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This week, Earl Swift, author of Chesapeake Requiem, joins us to discuss Tangier Island and drops details about the current book he is working on. Listeners can also take a journey to the past as Miranda tells us about little towns that no longer exist. Don't forget to put yourself on the hold list for … Continue reading S.9.E.3: An Interview with author Earl Swift →

Author: Earl Swift Across The Airless Wilds The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings More at: www.earlswift.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their deaths. In fact, as America was shocked to learn, the dead were among thousands of Black men enslaved throughout the South in conditions nearly as dire as those before the Civil War.Hell Put to Shame tells the forgotten story of that mass killing and of the revelations about peonage, or debt slavery, that it placed before a public self-satisfied that involuntary servitude had ended at Appomattox more than fifty years before.By turns police procedural, courtroom drama, and political exposé, Hell Put to Shame also reintroduces three Americans who spearheaded the prosecution of John S. Williams, the wealthy plantation owner behind the murders, at a time when white people rarely faced punishment for violence against their Black neighbors. The remarkable polymath James Weldon Johnson, newly appointed the first Black leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, marshaled the organization into a full-on war against peonage. Johnson's lieutenant, Walter F. White, a light-skinned, fair-haired, blue-eyed Black man, conducted undercover work at the scene of lynchings and other Jim Crow atrocities, helping to throw a light on such violence and to hasten its end. And Georgia governor Hugh M. Dorsey won the statehouse as a hero of white supremacists—then redeemed himself in spectacular fashion with the “Murder Farm” affair.This is a story that remains fresh and relevant a century later, as the nation continues to wrestle with seemingly intractable challenges in matters of race and justice. And the 1921 case at its heart argues that the forces that so roil society today have been with us for generations.  Joining me to discuss his book, HELL PUT TO SHAME: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery—Earl Swift. Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064697978510Check out TRUE MURDER PODCAST @ truemurderpodcast.com

This week Miranda and Acacia discuss the On the Same Page community read, Chesapeake Requiem by Earl Swift, and Miranda tells everyone about a piece of UVA history. Tune in next month as we interview Earl Swift and ask him about his writing style and his time on Tangier Island. Don't forget to put yourself … Continue reading S.9 E.2: Silver Blues and Chesapeake Requiem →

This week JMRL staff share how their 2024 reading year went and talk about their 2025 reading resolutions! On the Same Page's book club, Overbooked is back after a nearly year long hiatus! In January we will be reading Chesapeake Requiem by Earl Swift with a book discussion in February and an author interview in … Continue reading S.9 E.1: Reading Resolutions and Overbooked →

From earlier this year- Best-selling author Earl Swift talks about his book "Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings."

Earl Swift is the best-selling author of Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery (Mariner Books).In this episode we talk about how Earl strings together book projects and what this story from more than 100 years ago still says about today.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSocial: @creativenonfiction podcast on IG and ThreadsSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpod

During the spring of 1921, eleven bodies were found in in rural Georgia. These men were victims of horrific murders, and also of a more widespread crime - peonage.Whilst enslavement had legally ended with the surrender at Appomattox and the 13th Amendment, black people across the south were still being entrapped into debt slavery half a century later, in the Twentieth Century.To find out more about this, and about what drove these men's murderer to his crimes, Don speaks to Earl Swift, author of 'Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery.'Produced by Sophie Gee. Edited by Aidan Lonergan. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.Enjoy unlimited access to award-winning original documentaries that are released weekly and AD-FREE podcasts. Get a subscription for $1 per month for 3 months with code AMERICANHISTORY sign up at https://historyhit/subscription/ You can take part in our listener survey here.

We're joined by Earl Swift for a conversation about his new book Hell Put to Shame, the horrors of peonage, and forgotten history. Plus – Dave's soundboard skills are put to the test at school and he fails. Yet again. ITUNES – SPOTIFY – GOOGLE PODCASTS

Let's investigate a farm! Author Earl Swift joins me to talk his book Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery. Come listen!Buy Hell Put to ShameCheck out Earl's websiteSupport the show

Earl Swift is Fellow of Virginia Humanities at the University of Virginia and New York Times' bestselling author of The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways, Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island, and the new book Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings. Website: www.earlswift.com

