Other Voices
Often, truth isn’t handed down from public officials but comes from listening to other voices. Once a week, you can hear a wide variety of views from people who shape our corner of the world in New York’s Capital Region. The Altamont Enterprise is the weekly newspaper of record for Albany County, New York.
We’ve talked with a Buddhist who provided therapy for Gilda Radner and then helped set up Gilda’s Club after she died; with a Muslim woman who is trying to educate people about her religion as she feels increased hatred; with an African-American man who, as a teenager, helped ferry people north from a town in Mississippi haunted by lynchings.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 421
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Mary Jo Batters, caring for an elderly parent and people in need
Mary Jo Batters was, as she puts it, “cloistered” for six years, caring for her mother who had dementia. She learned some important life lessons in those years, such as the way the core of a person r…
00:29:04 |
Thu 16 Jan 2020
Sue McDonough, a trooper and animal cruelty expert
Sue McDonough began her career as a New York State Trooper in 1978, specializing in animal cruelty cases. McDonough worked as a wildlife rehabilitator for 15 years and believes wild animals are bette…
00:39:13 |
Sun 12 Jan 2020
2019 in review: Reporters talk about the year's remarkable stories
The Enterprise experts in local news looked back at some of their most important stories for 2019.Noah Zweifel, who reports on the Helderberg Hilltowns, focuses on the Multi-Use Residential District …
00:30:00 |
Thu 02 Jan 2020
Cathy Light, school bus driver with deep passions
Cathy Light is a rambler. In her six decades on this Earth, she has been an art teacher, a businesswoman, a marketer, a minister with a degree from Yale Divinity School, and is now a Guilderland scho…
00:44:23 |
Fri 27 Dec 2019
Charlotte Palmeri, Cancer caregiver
After Charlotte Palmeri was diagnosed with cancer in 2013, she thought, “I wonder how long until I can help someone.” Inspired by a verse in Ecclesiastes, about how farmers who wait for perfect weath…
00:37:20 |
Fri 20 Dec 2019
Charles Gehring, On America's Dutch roots
Charles Gehring who lives in New Scotland goes each day to work at the New York State Library in Albany where he travels back in time several hundred years. His life’s work has been translating the r…
00:57:07 |
Thu 12 Dec 2019
Rich Schreibstein, photographing the local landscape
Everyone with a cell phone thinks they are a photographer, says Rich Schreibstein. “A phone doesn’t make you a photographer anymore than it makes you an orator,” says Schreibstein. “What you are is a…
00:43:49 |
Thu 05 Dec 2019
Michael Vincent, hunting and the Berne Conservation Club
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Michael Vincent talks turkey for our Thanksgiving podcast. Here, he sounds a turkey call he made himself. He shares memories of hunting all the way back to his boyhood o…
00:36:12 |
Thu 28 Nov 2019
Teresa Gil, author on a life of service
Teresa Gil was named after Mother Teresa, the saint of Calcutta, who was a lifetime friend of Gil’s aunt, Catholic journalist Eileen Egan. Gil, one of nine children of immigrant parents, activists in…
00:36:34 |
Thu 21 Nov 2019
Mike Moak, A 50sub4 runner racing Father Time
Mike Moak of Guilderland Center describes himself as competitive. He says his high school wrestling coach at Voorheesville, the late Dick Leach, inspired that in him. Last month, Moak reached his goa…
00:38:37 |
Thu 14 Nov 2019
Damion Coppedge, poetry, chess, and Buddhism in prison
Damion Coppedge is a poet, a chess teacher, a Buddhist. He honed these aspects of his life during the 22 years he spent in prison. He is now making his way in the world, living in a half-way house in…
00:33:45 |
Thu 07 Nov 2019
Zach Appio, telling stories with Odd Concept Media
Zach Appio is a storyteller. When he and his brother, Frank, were both seniors at RPI five years ago, they produced a prize-winning psychological thriller, “The Baby Monitor.” Now, Zach has found new…
00:33:27 |
Thu 31 Oct 2019
Altamont Story Swap, Pt. 2
Story time at the Altamont library took on a new meaning when residents gathered to share memories from generations' past. This week's podcast is the second half of the lively story swap that took pl…
00:40:49 |
Fri 25 Oct 2019
Altamont Story Swap, Pt. 1
“I Remember Altamont”: Villagers with long memories gathered at the Altamont Free Library last Friday night, on the eve of the village’s first Founders Day, to share memories and swap stories. Joe Bu…
00:31:31 |
Tue 22 Oct 2019
Corrina Goutos, artist: “Let your kids dream so big"
Corrina Goutos has this advice for parents, “Let your kids dream so big. Be their safety net.” Goutos, who grew up in Altamont, said her parents did just that for her. Since childhood, she had a love…
00:24:15 |
Thu 10 Oct 2019
Christopher Philipo, New York State's local historians
This year, 2019, is the centennial of a law that created the post of local government historian for each city, town, or village in the state; New York was the first state to do so. Christopher Philip…
00:53:01 |
Thu 03 Oct 2019
Nick Yetto, Clarksville author of "Sommelier of Deformity"
Nick Yetto of Clarksville has published his first novel, “Sommelier of Deformity,” and is at work on another, to examine the meaning of truth, about a real-life con woman who “cured” people through r…
00:33:35 |
Thu 26 Sep 2019
Fan Pen Chen, a professor in Guilderland's community gardens
Fan Pen Chen started gardening, under her father’s tutelage, as a child in Taiwan. She later gardened in Libya and Canada. When she moved, in 2003, to an apartment in Guilderland — she teaches nearby…
00:31:19 |
Thu 19 Sep 2019
Dorothy Bremer Kohler, memoirist
The cover of Dorothy Bremer Kohler’s book depicts the farmhouse in Gilboa — her Shangri-La, where she was raised — painted by her granddaughter, Jacklyn Kohler. Kohler, who is 89, wrote the stories o…
00:29:35 |
Thu 12 Sep 2019
Edgar Tolmie, waiting for a heart
Edgar Tolmie wanted to make this podcast so his children and particularly his granddaughter Sarah would be able to hear his voice and be guided by his life’s philosophy when he dies. Although he is s…
00:23:39 |
Thu 05 Sep 2019
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