooked up their favorite story or recipe or photograph. So much talent, so much community spirit, so much gusto! We are delighted about this recognition and grateful to everyone who contributed to the book.," said editor and NCPR station manager, Ellen Rocco.
Stories, Food, Life was released in December 08 and received excellent reviews:
"StoryCorps has worked with hundreds of public radio stations across the country-none has the soul and spirit of North Country Public Radio. NCPR is a national treasure-and now the warmth, intimacy and humanity that make NCPR glow like a beacon of hope on your radio dial come alive in Stories, Food, Life. This book is a feast of recipes, memories and stories that remind us--as does NCPR each day--just how lucky we are to be alive."
-Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps"Around The Kitchen Sisters we have a saying, "it's all within ten feet." Whatever you are looking for is often closer and easier to find than you think. And often what we're looking for is a good story, some good music, and a good meal with good people. It's all here in this book and on North Country Public Radio, the radio station that brought the voices in this book together. It comes from the memories and the kitchens of your community. Radio that cooks."
-Davia Nelson, The Kitchen Sisters"Our curiosity about food and the idea that food isn't just what happens when we stand at the stove reveals who we are. What's happening in the United States now is the concept of supporting local economies through what we eat-the slow food movement, community supported agriculture, anything that keeps a viable farm alive. In the long run, it all comes back to you-and trying to keep your money from going to some huge mega-whatever that has headquarters on the moon. If it stays in your community, it keeps on recycling. North Country Public Radio, through its programs and projects like this book, keeps the local alive and helps build community."
-Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of The Splendid Table, food writer"North Country fare at its best: local food from garden and orchard, stories from the heart."
-Susan Westmoreland, Food Editor, Good Housekeeping Magazine
Stories, Food, Life includes a foreward by Bill McKibben and afterword by Michael Pollan. It is available in bookstores throughout New York and Vermont including Borders Books and Music, Red Fox Books of Glens Falls, Fact & Fiction Bookshop of Saranac Lake, Brewer Bookstore in Canton, Brown Dog Books and Gifts of Hinesburg, VT, TAUNY Folkstore and more. The book is also available online at amazon.com and ncpr.org.
More information:
Editor: Ellen Rocco
Food Editor: George Arnold
Photography: Nancie Battaglia
Design: Steve Keetle
Publisher: Adirondack Life
Publication Date: December 5, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-922595-37-2
Hardcase: $24.95
192 Pages, 7x10, Finch Paper
North Country Public Radio to Launch A Year of Hard Choices on March 23
Canton, NY, Thursday, March 12, 2009—North Country Public Radio begins special continuing coverage of the effects of the economic recession in the region on Monday, March 23. The series, called A Year of Hard Choices, will bring the big story of the global recession home, through the eyes and voices of people here in the North Country.
People from across the North Country—from business owners, farmers, and householders, to artists and executives—have volunteered to help, by telling their own stories, on air and on line, in a web journal at the station’s website. They represent both sides of the equation: employers and employees… people who may need help, and people with helping agencies.
News Director Martha Foley said, "We're very excited to be working with so many people, from so many parts of the North Country. We're finding stories of real challenges people are facing in these hard times, but also stories of hope and strength."
Listeners will hear the first stories beginning March 23; NCPR’s award-winning news team will check back, as the stories of how they and their communities cope with the challenges of the next several months. Listeners will be able to follow their progress online, via the Year of Hard Choices blog also launching March 23.
For more information, contact: radio@ncpr.org or call Martha Foley or David Sommerstein, at 1-877-388-6277.
A Way with Words Debuts on North Country Public Radio
Canton, New York, 2/20/09--North Country Public Radio will air a new weekly program Mondays at 1 pm, beginning February 23. A Way with Words is a lively hour-long public radio show about language, grammar, old sayings, word origins, pronunciation, regional dialects, family expressions, and speaking and writing styles. Co-hosts Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett take calls from listeners, and offer quizzes and challenging word puzzles.
"We are delighted to be bringing this new show to our program schedule," said station program director Jackie Sauter. "It's intriguing, informative, and just plain fun, and is sure to become a favorite with listeners." More information is available at www.waywordradio.org.
Grant Barrett is a writer and language authority specializing in slang and new words. Whether he's scouring obscure corners of the internet, mining electronic databases, or digging through the library stacks, he ferrets out new and surprising terms that make language colorful. He is the compiler and editor of numerous dictionaries including the Official Dictionary of Unofficial English and of the Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang, and is well-known for his award-winning online Double-Tongued Dictionary. He is a member of the Dictionary Society of North America and the Linguistic Society of America.
Martha Barnette has a background in Latin and ancient Greek. She is the author of three books on word origins, including Ladyfingers & Nun's Tummies: A Lighthearted Look at How Foods Got Their Names, which was chosen by the Los Angeles Times for its "100 Best Books of the Year" list. She has worked as a reporter for the Washington Post, an editorial writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal, and as a medical reporter for the Louisville Times. Her first book, The Bill Schroeder Story, chronicled the ordeal of the world's longest-living artificial heart patient. Her articles have appeared in numerous publications, from the New York Times to The Bark.
