Everett Public Library Podcasts

Mill Town, by Norman H. Clark

July 19, 2016 22:05 - 2 minutes - 3.39 MB

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. The Lone Reader looks at Mill Town, Norman H. Clark's magisterial history of early Everett and of the Everett Massacre. Time: 0:02:36 Size: 2.38 Mb Music: "Powerhouse," by Raymond Scott. Courtesy of Internet Archive. Sound effects, from Freesound: Bench Saw Crosscutting, by Benboncan Metal Saw, by qubodup War, gunfight, shooting, etc., by ylearkisto

Countrified Women with Voices

June 10, 2016 22:35 - 4 minutes - 4.22 MB

Mr. Neutron's Record Closet; reviews of all musical genres, surprises, mysteries. Towels recommended. Mr. Neutron pays homage to some outstanding country divas and their fusion creations. Mr. Neutron is Ron Averill. Image at left: Ms. Tami Nielson. Time: 0:04:36 Size: 4.22 Mb

Jonathan Demme's "Stop Making Sense"

May 26, 2016 21:59 - 7 minutes - 6.99 MB

Film in focus from the Evergreen Cinema Society. Alan Jacobson reviews Jonathan Demme's film Stop Making Sense, a tour-de-force performance-art film starring New Wave music icons The Talking Heads. Time: 0:07:31 Size: 6.88Mb Fragments of "Burning Down the House" and "Thank You for Sending Me an Angel," courtesy of the Internet Archive. Theme music for "The Treatment": "Midwest Meditation", by the John Benson Quartet.

Read, Watch, Engage

May 18, 2016 17:10 - 3 minutes - 3.16 MB

From the Director; Director Eileen Simmons talks about goings on at the library. May 2016: Library Director Eileen Simmons Music: Quintent No. 1 in Bb Major, by Giuseppe Cambini Size: 3.16 Mb Length: 3:26

Reluctantly Country

April 26, 2016 15:40 - 5 minutes - 4.85 MB

Mr. Neutron's Record Closet; reviews of all musical genres, surprises, mysteries. Towels recommended. Mr. Neutron traces his reluctant reconciliation with a music he once viciously denounced. Mr. Neutron is Ron Averill. Image at left: Mr. Bob Wills. Time: 0:05:01 Size: 4.60 Mb

"Urgh! A Music War: The DVD"

March 25, 2016 22:43 - 5 minutes - 6.35 MB

Film in focus from the Evergreen Cinema Society. Alan Jacobson reviews Urgh! A Music War, the DVD. Post-punk energy, near-absurd levels of theatricality. Time: 0:05:11 Size: 4.75Mb Sound effect from the BBC Sound Effects Library: Beaming Down--BBC Comedy, Fantasy, and Humor. Theme music for "The Treatment": "Midwest Meditation", by the John Benson Quartet.

"Urgh! A Music War"

March 25, 2016 22:31 - 3 minutes - 3.45 MB

Mr. Neutron's Record Closet; reviews of all musical genres, surprises, mysteries. Towels recommended. Mr. Neutron hears "the voices of the gods" in his review of Urgh! A Music War, a 1981 post-punk LP masterpiece. Mr. Neutron is Ron Averill. Time: 0:03:45 Size: 3.44 Mb

"One Way Out," by Alan Paul

March 08, 2016 21:40 - 2 minutes - 3.16 MB

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. Told through the voices of band members, roadies, family, and friends, Alan Paul's One Way Out is the story of the rise and fall of an iconic rock band of the sixties, the Allman Brothers Band. Music: A Messy Blues, by Steve Hill Time: 0:02:20 Size: 2.15Mb

"So Delicious"

February 16, 2016 21:14 - 4 minutes - 4.79 MB

Mr. Neutron's Record Closet; reviews of all musical genres, surprises, mysteries. Towels recommended. Mr. Neutron reviews So Delicious, the latest roots/blues barrage from Rev. Peyton and His Big Damn Band. Mr. Neutron is Ron Averill. Photo courtesy of K8 Fan. Time: 0:04:03 Size: 3.71 Mb

"Seven Minutes"

February 09, 2016 00:28 - 4 minutes - 4 MB

Film in focus from the Evergreen Cinema Society. Alan Jacobson reviews the 2014 film 7 Minutes, the thrilling story of a heist gone wrong...and set in Everett, WA. Time: 0:04:00 Size: 3.66Mb Music: "Sync", by Collision Process Theme music for "The Treatment": "Midwest Meditation", by the John Benson Quartet.

