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
Laura Shore, Altamont artist buttressing local culture
Laura Shore, the Georgia O'Keeffe of vegetables, has some of her artwork, in postcard form, before her. Part of the profits from her work goes to support open-space preservation. Shore, biographer of…
00:31:26 |
Thu 29 Aug 2019
Christopher Philippo, piecing together the past
Christopher Philippo puts together pieces of the past in researching gravesites and in uncovering his own history. He recently reunited the 19th-Century headstones of Robert Matthews and his son, Jam…
00:53:01 |
Fri 23 Aug 2019
Suzannah Lessard, author of “The Absent Hand: Reimagining Our American Landscape"
Suzannah Lessard signs her book, “The Absent Hand: Reimagining Our American Landscape,” on Saturday after reading from it at the Rensselaerville Library. “Once the world was wide,” she read. “Now we …
00:54:49 |
Sat 17 Aug 2019
Perry Ground, Onondaga storyteller
Perry Ground wears his regalia — a purple shirt for the color of wampum, turtles for his clan, and two eagle feathers among the goose feathers on his head dress to show he’s an Onondaga man — for thi…
00:25:20 |
Fri 09 Aug 2019
Tim Albright, a lifetime under the escarpment
Tim Albright, who has worked at Indian Ladder Farms for 40 years and is now a manager, used to know each of the large old-fashioned apple trees as individuals. The small, modern rows of trees — which…
00:30:16 |
Thu 01 Aug 2019
Roberta Villanova Nunn
Roberta Villanova Nunn was not happy early in her teaching career that social studies textbooks portrayed African peoples as backwards. She had been to Morocco and understood the richness of its cult…
00:32:55 |
Thu 25 Jul 2019
Harold Greene, the chance of death and joy of life
Harold F. Greene is philosophical about the death of his son, a two-star Army general, shot in Afghanistan five years ago. His son, Harold J. Greene, who got good results working collegially in the A…
00:27:08 |
Thu 18 Jul 2019
Nancy Lawton — Keeping alive the memory of Douglas Lawton
Nancy Lawton has kept the memory of her husband, Douglas, alive with an annual golf outing that celebrates him and raises funds for worthy causes. Douglas Lawton, who was raised in Guilderland Center…
00:20:29 |
Fri 12 Jul 2019
Students from Australia and Spain study in Berne
Chasity McGivern is the area representative for the American Scandinavia Student Exchange, known as ASSE, a not-for-profit organization that places foreign-exchange students around the world. Cameron…
00:24:12 |
Wed 03 Jul 2019
Tom Smith, a veteran among D.C. memorials
Tom Smith is 87 now, although he notes with a grin that he may actually be 88 since one year, after crossing the international dateline, he celebrated two birthdays. Smith recently took an Honor Flig…
00:43:20 |
Thu 27 Jun 2019
Susan E. Leath — Bethlehem historian, bringing Slingerlands family alive
Susan E. Leath, Bethlehem’s town historian since 2007, is featured in this week’;s podcast. In those 12 years, she has informed residents of their town’s past — starting with the ancient Mohicans and…
00:27:46 |
Thu 20 Jun 2019
Castina Charles — local poet and activist
Castina Charles is a poet and activist; both of her passions are fueled by her drive to educate, to make people understand different perspectives — including her own as a black woman in modern Americ…
00:42:30 |
Thu 13 Jun 2019
Elizabeth Zunon — children's book artist, now author
Elizabeth Zunon, who grew up on the Ivory Coast in Africa and spent her teenage years in Guilderland, just published a book she wrote and illustrated, “Grandpa Cacao: A Tale of Chocolate From Farm to…
00:27:37 |
Fri 31 May 2019
Saranac Hale Spencer and Andrew Schotz
Andrew Schotz and Saranac Hale Spencer each started careers in journalism at The Altamont Enterprise. Schotz has gone on to report for and later edit a variety of publications in Maryland — daily and…
00:31:09 |
Thu 30 May 2019
Fabrice Liegeois, setting a novel in Voorheesville
Fabrice Liegeois was raised and shaped by the grandmother he adored, Jeannine Robert. A blonde beauty who looked like Marlene Dietrich and spoke five languages, she killed an SS officer who fell in l…
00:36:04 |
Thu 23 May 2019
Brendan Cushing, UAlbany student getting younger voters
Brendan Cushing, a University at Albany senior, is an activist, getting young people to vote. “Students know little to nothing about local and state government,” Cushing says in this week’s podcast. …
00:37:21 |
Thu 16 May 2019
Joe Murphy and Jon Cring, filmmakers in Voorheesville
What will our world look like in 2030? Filmmakers Jon Cring, left, and Joe Murphy are making a short mockumentary — a humorous, pretend documentary — this summer in Voorheesville to bring home the ef…
00:32:54 |
Thu 09 May 2019
Wayne Crounse — a family history at the foot of the Helderbergs
Wayne Crounse has a Bible from the 1700s that lists, in fine German script, his ancestors. He plans to pass along the inherited tome — with the corners of the embossed leather cover so worn, they wer…
00:43:20 |
Thu 02 May 2019
Carol Caloro, memoirist, on abusive childhood and a father's love
“Love is not made of DNA,” Carol Caloro writes in her memoir, “My Father’s Daughter.” She speaks with reverence of her kind and loving father and of the difficulties of living with an emotionally abu…
00:31:23 |
Thu 25 Apr 2019
Frank Dees, on a mission to protect athletes
Frank Dees and his older brother, Ricky, were both on their high school football team. One week, in 1964, the team played two games. In Tuesday’s game, Ricky made a tackle on a hard hit, and told Fra…
00:35:11 |
Thu 18 Apr 2019
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