2022 Afro-American Writer Read - in

 

We celebrate Black History Month with the work of African-American Writers presented by members of the Sag Harbor community.

The reading in February 2022 was produced by the John Jermain Library, the Eastville Community Historical Society, and Canios Cultural Café, all of Sag Harbor.

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More from the reading: 

Gloria Primm Brown reads The Burden of Race by Arthur Ashe

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Janet Dewart Bell and Lewis Steel -- White Privilege and Race in America

Originally broadcast - December 06, 2020

“The ultimate thing about White Privilege is you don’t have to think about it”

This is East End Ink.

Tonight we present  social justice advocate and author Janet Dewart Bell and NAACP civil rights attorney Lewis Steel in a talk about race in American society.

This program is one of the on-line series produced by Canios Cultural Café

Janet Dewart Bell is the widow of NAACP attorney Derick Bell. 

Janet Bell and Lewis Steel were introduced by Canio’s Kathryn Szoka.

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The complete discussion is available at Canio’s Books YouTube channel.

Janet  Bell’s book, Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement was published by New Press in 2018.

Lewis Steel’s book, The Butler's Child: White Privilege, Race, and a Lawyer's Life in Civil Rights was published by the University of South Carolina Press  

Scott Chaskey - Poet, educator and farmer

 

Poet, educator and farmer Scott Chaskey read from his work this month presented by the Southampton History Museum.

Chaskey is a pioneer in the Community Supported Agriculture movement.

He is past president of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York and the author of books on agriculture as well as poetry. 

 

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Scott Chaskey's books include

 “Seedtime: On the History, Husbandry, Politics & Promise of Seeds” from Rodale Press in 2014

and

“This Common Ground: Seasons On An Organic Farm” from Penguin in 2006.

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Thanks to Connor Flanagan of the Southampton History Museum

 

 

O Henry's Christmas Gift

"O. Henry's Christmas Gift" - A reading in the style of radio drama with Diana Heinlein and David Houston. Featured are "The Cop and the Anthem" and "The Gift of the Magi", stories by O. Henry, the late 19th / early 20th century short story writer. O. Henry was one of America's greatest story tellers. His final collection was published in the year of his death, 1910. 

Recorded at Southampton's Rogers Memorial Library. Thanks to Yvette Postelle and Penny Wright of the library.

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David Houston's dramatic readings performed at schools and libraries, unfortunately, have been discontinued.  

 

His web site: www.davidhouston.net/

Francesca Rheannon reads The Food Philosophe

Twenty years ago, WPKN's Francesca Rheannon spent several months living in southern France. Soon after her arrival, in the Fall of 2001, she became good friends with a couple living in the old Roman town of Apt.

On December 21, Marie Jo and Michel threw a dinner party to celebrate the Winter Solstice. The food was divine, the wine likewise, and the company convivial — and Francesca ended up learning a profound lesson about the French Art of Living. Francesca wrote up her experience in the story, “The Food Philosophe,” part of a longer memoir of her sojourn in Provence, titled Province of the Heart. 

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