Listener Comments to NCPR

John and I voted at 7:30am at the Rossie Town barn. Mark and Susan Rusch were ahead of us. They had taken their morning run to vote at the town barn.We had our 4 month old granddaughter, Summer with us. We told her when she grows up she can say she was at a voting pole for the 2008 historic vote. Liz Scarlett

I had a great experience voting with the early birds in Malone this morning. Even though it was pretty busy, I was in and out in 15 minutes (and it only took that long only because I arrived a few minutes before voting actually started). I even had time to go get good coffee before work. Alison Millsaps

In David Sommerstein's interview with Chuck Fluharty, Chuck did not mention one important fact. Inview of decreasing federal and state aid to local governments, it is vital that there be no more unfunded mandates (federal or state). Any further mandates must be 100% funded by the mandating government. Anything else is unacceptable

FOR SIGNS OF FALL: ATTN: MARK BREEN
Rather than the robins singing and the dim light of sunrise this morning, there's the smell of lingering wood smoke fires and the waning moon sits like a cradle over my backyard in a sky fill with stars. One cricket stubbornly chirps.

I want all of you at the station to know that you helped the time pass at camp during this rainy summer. From Todd and associates in the morning to Jonathan before 5, your company was great. Jackie, Ellen, Bob and David (sorry Barb, String Fever is just too twangy for me)brought a great variety of music to our cabin. Thank you very much for doing what you do so well.

I really appreciate that NCPR is available online. I am a college freshman, and being able to tune in to NCPR helps me stay connected to home. Thanks for letting a transplanted northerner listen to familiar voices.
P.S. Thank you also for bringing Stuart McLean to my hometown. I have my ticket!

I heard the lead-in for tomorrow's NPR discussion of MLK's "I have a dream" speech under the guise that it was given 40 years ago.
It was 40 years ago in...May... but it does not surprise me that LIBERAL npr would run this on the day Senator Obama accepts the Democratic nomination.
I just wish they wouldn't treat some their semi alert listening public with such disdain by way of an obviously slanted mode of presentation and thinly veiled support for the democratic candidate.
As a non profit organization (We;ll forget about the quarter billion dollars left to you by Joan Kroc), NPR, by law, is supposed to be nonpolitical.
Sure.

I just wanted to leave a quick note of appreciation. I'm a regular listener when I'm at home studying at St. Lawrence University and I always enjoy the variety of programs your station broadcasts. However, this summer I am spending eight weeks at Stony Brook University on Long Island performing research in physics, and have been quite a bit homesick. Listening live online is one of the few things that helps with this feeling, and for that I have a newfound appreciation for everything you offer.

Thank you, and keep up the great work,
Corey Griffin
St. Lawrence University Class of 2009

the beat authority is keeping this little bookmaker hopping! aloha from booklyn in brooklyn, NY.

Today on the local news segment, I heard a commentator (I think it was the director of the Wilder Association) remark that there is little documentation on nineteenth century history here in upstate New York. Actually, that is not the case. I just finished reading a remarkable book about the history of nineteenth century Jefferson County ("Untidy Origins" by Lori Ginzberg), which details how six women petitioned the New York constitutional convention in 1846 for suffrage rights, two years before the famous Seneca Falls convention. The book provides rich detail on farm, community, political and economic life, using things like wills, contemporary newspapers (especially agricultural journals), maps, and local histories. It was striking how much documentation there was, in fact.


Ellen Fleischmann
Cape Vincent

I am disappointed at NCPR's failure to carry Hillary Clinton's speech yesterday (June 7) bowing out of the Democratic race and endorsing Barrack Obama. Regardless of political beliefs, this was an important speech: a female candidate endorsing a black candidate for president.

As it turned out, Vermont Public Radio did not carry the speech either. I was fortunate enough to be able to pick up WAMC's Plattsburgh frequency at 91.9. How sad that I had to travel 150 virtual miles to listen. WAMC carried the speech in its entirety, even in the middle of their pledge drive. What is NCPR's excuse?

I just listened to the story of a desperate Chinese mother's search for her two year old child in the twisted wreck that once had been their home. I did not understand her language, and her culture and traditions may seem foreign, but I did not need the words of the translator to be able to have an instant connection with her. My hopes rose and fell with hers as she searched for her child. And in the end her profound grief at the loss of her child and the remorse that she felt at not being able to protect him needed no translation. Only NPR seems to be able to remind us of the connection that we all share no matter our religious, political, or cultural beliefs.

I'm listening to my favorite show (Radio Bob's R&B) and just thought that I'd mention how much I enjoy the NCPR top story podcast. I live abroad and so have to make a bit of effort to listen to NCPR shows (the time difference makes it difficult!) and I love having north country stories delivered straight to me.

Great job, and the stories themselves are top quality. The NCPR newsroom appears to have improved immeasurably over the past few years-- from good to great.

And happy belated birthday!

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NCPR should be publicizing this event that is going on right now and goes through Sat. It would be nice to form a group from the North Country to add!

Hi, I want to say how much I appreciate you publicizing the Overeaters Anonymous minithon in Potsdam and OA in general with your story on April 3. I wanted to let you know that we also have an OA group that meets Tuesday nights at 5:30 p.m. in Saranac Lake at the Will Rogers Residence. For more information, people can contact me at 891-6755. Thanks!

