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JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksUpper Valley Vibes S1 E3: Raymond Voter Information Project on informed town meetings and civic engagementIn this episode, I invited some VIPs from outside the Upper Valley up to Junction Arts Media's (Formerly CATV) podcast recording studio in White River Junction. (Which by the way, JAM is a partner on this podcast and that podcast recording studio can be used by anyone! There are some links in the show notes with more info if you're interested in that.)Anyway, if you live in Raymond New Hampshire you have an easier time getting informed about what's happening at Town Meeting than people do in many towns. Why? This is because of the dedicated...
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JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksUpper Valley Vibes S1 E2: Discussion with Josh Crane about Brave Little State, local journalism, community, and trustHi Alex Torpey here, your host of Upper Valley Vibes.In this episode, I take a walk on the rail trail in Lebanon with Josh Crane of Norwich, Vermont. Josh is the Senior Producer and Managing Editor of the really great podcast Brave Little State that many of you have probably heard of, produced by Vermont Public. Before joining Brave Little State and moving to the Upper Valley in 2021, Josh spent years reporting and producing podcasts at WBUR in Boston.I asked him to talk in large part because of a great episode he did...
2024-11-1346 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksThe JAM Podcast Season 1 Episode 2Episode 2 - JAM Rebrand - Maeve sits down with the JAM team leader, Samantha Davidson Green to discuss how JAM came into being as it exists today. Listen in to learn how and why CATV got the facelift to become JAM – Junction Arts & Media.Join Maeve and the rest of the JAM team as they discuss all things JAM and what's going on in the Upper Valley. Send suggestions and feedback to Maeve at Maeve@uvjam.org.
2024-10-0833 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 29What is your favorite “snack” book – a book that is great “because no matter what is going on, you can pick it up and enjoy it even if it’s only a chapter or two.”? The bookstore owners fully embraced the concept of a snack book. Well, with the exception of Emma who confessed she does not pick books up and down, unlike her partner Sam who has multiple books going at all times. So Emma used this question as a reason to reference Shirley Jackson again. Specific book recommendations from all the booksellers included the Best American Series (essays, ficti...
2024-09-1724 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 30Tolstoy and great books about unhappy families: For this episode and its question from our friend and superb librarian Lucinda wanting more books about unhappy families, we were joined by Jen from Still North Books & Bar as Allie had a conflict. Jen was succinct, delightful, and forthcoming about her senior thesis with one recommendation – Abolish the Family by Sophie Lewis. Emma had a long list that included Normal Family by Chrysta Bilton, Fun Home by Allison Bechtdel, Priest Daddy by Partricia Lockwood and Dominicana by Angie Cruz. Kari split the difference and chose two books – Inheritance by Dani Shapiro and B...
2024-09-1713 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 31Fun, yet clever books for college kids: Jen joined us again from Still North; and, Sam and Allie were still unable to be with us. But Jen, Kari, and Emma discussed great ideas to answer a question from Laura looking for great books for her kid in college. Their picks included, but were not limited to, The Idiot by Elif Batuman, Bunny by Mona Awad, Long Way To Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, Hamster Princess by Ursula Vernon, and What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher. We all remarked we were grateful we had an actual college student – Je...
2024-09-1713 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 32Some books that provide feminist rethinkings and revisionings of the hero cycle/”hero’s journey”, or said another way books that explore the heroine’s journey: We were joined by Allie for this episode, and bid a fond goodbye to Still North’s Jen, hoping to hear from her again soon. This question from Devon was interpreted widely by the group – Allie, Emma, and Kari (still no Sam). Their picks include: Circe by Madeline Miller, The Shame by Mckenna Goodwin, The Heroine with 1001 Faces by Maria Tatar, How to be Eaten by Marion Adelmann, and Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes. We h...
2024-09-1724 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 33This episode was guided by a question from Shelf Help’s friend KJ, an author herself, who was looking for great books for her mom that feature protagonists who are older and not depressed about it. Her question led of course to the Thursday Murder Club mysteries by Richard Osman, and quickly veered away from those as KJ’s question specifically said don’t recommend those because her mom is not yet in assisted living. The Group – Kari, Allie and Emma (still no Sam who was busy at the Norwich Bookstore) – came up with the following: The Secret Diary of Hendrik...
2024-09-1716 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 34Shelf Help booksellers answer a question from Caleb –”some of my favorite books are ones with allusions to other literary works, like the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde. What other books like that series would the co-hosts recommend?” Recommendations included the unexpected – a picture book – A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers, as well as other novels the Wayward children series by Seanan McGuire, Check out 19 by Claire Louise Bennett, The Idiot by Elif Batuman, Mr. Penumbra’s 24 hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan, Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill, and the Magpie Murders seri...
2024-09-1711 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelp Help Episode 35Kirsten asks, “My dilemma: Making time to read fiction as my thirst for knowledge/evidence increases with age.” The booksellers first challenged her assumption she should or has to read fiction, then came up with a pretty good list including books by Adrienne Brodeur, Jenny Odell, Ottessa Moshfegh, Lydia millet and Rumaan Alam.Welcome to Shelf Help, a podcast where booksellers help you answer one of life’s trickier – and we’d argue extremely important – questions: What should you read next? Shelf Help is a collaboration between the Book Jam, a nonprofit designed to inspire re...
