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This is a catch-all feed for podcasts produced by the Daviess County Public Library in Owensboro, KY.

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The Unscripted Interview: PJ Starks, Eric Huskisson, Blood Moon Pictures

August 19, 2022 14:18 - 1 hour - 60.5 MB

PJ Starks and Eric Huskisson from the Owensboro-based Blood Moon Pictures join us for this episode of the podcast. PJ, as you may know, is the father of Unscripted: An Indie Film Experience. He brought the idea to DCPL roughly ten years ago and we ran with it. PJ, Eric, and I discuss the early days of the series, the intensity of the Volumes of Blood shoot, and their two post-VOB films, VOB 2: Horror Stories and 13 Slays till X-mas. Join us at 7 pm on August 20 for the third night of Unscri...

Author Visit: Jason Koger, Danny May, Handed a Greater Purpose

August 18, 2022 18:11 - 1 hour - 65.5 MB

Jason Koger became the first bilateral arm amputee in the world to be fitted with multi-articulating bionic hands after losing both hands in a traumatic ATV accident in 2008. In Handed a Greater Purpose, Koger's recently released memoir, he talks about the accident, how it impacted his life, and the work he now does. He, along with co-author Danny May, recently dropped by to discuss adapting his story into the book.

The Unscripted Interview: Shane Devon, The UFO Girl

July 29, 2022 21:41 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MB

Since Unscripted: An Indie Film Experience is coming back, we thought we'd also resurrect the podcast. This episode features an interview with Shane Devon, a musician and filmmaker from Daviess County, about his music, record label, and his film The UFO Girl. We'll be screening that on August 6 as part of Unscripted. Music: "Chips" by Havilina Rail Co. * * = Mat Wignall gave me permission to use this as a podcast theme years ago. Mat, if you see this and change your mind, please let me know.

Chris Schweizer, The Roanoke Colony: America's First Mystery

March 30, 2021 18:36 - 55 minutes - 37.5 MB

KY-based comic creator Chris Schweizer discusses his latest book, The Roanoke Colony: America's First Mystery.

Mattie Griffith Browne: Kentucky Abolitionist & Suffragist

February 25, 2021 22:39 - 45 minutes - 39.3 MB

Professor Megan Burnett discusses suffragette, abolitionist, author, and Owensboro, KY native Mattie Griffith Browne.

Ruth Wariner, The Sound of Gravel

January 12, 2021 19:34 - 1 hour - 49.9 MB

Author Ruth Wariner discusses her memoir, The Sound of Gravel.

Mindfulness Workshop for Teens

December 17, 2020 18:32 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MB

A teen workshop on mindfulness presented by Ashley Agada of Girls, INC.

Dacre Stoker Book Talk

October 20, 2020 18:49 - 1 hour - 47.3 MB

Author Dacre Stoker, great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker, discusses his own work and family history.

Wild Turkey History with Author David Jennings

October 09, 2020 01:32 - 52 minutes - 35.2 MB

David Jennings, author of American Spirit: Wild Turkey Bourbon From Rippy to Russell, chats with us about Wild Turkey history and writing his first book.

Healthy Summer Snacking with Miss Ashley from Girls, INC.

July 06, 2020 19:35 - 1 hour - 77.7 MB

Hear audio from our recent virtual visit with Miss. Ashley from Girls, INC. She discusses fun, healthy snacks for summer.

Extending the Vegetable Growing Season, Annette Meyer Heisdorffer, Ph. D.

June 30, 2020 16:15 - 27 minutes - 19 MB

Hear Annette Meyer Heisdorffer, Ph. D., the UK Extension Agent for Horticulture Education in Daviess County, explain new methods to extend the life of your garden. You will learn how to extend the growing season and harvest vegetables into the fall. Two gardening techniques described include succession planting of warm-season crops and the late planting of certain cool-season crops. This includes a guide of when to plant in order to harvest produce before the first hard frost in the fall.

Sara Fort, How to Live Your Dream Life

June 22, 2020 20:19 - 55 minutes - 33.5 MB

Join local organizational coach Sara Kathryn Fort from Neat Relief as she provides a guide to outlining and pursuing a balanced, healthy life! She will help you define and fulfill your goals by changing your habits. She will provide a lot of tools that will help improve your daily life in easy, tangible ways.

An Interview With Author S.A. Conley (Carletta)

June 16, 2020 19:09 - 6 minutes - 3.94 MB

Sarah discusses writing with Owensboro-based author S.A. Conley. Author bio: "S. A. Conley began to write Carletta when she was 15 years old. The idea for the story hit her when her younger sister was having issues learning how to read. S. A. Conley thought that if she wrote a story, and her sister wrote a story, maybe her sister would learn to read and write better. It worked, and from that idea Carletta was created. At WKU, S.A. Conley majored in creative writing so she could edit Carlett...

