The Sages Among Us

Host Lori Burkart Frank takes us on a journey into the life and times of an Adult Services Librarian. We learn that Megan Lloyd grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, but wasn’t that interested in reading until her mother read Harry Potter to her in the third grade. Grandmother was an elementary school librarian and her influence ultimately sealed the deal on books! Megan came to California to attend Un...

Host Taylor Wolfe introduces us to Ember Amador, who is passionate about understanding the history and culture in the Yuba/Bear watershed before the population explosion of the gold rush. Her experience with a nonprofit organization, Honey Root, focused on somatic education and led to a role doing event planning for workshops. Ember met Shelley Covert, the spokespserson for the local Nisenan peopl...

Host Keith Porter leads the adventure tracing Janie’s life from fishing with her father on Long Island Sound to a degree in Cinema to finding kindred spirits in San Francisco to non-violent civil disobedience training to protests and arrests and finding her home on the San Juan Ridge. We hear about her work with the Peace and Justice Center of Nevada County and many other community organizations a...

Host Lori Burkart Frank pulls back the curtain with an in-depth introduction, tracing Diana’s life from growing up in Newton, Mass., loving animals, being influenced by family to be aware of social justice and world affairs, and heading off to college at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Working at a Wall Street firm motivated her free spirit to search for a less stressful environment without bus...

Host Suzanne Webb brings us an in-depth introduction to Bup, who grew up in Southern Nevada County raising cows through 4H to sell them at auctions at the fair. She says cows are not the smartest, but are nice. Childhood was fun on 40 rural acres, and a telephone party line shared with many neighbors. She studied philosophy at UC Davis, but then became a lab assistant at the UC Davis Veterinary sc...

Host Brian Buckley takes us on a deep dive into Ben’s background and motivations for serving as Mayor of a small but dynamic city. From his local roots with a father and grandfather with long histories of public service, Ben studied business at Sonoma State and caught the bug for contributing to community ventures. Returning to take his place in the family business, A&A Air Conditioning and He...

Host Taylor Wolfe talks with Erica about her life, her work and her passion for public service. From childhood in a family with Asian immigrant grandparents in the Bay Area and time at her grandfather’s community hub-style grocery store, to “weekend warrior” skiing adventures to Tahoe, she learned to love the mountain environment. An environmental degree from UC Davis and internships and paid posi...

Host Keith Porter helps trace Lance's life from early childhood in London blitz, to America and a stint in Viet Nam, to adventures in early Silicon Valley Tech including founding his own start-up, to making Nevada County a better community through music with InConcert Sierra and co-founding Sierra Foothills Village to help a growing senior community maintain self-sufficient lives.

Host Lori Burkart Frank traces Andrew’s life journey from birth in  Southern California to growing up in Nevada County and attending Bear  River High School. Starting as dispatcher with Nevada County Sheriff’s  office, he also spent time with Placer County and managing a satellite  office in Truckee. He spent two years traveling extensively throughout  the US and Canada, training law enforcement p...

Host Brian Buckley retraces Alex's life experience from the San Juan Ridge, to college at Bar Harbor Maine, to guiding kayak and wilderness adventures in the Sierra and abroad in places like the Amazon rain forest. Learn why he chose to come back and settle in Nevada County, and share his adventure kayaking the South Yuba River from its headwaters at Lake Van Norden to San Francisco Bay. Hear abou...

Host Taylor Wolfe leads us in discovering Rebecca’s life journey from the South side of Chicago to a degree in Psychology at Barnard College in Boston when she found baking more fun than studying other people. Time at the French Culinary Institute’s Pastry program, owning and operating several food service businesses and a marketing degree from St. Joseph’s University propelled Rebecca into workin...

Host Keith Porter helps Scott retrace his life from New Orleans to Los Angeles to Nepal to Nevada City to Uganda, and now to his new position as Nevada County's Public Health Officer. Scott talks about bridging work and play as one of life's rewards, and expresses gratitude for relationships and their importance to fulfillment. We learn a bit about the challenges and opportunities in his role as a...

Host Lori Burkart Frank interviews Sue, a 5th generation Nevada County ranch girl who's been a life-long advocate for agriculture and resources conservation and is grateful for all the gifts of our community, including her first spring calf born today. After her first year on the County Board of Supervisors, Sue talks about gaining a broader vision of the issues and solutions for living in our are...

Host Brian Buckley interviews Greg about his life and his work as our  County election official. Follow his life from Swarthmore College, to  Rutgers for a law degree, to San Francisco for immersion in the field of  administering elections, and finally to Nevada County where he and his  team have successfully managed elections since 2007.

Anne Wood is a childhood polio survivor, pediatric respiratory therapist, aids and gay rights activist, mom to 17 biological, adopted and foster kids, and survivor of the Jones wildfire that destroyed her ranch home in August, 2019.

Host Lori Burkart Frank helps trace Jean Creasey's life journey from youth through becoming a dental hygienist to dentist to community activist, dental public health advocate and international humanitarian.

This interview with Amigo Bob Cantisano, who died on Dec. 26, 2020, originally aired on September 13, 2017, as an episode of “The Sages Among Us.” The interview ranges over many topics, including Amigo’s  relationship with nature, how he learned to farm, how he became hooked on organic farming, and his ideas about its future. Amigo Bob, who started California’s first natural foods distribution com...

Artist and community activist David Sparky Parker is a colorful and energetic community activist in Western Nevada County, California.

Host Lori Burkart Frank helps discover why Bob is the quintessential "man for all seasons," following his life from civil service to education (including a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from UC Berkeley) to economics and finance, to health care, to outdoor activities and climate activism. Bob discusses his reasons for moving to Nevada County, his love of living in a co-housing environment, and his n...

Host Brian Buckley taps Donn Harris' creative energy to reveal his journey from Queens to Santa Monica to San Francisco and Oakland (with a detour to Iceland courtesy of the US Air Force) and finally to Nevada County, drawn here by the arts scene, the Wild and Scenic Film Festival, the natural environment and the authenticity and intelligent community discourse of the "locals."

Brian McInerney makes his debut hosting appearance with an interview with David Franco, CPA, who is about to end his term as KVMR's board president. We learn how David journeyed from philosophy to accounting, from LA to Denver, and then happily settled 35 years ago in Nevada County where he's been involved in the community and helped guide KVMR to financial stability and leadership excellence.

Host Taylor Wolfe talks with Mike to outline his journey from New York to Las Vegas as a Marketing Executive and then an entrepreneur, through Reno and Fallon Nevada to Penn Valley in 2012, where he and his wife found their “permanent” home along with plentiful opportunities to give back through civic engagement.

Bill Drake was raised as a Southern White Supremacist, but through life-changing experiences learned  a path toward social justice and anti-racism. His book, "Almost Hereditary: A White Southerner's Journey Out Of Racism" tells the parallel histories of his own life path and the South's struggles with slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and civil rights. He works in our community and beyond to elimi...

Mary Anne Davis has lived in Grass Valley with her family since 1987. She has been involved in a wide variety of community events and organizations. She is the marketing and events manager for Hospice of the Foothills and recently published her first book, “Nevada County Wine.” Lori Burkart Frank is your host.

Hosted by Keith Porter , this episode features an interview with Nevada County composer , performer , producer , tech evangelist and radio personality , Mikail Graham .