Home at Last,
We finally arrived home last Thursday a.m. and have almost decompressed from hurling our bodies at 70 mph for the last month. We learned so much about the power of the archives and how important it is to promote it as an educational resource to those beyond our listening signal. It’s […]

At KVNF we made a special on-air appearance to play some excerpts from the 1962 Bob Dylan performance, promote the Archives and explain the educational value of our collection.

KVNF has invited us back to Paonia to help with the Harvest Festival fund drive in late October!

Now we’re on our way to Moab and community […]

Leaving Boulder, we drove through beautiful McClure Pass in the Rockies, on our way to Paonia. (Legend has it that Paonia was named for the peony, but misspelled.)

We were welcomed at community station KVNF by general manager Sally Kane and staff members Skip Naft, Robin Boone and Thomas.

Sally treated us to a visit to her […]

We went to Naropa University, accompanied by Sonali Kolhatkar who had flown out to join us. She gave a very moving speech.

We made a presentation about the work of the archives, played our S.O.S. Tour film, and donated to Naropa some tapes from our poetry collection.

Journalist George Merritt covered the story for […]

We took a beautiful hike near Golden, Colorado and planted a Geocache at a location to be named later (sometime in May; stay tuned). The CD was “Women & the Environment,” featuring Helen Caldicott, Chee Yoke Lee, Winona LaDuke and others.

Back at KGNU, we joined the on-air fund drive from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, and […]

We drove through Kansas and arrived in Boulder, where we were greeted by KGNU station manager Marty Durlin, who will be hosting us for the next three days: real beds, and real home-cooked meals!

We went on-air at KGNU to help with their fund drive, and pitched two Archives premiums:

A newly discovered recording of Bob […]

We visited the Oklahoma City National Memorial at the site of the 1995 bombing. Then we continued on toward Kansas and spent the night in strong wind and heavy rain at a rest area outside of Wichita.

Shawn and Mark have gone to find the Geocache hidden at the Russellville, Arkansas train station, which is in the shadow of the Russellville nuclear reactor.

We picked a special CD for this Geocache plant: “Accidents Will Happen,” a documentary about the disaster at Three-Mile Island in 1979, produced by Alan Snitow and Aileen Alfenderry.

Brian

Going west on I-40 we stopped at Bucksnort, Tennessee, where I ate the worst licorice I’ve ever had. It was supposed to be watermelon-flavored, but that’s not what it tasted like.

Passing through Memphis, of course we had to stop at Graceland, a place we weren’t particularly interested in but which we ended up loving. It […]

Today we went west into North Carolina — through Raleigh-Durham, Winston-Salem, Hickory and Asheville — and on into Tennessee. We stopped for 15 minutes at the Pilot Gas Station in Knoxville, to see my cousins Cheryl, Mike and Ray. I sang at Cheryl’s wedding about 12 years ago.

We spent the night in Crossville, Tennessee, […]

Before leaving Baltimore we stopped by my mother’s childhood home on gardens in the front. She lived there from 1939 to 1946 while my grandfather worked (and lost his arm in) the Crown & Cork Canning Factory.

Then we drove to Annapolis and visited poet Grace Cavalieri and sculptor Fred Flynn. Grace produces “Poet and […]

The NFCB conference is over. We checked out of the hotel at noon. We had tons of luggage, including the 44 restored PRA tapes we picked up from the Safe Sound Archive and have been guarding with our lives.

After touring around Baltimore (and visiting Edgar Allan Poe’s grave) we headed for the Holiday Inn parking […]

We’re still at the NFCB conference. Today was the annual meeting of Pacifica affiliate stations. Mark and I (Brian) usually do the Archives presentation, but we had to be elsewhere … so Shawn made his debut as a presenter. By all accounts he did a great job!

Meanwhile, Mark, David and I — accompanied by Adi […]

Since we started our trip, all four of us have been shooting digital video of our travels. We have three cameras: David’s professional one and two consumer models. As of a few days ago we had a total of about four hours, which David edited to 45 minutes. We sent that off to Christopher Sprinkle […]

This was our first day of “rest” … but it wasn’t really restful. At the conference we set up our vendor table with our souvenir bandanas, information about our fund drive gifts, and other Archives material.

We networked with other conference attendees, and ran into Armanda Gudino, program director of KPFK.

We’ve been giving out lots […]

We (David & Brian) went to visit Brian’s grandmother, Annette Rose, in the nursing home. We wheeled her into the courtyard where daffodils were blooming. She remembered my name but was confused about which of her relatives I was. It was the first time she’d met David.

We went back to Philadelphia and the Safe […]

First thing in the morning: We hand-delivered our master tapes to the Safe Sound Archive, where George Blood and staff went into triage mode to settle the tapes into their new refrigerated home.

11:30 am: We went to Temple University and presented Charles L. Blockson and Molefi Asante with copies of our Africana Studies recordings, including […]

Some pictures of Columbia College students helping us find the Geocache in Chicago’s Lakeshore Park… they loved the bandanas.

We woke up unanimously feeling we had the best sleep so far on the trip… we packed up from our campground and just as we were about to leave I said hello to our camping neighbors… they were so wonderful… formerly of California and currently of Indiana… they gave us an RV camping book […]

We drove all night from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Madison, Wisconsin in order to keep our many appointments. First up… the Circus Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin on the outskirts of Madison… actually that was not planned… it was a spontaneous adventure that turned out well… to look at this part of Americana where imagination met […]

Crossing the country in two days = a whole lot of driving. Pictures are from Nevada, Wyoming, South Dakota and more.

At the Red Garter Casino and Hotel, we had the 99-cent breakfast but spent $10 on the slot machines.

We looked for a Geocache in the Black Hills in the shadow of Mt. Rushmore but […]

We just got off the air from the Morning Show with Philip Maldari… Brian
and I had fun presenting the Bay Area audience with facts figures and
wonderful samples of the restored programs we brought on this tour… we
played the Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Lorraine Hansberry and Lena Horne
clips… while we were playing the Lena Horne clip, Karlos […]

The first thing that struck us as unusual was the lush green growth covering the mountains of the Grape Vine as we were headed up the 5 freeway towards Berkeley… The unusual amount of rain this year has made the normally barren wasteland along this route a virtual paradise…