I love to travel. This episode is stories from this past month’s trip to KY with my friend Cale.

Jean Ritchie: Movin on Down the River

Earth Day in Berea:  Ruwan Chang presented on yardens; cub scouts pack includes boys and girls

Timi Reedy in Berea/Disputanta, talks about her Mamaw and Papaw John and Frances Reedy and their music, as well as Appalachia-Science in the Public Interest.

John and Frances Reedy sing Somebody Touched Me

Glenna Angel from Angel Acres sheep farm shares about laundry sheets, an alternative to the popular heavy liquid detergent in thick plastic jugs.

Jose Rafael and Carmen Guevara duet : La de la muchila azul.

53m: El Mojado por Ricardo Arjona

Today’s show…

2m – Angelique Kidjo and Jessy Wilson sing Keep Rising from The Woman King

8m: Bike Club interviews from JFK Middle school, the boys and Adele and I.

Yomaira and Pablo are at Musante Beach for a 50-something degree  Easter dip, after dancing the Sunday morning Dance Spirit free form dance at the Williamsburg Grange.

I went to Gabor’s in Amherst this morning for bamboo, and he tells us all about its life cycle.

On the way back, with a trailer load of bamboo, at Hatfield and N Elm I saw two cop cars and a Black man so I figured that would be a good place to stop to eat a grapefruit fresh from the Aldi’s dumpster, and eventually I realized, That’s my friend!  the Ghanaian guy. Everything was chill, and resolved with the help of the CSO mental health co-responder person, the police, some friends, and the EMTs.

DTT thoughts on phases of aging; the Chase Bank takeover of downtown N’ton; spring peepers in the Barrett St marsh;

7m : Alicia Spence, timber framer, leads a group of largely women builders in the (re) construction of a timber frame barn at Historic Northampton.

11m: Shakira, Whenever Wherever

15m ; LinGen and I talk near the paper compacter at Valley Recycling about his career as a Pedal Person, and perhaps soon also as a massage therapist.

21m:  Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough

24m: Who’s going to grow food for me this year?

28m: Appetite for Change,  Grow Food

34m ; And the long-promised Part 2 of My Money Story .  (Pt 1 was Episode #255 )  In Part 2, we get to Paying for college, the 8-year plan, rent-free but 24-7 at the Catholic Worker, rushed bike messenger dreaming of slow bike riding work, dumpster diving, war tax resistance, inheriting $28,000, becoming a collective homeowner with Alex Jarrett and others,  living a full simple life and feeling blessed.

55m: Chronixx, I can

lots of little clips this week. Actually, they’re from the week before since I didn’t do a show last week due to tech difficulties.

3m: DTT observations, you see what you’re primed to see; forced TV; decisions around having kids; housing court professional says his 4 divorces are all the women’s fault

9m: bike ride to Easthampton to see the new lights illuminating 1.5 miles of the Manhan rail trail, and splaying out in every direction.  Very glarey by Williston, spotlights shining up and down the path.    And, I meet a white snowball-like skunk rolling along my rear wheel in the moonlit snowy edge along Arcadia.  Whew!

17m: George Kohout and Mark Cabral are working on bikes at the Bikes4All garage on State St.

24m: Kacey Musgraves sings Slow Burn

28m: Alex Jarrett (housemate and Ward 5 City Councillor) talks about proposal to reduce Northampton City default speed limit to 25mph.

38m: Billy Ray Cyrus sings Busy Man

41m: Adele Paquin and I reflect on Bike Club at JFK Middle School

47m: My housemate Nancy Luce was at the Chase Bank protest/rally last week.  Divest from fossil fuels.

52m: Northampton’s Reparations Commission is forming this month!  Applications due by April 21st, 2023!

54m: Pointer Sisters:  Slow Hand

Johanna Bronk came our way from Eastern Mass via Couchsurfing this weekend.  I appreciated her wisdom sharing about communal living situations she’s been in, and how to make them work better.

12m: Ben E King: Stand by Me (yes, my community-mates)

25m: Patti Smith: People have the Power

30m: we’re trying to get a pickup truck/trailer full of bicycles to Norfolk, VA, in early April to put on a sailboat/diesel boat to Haiti!

33m: My Money Story, part 1:  this is me, talking about my family background in Eastern KY.    My dad came from Polish immigrants in a coal town in Eastern PA, my mom from a family of English scholars in Raleigh, NC.  Both of them were devout Christians guided by ethical values of fairness, and rejecting materialism.    Relative to my friends, and neighbors, my family was pretty well off, never had to worry about food, clothing, school books, etc.  Yet we lived frugally, largely off the land.  And thank God my parents protected us from having TV in the house.  More of My Money Story coming next week!  cuz i only got to about age 15 today.

51: Pointer Sisters: Yes we Can Can

Heather Diaz tells us all about what it’s like to be an information services (aka reference) librarian at Forbes, the main library in downtown Northampton.    Who comes? How did she become a librarian?  Does the library loan drums and induction cookplates?  Can she help you host a virtual meeting about reparations?  Are they open til 8pm?  Are they building a bandstand in the yard?  and more!

20m:  Mt Desert Island High School sings All About Those Books: https://vimeo.com/111859592

Purim puppeteer interviewstarts at 9 min

Tech problems in the studio for this show.  Electrical issues.  it went over the air sporadically, there was no internet connection, and it didn’t record.  so this recording is just a  hashing together of my clips.  only 28 min.

with stories from my life. and songs about water.

Not gonna save the world, but these tips can give you freedom to live well without needing a lot of water.

I rode the length of Rte 9 in Hadley today on an errand, which inspired this show.   That and I’ve been reading Andy Singer’s book  CARtoons.     Mostly this show is bike songs from the Americas and Europe, and quotes from Andy’s book, including other thinkers such as Ivan Illich.

But first my neighbor Derek Goodwin invites us to Kirtan this evening, while playing harmonium.

15m: Flobots,  No Handlebars

25m: Carlos Vives and Shakira,    La Bicicleta

30m: Los Mismos, Un puente a Mallorca

35m: Serafin Zubiri, Pedaleando

41m: El David Aguilar, Cumbia de la Bici

51m:  Op de Fiets

52m: Robin Moore, Le Velo:    “what is existence… without le velo? What is life? What is love? Without this, there is nothing…  everyone you know, in the club, does le Velo…”

56m: Will’s Jams,  Boogie a le velo