One photo from a place you can hear NCPR. But do you know where it is? Photo: Mitch Teich
Apr 24, 2021
If I haven’t mentioned it before, this is actually the second time I’ve lived in the North Country and worked at NCPR. I was a reporter here from 1996-1998. And when friends and colleagues I’ve collected in the years since ask why I came back here, I can point to the interactions I have with people in the community who tell me they remember me from those days in the mid-‘90s, including, yes, that famous Ice Storm of 1998. (You know it’s a famous storm when you can use capital letters.)
Your correspondent, visiting one of NCPR s unique transmitter sites in 1998. Photo: Bob Sauter
Apr 17, 2021
Only here.
You’re going to hear that phrase a lot over the next couple of weeks at NCPR. It’s the theme around which we’re building our Spring Fundraiser, and well, that means we’re going to say it a lot. When it comes to fundraising time, we try to find a theme that a) is true, and b) is short, to the point, and easy to say on the radio. It’s why we’ve never built a fundraising campaign that goes “NCPR: Because you enjoy the news, and interviews, and sometimes the Rolling Stones or Afro-Caribbean hip-hop, and also Brahms while you are sleeping.” It would take a
Please?! I promise I ll only eat the Scroll Lock key! Photo: Mitch Teich
Apr 10, 2021
Our dog turned four months old this week. She did not notice. She doesn’t notice much, when it comes to existential issues. Mostly what she notices is a category of things called Objects She Shouldn’t Eat. And then she chews on them. In some cases (dust molecules, string, leaves) she consumes them, while in other cases (hands, the sofa, this laptop), she does not.
What she does
not notice is a category of things called Objects We Bought Her for the Express Purpose of Chewing On. This includes Mr. Fox, The Knotted Rope, and the White Things Made of Plastic and Bacon. Oh, sure, we sometimes can attract her attention to them for a few seconds, like when we pry her puppy teeth off our hands and substitute Mr. Fox in their place. But mostly, she takes the optimist’s view.
Seeing the world begin requires several pairs of reading glasses. Photo: Mitch Teich
Mar 13, 2021
Mitch TeichOut of sight
There was a time when the first thing I reached for on my nightstand was the snooze bar. That was before I decided eleven inches were too far to reach from my pillow, and I started using the alarm on my watch. Also, my bedside clock is a blur. Which is why the first thing I reach for on my nightstand these days is my reading glasses.
It’s another drumbeat in the inevitable march through middle age, but compared to all of its compatriots – rogue eyebrows, tweaking my back while sneezing – I’m OK with the change in my eyesight.
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