<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:npr="http://www.npr.org/rss/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss"><channel>
<title>NCPR Topical RSS: Betsy Kepes</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org</link>
<description>Latest North Country Public Radio regional news by topic. Topic=betsy-kepes.</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>&#x2117; &amp; &#xA9; 2013, North Country Public Radio</copyright>
<docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>
<ttl>60</ttl>
<managingEditor>radio@ncpr.org</managingEditor>
<webMaster>radio@ncpr.org</webMaster>

<image>
<title>North Country Public Radio Newsroom</title>
<url>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/ncprbug60.jpg</url>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org</link>
<width>51</width>
<height>12</height>
<description>NCPR provides locally-produced news stories from around the Adirondack and North Country regions of New York State, as well as Western Vermont, and Ontario and Quebec in Canada.</description>
</image>
<item>
<title>Book Review: &quot;New York Amish&quot; by Karen M. Johnson-Weiner</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19167/20120120/book-review-quot-new-york-amish-quot-by-karen-m-johnson-weiner</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 20, 2012) New York State now includes more than 10,000 Amish people in 25 settlements, many of them in the North Country. In her book New York Amish, Karen Johnson-Weiner explains some of the history and customs of the Plain people. Betsy Kepes has this review. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19167/20120120/book-review-quot-new-york-amish-quot-by-karen-m-johnson-weiner">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/120120newyorkamish.jpg" length="14619" type="image/jpeg"/>
<georss:point>44.5969200 -75.1733850</georss:point></item>
<item>
<title>Book Review: &quot;Triangle, The Fire That Changed America&quot; by David Von Drehle</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17365/20110324/book-review-quot-triangle-the-fire-that-changed-america-quot-by-david-von-drehle</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 24, 2011) One hundred years ago, on March 25, 1911, a fire raced through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City. 146 workers died, almost all of them women. Betsy Kepes has this review of Triangle, The Fire that Changed America by David Von Drehle. (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003) [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17365/20110324/book-review-quot-triangle-the-fire-that-changed-america-quot-by-david-von-drehle">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/trianglecv_175.jpg" length="18329" type="image/jpeg"/>
<georss:point>44.5556170 -74.9308170</georss:point></item>
<item>
<title>Book review: &quot;Goat Song&quot;</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16105/20100810/book-review-quot-goat-song-quot</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Aug 10, 2010) Our book reviewer, Betsy Kepes, can&apos;t stand the taste of most goat cheese.  But, she thoroughly enjoyed Brad Kessler&apos;s new book Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese.  It&apos;s part memoir, part how-to and part history. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16105/20100810/book-review-quot-goat-song-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/51lauj8xpoL._SL160_AA115_.jpg" length="4626" type="image/jpeg"/>
<georss:point>44.5530556 -74.9397222</georss:point></item>
<item>
<title>Small town Ontario life in &quot;Remembering the Bones&quot;</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15471/20100406/small-town-ontario-life-in-quot-remembering-the-bones-quot</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 6, 2010) In  Remembering the Bones, Ottawa writer Frances Itani imagines the long life of a woman in a fictional Ontario town, a village somewhere between Kingston and Ottawa.  Betsy Kepes has this review. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15471/20100406/small-town-ontario-life-in-quot-remembering-the-bones-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/rememberingbonescv.jpg" length="3255" type="image/jpeg"/>
<georss:point>44.8555906 -75.8005866</georss:point></item>
<item>
<title>An Adirondack hermit&apos;s journals, decoded</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/14973/20091228/an-adirondack-hermit-apos-s-journals-decoded</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 28, 2009) In 1946, the Adirondack hermit, Noah John Rondeau, wrote entries in his annual journal in a complicated code.  Fifty years later a young man and an old man deciphered the symbols.  William J. O’Hern uses the 1946 journal as the basis of his new book, Noah John Rondeau’s Adirondack Wilderness Days, a Year with the Hermit of the Cold River Flow.  Betsy Kepes has this review. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/14973/20091228/an-adirondack-hermit-apos-s-journals-decoded">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/awd-cover-200.jpg" length="42975" type="image/jpeg"/>
<georss:point>44.1333729 -74.1426573</georss:point></item>
<item>
<title>Book review: &quot;Goldengrove&quot; by Francine Prose</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/14780/20091124/book-review-quot-goldengrove-quot-by-francine-prose</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Nov 24, 2009) Francine Prose begins her novel, Goldengrove, with a drowning in Mirror Lake, a fictional lake somewhere in the mountains near Albany.  Betsy Kepes has this review. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/14780/20091124/book-review-quot-goldengrove-quot-by-francine-prose">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/goldengrovecv.jpg" length="3675" type="image/jpeg"/>