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we discuss films set in the most haunting location of all....the suburbs! We discuss what makes the suburbs such a perfect setting for a horror movie (the term "liminal spaces" is used) before diving into to two very interesting examples of suburban horror!! We could have chosen literally a hundred movies (seriously there are so many horror films set in the suburbs!!) but we chose two oddly similar, sweaty movies!! Why are the suburbs so scary, specifically to Americans? What themes are common in suburban horror films? What would you do if you found a human ear lying in a field? Would it be scary if someone had their boobs and butt on the same side of their body? Listen and find out!Check out the resources we reference in this episode!"American Suburbs Are a Horror Movie and We're the Protagonists" by Shina Shayesteh: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/1/13/american-suburbs-are-a-horror-movie-and-were-the-protagonists"The Horror of Suburbia: What is “Universal” Horror?" by Shannon Lewis: https://slowburnhorror.com/2021/05/13/the-horror-of-suburbia/And if you want to learn more about urbanization and the suburbs, Taylor recommends: "The Death and  Life of Great American Cities" by Jane Jacobs, "Black Picket Fences" by Mary Pattillo, "The Big Roads" by Earl Swift and "Suburban Nation" by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. Support affordable housing and public transit policies in your local communities!!! YIMBY!!!!Please connect with us on Twitter: @ahhreelfilms or Instagram: @ahhrealfilms, or drop us a line to let us know how we're doing, or to suggest a future topic or film to discuss: ahhrealfilms@gmail.com. We'd love any recommendations for this series or a future listener submitted episode! And please remember to rate, review, and subscribe on your favorite podcast app! You can also find us both on Letterboxd! Follow us on our horror journey and occasional forays into romcoms (because let's be real).  Taylor: @happydeathtay Curtis: @let5groove2nit3 Movies Covered: Blue Velvet (1986), Society (1989), Evil Dead Rise (2023), Influencer (2023)

Earl Swift, author of "The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers who created the American Superhighways."

A father and son working a crab boat in Chesapeake Bay were caught in a rising storm when they realized that something was very wrong: water was coming up through the floor. They radioed for help and then did everything they could to save themselves, while the isolated community of Tangier Island quickly launched a desperate bid to rescue two of their own. So began the saga of the Henrietta C., a riveting story chronicled in Outside by Virginia-based writer Earl Swift. This is the first episode in a new six-episode summer weekend series for the podcast that presents reads of exceptional features, both new articles and gems from the Outside archives. This episode was brought to you by Costa Sunglasses, designed to help you make the most of your time on the water. Find the frame for your pursuit at costasunglasses.com.

A journalist, author, and a fellow of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities at the University of Virginia, Earl Swift's seven books have punctuated a diverse writing career through hundreds of newspaper features and magazines. Today's conversation revolves around the book, Across the Airless Wilds.   

November 19, 2021 Individual Advantages Dr. Brian Smith, PenFed & Wove and Lunar Rover Earl Swift

Custom House is proud to publish ACROSS THE AIRLESS WILDS: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings by New York Times bestselling author Earl Swift. In this impeccably reported and beautifully written narrative, Swift rediscovers the unjustly overshadowed story of the final three Apollo missions, which deployed an extraordinary invention that pushed human exploration to unsurpassed limits. He draws on dozens of interviews and a year of in-depth research to serve up an enthralling blend of scientific insight, vibrant characters, and compelling storytelling. With this summer marking the 50th anniversary of Apollo 15 (July 25-August 7), it's the perfect time to revisit these achievements. And rovers are once again in the news as the Perseverance rover plays a starring role in the current Mars expeditions, which Swift contends are the legacy of the Apollo LRVs, still pushing the bounds of exploration and discovery fifty years later. Images of the Apollo 11 moon landing are indelibly etched into the American consciousness. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to land and walk on the lunar surface, it was an astonishing triumph of both imagination and technology, which thrilled and inspired a world watching live on television. But according to Swift, the greatest achievements of our lunar adventure came later, on missions that are only dimly recalled today. In fact, Swift argues, the last three Apollo missions-distinguished by the use of the revolutionary lunar roving vehicle-built significantly on the first landings, taking mankind to its very furthest and farthest extremes. While Armstrong and Aldrin trod a sliver of flat lunar desert smaller than a football field, Apollos 15, 16, and 17 each commanded a mountainous area the size of Manhattan. Though now footnotes in history, they were truly the pinnacle of human exploration. Swift's last book, the widely acclaimed Chesapeake Requiem (2018), brilliantly illuminated the global stakes of climate change through the prism of the tiny, disappearing island of Tangier, VA, and was named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, NPR, Outside, Science Friday, Smithsonian, and more. It was praised as "a masterful narrative of place, people, and nature" (Christian Science Monitor), "a provocative and respectful study of a culture that may soon be lost" (Esquire), and "intimate, meticulously reported and captivating" (Washington Post). Now, Swift brings to life another remarkable community-the engineers and astronauts who designed and operated the Lunar Roving Vehicle. In this fast-moving exploration, Swift puts the reader alongside the men who dreamed of the rover, designed it, troubleshot its flaws, and drove it on the lunar surface.