"A Feathered River Across the Sky" by Joel Greenberg

January 25, 2016 19:48 - 2 minutes - 3.08 MB

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. Greenberg's book tells how during the 19th century billions of passenger pigeons were shot, clubbed, burned, crushed, flailed, speared, drowned, and blown up; a species' extinction by wanton human butchery. Music: 1812 Overture, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Time: 0:02:23 Size: 2.19Mb

"How the Retire the Cheapskate Way" by Jeff Yeager

January 25, 2016 19:22 - 2 minutes - 2.05 MB

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. The "Ultimate Cheapskate" Jeff Yeager teaches us how to live small, save money and enjoy life to boot! Yeager has turned penny pinching into an art form—Matt Lauer. Music: Black Rainbow, by Pitx. Time: 0:02:14 Size: 2.04Mb

"How to Retire the Cheapskate Way" by Jeff Yeager

January 25, 2016 19:22 - 2 minutes - 2.05 MB

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. The "Ultimate Cheapskate" Jeff Yeager teaches us how to live small, save money and enjoy life to boot! Yeager has turned penny pinching into an art form—Matt Lauer. Music: Black Rainbow, by Pitx. Time: 0:02:14 Size: 2.04Mb

Everett Reads

January 15, 2016 17:25 - 3 minutes - 3.52 MB

From the Director; Director Eileen Simmons talks about goings on at the library. January 2016: Library Director Eileen Simmons Music: Quintent No. 1 in Bb Major, by Giuseppe Cambini Size: 3.52 Mb Length: 3:50

Punk Rock

January 06, 2016 21:18 - 3 minutes - 3.1 MB

Mr. Neutron's Record Closet; reviews of all musical genres, surprises, mysteries. Towels recommended. Mr. Neutron enters punk's mosh pit. Mr. Neutron is Ron Averill. Photo courtesy of internetarchive.org. Time: 0:03:07 Size: 2.86 Mb

Love & Mercy: The Beach Boys and the Creation of "Pet Sounds"

December 22, 2015 16:54 - 3 minutes - 3.25 MB

Film in focus from the Evergreen Cinema Society. Alan Jacobson reviews the 2015 film Love & Mercy, the story of the Beach Boys' agonizing creation of one of rock's greatest albums, Pet Sounds. Time: 0:03:32 Size: 3.24Mb Music: Selections from the soundtrack; "Ice and Chilli," by Ghost. Theme music for "The Treatment": "Midwest Meditation", by the John Benson Quartet.

"The Unwinding," by George Packer

November 25, 2015 22:51 - 2 minutes - 1.11 MB

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. Through interviews with real Americans, Packer relates the "unwinding" of institutions we have taken for granted: banking government, the courts, and labor unions. The book won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2013. Music: Dance of the Geisha, by Joe Hill. Time: 0:02:25 Size: 1.11Mb

Bricks & Mortar

November 25, 2015 20:25 - 3 minutes - 3.54 MB

From the Director; Director Eileen Simmons talks about goings on at the library. December 2015: Library Director Eileen Simmons Music: Quintent No. 1 in Bb Major, by Giuseppe Cambini

Medieval Mirth: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

November 13, 2015 00:38 - 3 minutes - 3.33 MB

Film in focus from the Evergreen Cinema Society. Alan Jacobson pays homage to the genius of the Monty Python troupe in this treatment of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Time: 0:03:24 Size: 3.11Mb

Reluctant Rocker: Buddy Holly

November 12, 2015 23:58 - 3 minutes - 2.99 MB

Mr. Neutron's Record Closet; reviews of all musical genres, surprises, mysteries. Towels recommended. Mr. Neutron digs around the roots of rock n' roll with this reflection on Buddy Holly. Mr. Neutron is Ron Averill. Time: 0:03:13 Size: 2.95 Mb

"Heads in Beds," by Jacob Tomsky

October 12, 2015 21:13 - 2 minutes - 2.04 MB

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. Part Upstairs Downstairs and part Hotel Babylon, Jacob Tomsky's Heads in Beds spills the beans about how high-end hotels really work. Insider advice leavened with great stories and snarky commentary about guests. managers, clerks, housekeepers and other denizens of this quirky subculture. Music: Blues Jam 2011, by Steve Belong. Time: 0:02:13 Size: 2.12Mb

"Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," by Ben Fountain

September 17, 2015 23:33 - 2 minutes - 2.13 MB

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. A rarity, a successful war satire. Billy Lynn is a soldier in Bravo Company, captured on film by Fox news in a chaotic firefight with Iraqi insurgents. Bravo wins a boatload of medals and is dispatched across country in a "victory tour" to shore up American opinion about the war. The book's setting is during the final surreal event of the tour, a cold Thanksgiving Day football game in Dallas Texas, as the Bravos are feted as hero...