An Afternoon With Keven McQueen & JD Wilkes

May 14, 2020 16:24 - 1 hour - 76.6 MB

Author Keven McQueen (The Kentucky Book of the Dead) and author-visual artist-musician JD Wilkes (The Vine That Ate The South) visited DCPL back in March for a conversation about their history, influences, and work. As a bonus, JD also plays some tunes. Thanks to the Gaslight Boys for opening up the event. Look 'em up on Spotify. PS: We had some recording issues. Blame the muffling and volume levels on yours truly. For that, to the listeners & guests, I do apologize. Intro music: "Wabash...

Author Visit: Jeff Zentner, Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee

November 20, 2019 15:58 - 45 minutes - 43.1 MB

Musician & YA author Jeff Zentner (The Serpent King, Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee) discusses his work and offers advice on how to become a writer.

Author Visit: Sherry Robinson, Blessed

October 11, 2019 15:18 - 33 minutes - 28.4 MB

Author Sherry Robinson discusses her latest book Blessed. Like what you hear? If so, head over to https://smpbooks.com/ (or Amazon, or DCPL) to pick up a copy. NOTE: We didn't have the crowd mic'd during the Q&A session, so the questions are difficult to hear. We apologize for this inconvenience.

Author Visit: Kim Michelle Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

June 24, 2019 18:37 - 54 minutes - 57.6 MB

Kim Michelle Richardson discusses her latest novel, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek.

The Unscripted Interview: Cameron McCasland, Chad Fuller

May 24, 2019 13:48 - 33 minutes - 37.3 MB

Filmmakers Cameron McCasland and Chad Fuller discuss how they began their careers, the majesty of Copper Canyon Ranch, and The Prisoner of Perdition.

A Conversation On Immigration

April 16, 2019 13:30 - 1 hour - 71.1 MB

This podcast opens with a presentation from attorney Susan Montalvo-Gesser on immigration law. After that, you'll hear a panel of local immigrants telling their own stories and answering questions from the audience.

Budgeting & Saving For Teens

April 12, 2019 15:47 - 27 minutes - 26.6 MB

Heather from BB&T discusses budgeting and saving for teens.

DCPL's Mock Printz Award

April 04, 2019 15:52 - 5 minutes - 5.93 MB

This podcast was recorded at the first meeting of DCPL's Mock Printz Award committee. In it, we discuss our nominees and let you know how our version of the Printz Awards will work. A description of the actual Printz awards, from ALA.Org: "The Michael L. Printz Award annually honors the best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit, each year. In addition, the Printz Committee names up to four honor books, which also represent the best writing in young adult literature. T...

A Conversation with a Tibetan Buddhist Monk: Loving Your Enemies

March 27, 2019 01:47 - 1 hour - 62.8 MB

(This was uploaded previously at a lower volume. We improved the audio and uploaded it as a new track.) Venerable Tsering Phuntsok, Tibetan Buddhist Monk, uses teachings from the Dalai Lama to provide a Buddhist perspective and encourage discussion on why people should love their enemies and how they can do this in these challenging times. Venerable Tsering Phuntsok is a Tibetan Buddhist Monk from Nepal who has traveled the world to spread compassion and teach about Tibetan culture, monasti...

The Unscripted Interview: Ryan McCurdy, Kiley Ebelhard

March 14, 2019 15:41 - 32 minutes - 37.5 MB

The Unscripted Interview is back! This week we talk with our pal Ryan McCurdy and Kiley Ebelhard about their short film, Deadly Damsel. It was shown at the second installment of Unscripted 2019. Podcast contains audio clips and music from the film.

Conversations on Race: Executive Order 9066 - 77 Years Later

February 12, 2019 15:39 - 59 minutes - 63.6 MB

A panel discussion about Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 and how it affects us today featuring of Matthew Alschbach, Associate Professor of History at OCTC, Susan Gesser, Director of Catholic Charities, and Naheed Murtaza, Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Brescia. Our moderator is Dr. Courtland Lewis, Associate Professor of Philosophy at OCTC. The "Conversations On Race" series is an open public forum that focuses upon issues of race in our community. Each podcast is a frank, open...

Pages From My Passport: A Social Worker's Journey Around the World

January 28, 2019 19:16 - 1 hour - 58.2 MB

Dr. Elaine Wright, an Associate Professor at Brescia University’s Marilyn Younger Conley School of Social Work in Owensboro, KY, discusses things she has learned while traveling the world as a social worker.

Conversations On Race: 50 Years after MLK Jr., Where Are We Now?