2024-09-1713 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 36Food becomes the main discussion in Episode 36 when Signe asks “Who’s the next Barefoot Contessa?” The booksellers agreed on the following – Ina Gratner still reigns and there is nothing wrong with sticking with her cookbooks. And, if you are looking for someone else they all landed on Alison Roman. Specific discussions of I Dream of Dinner (so you don’t have to) and Gesine Bullock-Prado’s latest My Vermont Table: Recipes for All Six Seasons were important parts of this episode.Welcome to Shelf Help, a podcast where booksellers help you answer one of life’s trick...
2024-09-1711 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 37Jenn’s question, “I would love to go on a European holiday soon, but I just can’t find the time or the money. What are some recommended memoirs or ‘travel fiction?'” was the starting point for Episode 37. Kari mentioned the Bruno Chief of Police series based in France and American Gods, by Neil Gaiman. Allie suggested Lost Daughter, by Elena Ferrante and Tender is the Night, by F Scott Fitzgerald. Emma talked about the beauty of the Hedonist’s Guides to various cities as great visual inspiration to travel and A Line in the World, by Dorthe Nors. Lisa ch...
2024-09-1713 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 38“Horror Recs!” is all Maria Teresa wrote in her request, but our booksellers were incredibly excited to explore this relatively new category they are now using to shelve books in their stores. And wow, did they come up with some fun books for Episode 37, after having a broad discussion about what makes a book a horror novel, and what sort of sub-genres are included (sporers, body horror). Some titles included in this are: Such Sharp Teeth, Mexican Gothic, Devolution, and Carmilla. We hope you get a thrill from this episode.Welcome to Shelf Help, a...
2024-09-1731 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 39This episode’s question came from Lisa F. and asked us to recommend “good YA book that spotlights an animal, but isn’t about animal abuse of heart wrenchingly sad.” This was hard because many animal books are well … sad. and this amazing group still found some titles to recommend. These include Shady Hallow, Pax, Council of Animals, and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl.Welcome to Shelf Help, a podcast where booksellers help you answer one of life’s trickier – and we’d argue extremely important – questions: What should you read next? Shelf Help is a collaboration betwee...
2024-09-1715 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 40In this episode we discussed Dianne’s need for “some good humor books that are not romantic comedies of Janet Evanovich.” This led to a brief discussion about whether Janet Evanovich writes humor books. We came to no conclusion. Suggestions included anything by Eleanor Lipman including her latest Ms. Demeanor, anything by Jenny Lawson and Samantha Irby, and French Exit. We hope these leave everyone laughing.Welcome to Shelf Help, a podcast where booksellers help you answer one of life’s trickier – and we’d argue extremely important – questions: What should you read next? Shelf Help is a colla...
2024-09-1713 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 41A request from Matt S. for “gay/queer romance novels” was met in Episode 41 with an extensive list from the booksellers, including when When Kate Met Cassidy, One Last Stop, Red White and Royal Blue (soon to be a movie), In At The Deep End, Ladies Guide to Celestial Mechanics, a Lady for a Duke, and all gay hockey books — which seems to be an extensive sub category of this genre. Have fun with these.Welcome to Shelf Help, a podcast where booksellers help you answer one of life’s trickier – and we’d argue extremely imp...
2024-09-1712 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 42is all about books that are “Informational but easy to digest” based on a question from Britt via Instagram. Due to her busy schedule – starting with owning a store and getting married in early July, Allie was unable to join us and sent Jen in her place. We were thrilled to welcome Jen again and wish Allie the best. Now the books. Jen opened with a recommendation for The Right to Sex. Emma followed with Naked Economics by Dartmouth professor Charles Wheelan. Sex and naked? — we must be headed into summer. Kari recommended Cultish andGeorge: A magpie memoir.Welcom...
2024-09-1709 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 43This comment, “I LOOOOVED Cloud Cuckoo Land and Great Circle – need epic multi-POV novels” from Amanda via IG, led us into Episode 43. Once again, Allie was unable to join us and sent Jen in her place. Kari started with God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland. Jen mentioned two classics, Dracula and Paradise Lost and a more recent title – The Dark Materials Series by Philip Pullman. Emma mentioned the graphic novel Here, North Woodsand Cloud Atlas.Welcome to Shelf Help, a podcast where booksellers help you answer one of life’s trickier – and we’d argue extremely impor...
2024-09-1709 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 44A few people asked for “just a good summer read” – even if their names were lost in the ether before the booksellers could capture them on IG. This led Episode 44 to begin with a discussion about what makes a book a summer book. Ideas included: it’s about a road trip? it’s a paperback, it’s intense and engrossing and long because you finally have time for those books, or it’s light and breezy and entertaining. In short, we reached no conclusion about a definition of a summer read, and the booksellers came up with a great list for you f...
