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Hal Wilson's guest is Donald Ritchie and they're discussing Ritchie's book The Columnist about the life and work of the famous columnist Drew Pearson. Ritchie is the Historian Emeritus of the US Senate. He conducted an oral history program at the Senate and edited for publication the transcripts of the previously closed hearings of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Don Ritchie is the author of more than 30 books.

My guest for Friday's Delmarva Today is David Salner and we're talking about his novel A Place To Hide . David Salner is an accomplished poet with four poetry collections and poetry published in a number of literary journals including three editions of The Delmarva Review. He has received numerous poetry prizes and awards and his work has been read three times by Garrison Keillor on Writer's Almanac. A Place to Hide is David Salner's first novel.

Harold Wilson's guest is Jack Broderick, President of the Kent Island Heritage Society. Most people know Kent Island as a huge traffic headache since it hosts the only corridor, Rt. 50/301, across the Chesapeake Bay north of Norfolk Virginia. During the week it carries over 68,000 vehicles each day. This volume jumps to over 118,000 per day over the summer weekends. During these high-volume periods, long lines of traffic are familiar on the corridor east of Annapolis and certainly on Kent Island. The state is currently studying proposals to address this problem including a third span connected to Kent Island. The Kent Island Heritage Society responded to this third-span proposal in the Tier 1 NEPA Study with both written and oral testimony. Broderick argues that a third span connected to Kent Island, and the resulting new traffic infrastructure using the same Rt. 50/301 corridor across the island, “is a clear threat to preserving the heritage of Kent Island. Jack Broderick joins Wilson

Harold Wilson's guest is Arthur Magida, author of Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi Occupied Paris. Magida discusses his account of the life and work of British spy Noor Inayat Khan. Noor was raised by her father Inayat Khan, a Sufi teacher and lecturer whose central belief was “True religion is the sea of truth.” At the same time, lying was a spy's stock and trade. Magida says that “Without deceit and guile, an agent was a dud. Probably a dead dud.” In addition to how Noor carried out her secret broadcast work to London for the SOE, how she remained true to her Sufi sense of truth in the dangerous and deceitful world of Nazi occupied Paris is fascinating in itself.

Wilson's guest is Karen Speakman, the Executive Director of NCALL a nonprofit community development organization based in Dover, Delaware. NCALL is dedicated to strengthening communities on the Delmarva through housing support and development assistance for local organizations, and lending services to bridge financial gaps for the community development sector. In addition, the organization offers finance and homeowner education for individuals in Delaware. Technical assistance services are also provided self-help housing organizations in the Northeast Region of the US. Self-help housing is a program sponsored and financed by USDA that assists groups of families in building their own homes in a mutual manner. NCALL has been serving the affordable housing needs of the Delmarva for the past forty-five years and is clearly an important resource for the region.

Wilson's guest on Delmarva Today is The New Yorker staff writer Casey Cep. They are discussing spiritualism in Cep's article “Kindred Spirits” in the May 31st issue of The New Yorker. “Almost a third of Americans say they have communicated with someone who has died,” Casey Cep tells us, “and they collectively spend more than two-billion dollars a year for psychic services on platforms old and new. Instagram, Facebook, Tik-Tok, television, whatever the medium, there's a medium.” Why this increased interest in spiritualism, and what need does it meet among the public today?

Wilson's guests on Delmarva Today are editor Neal Gillen and author Fatimah Iqbal. They are discussing a new collection of short stories published in New Voices of the Potomac . In addition, Fatimah Iqbal will read her story "Under the Chelsea Lights" from the collection.This anthology is a collection of stories written by five students at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Maryland. All of the authors are female, and were either Juniors or Seniors at the time their work was published this year. All were participants in a writing group led by Neal Gillen, the editor of the anthology. The stories in the collection go a long way toward revealing what is on the minds of young people today and especially during the pandemic? In their writings, these five young women display a mature openness to exploring very human emotions including the pain of separation, awareness of the inevitability of death, the threat of physical aggression, fear, and the power of fate. As a bonus, in one of

The National Folk Festival is returning to Salisbury, MD after being cancelled last year due to the pandemic. Don Rush speaks with local manager Caroline O'Hare and Blaine Waide, highlighting the first round of announced performers.