January 15, 2019 18:45 - 58 minutes - 76.4 MB

We discuss the history & current status The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival with Mary Danhauer & Peggy Wilson of the Kentucky chapter. The "Conversations On Race" series is an open public forum that focuses upon issues of race in our community. Each podcast is a frank, open discussion about the topics at hand. The podcast features very little editing so that each person's thoughts are accurately reflected.

TBT: Marion Blumenthal Lazan - Four Perfect Pebbles

October 25, 2018 19:31 - 57 minutes - 78.6 MB

Author Marion Blumenthal Lazan shared her story about surviving the Holocaust at the Daviess County Public Library on November 6th, 2013.

Appalachian Ghost Stories with Jerry Deaton

October 22, 2018 14:17 - 1 hour - 85.5 MB

Author Jerry Deaton (Appalachian Ghost Stories: Tales from Bloody Breathitt) tells a few ghost stories set in Eastern Kentucky.

Author Visit: Keven McQueen, Kentucky Book of the Dead

October 01, 2018 15:53 - 49 minutes - 67.7 MB

Keven McQueen, author of Kentucky Book of the Dead, talks about his process and tells a few ghostly tales set in the Bluegrass State.

Rebel Girls: Pam Smith-Wright, City Commissioner

August 24, 2018 14:36 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MB

Based on the groundbreaking book, “Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls," this program encourages girls to change the world through their passions by learning about a unique “Rebel Girl” throughout history and similar career paths in the Owensboro area, and completing a fun activity each week. The speaker for this episode is Owensboro City Commissioner Pam Smith-Wright.

Author Visit: Chas Allen, Mr. Pink: The Inside Story of the Transylvania Book Heist

June 15, 2018 19:16 - 1 hour - 142 MB

At 19 years old, Chas Allen, now and author and motivational speaker, was a member of the crew that pulled the Transylvania University rare book heist (one of the F.B.I.’s “all-time most significant art theft cases”) in Lexington, KY. Their haul included a first editions of John James Audubon’s BIRD OF AMERICA and Charles Darwin’s ON THE ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES. This heist inspired the film American Animals (out in June); in it, Allen is portrayed by Blake Jenner. Allen made his debut as an a...

Author Visit: Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

May 29, 2018 15:41 - 33 minutes - 47.9 MB

A chat with author Lee Goldberg (True Fiction) about writing, running a publishing company, and more. www.LeeGoldberg.com

The Unscripted Interview: Kevin Chenault, Lattie

May 21, 2018 21:48 - 55 minutes - 101 MB

We chat with Kevin Chenault (86'd films, Blackstrap Media) about his latest short, Lattie. Intro Music: Foxhole "Lamentations," from the album We The Wintering Tree Edited For TV Movie Clip: John McClane, Die Hard All other audio extracted from Lattie.

DCPL Presents: Melton Barker's The Kidnapper's Foil

May 12, 2018 21:15 - 7 minutes - 12.7 MB

We’ve been working on a documentary podcast about the filmmaker Melton Barker for quite some time. That’s not ready quite yet, but we do have some Barker-related goodness for you. Who’s Melton Barker, you ask? That’s a question not many can answer. He was what’s known as an “iterant” filmmaker who was active in the 30s through the 70s. He visited small towns across the United States during that time to make the same film over 200 times with a cast of untrained local children. That film was ...

A Conversation with a Tibetan Buddhist Monk

April 19, 2018 14:38 - 1 hour - 118 MB

This podcast contains the full audio from our visit with Venerable Tsering Phuntsok. "Venerable Tsering Phuntsok is a Tibetan Buddhist Monk who has traveled the world to spread compassion and teach about Tibetan culture, monastic life and dharma. For over 30 years, he has studied and practiced Tibetan Buddhism through traditional scriptures, ritual practices, and retreats. He has also helped develop health and water projects for Tibetan refugees, hosted international groups in India and Nepa...

The Unscripted Interview: Greg Sestero, Best Friends

March 29, 2018 17:47 - 22 minutes - 35 MB

After 15 years, The Room's Greg Sestero & Tommy Wiseau have reunited for another film. It's called BEST F[R]IENDS and opens in select theaters this Friday. Greg was recently in town to present at our screening of The Disaster Artist; prior to that event, he chatted with us about the new film. Nice Legs, a band whose music appears in BEST F[R]IENDS, kindly allowed us to use their music on this podcast. Give 'em a listen here: wearenicelegs.bandcamp.com/ Thanks to Jon at Sublime Media Group a...

Beyond The Lines: whytheycame Live

March 16, 2018 15:19 - 36 minutes - 49.4 MB

whytheycame performs live at DCPL's Beyond The Lines: A Coloring Club.