2024-09-1714 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 45Erin on IG asked for “some more queer books that aren’t romance or historical fiction”. This episode tackles this question Open Throat by Henry Hoake, Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White, Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby, and Cleanness by Garth Greenwell.Welcome to Shelf Help, a podcast where booksellers help you answer one of life’s trickier – and we’d argue extremely important – questions: What should you read next? Shelf Help is a collaboration between the Book Jam, a nonprofit designed to inspire readers; JAM – Junction Arts & Media; three Upper Valle...
2024-09-1708 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 46Laura via IG says she “needs historical somewhat fictional adventure” and in this episode the booksellers delivered some great ideas. Emma discussed Hildand Menewood by Nicola Griffith. Jen, subbing for Allie, recommends Washington Black by Esi Edugyan and 100 Years of Solitude to either read again or for the first time if you have not yet done so. And, Kari wants you to read Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn.Welcome to Shelf Help, a podcast where booksellers help you answer one of life’s trickier – and we’d argue extremely important – questions: What should you read next? Shelf...
2024-09-1710 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 27Shelf Help’s Inaugural Holiday Gift Guide: Each bookstore owner chose one fiction, one nonfiction, and one kids book to help listeners find the perfect gift for everyone on their lists. They picked far too many to list them all here. And when you listen, you will hear them discuss why books such as Marple: 12 new mysteries, Olga Dies Dreaming, Inciting Joy: Essays, The Phantomwise Tarot: A 78-Card Deck and Guidebook, The Legend of the Christmas Witch, A Very Mercy Christmas, and A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Enjoy! We hope this episode helps you find the perfect gift for e...
2024-09-1743 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 11Booksellers answer an anonymous question from instagram in which one desperate listener asks for the “best ways to get out of a reading slump”. For this question, Lisa adds an idea for the first time – Hunting and Gathering, a “fun to read” gem by France’s best-selling author Ana Gavalda. Kari suggests reading short stories as a great way to get reading again; she singles out St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised By Wolves by Karen Russell, and then changes things up by also recommending a memoir, The Electric Woman by Tessa Fontaine. Allie believes that Sisters by Daisy Johnson...
2024-09-1718 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 12Tom uses FB to ask the longest question we have received thus far, “So I could use some advice! I sorta fell out of reading regularly for fun. Due to the events of the world, I’ve focused more on reading educational topics. I used to read a lot of sci-fi and fantasy. Some of my favorite novels are the Dune series (and prequels), and growing up I LOVED the Lost Years of Merlin. I got the book series for The Magicians a few years ago and worked through that and really liked it. I’d like to get back i...
2024-09-1716 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 13The booksellers tackle a question about great books for younger readers when the instagram handle courtpilling asked for “Middle Grade historical fiction set in 1700s-1800s”. Kari started us off with The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich, Allie wants everyone to read Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Lisa remembered two classics by Robert Lawson – Mr. Revere and I and Ben and Me. Emma brought us to Philadelphia with Fever 1793 by Laurie Anderson and Sam finished the list with Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park.Welcome to Shelf Help, a podcast where booksellers help yo...
2024-09-1717 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 14We are back from our summer recess with a list of books to enjoy as summer wanes. Specifically, we answer a question from Sarah on Instagram, “Looking for a light summer read this is well written, but is not a romance or set on a beach”. Luckily, even though we proved a bit rusty on our recording abilities, the ability of Sam, Emma, Kari and Allie to recommend good books did not wane during our recess. We are pretty confident the books discussed in this episode will help you end summer on a high note.Welcome to Sh...
2024-09-1716 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 15This episode is for all those readers who love Lauren Groff. You will not be disappointed as Kari, Allie, Emma, and Sam tackle an anonymous question from Instagram, “what/who to read once you’ve read all of Lauren Groff”.Welcome to Shelf Help, a podcast where booksellers help you answer one of life’s trickier – and we’d argue extremely important – questions: What should you read next? Shelf Help is a collaboration between the Book Jam, a nonprofit designed to inspire readers; JAM – Junction Arts & Media; three Upper Valley bookstores: Yankee Bookshop...
2024-09-1717 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 16This request, via Instagram from a special group of Dartmouth alums, to find books about “magical cosmic beings like toads and fairies and butterflies with special superpowers!!!” had Sam perplexed but able to rise to the occasion and Allie thrilled to respond. Enjoy a bit of magic with this episode.Welcome to Shelf Help, a podcast where booksellers help you answer one of life’s trickier – and we’d argue extremely important – questions: What should you read next? Shelf Help is a collaboration between the Book Jam, a nonprofit designed to inspire readers; JAM – J...
2024-09-1715 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 17A very specific request from Emma’s mom – “I am always looking for books to read. They can be romantic (but not mushy), suspenseful (but not scary), historical (but not boring), and preferably available on audio. My last “must have” in a book is that it must end happily. I do not want to cry at the end of a book. I can get that watching the news!” – had the bookstore owners searching their vast knowledge of literature and creating a fabulous list of books, meeting this vast array of criteria, for us all to enjoy.Welcome to Shelf He...
2024-09-1718 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 18How to sit down and finish a book rather than just starting a new one? from Andrew via IG. For the first time in the history of Shelf Help, one of our bookstore owners, Allie sent another bookseller, Jack, in her place. And Sam relied on Emma to represent the Norwich Bookstore alone, as someone had to actually stay in the store and work. Very quickly the three booksellers, Kari, Emma, and Jack, bonded over their adamant and united response to Andrew’s Insta question: How to sit down and finish a book rather than just starting a new on...
2024-09-1706 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 19Children’s books for young readers who have high reading levels and have difficulty finding just right books in terms of content (being sensitive enough with an engaging enough reading level) from Rowan via IGRealizing Shelf Help rarely gets questions dealing with books for children, the three booksellers – Emma, Jack and Kari – had a ton of fun discussing their answers to this very common question for indie booksellers. They created significant consensus when all three agreed that The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making and The Winternight Trilogy would be great books...
2024-09-1715 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 20Anya via IG was looking for “Historical Fiction with an engaging story and characters (I’ve enjoyed Kristin Hannah)” Our three booksellers, Kari, Jack and Emma, started with the query: Are you sure you have read everything Kristin Hannah has written? They then took off, recommending books such as Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus, Sharks in the Time of Saviors: A Novel, by Kawai Strong Washburn, Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys and The Grand Sophy, by Georgette Heyer among many others.Welcome to Shelf Help, a podcast where booksellers help you answer one of life...
2024-09-1715 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 21“I’ve read all of Shirley Jackson’s work. I loved it! What should I read that’s similar?” – from mrsmorganbakestoomuch via IG. Once again our booksellers began their recommendations with the query, “Are you sure you have read everything Shirley Jackson has written? There is a lot.” Assuming mrsmorganbakestoomuch had, they jumped in. The discussion highlighted Shirley Jackson’s connections to Bennington, Vermont, the frequency with which her work is mentioned in Shelf Help, and that perhaps her estate should be Shelf Help‘s first underwriter. Jack highlighted Jazz by Toni Morrison and Secret History by Donna Tartt, leading to a short se...
2024-09-1716 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 22The question: “Not necessarily a dilemma, but I would like books to be paired with your astrological sign!” – came via Instagram from Nicole; and it had the booksellers so excited we delayed discussing it for a month so that Allie, Emma, and Kari could all be present to discuss. This query also resulted in our longest episode yet.To start, we discussed personal charts and learned that Allie is a Libra sun sign, Sagittarius moon sign, with Scorpio as her rising sign. Emma is a Taurus sun sign, a Cancer moon sign, and has Virgo rising. Kari is a S...
2024-09-1719 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 23A listener asked via instagram for “new cozy mysteries.” The booksellers admitted they’re not big cozy mystery readers themselves, yet they had good tips for books in the genre including Shady Hollow Series, by Juneau Black; Death in Door Country, by Annelise Ryan, and Killers of a Certain Age, by Deanna Raybourn.Welcome to Shelf Help, a podcast where booksellers help you answer one of life’s trickier – and we’d argue extremely important – questions: What should you read next? Shelf Help is a collaboration between the Book Jam, a nonprofit designed to inspire read...
2024-09-1712 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 24Sara was on instagram looking for modern Native American fiction. And the booksellers were brimming with books to recommend. These included anything, anything, anything – fiction for adults, fiction for children, short stories – by Louise Erdrich, A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger, and for kids both Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac and Sea in Winter by Christine Day. Listen to the entire episode for more recommendations and to hear the palatable excitement these booksellers felt in discussing this question.Welcome to Shelf Help, a podcast where booksellers help you answer one of life’s trick...
2024-09-1712 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 25“Not Christmas books!” Our first question we’ve received that required clarification resulted in very unique interpretations this episode. The query arrived via instagram from Sara who wrote she needs books that help her in “getting away from the encroaching Christmas.” When asked for clarification, she came back with – “Christmas dominates the popular narrative starting late fall, hard to get away from. Stories that aren’t about Christmas or anti-Christmas are few and far between. I’m sure there’s exciting new fiction or old comfort food stories that get ‘the rest of us’ through.”Welcome to Shelf Help, a podcast...
2024-09-1716 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 26Beyond Goodnight Moon: Board books for infants and the people who love them: The bookstore owners had fun thinking about books for the youngest among us and the people who love them, which led to a debate about who are board books really for – kids or adults? Consensus was board books are for both, and then the recommendations flew. Kari recommended books by Il Sung Na such as Book of Sleep, and Emma says you can’t go wrong with Natalie Nelson and Dog’s First Baby and Cat’s First Baby. Allie’s recommendations were more interactive with puppets inc...
2024-09-1715 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 28Books for High Schoolers Who Seem to Have Become Nonreaders: For Sam, these include narrative nonfiction in the sociology, history, and travel sections. Allie recommended dystopian fiction. Kari chose books that have protagonists who are the same age as the reluctant reader. And, Emma recommended series. All referenced Shelf Help’s previous reading slump episode. Specific books to ponder include: the Saga Series, Endurance by Alfred Lansing, Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Serpent King by Jeff Zentner, and We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach.Welcome to Shelf Help, a podcast where booksellers help yo...
2024-09-1718 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksShelf Help Episode 1Episode 1 – In episode 1, we introduce each of the Shelf Help booksellers by asking each to review a book that best represents them. What results is a great list of books and some fun insight into the Shelf Help booksellers who will be recommending books on future episodes.Welcome to Shelf Help, a podcast where booksellers help you answer one of life’s trickier – and we’d argue extremely important – questions: What should you read next? Shelf Help is a collaboration between the Book Jam, a nonprofit designed to inspire readers; JAM – J...
2024-09-1115 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksGoing The Dismas #10: Kristi & TimKristi & Tim, Volunteer of the year recipient, Kristi, sits down for a conversation with Hartford Dismas House resident, Tim, about his experience and subtleties of the legal system.Dismas of Vermont provides therapeutic community to men and women leaving incarceration and reconciling with the community. One of the main features of the Dismas model is our community dinners in which volunteers prepare and join us for dinner and story sharing.This podcast is made possible by the guidance and technical support of JAM.
2023-10-0654 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksGoing The Dismas #7: Aaron & MatthewAaron & Mathew, Burlington Dismas House residents, Aaron & Matthew, share the importance of supportive community, attempts at self medication, accessibility of substances on the dark web, and the Federal drug court system.Dismas of Vermont provides therapeutic community to men and women leaving incarceration and reconciling with the community. One of the main features of the Dismas model is our community dinners in which volunteers prepare and join us for dinner and story sharing.This podcast is made possible by the guidance and technical support of JAM.
2023-10-0646 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksGoing The Dismas #8: DrewDrew Rockwell, Dismas of Vermont Board President, Drew Rockwell, shares his reflections on the evolution of an expanding organization. Dismas of Vermont provides therapeutic community to men and women leaving incarceration and reconciling with the community. One of the main features of the Dismas model is our community dinners in which volunteers prepare and join us for dinner and story sharing.This podcast is made possible by the guidance and technical support of JAM.
2023-10-0634 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksGoing The Dismas #9: Molly, Marisa & KevinMolly, Marisa, Kevin, Two Dartmouth Students and Hartford Dismas House Council Members, Molly and Marisa, join in on a conversation with former resident, Kevin, and discuss his path to Dismas, personal growth since, and how we can all help to improve the Dismas community!Dismas of Vermont provides therapeutic community to men and women leaving incarceration and reconciling with the community. One of the main features of the Dismas model is our community dinners in which volunteers prepare and join us for dinner and story sharing.This podcast is made possible...
2023-10-0634 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksGoing The Dismas #11: Kathy & CherryKathy Astemborski & Cherry Sullivan, Director of Women’s Services for the Vermont Department of Corrections, Kathy, joins Hartford Dismas House Council Member, Cherry, for a conversation about supervision in the community, addiction and trauma management, and the female experience in the correctional system.Dismas of Vermont provides therapeutic community to men and women leaving incarceration and reconciling with the community. One of the main features of the Dismas model is our community dinners in which volunteers prepare and join us for dinner and story sharing.This podcast is made possible by th...
2023-10-0652 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksGoing The Dismas #12: Tom & DarbyTom & Darby, Hartford Dismas House Director, Tom, shares the story of his own path to Dismas while resident, Darby, talks about what it was like moving the homeless population into motels during the Covid-19 pandemic, the value of a 12 step program, and what it was like growing up "on the other side of the tracks".Dismas of Vermont provides therapeutic community to men and women leaving incarceration and reconciling with the community. One of the main features of the Dismas model is our community dinners in which volunteers prepare and join us for...
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JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksGoing The Dismas #13: Sheena & DeeSheena & Dee, Women's Dismas House Resident, Sheena, joins Committed Member, Dee, for a conversation about incarcerated women, job hunting with a record, and the incredible Rutland community!Dismas of Vermont provides therapeutic community to men and women leaving incarceration and reconciling with the community. One of the main features of the Dismas model is our community dinners in which volunteers prepare and join us for dinner and story sharing.This podcast is made possible by the guidance and technical support of JAM.
2023-10-0655 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksGoing The Dismas #15: Kim, Marie & RichKim, Marie & Rich, Dismas of Vermont provides therapeutic community to men and women leaving incarceration and reconciling with the community. One of the main features of the Dismas model is our community dinners in which volunteers prepare and join us for dinner and story sharing.Burlington House Director, Kim Parsons, shares her experience with our community over the past 30 years along with Volunteer for Peace from Belgium, Marie, and house resident Rich.This podcast is made possible by the guidance and technical support of JAM.
2023-10-0658 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksGoing The Dismas #14: Miranda, Shawn & DougMiranda, Shawn & Doug,After presenting to Hartford High School students weeks prior, Hartford Dismas House resident, Shawn, aims to recreate the experience with Hartford High School teacher, Doug, and his student, Miranda, in a two way street of valuable life lessons.Dismas of Vermont provides therapeutic community to men and women leaving incarceration and reconciling with the community. One of the main features of the Dismas model is our community dinners in which volunteers prepare and join us for dinner and story sharing.This podcast is made possible by...
2023-10-0639 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksGoing The Dismas #17: Samantha, Dale & ChicoSamantha, Dale & ChicoFormer Hartford Dismas House Resident, Dale Jr., is given voice with Samantha and Chico of Junction Arts & Media - the Upper Valley non-profit that can be credited with giving so many a voice and producing podcasts such as "Going the Dismas"!This podcast is made possible by the guidance and technical support of JAM.
2023-10-0639 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksGoing The Dismas #16: Kate & DavidKate & David,Hartford Dismas House Resident, David, joins host, Jeff Backus, and his step-mother, Kate, for a conversation about the shortcoming of the American mental health care system, how he found his way from Hawaii to jail in Vermont, and the benefit of the Dismas community.Dismas of Vermont provides therapeutic community to men and women leaving incarceration and reconciling with the community. One of the main features of the Dismas model is our community dinners in which volunteers prepare and join us for dinner and story sharing.This podcast is...
2023-10-0645 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksGoing The Dismas #6: Rita, Jim & RichardRita, Jim, and Richard,Dismas of Vermont Founder, Rita McCaffrey, gets together with Program Manager, Richard Gagne, and Executive Director, Jim Curran, to talk about the history and origins of Dismas and what's next!Dismas of Vermont provides therapeutic community to men and women leaving incarceration and reconciling with the community. One of the main features of the Dismas model is our community dinners in which volunteers prepare and join us for dinner and story sharing.This podcast is made possible by the guidance and technical support of JAM.
2023-10-0659 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksGoing The Dismas #5: Justin, Michael & Tim Justin, Michael & Tim, Three Hartford Dismas House residents recently released from jail, one that very morning, share their experiences in the transitional process and the support that comes from each other.Dismas of Vermont provides therapeutic community to men and women leaving incarceration and reconciling with the community. One of the main features of the Dismas model is our community dinners in which volunteers prepare and join us for dinner and story sharing.This podcast is made possible by the guidance and technical support of JAM.
2023-10-0628 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksGoing The Dismas #2: Edgar & JennEdgar & Jenn, Hartford Dismas House resident, Edgar, and Council Member, Jenn, join Dismas of Vermont's Jeff Backus for a conversation about life, COVID, house dynamics, food, and Edgar's birthday!Dismas of Vermont provides therapeutic community to men and women leaving incarceration and reconciling with the community. One of the main features of the Dismas model is our community dinners in which volunteers prepare and join us for dinner and story sharing.This podcast is made possible by the guidance and technical support of CATV.
2023-10-0654 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksGoing The Dismas #4: Eric & RayEric & Ray, Rutland Dismas House resident, Ray, shares his darkest moment before the dawn with Rutland Dismas House Director, Eric and Dismas of Vermont's Jeff Backus.Dismas of Vermont provides therapeutic community to men and women leaving incarceration and reconciling with the community. One of the main features of the Dismas model is our community dinners in which volunteers prepare and join us for dinner and story sharing.This podcast is made possible by the guidance and technical support of JAM.
2023-10-0641 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksGoing The Dismas #3: Jonathan & LucasJonathan & Lucas, Hartford Dismas House resident, Lucas, and Assistant Director of the Hartford Restorative Justice Center, Jonathan, join Dismas of Vermont's Jeff Backus for a conversation about the "big event", restorative practices, and congregate vs. scattered site housing.Dismas of Vermont provides therapeutic community to men and women leaving incarceration and reconciling with the community. One of the main features of the Dismas model is our community dinners in which volunteers prepare and join us for dinner and story sharing.This podcast is made possible by the guidance and technical support...
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JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksGoing the Dismas #1: Seth & CeliaSeth & Celia, Former Hartford Dismas House resident, Seth, and volunteer, Celia, join Dismas of Vermont's Jeff Backus for a conversation and mini glimpse into what to expect at a community dinner.Dismas of Vermont provides theraputic community to men and women leaving incarceration and reconciling with the community. One of the main features of the Dismas model is our community dinners in which volunteers prepare and join us for dinner and story sharing.This podcast is made possible by the guidance and technical support of CATV.
2023-10-0647 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksIntersections Episode #17Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. Our guest provides insight into their experience of moving to the Upper Valley from a more urban and suburban environment and what it’s like to integrate into Upper Valley schools, identifying how we function in multiple layers of bubbles that sometimes need to be burst.To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: intersections@catv8.orgEdited by David Eric for JAM
2023-09-2632 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksIntersectons Episode #16Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. Our guest points out the challenges of access to community as a single parent, and as a proponent of environmental and food justice whose work in the trenches of identifying community members’ needs and meeting these through funding opportunities shapes their vision of the multiple layers and diverse issues that arise when we talk about community and what it means to belong, to be valued and inclusive.To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invit...
2023-09-1230 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksIntersections Episode #15Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. Our guest shares their rich personal experience of community, of diversity, of inclusion and of exclusion in far off places including the Middle East and Africa, as well as in the United States, while pursuing a career as a member of the Air Force. They describe how their curiosity has informed their deeply rooted sense of community, and how this has evolved since moving to a small Vermont town a few years ago, and the challenges and rewards of becoming a part of...
