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
Indigenous ways of knowing are a totem for Sarah Walsh
When Sarah Walsh was working with indigenous people in Canada, she experienced a national Thanksgiving address.
“It is a way of acknowledging every piece of the Earth … and to center yourself in your …
Bernard Melewski shares stories of lobbying to save the Adirondack Park
Bernard Melewski has spent most of his life working as an environmental lobbyist, and eight years writing a book about it.
“Inside the Green Lobby: The Fight to Save the Adirondack Park” has just been…
Chris Howard is documenting ‘stories that the world needs to hear’
Life and art are often intertwined for Chris Howard.
She sees communication as a common thread in her life, taking her from parts she played in the school productions of her childhood through a career…
Laura Barry plants hope along with native trees
Laura Barry is like a modern-day Johnny Appleseed.Except, instead of planting apple trees, which originated in Asia, she is planting native trees.
“I planted about 15 trees this year, little saplings …
St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church celebrates 150 years
Karen Williams, Linda Zell, and Megan Connolly consider themselves to be sisters.
“The bond is that strong,” said Connolly in this week’s Enterprise podcast.
The three women are not related by blood. R…
‘The Power of Plus’: Russo was healed by telling the stories of courageous women
Gianluca Russo became a journalist because he likes telling stories.
He has just published his first book, “The Power of Plus: Inside Fashion’s Size-Inclusivity Revolution.”
The book is “For the women …
John Bielik’s show is about preserving an historic way of marbling paper
John Charles Bielik is a teacher, a designer, an historian, and a preservationist.
He makes marbled paper — the sort of colorful patterned paper that you see in centuries-old books — the traditional w…
Shreya Sharath: What happens when a girl loses herself in her artwork?
Shreya Sharath, at 13, has a passion for art.
So does Rachel, also 13, the central character in the book Shreya wrote, “The Hidden Realm.”
“I definitely do think that she has come from me,” said Shreya…
Blanca Isabela Parker, ‘Never be afraid to make your own path’
When Blanca Isabela Parker was 5 years old, someone described her as an old soul.
“I think that description has remained accurate over the years,” says Parker.
At age 17, she has graduated with honors …
Janine Tessarzik, fighting patriarchy one throw and one post at a time
Janine Tessarzik is proud of being a powerful woman.
At age 40, she was named world champion at the Scottish Masters Athletics International World Championships held last month in Moncton, New Brunswi…
Ashlyn Hanley learned from her Hilltown elders and wrote a book of their stories
Ashlyn Anne Hanley, who graduated in June from Berne-Knox-Westerlo, has put the life stories of nine Hilltown elders into a book she hopes kids at her school will read and learn from.
“There’s a lot o…
Historian Bruce Dearstyne urges, ‘Go back to the source’
Historian Bruce Dearstyne has just published a book he hopes will be judged.
“The Crucible of Public Policy: New York Courts in the Progressive Era,” his latest book published by the State University …
Ryan Conley, cycling and organizing the Helderberg Cliffhanger
Growing up in New Salem, Ryan Conley and his friends built their own bikes with parts from the junkyard.
“As a kid, I remember building jumps on the side of the road …. We used to build little mounta…
Keegan Prue shares his struggles in starting a family
“You’re not alone,” says Keegan Prue to couples who are trying to have a child but can’t.
The most important first step, he says, “is just reach out to somebody.”
Prue and his wife, Olivia Cohen-Prue, …
Christopher Philippo uses a local lens to look at large historical issues
History is all around us although few of us delve in, as Christopher Philippo does, to find it.
Take women’s suffrage for instance.
In 2017, as New York was celebrating its centennial for women’s suffr…
Ellen Howie understands the consequences of care
When she hears something that intrigues her, Ellen Howie takes action.
Early one Sunday morning, she heard a broadcast on National Public Radio about No Mow May.
“It captured my imagination,” says Howi…
Emma Harbeck says, ‘Everyone is beautiful’
When Emma Harbeck competed this past weekend for the Miss New York title in the Miss America competition, she sang the song “Reflection” from the 1998 Disney film based on the Chinese legend of Hua…
Dr. Stephen Giordano says, “To be human is to be challenged”
“Hate is not a mental illness,” says Dr. Stephen Giordano.
He notes that there is no diagnostic category for hate, and it is wrong “to assume that hateful people, whatever their color, creed, or strip…
Jeff Perlee — Every house has a story
Jeff Perlee hopes that everyone in Altamont and its environs will research the history of their house.
“This is an activity about community,” says Perlee, a lawyer and Albany County legislator who de…
Bonnie Kohl-Laub — a life of change, from Westerlo to France
“I tilt at windmills a lot,” says Bonnie Kohl-Laub.
When she and her husband, Leonard Laub, moved to Westerlo, they immersed themselves in local issues and made a difference.
Now they have sold their h…