Rebel Girls: Meghann Richardson, Journalist

March 09, 2018 22:07 - 21 minutes - 37.9 MB

Rebel Girls is a program that encourages girls to pursue their dreams by learning about unique career paths for women from the book “Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.” Come with ideas and readiness to participate in an activity each week. This installment features Meghann Richardson from Owensboro's Messenger-Inquirer.

Conversations On Race: The Neblett Center

February 28, 2018 20:15 - 1 hour - 141 MB

This “Conversations on Race” installment is devoted to Owensboro’s H. L. Neblett Community Center. It begins with actress London Randolph performing a monologue as the center’s namesake, Hattie Neblett. A panel discussion with representatives from the Neblett Center about their history and programs immediately follows. https://impact100owensboro.org/h-l-neblett-community-center https://www.aauw.org/

Storytelling: Verbatim Debut Night

February 22, 2018 23:18 - 39 minutes - 38.9 MB

The first issue of Verbatim, our collaborative creative writing journal, is now available for purchase from the library. It features visual art and writing from creatives that have a connection to Owensboro or the Western Kentucky area. A spoken word event was recently held at the library to celebrate the book’s release. This podcast features three stories from that event and an interview Verbatim’s creator, John Beemer. We will release a few more stories from the event next week. Stay tuned...

A Conversation With Dave Eggers

January 12, 2018 17:03 - 36 minutes - 36.3 MB

Brian chats with author Dave Eggers (Monk of Mokha, The Circle) about his writing process, body of work, and lots more. https://826national.org/ https://www.mcsweeneys.net This show features music from Foxhole's 2006 effort, Push/Pull (Burnt Toast Vinyl). You can find it on iTunes and Amazon. Thanks to the band for allowing us to use their tunes.

Book Talk: JD Wilkes, The Vine That Ate the South

November 28, 2017 20:52 - 52 minutes - 52.8 MB

JD Wilkes, author/musician/filmmaker/visual artist, recently visited us to play some tunes and talk about his new book, The Vine That Ate the South. This is the full audio from that event. NOTE: We didn't have the crowd mic'd, so you'll notice some audio drops during the Q&A portion of the event. Grab a copy of Vine here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/KampKitsch

Book Talk: Richard Paul Evans

November 20, 2017 20:18 - 49 minutes - 47.7 MB

Author Richard Paul Evans discusses his work at the Towne Square Mall in Owensboro, KY. This event was sponsored by the Daviess County Public Library and Burns Middle School.

Indie Author Fair: Michelle Hinton, Novelist

November 10, 2017 18:46 - 5 minutes - 4.11 MB

Sarah chats with Inheritance author Michelle Hinton at our second annual Indie Author Fair.

Indie Author Fair: Jean Knight Pace, YA Novelist

November 03, 2017 18:24 - 6 minutes - 4.47 MB

Sarah chats with YA author Jean Knight Pace at our second annual Indie Author Fair. Visit http://jeanknightpace.com/ for more info about Jean.

Rebel Girls: Officer Courtney Yerington, OPD

October 30, 2017 18:52 - 17 minutes - 17.3 MB

Officer Courtney Yerington talks to our "Rebel Girls" group about her career.

Indie Author Fair: Tom Raithel, Poet

October 27, 2017 18:13 - 7 minutes - 5.42 MB

Another Indie Author Fair chat! This one is with Evansville-based poet Tom Raithel. He chats with Sarah about his life and work and reads a selection from his latest book. Note: We had to do a fair bit of noise canceling while editing this episode due to our unruly air conditioner. You will hear the a/c a bit along with some digital artifact.

Rebel Girls: Katherine Taylor, Studio Slant

October 23, 2017 19:47 - 12 minutes - 11.9 MB

Based on the groundbreaking book, “Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls," this program encourages girls to change the world through their passions by learning about a unique “Rebel Girl” throughout history and similar career paths in the Owensboro area, and completing a fun activity each week. The speaker for this episode is Katherine Taylor of Studio Slant. https://www.facebook.com/studioslant/

Indie Author Fair: Linda Neal Reising, Poet

October 20, 2017 18:53 - 7 minutes - 5.53 MB

Sarah chats with regional poet Linda Neal Reising at our second annual Indie Author Fair. (Image Credit: Finishing Line Press)

After Hours with Chris Schweizer & Kyle Starks

October 16, 2017 15:15 - 1 hour - 70.7 MB

A candid discussion on making comics with Chris Schweizer (The Creeps, Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean) and Kyle Starks (Legend of Ricky Thunder, Rick And Morty). We lost one of our microphones prior to recording, so, unfortunately, you won't be able to hear the crowd's questions. You should be able to figure out what was asked from the responses, though. NOTE: As mentioned, this chat was "candid." A bit of adult language was used that some might find offensive.

Books

Book of the Dead
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