2023-08-3024 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksIntersections Podcast #14Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. In our 14th episode, our guest shares what he has learned about being a Vermonter, after moving to the Upper Valley just before the pandemic, and provides insights into how he approaches building community through volunteering.To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: intersections@catv8.orgEdited by David Eric for JAM
2023-02-0719 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksBe Part of the Solution Podcast #1Podcast #1: An overview of Senior Solutions and Aging Successfully in Vermont. Brought to you by Jim Collins and Joann Erenhouse for Senior Solutions the Council on Aging for Southeastern Vermont.Senior Solutions mission is to promote the well-being and dignity of older adults. Our vision includes providing access to services and programs that provides support to enable every person to age in the place of their choice with the opportunity for meaningful relationships and active engagement with their community. We will present programs and interviews to inform and encourage us all to age successfully here in Vermont
2022-11-0432 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksIntersections Episode #13Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. In our 13th episode, our guest shares a positive experience of community anchored in a rich family tradition of openness and caring, in a place where kids answered the call of the street lights coming on as the signal to get back home, where elders sipped coffee and shared cake in fellowship. They describe how they have managed to maintain and cultivate a sense of belonging in the Upper Valley, using dialogue and mutual respect as the cornerstones to build their local co...
2022-09-0626 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksJournalism Workshop: Jim KenyonJim Kenyon of the Valley News joined jamCAMP: Breaking News & Multimedia Journalism to share his expertise in the practices of responsible local journalism.July 2022
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JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksIntersections Podcast #12Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. Our guest shares an experience of community informed by her early upbringing in Southern California, and the contrast with her experience here in the Upper Valley, where there is a huge difference in her sense of belonging. Despite active efforts to get involved in local community, she has experienced little to no acceptance.To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: intersections@catv8.orgEdited by David Eric for...
2022-07-0129 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksIntersections Podcast #11Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. Our 11th episode takes us into the experiences of community of a person who has deep, long term ties to the Upper Valley, having moved here as a teen, and now transitioning towards retirement in the near future. Our guest shares his strong sense of self founded in family, in church and in theater, and invites us to make the effort to reach out to take our own responsibility to actively build community as the only way to develop true inclusion.
2022-06-2820 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksIntersections Podcast #11Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. In our 11th episode, our guest describes her youth in the Upper Valley, feeling a part of her hometown community in various local activities, like bake sales and bingo nights, and a grounding within her family. She explains how adult life, full of work, errands and obligation, has lessened her sense of belonging, and invites us to identify the ways in which small acts of recognition, as simple as greeting one another or using our turn signals, contribute to building a sense o...
2022-06-2112 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksIntersections Podcast #10Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. In our 10th episode, our guest describes her youth in the Upper Valley, feeling a part of her hometown community in various local activities, like bake sales and bingo nights, and a grounding within her family. She explains how adult life, full of work, errands and obligation, has lessened her sense of belonging, and invites us to identify the ways in which small acts of recognition, as simple as greeting one another or using our turn signals, contribute to building a sense o...
2022-06-1412 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksIntersections Podcast #9Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. In our ninth episode, our guest calls out the hypocrisy and disingenuousness they have experienced in the Upper Valley, where they have felt both accepted and recognized as a young, skilled athlete and then pushed aside, shunned as a visible individual, learning what it is to be alone and to struggle, encouraging us all to be slower to judge one another, to get to know one another's stories, and to move beyond appearances.To share your story or questions with co...
2022-05-2617 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksIntersections Podcast #8Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. Our 8th guest shares a vision of community that is rooted in compassion, empathy and caregiving, and describes arriving in the Upper Valley from a large family in a large city, learning a new pace and a sense of safety in the outside world, while struggling with full time work and finding affordable day care as single parent of a toddler; they explain what worked and what didn't in this life exploration that now follows a path away from the Upper Valley.
2022-05-0521 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksIntersections Podcast #7Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. In our 7th episode, our guest relates their story of falling out of love with the Upper Valley: the ugliness they have uncovered behind the community's beautiful facade, the false lure of inclusion disappointed by the enduring reality of the harm being caused to black and brown bodies, here in this space, in these times.To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: intersections@catv8.orgEdited by Dav...
2022-04-1912 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksWISE Episode 5: Listening and believingPeggy O'Neil, WISE Executive Director, opens the fifth episode as Jess interviews Angela Zhang, Jenny Williams, and Kate Harrison – all current board members. We learn what brings people to WISE, what it is like to support survivors on the crisis line, and how WISE touches every one of us.
2022-04-0834 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksWISE Episode 4: Lots of answers, lots of peopleIn episode 4, Jess talks with Kate Rohdenburg, WISE Program director, Pat Glowa, WISE Board member, and Karen Tronsgard-Scott, Executive Director of Vermont Network Against Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. They reflect on the evolving ways of supporting survivors, intersections of WISE’s work with other Upper Valley institutions, justice and accountability, and their hopes for the future.