<georss:point>44.5531171 -74.9396405</georss:point></item>
<item>
<title>Book Review: &quot;The Lamoille Stories&quot;</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/13487/20090505/book-review-quot-the-lamoille-stories-quot</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (May 5, 2009) The characters in Bill Schubart&apos;s The Lamoille Stories are rural Vermonters with bottles of blackberry brandy in the pockets of their wool shirts and rusting &quot;parts cars&quot; in their front yards. Betsy Kepes has this review. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/13487/20090505/book-review-quot-the-lamoille-stories-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/lamoillecv.jpg" length="2690" type="image/jpeg"/>
<georss:point>44.3288460 -73.1101910</georss:point></item>
<item>
<title>Book review: At the Mercy of the Mountains</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/13186/20090318/book-review-at-the-mercy-of-the-mountains</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 18, 2009) Survival stories are best read in the comfort of your own home, definitely not while you’re in the arctic, or drifting at sea in a tiny life raft, or scaling a mountain in a howling blizzard.  Betsy Kepes was warm at home sipping tea while she read Peter Bronski’s At the Mercy of the Mountains: True Stories of Survival and Tragedy in New York’s Adirondacks.  She has this review. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/13186/20090318/book-review-at-the-mercy-of-the-mountains">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/Uatthemercycv.jpg" length="2642" type="image/jpeg"/>
<georss:point>44.5969200 -75.1733850</georss:point></item>
<item>
<title>Book Review: ?Winter with Crows?</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/12958/20090210/book-review-winter-with-crows</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 10, 2009) In winter, northern peoples gathered around a fire to exchange stories and experiences.  Mohawk poet, Peter Blue Cloud, shares his voice on paper, in a new collection of poems, Winter with Crows. Betsy Kepes has this review. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/12958/20090210/book-review-winter-with-crows">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/winterwithcrowscv.jpg" length="2362" type="image/jpeg"/>
<georss:point>44.5969200 -75.1733850</georss:point></item>
<item>
<title>Book review: &quot;On Kingdom Mountain&quot;</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/12225/20081008/book-review-quot-on-kingdom-mountain-quot</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Oct 8, 2008) Betsy Kepes found lots of books by western authors in a crowded bookstore in northern Idaho last summer, and one with a more familiar name. On Kingdom Mountain by Vermont writer Howard Frank Mosher. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/12225/20081008/book-review-quot-on-kingdom-mountain-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/onkingdommtn.jpg" length="3220" type="image/jpeg"/>
<georss:point>44.5969200 -75.1733850</georss:point></item>
<item>
<title>Books: The Far Traveler</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/11888/20080815/books-the-far-traveler</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Aug 15, 2008) Nancy Marie Brown is a Vermont writer fluent in Icelandic.  For her new book, The Far Traveler, she researched the life of a woman who lived over a thousand years ago.  Her subject, Gudrid, wasn’t just any Viking woman, but the first European woman to set foot in North America. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/11888/20080815/books-the-far-traveler">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/thefartraveler.jpg" length="8624" type="image/jpeg"/>
<georss:point>44.5969200 -75.1733850</georss:point></item>
<item>
<title>Book review: Dateline Vermont</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/10828/20080213/book-review-dateline-vermont</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 13, 2008) Republican presidential frontrunner John McCain plans to make a stop in Vermont tomrrow. The state&apos;s delegates are up for grabs March 4, all 17 of them. The entire population of Vermont is less that that of Syracuse, yet the state may be the mouse that roared in national politics. Think Jim Jeffords, Bernie Sanders, Howard dean and Patrick Leahy. A new memoir by veteran political reporter Chris Graff explores the politics the the green Mountain State. Betsy Kepes has our review. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/10828/20080213/book-review-dateline-vermont">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/datelinevtcover.jpg" length="10320" type="image/jpeg"/>
<georss:point>44.5969200 -75.1733850</georss:point></item>
<item>
<title>Review: Schroon Lake</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/9447/20070613/review-schroon-lake</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Jun 13, 2007) Lueza Thirkield Gelb was born in New Jersey, in the first part of the twentieth century, two years after the stock market crash, and grew up in the Adirondacks before and during World War II.  Her book, Schroon Lake, won the Best Memoir award Sunday at the Adirondack Center for Writing’s annual book awards in Blue Mountain Lake.  Our book critic, Betsy Kepes, has this review. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/9447/20070613/review-schroon-lake">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/schroon-lake-book2.jpg" length="4708" type="image/jpeg"/>