Custom House is proud to publish ACROSS THE AIRLESS WILDS: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings by New York Times bestselling author Earl Swift. In this impeccably reported and beautifully written narrative, Swift rediscovers the unjustly overshadowed story of the final three Apollo missions, which deployed an extraordinary invention that pushed human exploration to unsurpassed limits. He draws on dozens of interviews and a year of in-depth research to serve up an enthralling blend of scientific insight, vibrant characters, and compelling storytelling. With this summer marking the 50th anniversary of Apollo 15 (July 25-August 7), it's the perfect time to revisit these achievements. And rovers are once again in the news as the Perseverance rover plays a starring role in the current Mars expeditions, which Swift contends are the legacy of the Apollo LRVs, still pushing the bounds of exploration and discovery fifty years later. Images of the Apollo 11 moon landing are indelibly etched into the American consciousness. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to land and walk on the lunar surface, it was an astonishing triumph of both imagination and technology, which thrilled and inspired a world watching live on television. But according to Swift, the greatest achievements of our lunar adventure came later, on missions that are only dimly recalled today. In fact, Swift argues, the last three Apollo missions-distinguished by the use of the revolutionary lunar roving vehicle-built significantly on the first landings, taking mankind to its very furthest and farthest extremes. While Armstrong and Aldrin trod a sliver of flat lunar desert smaller than a football field, Apollos 15, 16, and 17 each commanded a mountainous area the size of Manhattan. Though now footnotes in history, they were truly the pinnacle of human exploration. Swift's last book, the widely acclaimed Chesapeake Requiem (2018), brilliantly illuminated the global stakes of climate change through the prism of the tiny, disappearing island of Tangier, VA, and was named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, NPR, Outside, Science Friday, Smithsonian, and more. It was praised as "a masterful narrative of place, people, and nature" (Christian Science Monitor), "a provocative and respectful study of a culture that may soon be lost" (Esquire), and "intimate, meticulously reported and captivating" (Washington Post). Now, Swift brings to life another remarkable community-the engineers and astronauts who designed and operated the Lunar Roving Vehicle. In this fast-moving exploration, Swift puts the reader alongside the men who dreamed of the rover, designed it, troubleshot its flaws, and drove it on the lunar surface.

Earl Swift, author of Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings, returns to talk about his latest book. Sponsor help: West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA in Creative Writing Membership: patreon.com/cnfpod Social Media: @CNFPod

Earl Swift, Journalist and Author of Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings, joined Sean on the show... Listen and subscribe to Moncrieff on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or Spotify.    Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.     You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

While everyone has their own personal list, we could all maybe agree on some of the most iconic cars ever made. The VW Beetle, the 1968 Ford Mustang, the 1960 Corvette, the 57 Chevy, the Porsche 911, The 1955 Mercedes gull-wing, the DeLorean, and just for good measure, the 1963 Aston Martin. But equally important is a vehicle that gets little attention, All of its models together only traveled under 100 miles. When it was built it was over budget, over schedule, and was only a two-seater. It was the lunar rover vehicle that was a part of Apollo 15, 16, and 17. Without it, we'd know a lot less about the moon, about our own planet, and even the solar system. Not bad for a car that was bare bones and electrified, long before Elon Musk was born. That's the story that Earl Swift tell in his new book Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings.   My conversation with Earl Swift: 

In this episode we visit with Pulitzer Prize winner David Zucchino, former FBI profiler/podcaster Candice DeLong, author Earl Swift, and author Martin Keller. For complete episode details, merch, socials and more visit www.GQwithCam.com You can help support this podcast at www.BuyMeACoffee.com/GQwithCam --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/camerondole/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/camerondole/support

Astronomy Expert Steve Kates aka Dr. Sky a veteran radio and TV broadcaster and edu-tainer on Jeff Bezos coming back to Earth. Earl Swift, best-selling author, whose new book is “ACROSS THE AIRLESS WILDS: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings” joins the show to talk about the Lunar Rover and why we have not been back to the moon in so long. Chuck Darrow, veteran journalist, casino lifestyle specialist and a writer with bettorsinsider.com joins the show to discuss the latest and greatest with what is going on in Atlantic City in the AC Report. PLUS - Frank has the cure to traffic in NYC.

