Hazel Kahan

Neil Leinwohl artist, retired ad agency creative director and disabled Vietnam vet talks about moving to AI after using older tools for art that he’s been making since he was 10 years old. See Neil’s prolific and constantly updated AI work on Instagram @neil_leinwohl, https://www.facebook.com/neil.leinwohl/ and the earlier work on his website http://neilleinwohlartist.com  (WPKN, Nov. 2, 2026) The...

Greenport, NY, resident, author, activist and political appointee Dinni (Diana) Gordon talks about population and housing changes in Greenport’s immigrant population as well as the more recent effects of ICE on its Latino residents in the decade since she wrote her book Village of Immigrants: Latinos in an Emerging America. (WPKN Sept.24, 2026)

Architect Hyder Ibrahim talks about working on renovating Bibi Pak Daman shrine in Lahore.

In this month’s Tidings episode Sam Bliss speaking to us from Vermont about Adam Wilson’s idea of food as gift and his own theory of non-market food practices. (WPKN, August 3, 2026) The post Dr. Sam Bliss: social scientist, author and activist on food as gift and non-market food practices appeared first on Hazel Kahan .

Jen Murray, North Fork resident and leading environmentalist, talks about her lifelong engagement with the natural world as a chicken, pig and organic vegetable farmer and now as founder of Turtleback Conservation Center with its mission to protect endangered species and educate the public along with supporting citizen science projects. Jen also runs a youth […] The post Jen Murray: environmental...

Thomas Little is a North Carolina-based artist, writer, illustrator, philosopher and proprietor of A Rural Pen Inkworks. a small operation that makes iron-based ink and pigments by dissolving firearms in acid. Speaking in this Tidings interview as both amateur ink historian and ink and pigment maker, Thomas examines his own work through the lens of […] The post Thomas Little–artist, ink maker, alc...

North Fork resident, civic activist and leader Charlie Gueli talks about his book Fixing Federal Dysfunction: A Guide to Saving Democracy

Rhodes Scholar Suchintan Das talks to Hazel Kahan on Tidings about mass detention, the subject of his D.Phil thesis at Oxford University: Empire, War, and Mass-Detention: A History of Encampment and Internment in India (1937-1967). Through case studies, Das shows how encampment and internment in wartime and post-war India illuminate mass detention policies and practices […] The post Suchintan Das,...

Author and gerontologist Bonnie Stock talks about her novels and nonfiction guide inspired by a career in the adult care industry. (WPKN April 23, 2026)             The post Author and gerontologist Bonnie Stock writes cozy mysteries about older people appeared first on Hazel Kahan .

Author, editor and environmental journalist Tara Lohan  talks to Hazel Kahan on Tidings from Bend, Oregon about her new book Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Lifein which she describes the building of dams and the growing movement to remove them. (WPKN, March 2. 2026 (WPKN, March 2, 2026)    The post Tara Lohan, author: “Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life...

Executive Director Tijuana Fulford talks about the nonprofit Butterfly Effect Project that she founded in 2014 to empower young girls on the East End of Long Island and beyond to become a generation of strong, independent and successful women. (Broadcast on WPKN February 26, 2026) The post Tijuana Fulford:The Butterfly Effect Project empowers young girls on Long Island’s east end appeared first on...

  Born in Jerusalem, Robert Massoud, is a Palestinian-Canadian activist, entrepreneur, who came to Canada as a child. In 2004, he founded Zatoun, a grassroots organization to support Palestinian farmers in the West Bank by promoting and selling their olive oil in North America for fair trade prices. Speaking to us from Toronto, Robert explains […] The post Robert Massoud: why Palestine continues w...

Chuck Collins, author, researcher, storyteller and campaigner based at the Institute for Policy Studies, talks about his new book Burned by Billionaires: how concentrated wealth and power are ruining our lives and planet. Chuck also shows us how we can reduce the impact of this wealth concentration on our lives.(WPKN December 1, 2025) The post Chuck Collins: Burned by Billionaires appeared first o...

Peggy Lauber, president of North Fork Audubon Society, talks about the many ways this flourishing local organization serves and protects not only the environment and ecosystem but also what it offers visitors and those who live and work on the North Fork.  (WPKN, October 1, 2025)   The post Peggy Lauber on how North Fork Audubon serves and protects the ecosystem and its humans appeared first on Ha...

John Christian Phifer  is executive director of Larkspur Conservation and president of the Conservation Burial Alliance. Speaking to us from Tennessee, he describes how, after 15 years in the funeral industry, he transformed his focus to natural burial practices and the protection and stewardship of land through conservation burial. (WPKN, September 10, 2025 )   The post John Christian Phifer: Nat...