It is clear that climate change poses many threats to our way of life on the planet. One of the most obvious is the devastation caused by drought, sea water rise, and severe weather events. Little discussed, however is the impact climate change is having on human rights. As necessary resources such as water become increasingly scarce for example, what does it mean that they are intentionally diverted from vulnerable populations? In this last of Harold Wilson’s series of programs on climate change, Dr. Michael Allen returns to discuss the impact of climate change on human rights. He is joined by Madison Gonzalez, a graduate research assistant at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center at Old Dominion University. Gonzalez’s research work focuses on social stability in the wake of extreme events like environmental crises, sudden population increases, and pandemics. Michael Allen is a climate scientist and professor of geography in the Department of Political Science and

This week, Hal Wilson continues his discussion with Todd Miller, author of Build Bridges, Not Walls .

Wilson continues his focus on climate change with guest Dr. Michael Allen, climate scientist and professor of geography in the Department of Political Science and Geography at Old Dominion University. Allen discusses climate change and weather and its impact on migration.

My guest for Friday’s Delmarva Today is author Todd Miller. Todd is a journalist, researcher, and writer who focuses on immigration and border issues from both sides of the US – Mexico divide. We’ll discuss his book Storming the Walls and the relationship between climate change, migration, and homeland security.

This is the third in Delmarva Today’s discussion on the role of The Humanities in our culture. Wilson’s guests are Adam Wood, Maarten Pereboom, and Don Rush. Adam Wood is a professor in the English Department at Salisbury University. Maarten Pereboom is dean of the Fulton School of Liberal Arts and Professor of History. The area of twentieth-century international relations is one of his specialties. Don Rush is Associate Program director- Sr. Producer News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. . The first program defined The Humanities, their history, and the role they have played in the formation of our society. The second reviewed the splintering of the culture with the broad expression in the 1960s of new cultural identities fed by race, feminism, human rights and justice. In academic circles, the western bias of the Humanities was challenged and both students and the general public were exposed to a broad range of insistent voices. In today’s program, Wilson and his guests

Wilson’s guests on Delmarva Today are Nancy Sakaduski and Doug Harrell. Nancy Sakaduski is the owner of Cat & Mouse Press, the publisher of Rehoboth Beach Reads featuring the winning stories in the annual Rehoboth Beach Reads Short Story Contest sponsored by Browseabout Books. Doug Harrell is a retired engineer and currently a mystery writer. He reads an abridged version of “Hiawatha’s Smile,” winner of a Judge’s Award in the 2020 issue of Rehoboth Beach Reads.

May is water safety month and Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today is Owen Long Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Sertified, a training company specializing in American Red Cross Lifeguarding, CPR, First Aid, AED, Babysitting, Emergency Medical Response, Basic Life Support classes, or generally any Instructor Trainings. The program focuses on the training of lifeguards in the Delmarva Area.

Hal Wilson's guest on this week's Delmarva Today is Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, author of Sleepovers . Sleepovers is Phillips first book. It is a compendium of short stories and won the C.Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize. Stories from it have appeared in The Paris Review and The Oxford American.

Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today is Jean Holloway, Delaware and Maryland State Manager for the Southeast Rural Community Assistance Project (SERCAP). SERCAP is a nonprofit organization that helps upgrade water and wastewater systems in small, rural towns across the Delmarva. They provide a variety of services from directly constructing infrastructure, to providing financing and loan options, and offering technical training. These services are available to local organizations, smal; rural governments, and individuals—for example, SERCAP may assist a family with digging a well or installing an indoor toilet.

This is the second in Delmarva Today's three-part series on the humanities and their contribution to culture in the United States. The first session reviewed the history and nature of the humanities, how they became institutionalized, and how they helped define the identity of our country. This Friday's Delmarva Today reviews the crisis in the humanities at the university level and in our national identity. Wilson's guests for this session are Adam Wood, a professor in the English Department at Salisbury University, James King, also a member of the Salisbury faculty in the English Department who is developing the African studies program. And Kara French, a professor of history at the University and director of the Gender Studies Program.

Harold Wilson’sguest is Professor Margo Shea. Dr. Shea is a professor of history at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts. Dr. Shea, author of Derry City: Memory and Political Struggle in Northern Ireland. discusses the work she is doing on the parallels she finds between the Troubles in Northern Ireland in the 1960’s and the cultural and political unrest we are experiencing here in the US today evidenced recently by the siege of our nation’s capital on January six, 2021.

Friday's Delmarva Today is the first of our special hour-long programs on the humanities. Adam Wood is a professor in the English Department of Salisbury University. Marten Pereoom is a professor of history and Dean of the Fulton School of Liberal Arts at the University. In Friday's program we discuss the nature and history of the humanities and the role they play in the development of our personal and national identity. In the midst of the year long pandemic and years of divisive political turmoil, what have we lost of confidence in ourselves and each other and how might the humanities help us regain a sense of normal equilibrium.