Earl Swift, best-selling author, whose new book is “ACROSS THE AIRLESS WILDS: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings” joins the show to talk about the Lunar Rover and why we have not been back to there moon in so long.

Historian EARL SWIFT makes his debut to discuss his new book "Across the Airless Wilds."  This thorough book examines America's space program with a special emphasis on the development of the lunar rover for the Apollo 15 mission.  Earl gives us the captivating biographies of the few foreign scientists who designed the rover and the struggles working with several corporations.  Earl covers the rover experiments on sand dunes and in volcanic ash.   We are made aware of how advanced the Russian space program was while America was straggling.  Earl shows how the Americans were able to succeed.  This book coincides with the 1969 Moon landing and the recent private space flights.  This is a definitive study of how humans were able to go space trucking.  ACROSS THE AIRLESS WILDS | earlswift

Congressman Quigley does a unique thing in politics today... he actually tells the truth. Earl Swift is a great writer and perfect for historical perspective on space with his new book. Hear his take on this billionaires space race and more on this episode of Live From My Office!SHOW NOTESSupport the Appalachian Trail Conservancy however you can!Learn more about Congressman Mike Quigley!Check out Earl Swift, including his other books.Get his latest book from Harper Collins, Amazon, or Publishers Weekly!Subscribe to Live From My Office on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.Follow Steve on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.Win an ABT gift card by emailing me three of your friends emails who you think would like the show, and include your mailing address in the email. Check out the details here.Email the show with any questions, comments, or plugs for your favorite charity.

Historian EARL SWIFT makes his debut to discuss his new book "Across the Airless Wilds."  This thorough book examines America's space program with a special emphasis on the development of the lunar rover for the Apollo 15 mission.  Earl gives us the captivating biographies of the few foreign scientists who designed the rover and the struggles working with several corporations.  Earl covers the rover experiments on sand dunes and in volcanic ash.   We are made aware of how advanced the Russian space program was while America was straggling.  Earl shows how the Americans were able to succeed.  This book coincides with the 1969 Moon landing and the recent private space flights.  This is a definitive study of how humans were able to go space trucking.  ACROSS THE AIRLESS WILDS | earlswift

Historian EARL SWIFT makes his debut to discuss his new book "Across the Airless Wilds."  This thorough book examines America's space program with a special emphasis on the development of the lunar rover for the Apollo 15 mission.  Earl gives us the captivating biographies of the few foreign scientists who designed the rover and the struggles working with several corporations.  Earl covers the rover experiments on sand dunes and in volcanic ash.   We are made aware of how advanced the Russian space program was while America was straggling.  Earl shows how the Americans were able to succeed.  This book coincides with the 1969 Moon landing and the recent private space flights.  This is a definitive study of how humans were able to go space trucking. ACROSS THE AIRLESS WILDS | earlswift

Our guest today is Earl Swift, author of "Across the Airless Wilds." Plus, check out Preston's blog at wflafm.com/Preston.

This week on Astronomy News with The Cosmic Companion, we welcome New York Times best-selling author Earl Swift to the show. He recently released a new book, Across the Airless Wilds, the first major history of NASA's lunar buggy. We're also going to hear about NASA's latest success story, as the Hubble Space Telescope is successfully repaired, readying to continue exploring the Cosmos. We will also journey out to Venus, looking at the ultimate source of phosphine in the atmosphere of our planetary neighbor. Finally, we learn a possible answer to a 40-year-old mystery about the King of the Solar System, Jupiter. Listen to the video version of this episode here, or watch the video version of this episode at: https://bit.ly/TCC-210720-pod. Please help support The Cosmic Companion with a purchase of Across the Airless Wilds: https://amzn.to/3iwxoNe. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-cosmic-companion/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-cosmic-companion/support

When Apollo 11 landed on the moon they indeed stepped where no man has gone before. But once they got there, they didn't go far. This week on the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll learn about the development of the lunar rover, and how that opened up the later Apollo missions with lunar road trips. Watch a great video of the Apollo 15 astronauts driving on the moon HERE. You can see the NASA-produced film about Apollo 15 HERE. You can see many amazing images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera HERE. Earl Swift talks about this site during the interview. We'll also spend an Academic Minute doing business in space. Photo courtesy of Custom House.