2022-04-0834 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksWISE Episode 6: Creating a more peaceful worldIn this final episode, Jess explores the impact of WISE’s prevention and education programming and how it inspires the next generation to create a more peaceful world and talks with WISE Executive Director Peggy O’Neil about her transformative years at WISE. Guests include Tori Nevel, Human Trafficking Specialist for New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, Helen Rooker, Northern Stage Production Manager, Kate Rohdenburg, WISE Program Director, Celine Guedj, WISE Youth Program Manager, high school students Anika and Elsa, as well as some voices from past episodes.
2022-04-0842 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksIntersections Podcast #6Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. Episode 6: Our guest talks about her community in France vs. her community in the Upper Valley, how she has and has not initiated community activity, and how her family life and children have played a role in her community.To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: intersections@catv8.orgEdited by David Eric for CATV
2022-03-2723 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksIntersections Podcast #5Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. Episode 5: An interview with a relatively new Vermont resident, who is trans-gender, and gives their experience(s) of living in the Upper Valley.To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: intersections@catv8.orgEdited by David Eric for CATV
2022-03-1911 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksIntersections Podcast #4Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. Episode 4: A special episode with the co-creators about the mission and creation of the Intersections podcast. To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: intersections@catv8.orgEdited by David Eric for CATV
2022-03-0909 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksIntersections Podcast #3Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. Episode 3: Our 3rd guest remembers days of open fields and outdoor games as a foundation for building community, and invites us all to reflect on how we reach out to connect with one another; how does inclusion happen when contact is mitigated through a computer screen and wifi access?To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: intersections@catv8.orgEdited by David Eric for CATV
2022-02-2811 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksIntersections Podcast #2Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. In the second episode of Intersections, our guest shares a vision of how our cycles of life feed the source of community, amongst humans and throughout the natural world, offering a gentle map of the small things that bring us together: harvesting tomatoes, the neighbor’s mailbox, the porcupine, the cockroach, the softening of the eyes. To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: misharogge@gmail.com and julius_turner2000@yahoo.comEdited...
2022-02-2214 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksWISER Episode 3: ReverberationsIn episode 3, we meet Abby Tassel, Director of Multidisciplinary Interview and Training Center(MITC)and Lizann Peyton, WISE Board in the 1990's and longtime consultant. In the '90s, WISE begins to shift to a more professional organization and to build its prevention and education program.
2022-02-1735 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksWISER Episode 2: A Life's WorkIn the second episode, Jess interviews Shirley Barrett Rivard who worked at WISE for over three decades. Shirley shares what it was like in the early days when WISE shifted its focus to supporting survivors of gender-based violence.
2022-02-1723 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksWISER Episode 1: When It All BeganIn celebration of the 50th Anniversary of WISE, an Upper Valley-based organization dedicated to ending gender-based violence through survivor-centered advocacy, prevention, education and mobilization for social change, Northern Stage has partnered with WISE to create a podcast retrospective. The series features stories of the people who helped evolve WISE into the organization it is today and who continue to create positive change against gender-based violence into the present and future. In the Summer of 2021, 16 people were interviewed by Jess Chayes, Northern Stage’s former BOLD Associate Artistic Director and award-winning director and producer of new work. In this engaging an...
2022-02-1731 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksIntersections Podcast #1Welcome to the first episode of the new podcast Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. Our first guest recounts a vision of community grounded in a childhood in East Texas, and the challenges of losing a sense of connection upon arriving in New England. To share your story or questions with Michelle, you're invited to email: misharogge@gmail.com Edited by David Eric for CATV
2022-02-1212 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksSpark - Patricia NortonPatricia Norton is a choral director, and music innovator who believes singing is a learnable skill that sparks joy and promotes wellness. In this episode, Patricia speaks about how singing together helps us bolster courage and be healthier as individuals and communities, about the evolution of her approach over the last two years, and the new documentary about her work during the pandemic.
2021-11-1426 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksSpark - Johanna EvansJohanna Evans works in the film industry, is an event producer, and serves on the Boards of White River Indie Films and Upper Valley Choral Arts Foundation. In this episode of SPARK, we get to talk to her about how and why she became a Burlesque performer and how the art and local burlesque community has impacted her life. (WARNING: this episode contains references to sexuality and sexual assault. Viewer discretion is advised).
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JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksSpark - Melissa RichmondClaremont native Melissa Richmond was fueled by her belief in the power of creativity to build and bind communities to found the West Claremont Center for Music and the Arts. Melissa is committed to dismantling barriers to the arts and providing opportunities for all her Claremont neighbors to enjoy the mental, physical, and social benefits associated with participation in the arts.We discuss the dreams for Claremont and how her organization is enlivening her home-town's social, economic and educational quality of life.Organization and upcoming programs: www.WWC-MA.orgFuture home in downtown: www.Claremontcreativecenter.org
2021-11-0223 min
JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksSpark - Susan ApelSusan Apel, a lawyer, journalist, and passionate arts advocate blogs about cultural experiences across our region.
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JAM Podcasts & AudiobooksSpark - Eric LoveEric Love, theater artist and Director of Education at Northern Stage in White River Junction, VT, discusses how theater education develops leadership, empathy, and discipline for young people and helps build community.
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