Grant Wilson Professor and Graduate Program Director Dept. of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts Edit | Remove Wilson's guest on Delmarva Today is astronomer Grant Wilson, professor in the astronomy department at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Wilson will discuss the acrimonious controversy in the scientific community over Harvard Professor Avi Loeb’s claim that a dot of light dubbed Oumuamua (pronounced oh-mooah-mooah) seen streaking through our solar system on a peculiar trajectory in 2017 is the first sign of life beyond earth. How evident is it that we are not alone here?

Harold Wilson's guest is Nancy Mitchell, Salisbury's poet laureate. They talk about her plans as poet laureate in the coming year. and discuss some of her recently published poetry. Nancy is the Poet Laureate of the City of Salisbury, Maryland. She has published extensively, is a 2012 Pushcart Prize winner, and is Associate Editor of Special Features for Plume , an online poetry magazine.

Hal Wilson's guest on Delmarva Today this week is Lance George, Research Director for The Housing Assistance Council (HAC) in Washington, DC. The duscuss the lack of plumbing and adequate water in homes and communities in the US that create Third-World conditions for many families. Data indicates that at least 460,000 homes across the country do not have a functioning bathroom or lack an adequate water supply. The Delmarva does a little better but not by much. Data indicates that 1,765 homes here on the Eastern Shore lack plumbing. Lance will discuss how The Housing Assistance Council and other organizations are addressing this issue on a national basis.

One the first half of today's program, we review the inauguration of President Joe Biden. Host Don Rush talks with former John Bartkovich, former chair of the Wicomico Republican Central Committee and Salisbury University political science professor Michael O'Loughlin.

On the first half of today's program, we get insight into the recents events at our nation's Capitol with host Don Rush and guests Dr. Michael O'Loughlin, Salisbury University Political Science Professor and Frank Figliuzzi author of The FBI Way: Inside the Breau's Code of Excellence

My guest on Delmarva Today is Dr. Karl Maier, a member of the psychology department at Salisbury University in Salisbury. Maryland. This is the third in our series of discussions on the psychological impact of COVID-19 on the general population. After the events of January 6, however, how is it possible to focus on the pandemic and its psychological impact on society in the face of the threat to our democracy we witnessed in the violent attempt to overthrow our election for President? And what of the human contribution to climate change that carries its own threat to the globe? Political violence fed by an apparent desire for autocratic government, a surging pandemic challenging medical resources, and the almost forgotten issue of environmental degradation are certainly separate issues. But are they also tied together in a syndemic manner? In our discussion, Dr. Maier suggests that there is a link connecting COVID-19 and climate change that is syndemic in nature; that is two problems

Today's guest is Dr. Michael Murphy, emergency medical physician at the Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Dr. Murphy will update us on the current surge in the pandemic in Wicomico and surrounding counties and discuss the pressure the increase is having on the hospital. He will also discuss his own personal struggle with Covid-19 and update us on the distribution of the vaccine in the area.

My guest for Friday's Delmarva Today is Lance George. Lance is the research director for The Housing Assistance Council, a national nonprofit housing and rural development organization in DC. We're talking about rural poverty and why it has remained about three percent above urban poverty since the 1970s. George will discuss the characteristics of rural poverty and how it differs from urban poverty. He will also talk about the problems of resource distribution in rural areas, as well as problems associated with distributing the Coronavirus vaccine. An interesting question, for example, is why rural Allegany and Garrett counties are being excluded from the distribution of the first batch of Covid vaccine even though the pandemic is spiking there. (This is according to an article in The Sunday Capital. December 13, 2020.)

My guest Friday is Dr, Karl Maier, a professor in the Psychology Department at Salisbury University. This is part two of a three part series on the psychological impact of Covid-19 on the general public and particularly on front-line workers. Dr. Maier will discuss what has been called "pandemic fatigue" and the role of misinformation / disinformation in decision making.

Hal Wilson's guest is Thomas Hollyday. They discuss his new River Sunday Romance Mystery Novel titled Enemy in which climate change unleashes a deadly global enemy. How to survive is not only the challenge the Eastern Shore town of River Sunday, Maryland faces but the planet itself.

Friday, November 28, is Native American Heritage Day. Harold Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today is Julie Moss to help us honor the heritage of Native Americans. Ms. Moss is a member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians headquartered in Tahlequah Oklahoma. Over the years, Ms. Moss has developed an expertise in writing federal grant applications from her work with Indian tribes. Her work has also included serving as elected treasurer for the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee, as Deputy Director and Planning Director for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Julie also worked with The Rural Development Leadership Network to raise funds to send 50 rural/tribal women and women of color to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing China and has served as a member of the Amnesty International USA Steering Committee. She is currently a grant writer for a nonprofit organization in Muskogee, OK.

