WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives

Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger About the host: Larry Dansinger (no pronouns) of Bangor came to Maine in 1974 and has been here ever since. Some of Larry’s activities since then: Done community organizing on numerous issues through INVERT and then Resources for Organizing and Social Change (ROSC), committed civil disobedience several times, grown a garden yearly since 1977, joined various food coop...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne The Island Soundscape Project installation “Soundmarks” Sedgwick at the First Baptist Church, through August 8th Bangor Historical Society will be leading a Soldiers at Rest walking tour in Mount Hope Cemetery Sunday July Playlist at Opera House Arts – Stonington The COA Harvest Farm Dinner returns this week About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Noel Rubinton, journalist and author of Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee, (2025, Princeton University Press) will be in Blue Hill tomorrow (Tuesday) evening to talk about the book. The event is sponsored by Blue Hill Books and will take place at the Blue Hill Public Library at 7pm. We spoke with him as he was preparing to travel to Main...

Producer/Host: R.W. Estela Hi, I’m RW Estela: Since 1991, I’ve been presenting A Word in Edgewise, WERU’s longest-running short feature, a veritable almanac of worldly and heavenly happenings, a confluence of 21st-century life in its myriad manifestations, international and domestic, cosmopolitan and rural, often revealing, as the French say, the more things change, the more they stay the same — t...

Host: Logan Parker Producer: Glen Mittelhauser A noteworthy observation on Moosehead Lake sparks a determined effort to document one of Maine’s rarest breeding waterfowl. This essay, written and read by Logan Parker, was originally published in The Observer, an online natural history journal published by Maine Natural History Observatory. More information about Maine Natural History can be f...

CJ Kenna | Producer + Writer/Reader The post Esoterica 7/13/25: The Turing Test first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives .

What’s the Word on Maine Street?, hosted by Sarah Pebworth, is a weekly short feature Saturdays at 9:30am looking at local literary and visual arts events and offerings! FMI: islandportpress.com bhpl.net stonington.lib.me.us islandsoundscapeproject.org MCHT.org witherlelibrary.net mainewriters.org/gather wordfestival.org pauldoiron.com About the host: Sarah Pebworth leads the steering committ...

Producer/Host: Anu Dudley About the host: Rev. Dr. Anu Dudley is an ordained Pagan minister and a retired history professor. She continues to teach classes, including the three-year ordination curriculum at the Temple of the Feminine Divine, and others such as History of the Goddess, Paganism 101, Ethical Magic, and Introduction to the Runes. Currently she is writing a book about how to cast the r...

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean Production Assistance: Tammy Oropesa Music: Jackie Lee McLean Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse The owner of a popular cupcake shop breaks her silence about a first husband who regularly strangled her. Topics: 1. Misplaced shame. 2. Domestic Violence Strangulation. 3. How abusers do not change. Guests: Vicki Murray About the ho...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Chrissy Fowler, Executive Director of Belfast Flying Shoes, stops by this morning to let you know about their summer community dance schedule (starting tonight!) About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a f...

Host/s: Catherine Besteman Production Coordinator: Daria Cullen Other credits: TECHNICAL SUPPORT – Aaron Pyle and Sarah Johnson | MUSIC – Samuel James Justice Radio is a WMPG production. Justice Radio: Tackling the hard questions about our criminal legal system in Maine. This week: Catherine’s interview with Tina Nadeau, Executive Director of the Maine Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers...

Host: Timothy Boston Editor: Clare Boland Common Ground Radio is an hour-long discussion of local food and organic agriculture with people here in the state of Maine and beyond. This month: According to lifelong gardener Barbara Damrosch, growing food is an undeniably radical act. In her latest book, “A Life in the Garden: Tales and Tips for Growing Food in Every Season,” Damrosch, now in her 80s,...

What’s the Word on Maine Street?, hosted by Sarah Pebworth, is a weekly short feature Saturdays at 9:30am looking at local literary and visual arts events and offerings! Description: Sarah sat down with William and Margery Irvine in January (!) and discussed painting, poetry, and more. A collaborative project, a book entitled “Four Old Men Writing Together” launched at the Courthouse Gallery...

Host: Wilson Haims Description: Climate and Community continues the conversation with Ezra Sassaman, chair of the Bar Harbor Climate Emergency Task Force and Advocacy Coordinator for Maine Climate Action Now (MCAN). This segment highlights what motivates Ezra to be involved in climate action, the advantages and challenges of pursuing climate action in Maine, and why engagement in the climate movem...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Wilson Haims is here with an invitation to Pizza in the Park Thursday, July 17th, with A Climate to Thrive. The 1st Annual TOSS For Loss Tournament to Benefit Camp Jinka Saturday, July 12th, 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM Front Street Public Parking Lot UPDATE: THE EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL OCTOBER Registration About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news &#...

Producer/Hosts: Ron Beard and Liz Graves Production support from Joel Mann and from College of the Atlantic Theme music for Talk of the Towns Theme is a medley from Coronach, on a Balnain House Highland Music recording. Talk of the Towns: Local Community concerns and opportunities This month: What is Cherryfield’s historical and current relationship to the Narraguagus River? What was the 196...

Host: Peter Neill Producer: Trisha Badger ABOUT THIS EPISODE Why is there so much war? So much strife in the Middle East: what are we fighting for? This week Peter Neill, founder of W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, argues that it’s all about the water. It’s always been about the water: rivers, access to the sea…water is the source of life–and of conflict. Water, necessary...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Paula Kee of Wednesdays on Main in Bucksport returns to AT to let us know about some events that have been added to their summer calendar. About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has...

Producer/Host: Amy Browne A new exhibition at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor is named for Donna Loring’s 2008 book, “In the Shadow of the Eagle: A Tribal Representative in Maine”, and curated by Donna (who also hosts Wabanaki Windows here on WERU) and her regular contributor Professor Darren Ranco, among others. A group of folks involved with the exhibition sat down recently to ta...

Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger About the host: Larry Dansinger (no pronouns) of Bangor came to Maine in 1974 and has been here ever since. Some of Larry’s activities since then: Done community organizing on numerous issues through INVERT and then Resources for Organizing and Social Change (ROSC), committed civil disobedience several times, grown a garden yearly since 1977, joined various food coop...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne H.O.M.E. in Orland is having an Empty Bowl supper on Thursday, to raise funds for their services. Jackie Perkins and Rosa Moore are here with the details. About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few year...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Betsy Richard, Executive Director at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, with an invitation to the annual Dawnland Festival of Arts & Ideas, which “celebrate(s) the Native creative economy on Wabanaki homelands while lifting up Indigenous thought leadership vital to the conversation on a healthy planet and society for us all” — coming up next weekend, Ju...

Producer/Host: R.W. Estela Hi, I’m RW Estela: Since 1991, I’ve been presenting A Word in Edgewise, WERU’s longest-running short feature, a veritable almanac of worldly and heavenly happenings, a confluence of 21st-century life in its myriad manifestations, international and domestic, cosmopolitan and rural, often revealing, as the French say, the more things change, the more they stay the same — t...

Host: Pepin Mittelhauser Producer: Glen Mittelhauser This episode reflects on the beauty of the summer solstice, celebrating the lush abundance of early summer while acknowledging the quiet turning point toward shorter days and the rhythm of the seasons. This essay, written by Lewis Holmes and read by Pepin Mittelhauser, was originally published in The Observer, an online natural history journal p...

Andree Bella | Writer/Reader The post Esoterica 7/6/25: Biphasic Sheep first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives .