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
John Arrighi — Rensselaerville's Conkling Hall
Marcy Forti — Union College student on diversity and acceptance
Inga Boudreau — From the Hilltowns to publishing
Altamont library story swap — Program of the Year Award
Timothy Rau — "Nothing more honest than a timber frame"
Katherine Hill Brown — author of “The Summer Girl”
Gwendolyn Bondi — The U.S. Constitution
Andrew Maycock — director, writer, and teacher
Wilma Beason Jenssen — “An Iowa Teacher Blossoms in Harlem”
Wilma Beason Jenssen was Mrs. Beason, teaching in Harlem’s Public School 92, when she was featured with student Kime Holman in this 1966 LOOK magazine photo essay, “Life Without Father.” Photographer…
CiCi Ferrara — A young voice of calm on race
John Gonzalez — Taíno/Pimicikamak journalist, activist
John Gonzalez — a Taíno/Pimicikamak journalist, author, and filmmaker — shown here with LaDonna Tamakawastewin Allard at Sacred Stone Camp, which spreads a message for green energy and living with re…
The Prue family — pregnancy perseverance
Sarah Gordon — respecting others' perspectives
Rev. Robert J. Luidens — Altamont's Pastor Bob
Jonathan Feil — cycling across the country
Jonathan Feil is an adventurer. After graduating from Guilderland High School and then earning a bachelor’s degree in agriculture at Cobleskill, Feil wanted to immerse himself in another culture. He …
Milton Hart — WWII veteran vying for local monument
Grace Nichols — recording bats in the pine bush
Mohammad Yadegari — hard truths in an immigrant's experience
Mohammad Yadegari of Guilderland has written a book, “Always an Immigrant: A Cultural Memoir” that describes his life in three parts: as a child, growing up in an Iranian family in Iraq; as a young m…
Judith Enck — Beyond Plastics
A barber's grand opening delayed
Campus Barber has not reopened for humans yet but owner Joey Barr can still give the shop dog, Zero, a cut. Barr, now 30, started his career as an apprentice at age 16. He was fond of the Albany shop…