This Friday “Delmarva Today” with host Harold Wilson features a discussion of the recently published volume 13 of the Delmarva Review . Wilson’s guests are Executive Editor of the Review Wilson Wyatt, Poetry Editor Anne Colwell, and Co-Fiction Editor Lee Slater. Volume thirteen of the Review includes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by 64 authors chosen from among thousands of submissions. Three authors are featured and interviewed in the Review about their work. Sue Ellen Thompson is recognized for creative nonfiction, Luisa A. Igloria, the newly appointed Poet Laureate of Virginia for poetry, and Argentine writer Guillermo Martinez for fiction.

With the number of new cases in the US averaging more than 100,000 per day another surge of coronavirus infections has now firmly taken hold across much of the country. As dire as this third surge may be however, there is some good news. The pharmaceutical company Pfizer released a promising look at their coronavirus vaccine trial results Monday that said the vaccine may be more than 90% effective at preventing COVID-19. Dr. Michael Murphy, emergency medical physician in Salisbury, is Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today to discuss this third surge in the pandemic and the positive vaccine trial results announced by Pfizer. Even though the results of the vaccine tests are good news, it is not an intervention that is in place yet and there are still questions that remain, including how effective it will be, when it will it be available to the general public, and how it will be distributed, among others.

Harold Wilson's on this Friday's Delmarva Today is writer for The New Yorker Casey Cep. They discuss her book Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee . Casey lives on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Harold Wilson's for Friday's Delmarva Today is John Wenke . We'll discuss his new book of short stories The Critical List . Dr. Wenke is a professor of American Literature and writing at Salisbury University. He has also published books on Herman Melvill and J. D. Salinger. Wenke's stories speak of the human struggle against separation, isolation, and what he calls the invisible moving walls we all face.

We know that the coronavirus pandemic is pervasive, affecting every facet of our lives. We experience its impact on the economy every day, its effect on the society and our social interaction, education, and with over seven million confirmed cases and over 217,000 dead, we know what it is doing to us physically. Even as it pervades our lives, however, there is little information on how it is affecting us psychologically? How has it challenged our mental health as individuals and as a society? Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today is Dr. Karl Maier, a professor in the Psychology Department at Salisbury University. Dr. Maier’s specialty is Behavioral Medicine. He reviews our current understanding of the mental health impacts of Covid-19 on the general public, individuals, front-line essential workers, and particularly vulnerable populations.

Delmarva Today host Harold Wilson speaks with emergency room physician Mike Murphy about recent delevopments with Covid -19

Joining Wilson on Delmarva Today is Dr. Michael McCarty, Assistant Professor of History at Salisbury University. Dr. McCarty’s specialty is East Asian History. Wilson and McCarty discuss Lisa See’s historical novel The Island of Sea Women as part of Maryland Humanities One Maryland Book Program. Maryland Humanities created the One Maryland One Book program to bring together people in communities across the state through the shared experience of reading the same book. Delmarva Public Radio is pleased to participate in the program. In The Island of Sea Women , Lisa See has given us a historical novel set on the Korean island of Jeju. It features the unique culture of diving women called haenyeo who work in the sea and populate villages along the Island’s coast. Her book follows the life of one diver, Young-sook, who also narrates the story. The time period is 1936 to 2008 and the divers are what we would call free-divers – that is they carry no breathing apparatus.

In these times of protest over police abuse and racial divide Eddie Glaude, chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton, says he felt compelled to look back at James Baldwin and his disillusionment with the death of Martin Luther King and the end of the civil rights movement. Host Don Rush explores with Glaude what he found in his new book. " Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own ".

Don Rush speaks with former White House photographer David Lienemann about his new book, " Biden: The Obama Years and the Battle for the Soul of America ".

My Guest on Delmarva Today this Friday is Darrin Lowery. Dr. Lowery is Director of the Chesapeake Watershed Archaeological Research Foundation. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Penn State University at the Mont Alto Campus in Mont Alto, PA as well as a Research Associate & Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. Lowery will talk about eroding archeological sites, particularly here on the Eastern Shore and the importance of preserving our prehistoric heritage. Our discussion will include the perspective archeology and geology offer on issues like climate change and the attendant sea level rise.

On the first half of today's program, Lora Bottinelli, executive director of National Council for the Traditonal Arts, updates on on the upcoming plans for the National Folk Festival Virtual Celebration.