As much as I appreciate World Cafe and hearing an hour of music that is complied much like a mixed tape that a friend would give me; I am devastated that Fair Game has been pulled. Fair Game is an insightful and fresh hour of commentatry on politics and our ever evolving culture. Like other bloggers have mentioned, I urge you to consider your line up again and to bring back Fair Game.

Martha & All~

Happy birthday to WSLU
you've been with me
what ever I do

as i've traveled
near and far
you've beconed me
from abode and car

coming home always meant
down home elation
as we fiddled with the dial
for our beloved station

we would search through the dark
getting crackles and teases
then a voice oh familiar
such human sound doth pleases

living in the sunny south
walking white sand beaches
when a tinge of homesick hit
online listening did the trick!

you saw me through my triumphs
and helped me through my pain
and if I had a choice
I'd do it all again

I reach for you each morning
I listen late at night
we are friends for life-
North Country Public Radio-
northcountry's true delight!

Mimi Van Deusen

We became "public radio" junkies in the late 1970's having to drive back and forth to Syracuse due to our child's leukemia treatments. That led to listening to Public Radio driving back and forth to work from Carthage to Watertown. All of the "buttons" on the car radio are directed to public radio stations including WRVO and WCNY but because we now commute mostly from Carthage to Old Forge we can listen to NCPR nearly all the time having Carhtage, Lowville, Port Leyeden and Old Forge right down the line of buttons. I recall two inicdents regarding your station. It was call in time and the Syracuse station was threatening having to cut out news and "All things considered"due to lack of listener support and funds. They were announcing raising funds in the low 1000's. You guys were just totally raising 10 times more. Your fund raising is so successful because you are so responsive to the communities you serve. That makes me recall the first time I called in to one of your fund raisers. I was driving to work in Watertown and you played "Man of LaMancha" I was singing along all the way past the beautiful Rutland pond full of Geese arriving from the south. I pulled into the parking lot and called making my first "on air" pledge.

We love your station; we love public radio. Happy Birthday and many, many more.

Paula and Dave Weal of Carthage and Old Forge

Happy Birthday radio folks!
40 might be the new 25, but it's still a lot of airtime.

Kim Dedam, P-R staff writer

Happy, Happy Birthday to you and all of your wonderful, delightful crew.

Ben and Will wish a very Happy Birthday to you young whippersnappers too.

Live from Middle Saranac,
Burdette Parks

Ellen,

So, today is the day NCPR turns 40. I remember that day, it's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be...

Seriously, congratulations to you and all the staff for making the station what it is today - a venerable North Country institution - enriching the lives of the people of the North Country through your programming and your building of community. We are so lucky to have you all, and St. Lawrence University could not be more proud of its association with North Country Public Radio!

Dear All,

Hearing Jackie and Ellen and Bob reminisce made me think about the station's early days and my connections. I am listening online from Florence, Italy where my husband, Graham Holmes, also a big fan, is working for a few months. So we arrived in Potsdam in 1976 and came to see people at the station in the early part of 1977, where I was welcomed by Jimmy Arvidsen, Rick Hutto and Jackie and invited to do some announcing and given the chance to do a program on Broadway musicals. I had the joy of doing On Broadway for several years, even after we left the region for Schenectady, thanks to Jackie's and others' great editing. Before I left I had another wonderful opportunity, together with Bob Vilas--the chance to coordinate the very first fund drive in the Fall of 1978. That's when I first met Ellen who was offering as a premium maple syrup and, I think, some chickens, as a premium. And as Jackie just said, we didn't give a dollar amount for the first drive. We didn't want to look foolish. We collected premiums from shops, businesses, people-- anyone we could think of-- literally knocking on doors. (The first year, Graham did his English dinner as a premium, roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, and after that, for some years he did different sizes of Christmas puddings based on sizes of contributions, made in and sent from Schenectady). The station is still wonderful and we still enjoy listening to it, from Lake Clear in the summer and now online.

Keep on doing what you do!!

Lots of love from Karen Cohen and Graham Holmes from a far country

P.S. I think when Rick Hutto left, didn't her first go to Guam? Or had he been there before he came to Canton.

Congratulations on turning 40! Tell Jackie, I?ll swap my law degree for a job at NCPR any time.

I started listening when we moved to Kingston from the remote outpost that is Prince Edward Island (over there by Iceland) five years ago and now listen from Todd to well past twilight. Your station has been instrumental in framing my idea that we live in a river valley shared by two countries rather than on opposite sides of a wall-like border. Now, because of NCPR, we?ve seen hockey games at SLU, spent summers hunting for frozen custard (unknown in Canada) and also explained your history through showing our kids civil war monuments in North Country town parks ? all due to being attracted by these voices coming out of Canton. Come to think of it, I have also bought a banjo and a mandolin because of String Fever and also have, for a Canadian, an inordinate knowledge of the politics of a state senate race as well as the opinions of one Mr. Bruno down in Albany.

Thanks for all you do and here?s to another 40 years!

Ellen

enjoying the birthday show.

We'd vacationed here several times but I dont think ever turned on a radio but we moved here August 27, 1998.

I drove from VA in a large Ryder rent-a-truck towing a small car --totally unqualified to do so.

As we came through PA into NY I listened to NPR stations along the way and "somewhere above Syracuse" I found NCPR and have been on board ever since.

It was a Thursday (I looked it up) so I dont think Radio Bob was on that afternoon but I know I soon discovered this strange guy who played old R&B....

As several callers have said, I can't imagine living here without NCPR.

Thanks for everything

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! From SHERYL EVANS LISTENING SINCE 1980.

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