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
Ellen Zunon — the journal of Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert
Ellen Zunon of Guilderland was brought up on stories of her Dutch ancestors. Her father’s side of the family goes back to Cornelis Van Slijck who came to Fort Orange, now Albany, from the Netherlands…
00:37:59 |
Sat 13 Mar 2021
Sandra Stempel — “Writing helps you discover yourself”
Sandra Stempel was raised, one of six children, by a father, Rudolph Valentino Stempel, who taught her the value of perseverance, and by a mother, Sheila Catherine Stempel, who flew solo as a young w…
00:34:05 |
Fri 05 Mar 2021
Bill Combs Jr. — photographing the Schoharie County Eagle Trail
Bill Combs Jr., a nature photographer based in Cobleskill, talks about bald eagles he has photographed as if they were family. He helped create the Schoharie County Eagle Trail (online at SCEagleTrai…
00:34:21 |
Sat 27 Feb 2021
Peter Lindemann — immersed in history
Peter Lindemann, who lives in Schoharie County, is immersed in its history, documented in several books he has researched and written. Lindemann likes looking at big, national pieces of the past thro…
00:36:54 |
Wed 24 Feb 2021
Major David Erickson — citizenship and leadership
Major David Erickson, of Knox, retired from a career in the military that taught him “we’re all much more alike than we are different.” He was stationed in Germany when the Berlin wall came down and …
00:32:29 |
Wed 17 Feb 2021
Jennifer Bashant — positive psychology
Jennifer Bashant of Guilderland, who has worked in a mental-health clinic, in a county jail, as a school social worker, and as a research scientist for the state’s Office of Mental Health, now runs a…
00:27:17 |
Sat 06 Feb 2021
Lora Ricketts — a lifetime in the Hilltowns
Lora Ricketts consults a cookbook, with her rolling pin and measuring cup at the ready. At 83, she still lives on the Hilltown farm where she settled well over a half-century ago after a peripatetic …
00:31:40 |
Wed 03 Feb 2021
Thomas Capuano — Race and history in Altamont
Tom Capuano, who grew up in Altamont, has a strong sense of place and the importance of history. Capuano founded Historic Altamont to spread that love, he says on this week’s podcast. The not-for-pro…
00:37:27 |
Mon 25 Jan 2021
Clare Gaffey — Arctic scientist
Clare Gaffey is pictured in October in the Arctic on board the Norseman II, a converted king crab boat, holding a bottle with a water sample that would eventually be analyzed as part of a project stu…
00:29:42 |
Sat 16 Jan 2021
Year in review — The Altamont Enterprise 2020
Enterprise staff reflected on the year in local news stories.
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00:42:35 |
Tue 12 Jan 2021
James E. Gardner — A master printer and publisher
Jim Gardner, the former long-time owner of The Altamont Enterprise, was raised in a large family in Guilderland. As a boy, he fished in the Black Creek and hunted pheasants and rabbits, squirrels and…
00:29:31 |
Sat 02 Jan 2021
Dennis Sullivan — Christmas Day podcast
Dennis Sullivan begins our Christmas Day podcast by reading from one of his Christmas columns on his naïve search as a child for the Star of Bethlehem, which became a lifelong journey to finally find…
00:39:02 |
Sat 26 Dec 2020
Jennifer Dorsey — ordained 'Mother Jen'
Jennifer H. Dorsey, now known as Mother Jen, was ordained as a priest on Sunday by William H. Love, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany, at St. Boniface Episcopal Church in Guilderland. “Mystic…
00:24:59 |
Sun 20 Dec 2020
Robert Porter — explaining a Marine
Robert Porter is currently renovating the first floor of his duplex in Albany to accommodate handicapped veterans, whom he feels are often not well provided for by the government. Porter himself serv…
00:44:43 |
Wed 16 Dec 2020
Judy Carey Nevin — “Kindness is so easy and it’s free”
Judy Carey Nevin, right, says kindness and compassion are important to her. “Kindness is so easy and it’s free,” she says on this week’s podcast. Over the last three years, Nevin has written four chi…
00:35:26 |
Sat 05 Dec 2020
Rebecca Platel — Rural-urban connections
Rebecca Platel is looking at similarities, rather than differences, as she studies rural-urban connections. Platel, the Sustainable Communities program manager at the Carey Institute for Global Good …
00:27:05 |
Sat 28 Nov 2020
Dennis Cyr, A Trump supporter who won't give up
Dennis Cyr owns Mountainview Prosthetics on Maple Avenue in Altamont. A Republican, he has long flown a Trump flag under the American flag outside of his shop. Now the front yard of his shop has 13 r…
00:33:12 |
Thu 19 Nov 2020
Ed Biittig — Lessons in recovering from alcoholism
Ed Biittig, who is 72, has been in recovery from alcoholism for over 46 years. He started drinking at age 13 and by the time he was 26 had totaled five cars in drunk-driving crashes — yet was never a…
00:44:51 |
Sat 14 Nov 2020
Helen Marie Lounsbury and Walter Galicki — 1950s Berne on film
Helen Marie Lounsbury and Walter Galicki, pictured here on their wedding day, Dec. 21, 2019, combined their movie collections as well as their households when they married. As Galicki was organizing …
00:39:22 |
Mon 09 Nov 2020
Brian Barr — Recognition for students often overlooked
Brian Barr, a social worker who lives in Westmere, speaks in this week’s podcast in what he calls the “afterglow of an incredible experience.” Thirty-six years ago, Barr, who directed the clinical pr…
00:35:09 |
Fri 30 Oct 2020
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