Sep 10, 2002 — SUNY Potsdam politics professor John Massaro and Potsdam middle school social studies teacher Carol Fries are Martha Foley's guests in a regional call-in discussion of post 9/11 change.  Go to full article

Aug 26, 2002 — Amy Ivy, Horticulturist with the Clinton/Essex County Cooperative Extension Service, answers listener questions on gardening.  Go to full article

Jul 29, 2002 — National Public Radio President and CEO Kevin Klose paid a visit to the region to meet with North Country Public Radio staff, members and supporters. Listeners had a rare opportunity to question Klose about NPR programs and policies in a two-hour call-in at the NCPR studio.  Go to full article

Jul 11, 2002 — Readers and Writers on the Air's Ellen Rocco is joined by guest host Jill Breit from Traditional Arts in Upstate New York to talk with callers about their favorite summer reading for 2002.  Go to full article

Jan 04, 2001 — Time to recommend your favorite fireside reading. Host Ellen Rocco is joined by literary omnivore Rick Hunter to pick though the best new titles and old favorites, and to take your calls in our annual winter reading show.  Go to full article

Oct 30, 2000 — We conclude our series of five radio call-in conversations about the place, the people, the history and the local culture we call North Country. Tonight we explore the question: Is there a distinct North Country Culture?--landscape, values, attitudes, expressions? In the studio are series host NCPR news director Martha Foley, TAUNY executive director Varick Chittenden, Betsy Folwell, editor of Adirondack Life magazine, freelance writer and editor Neal Burdick, and John Deans, president of Jefferson Community College.  Go to full article

Oct 23, 2000 — We continue our series of five radio call-in conversations about the place, the people, the history and the local culture we call North Country. Tonight we explore the question: Are we what we make?--customs, crafts, art and architecture of the region. In the studio are series host NCPR news director Martha Foley, TAUNY executive director Varick Chittenden, Hallie Bond, curator at the Adirondack Museum and author of Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks, Karen Taussig-Lux of the New York Folklore Sociey, and a summer resident of Big Moose Lake, and Steve Engelhart, of Adirondack Architectural Heritage.  Go to full article

Oct 16, 2000 — We continue our series of five radio call-in conversations about the place, the people, the history and the local culture we call North Country. Tonight we explore the question: How do we create a sense of place?--and look at the oral and written traditions, and musical heritage of the region. In the studio are series host NCPR news director Martha Foley, TAUNY executive director Varick Chittenden, Doug Welch, a book collector, bibliographer, and librarian at Canton College, and writer Chris Angus of Canton. Joining them by phone from WAMC in Albany are folklorist Vaughan Ward, director of the Black Crow network, a regional cultural services group, and Vaughan's husband, George, who's also a folklorist, as well a collector and performer of regional traditional music.  Go to full article

Oct 09, 2000 — Tonight we continue our series of five radio conversations about the place, the people, the history and the local culture we call North Country. Tonight we explore the question: Who is the North Country? In the studio are series host NCPR news director Martha Foley, TAUNY executive director Varick Chittenden, who first proposed we ask our questions about regional identity and sense of place. Susan Ouilette, a historian, native of the Champlain Valley and a teacher at St. Michael's College in Vermont, Laurie Rush, cultural anthropologist based along the St. Lawrence River in Clayton, and Amy Godine, a journalist and freelance writer who has written extensively about the ethnic history of the Adirondack-North Country.  Go to full article

Oct 02, 2000 — The first in a series of five radio call-in conversations about the place, the people, the history and the local culture we call North Country. The programs are produced in cooeration with TAUNY - Traditional Arts of Upstate New York, and supported in part by the new York State Council on the Humanities. We explore questions about regional identity in the northern section of upstate New York. Tonight's topic - WHERE IS THE NORTH COUNTRY? In the studio are series host, NCPR news director Martha Foley, TAUNY executive director Varick Chittenden, Art Johnson, professor of history at the State University College at Potsdam, Terry DeFranco Martino, executive director of the Adirondack North Country Association, and Tom Van De Water, science teacher at Canton High School.  Go to full article