<georss:point>44.5969200 -75.1733850</georss:point></item>
<item>
<title>Book Review: Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/9277/20070515/book-review-wild-fire-by-nelson-demille</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (May 15, 2007) It&apos;s not every day the Adirondack North Country is the setting for a popular page-turner. But we&apos;ve got one today. Betsy Kepes review Nelson DeMille&apos;s Wild Fire. (She lives in the REAL Colton.) [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/9277/20070515/book-review-wild-fire-by-nelson-demille">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/wildemille.jpg" length="2986" type="image/jpeg"/>
<georss:point>44.5969200 -75.1733850</georss:point></item>
<item>
<title>Review: Over the Mountain and Home Again</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/9095/20070423/review-over-the-mountain-and-home-again</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 23, 2007) In 1992, Edward Kanze and his wife Debbie bought an old camp on 18 acres of land bordering the Saranac River in Bloomingdale.  Kanze&apos;s new book, Over the Mountain and Home Again, explores that land and the surrounding Adirondack wilderness.  Betsy Kepes has this book review. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/9095/20070423/review-over-the-mountain-and-home-again">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/overmountain.jpg" length="8252" type="image/jpeg"/>
<georss:point>44.5969200 -75.1733850</georss:point></item>
<item>
<title>Two books with a passion for nature</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/8933/20070329/two-books-with-a-passion-for-nature</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 29, 2007) It&apos;s almost time to get out hiking, but while we wait for the snow to melt and the mud to dry up, we still have time to learn more about our northern woods.  Betsy kepes reviews two new books by knowledgeable Adirondack naturalists: Why the Adirondacks Look the Way They Do, by Mike Storey, and The Great South Woods II, by Peter O&apos;Shea. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/8933/20070329/two-books-with-a-passion-for-nature">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/twoadkbooks.jpg" length="5286" type="image/jpeg"/>
<georss:point>44.5969200 -75.1733850</georss:point></item>
<item>
<title>Review: A North Country Quartet</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/8750/20070220/review-a-north-country-quartet</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 20, 2007) The English Department at SUNY-Potsdam recently published a book featuring four North Country poets. NCPR&apos;s book reviewer, Betsy Kepes, shares a few of the poems. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/8750/20070220/review-a-north-country-quartet">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/kepesm.jpg" length="1647" type="image/jpeg"/>
<georss:point>44.5969200 -75.1733850</georss:point></item>
<item>
<title>Book review: Without Grace by Carol Hoenig</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/8570/20070116/book-review-without-grace-by-carol-hoenig</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 16, 2007) In Carol Hoenig&apos;s novel Without Grace, rural poverty forces many of the characters to make difficult choices. Set in Churubusco in the 1970s, the book chronicles the coming of age of Vicky Finley, a farm girl who fights against tragedy to become a strong North Country woman. While some of the book&apos;s characters leave the North Country, staying put is a struggle for many. Betsy Kepes has our review. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/8570/20070116/book-review-without-grace-by-carol-hoenig">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/withoutgrace.jpg" length="4491" type="image/jpeg"/>
<georss:point>44.5969200 -75.1733850</georss:point></item>
<item>
<title>Review: books about Adk kids</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/8335/20061122/review-books-about-adk-kids</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Nov 22, 2006) Adirondack kids have adventures climbing mountains, and sometimes they lose their way in the woods.  Betsy Kepes reviews two books for young readers that are set in the Adirondacks. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/8335/20061122/review-books-about-adk-kids">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/kepesm.jpg" length="1647" type="image/jpeg"/>
<georss:point>44.5969200 -75.1733850</georss:point></item>
<item>
<title>Book Review: Grisha</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/8241/20061102/book-review-grisha</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Nov 2, 2006) This summer, Elizabethtown writer and historian Margaret Bartley&apos;s book, Grisha, won an award at the Adirondack Center for Writing&apos;s first annual literary awards Sunday. Grisha tells the story of famous Russian-American cellist Gregor Piatigorksy&apos;s childhood in Russia, his escape during the Revolution and as a refugee in Europe. He and his young family eventually made it to New York and the Adirondacks in the late 1930&apos;s. They found safe haven at the mansion &quot;Windy Cliff&quot; near Elizabethtown.  Betsy Kepes has this review of Grisha. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/8241/20061102/book-review-grisha">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/grisha2.jpg" length="3446" type="image/jpeg"/>
<georss:point>44.5969200 -75.1733850</georss:point></item>


</channel>
</rss>