"The Age of Edison," by Ernest Freeberg

August 17, 2015 17:32 - 2 minutes - 2.13 MB

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. Relates the often surprising story of America's adoption of electricity, including its oddities: streetlighting schemes which used "artificial suns": powerful arc lights on 150 ft. towers scattered about a city. Got shadows? Music: Bam Bam Bamy Shore, by Paul Ash and His Orchestra, courtesy of Internet Archive. Time: 0:02:19 Size: 2.12Mb

Tech Turbulence

August 06, 2015 19:07 - 3 minutes - 1.57 MB

From the Director; Director Eileen Simmons talks about goings on at the library. August 2015: Library Director Eileen Simmons Music: Quintent No. 1 in Bb Major, by Giuseppe Cambini

"Hard Luck: The Triumph and Tragedy of 'Irish'" Jerry Quarry, " by Steve Springer and Blake Chavez

July 14, 2015 16:27 - 2 minutes - 2.19 MB

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. Springer and Chavez tell the story of Jerry Quarry, a great heavyweight boxer in an era of greater ones. His rise to pugilistic glory is mirrored by his heartbreaking fall, in the most brutal sport of all. Music: Violin Concerto, by Ludwig van Beethoven. Time: 0:02:23 Size: 2.18Mb

"Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behavior," by Kate Fox

June 17, 2015 16:25 - 2 minutes - 2.33 MB

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. Social anthropologist Kate Fox unravels the codes of modern British behavior. Music: Rule Britannia, courtesy of the Internet Archive, https://archive.org Time: 0:02:32 Size: 2.32Mb

Lean Into the Library

May 27, 2015 22:03 - 3 minutes - 3.13 MB

From the Director; Director Eileen Simmons talks about goings on at the library. June 2015: Library Director Eileen Simmons Music: Quintent No. 1 in Bb Major, by Giuseppe Cambini

"What It Is Like to Go to War," by Karl Marlantes

May 19, 2015 17:47 - 2 minutes - 2.12 MB

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. Highly decorated Vietnam War veteran Karl Marlantes, author of Matterhorn, the best novel about the Vietnam War, reflects on the terrible cost to soldiers of combat. Music: Tuzan (Sad), by Tomo Sombolac Time: 0:02:18 Size: 2.11Mb

"Fobbit," by David Abrams

April 16, 2015 00:51 - 2 minutes - 2.34 MB

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. Audio book review of David Abrams's lacerating Iraq war satire, Fobbit. Music: Thickener, by Jerry & the People Time: 0:02:33 Size: 2.33 mb

Patience and Progress

March 31, 2015 18:15 - 2 minutes - 2.75 MB

From the Director; Director Eileen Simmons talks about goings on at the library. April 2015: Library Director Eileen Simmons Music: Symphony No. 6, Ludwig van Beethoven, courtesy of musopen.org

Jason Webley's "Margaret"

March 17, 2015 00:43 - 3 minutes - 3.04 MB

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. Jason Webley's "Margaret" project, a musical evocation of the tragic life of Margaret Rucker, daughter of Bethel Rucker, one of the founders of Everett. The book contains two essays about the project, and the accompanying CD has fifteen original songs by various artists based on scraps of Margaret Rucker's life. Music: Adagio for Strings, by Samuel Barber, courtesy of The Internet Archive. Time: 0:03:10 Size: 2.90Mb

Philip K. Dick's "The Divine Invasion"

February 17, 2015 19:47 - 2 minutes - 2.69 MB

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. God portrayed as an alien, returning after 2,000 years to invade Earth. A later, lesser--but still wildly imaginative--book by schizophrenic author Philip K. Dick. Music: A Tale for Lancinant Screws, by Cihan Gulbudak. Time: 0:02:20 Size: 2.67Mb

A Surfeit of Cultural Pleasures

February 10, 2015 20:29 - 3 minutes - 3.13 MB

From the Director; Director Eileen Simmons talks about goings on at the library. February 2015: Library Director Eileen Simmons Music: Quintent No. 1 in Bb Major, by Giuseppe Cambini