The New York Times reports on August 26, 2020 that as colleges and universities open for the fall, data in a survey conducted of more than 1,500 American colleges and universities has revealed at least 26,000 coronavirus cases since the pandemic began. The Times has counted more than 20,000 additional cases at colleges since late July. Do these numbers indicate that as colleges and universities open for the fall semester we can expect a spike in the number of cases nationally and particularly in our area here at Salisbury University. Host Hal Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today is Professor Adam Wood. Dr. Wood is the outgoing President of the Faculty Senate at Salisbury University, former chair of the department of English, and past member of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Because there is no national strategy for combating the virus, colleges and universities are basically on their own to devise and implement plans to keep their students, faculty and others safe. Dr. Wood

Hal Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today is Doctor Michael Murphy, an emergency medical physician affiliated with the Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, MD. Dr. Murphy is a frequent guest on Delmarva Today and we’re pleased to welcome him back to update us on the pandemic in the Wicomico area, and to discuss the development of a vaccine as well as the efficacy of any recent treatments such as convalescent plasma.

Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today is author Barbara Lockhart. They will discuss her historical novel Elizabeth’s Field . Lockhart’s novel recounts the struggles of the black population, free and slave, living on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the 1850s. In the face of oppression, cruelty, and fear, it is the story of a people with astounding resilience and endurance whose only hope at that time was flight. Lockhart’s novel was recognized with a silver medal from the Independent Book Publishers Award. She has also received two Individual Artist Awards in Fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council for her short stories and for her novel Requiem for a Summer Cottage . Lockhart lives on a nature reserve on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today is Captain Scott Slater. Slater pilots a Boeing 777 on the global route for FedEx. He flies to most of the major cities of the world: Paris, Cologne, Frankfort, Hong Kong, Dubai, Singapore, and Shanghai, to name a few. Scott is a former fighter pilot and graduate of the Naval Academy. He was a Top Gun pilot and flew the FA-18 from aircraft carriers on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. In addition, Scott participated in an exchange program with the French patrolling the no-fly zone over Bosnia-Herzegovina. Based in Norfolk, in 2,000 he was selected Atlantic Fleet Pilot of the Year as well as Carrier Pilot of the Year. Scott talks about his experience as a Navy pilot in the FA-18 and how Coved-19 has changed the way he and other pilots are greeted in the various cities he visits as a Boeing 777 pilot. In addition, Slater discusses how he remains safe in this coronavirus infected world.

My guest for Friday's Delmarva Today is Luisa A. Igloria the newly appointed Poet Laureate of Virginia. I'll interview her tomorrow morning on Zoom. Luisa is the author of 14 books of poetry and 4 chapbooks. Originally from Baguio City in the Philippines, she now makes her home with her family in Virginia where she is Professor of Creative Writing and English at Old Dominion University. From 2009-2015, Luisa was also Director of the MFA Creative Writing Program . Her work has been published in numerous anthologies and journals in Canada, the UK, and Australia as well as the US. She is the winner of numerous poetry and literary prizes both here in the US and in the UK.

Don Rush speaks with Greg Bassett of the Salisbury Independent about the passing of Wicomico County Executive Bob Culver.

The Battle of the Bogside drew the British army onto the streets of Northern Ireland on August 14 [1969]; they would remain for more than thirty years. Margo Shea in Derry City. Margo Shea is Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today. She is associate professor of history at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts. The subtitle of Shea’s book is Memory and Political Struggle in Northern Ireland and it certainly is that. But it is much, much more. Derry City is a civil rights book that chronicles the struggle of Irish Catholics for equality and justice against institutional, political, and cultural bigotry as Northern Ireland defines its own identity. The struggle for equality and justice outlined by Shea, in this excellent book, not only draws parallels to our own civil rights movement of the 1960’s but resonates strongly in the resurgent movement for equal justice playing out in US streets today.

Wilson’s guests are Nancy Sakaduski, founder and owner of Cat and Mouse Press in Rehoboth, Delaware, and short story writer Nancy Sherman. Nancy Sakaduski discusses The Rehoboth Beach Reads Short Story Contest, which she manages, and her new book, How to Write Winning Short Stories. Cat and Mouse Press focuses its publishing on stories that feature beach life in the Delmarva Region, and on providing resources and opportunities for writers. Author Nancy Sherman’s first collection of short stories, Sandy Shorts , was awarded a regional first place by Delaware Press Association and national first place by the National Federation of Press Women (2015) . More Sandy Shorts , her second collection, won the same two awards when it came out in 2019. Sherman reads an edited version of her story “The Cost of Happiness,” the humorous give and take between two sisters on the purchase of a beach house.

Globalization with Eric Goldberg, author of " Why Globalization Works for America : How Nationalist Trade Policies are Destorying Our Country ".