"The Flash Boys," by Michael Lewis

January 13, 2015 22:52 - 2 minutes - 1.89 MB

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. Michael Lewis's expose of "high freqency trading" and other dark Wall Street secrets. Music: Praladium, by Carl Neilsen Time: 0:02:02 Size: 1.87 mb

Free Speech in a City of Smokestacks: Everett's Ordinance 1501

December 30, 2014 17:45 - 15 minutes - 15.3 MB

Smokestack Soundbites; audio stories from the Everett Public Library about the history and life of our city and our county. Script David Dilgard Voices David Dilgard Van Ramsey Cameron Johnson Lisa Labovitch Theme Music "Another Day," by The Wild Snohomians Additional Music and Sounds Courtesy of The Internet Archive "The Commonwealth of Toil," by Joe Glazer and Bill Friedland, from "Songs of the Wobblies" ""The Popular Wobbly," by Joe Glazer and Bill Friedland, from "Songs of the Wobblies" "...

"The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World without Ice Caps," by Peter Ward

December 24, 2014 22:29 - 2 minutes - 1.99 MB

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. Audio book review time: 2:10 size: 1.98 Mb Music: "Awel," by Stefsax

"The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football," by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian

December 12, 2014 18:22 - 2 minutes - 2.18 MB

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. Audio book review. time: 0:02:23 size: 2.17 Mb Music: Mars, by Gustav Holst

How I Used the Library in 2014

December 05, 2014 19:20 - 3 minutes - 3.39 MB

From the Director; Director Eileen Simmons talks about goings on at the library. December 2014: Library Director Eileen Simmons Music: Quintent No. 1 in Bb Major, by Giuseppe Cambini

We're Listening to You

October 29, 2014 01:20 - 3 minutes - 1.47 MB

From the Director; Director Eileen Simmons talks about goings on at the library. Music: L'Histoire du Soldat, by Igor Stravinsky Courtesy of Internet Archive, www.archive.org

The World According to Monsanto by Marie-Monique Robin

October 02, 2014 18:40 - 2 minutes - 2.22 MB

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. Music: Klincek stojo pod oblokom Tomo Sombolac time: 0:02:25 size: 2.21 mb

Tulalip, From My Heart by Harriette Shelton Dover

October 02, 2014 18:40 - 2 minutes - 2.04 MB

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. Music: "Wild Salmon Rally," courtesy of BC Eco News via Youtube time: 0:02:14 size: 2.03 mb

Sultan Election Day Killing

October 02, 2014 17:57 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MB

Smokestack Soundbites; audio stories from the Everett Public Library about the history and life of our city and our county. Production Credits Script David Dilgard Voices David Dilgard Van Ramsey Cameron Johnson Theme Music Smokestack Soundbite theme: “Another Day,” The Wild Snohomians Additional Music and Sounds Courtesy of The Internet Archive “The Teddy Bears Picnic,” Arthur Pryor’s Band “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” Frank C. Stanley “Battle Hymn on the mouth harp,” Stanley “Missouri Walt...

The Tulalip Settlement of 1853

September 03, 2014 17:57 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MB

Smokestack Soundbites; audio stories from the Everett Public Library about the history and life of our city and our county. Script David Dilgard Voices David Dilgard Van Ramsey Cameron Johnson Ronald Averill Theme Music "Another Day," by The Wild Snohomians Additional Music and Sounds Courtesy of The Internet Archive "The British Grenadiers" "La Mer," Claude Debussy "Golden Slippers," Vernon Dalhart and Carson Robinson "Oh Susannah," Peerless Quartet "Elegia," Bela Bartok "Marching Through Ge...

Changes Ahead

July 28, 2014 23:17 - 3 minutes - 1.47 MB

From the Director; Director Eileen Simmons talks about goings on at the library. Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Courtesy of Internet Archive, www.archive.org

A Shooting Affray at the Gold Leaf Saloon

July 28, 2014 17:57 - 25 minutes - 11.5 MB

Smokestack Soundbites; audio stories from the Everett Public Library about the history and life of our city and our county. Script David Dilgard Voices David Dilgard Van Ramsey Cameron Johnson Ronald Averill Zac Matthews Theme Music "Another Day," by The Wild Snohomians Additional Music and Sounds Courtesy of The Internet Archive "Blues in the Bottle," Prince Albert Hunt "Booze and Blues," Ma Rainey "Dardanella," Borrah Minevitch "Midsommer Dansen," Kulturell Kapell "Louis Collins," M...

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