8:36 P.M. EST, December 12, 1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt braked to a stop alongside Nansen Crater, keenly aware that they were far, far from home. They had flown nearly a quarter-million miles to the man in the moon's left eye, landed at its edge, and then driven five miles into this desolate, boulder-strewn landscape. As they gathered samples, they strode at the outermost edge of mankind's travels. This place, this moment, marked the extreme of exploration for a species born to wander.

8:36 P.M. EST, December 12, 1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt braked to a stop alongside Nansen Crater, keenly aware that they were far, far from home. They had flown nearly a quarter-million miles to the man in the moon's left eye, landed at its edge, and then driven five miles into this desolate, boulder-strewn landscape. As they gathered samples, they strode at the outermost edge of mankind's travels. This place, this moment, marked the extreme of exploration for a species born to wander.

Best-selling author Earl Swift talks about his latest book: "Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings." The book explores the story behind the lunar rover, an essential part of Apollo 15, 16 and 17 that helped make those three missions far more significant than the previous missions to the moon.

Dave Murray previews the weekend weather and what lies ahead next week. Author of Accross the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings, Earl Swift joins the show. Number one songs and cut of the day to finish off the week! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The final Apollo missions were aided by the invention of the lunar lover, which greatly expanded the exploration of the moon. On this episode, Earl Swift discussed his book, Across the Airless Wilds.

Earl Swift is author of the New York Times bestseller Chesapeake Requiem, which was named to ten best of the year lists. Swift brings to life another remarkable community—the engineers and astronauts who designed and operated the Lunar Roving Vehicle in his new book Across the Airless Wilds. In this fast-moving exploration, Swift puts the reader alongside the men who dreamed of the rover, designed it, troubleshot its flaws, and drove it on the lunar surface. His other books include Auto Biography and The Big Roads. A former reporter for the Virginian-Pilot and contributor to Outside and other magazines, he has been a fellow of Virginia Humanities at the University of Virginia since 2012. http://www.earlswift.comDaniel Levin, writer of Proof of Life, provides an inside look into the industry of the drug, and shows Levin negotiating with dealers and coming into contact with the drug and those who sell it frequently during the course of the book. https://www.daniellevinauthor.com/Wendy Taccetta talks Verizon 5G!

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This week on Astronomy News with The Cosmic Companion, we learn how gravitational waves show evidence for a pair of ancient stellar murder mysteries, we meet a white dwarf the size of our Moon, and we pay a visit to our ailing friend, the Hubble Space Telescope. This week's scheduled interview with Earl Swift, author of Across the Airless Wilds, has been postponed until July 20, due to technical problems. Make sure to join us then for an inside look at NASA's lunar buggy! Listen to the podcast version of this episode here, or watch the video version of this episode at: https://youtu.be/60amV2NtG_c Catch up on every episode of this show at: www.thecosmiccompanion.tv! Subscribe or follow today and never miss an episode! For more details on space and astronomy news, please visit: www.thecosmiccompanion.net. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-cosmic-companion/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-cosmic-companion/support

Today we talk with Journalist Earl Swift. Earl's latest book, Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings, is the follow-up to his acclaimed New York Times bestseller Chesapeake Requiem. In it he investigates the final three Apollo Moon landings, arguing that these overlooked missions, distinguished by the use of the revolutionary Lunar Roving Vehicle, were the pinnacle of human exploration. Today's interview is hosted by Royal Institution of Australia Editor-in-Chief Ian Connellan.Find the science of everything at Cosmos Magazine website Subscribe to Cosmos Magazine (print) or the Cosmos WeeklyWatch and listen to all our Cosmos Briefings 

We have a great chat with Earl Swift about NASA's lunar rovers and his new book Across the Airless Wilds. It's a fascinating dive into the last three moon landings and what could be regarded as the pinnacle of human exploration.Earl recounts his time with astronauts Charlie Duke and Dave Scott, and Laszlo Kestay from the United States Geological Survey, and gives us some incredible insights into the the design process of the lunar rovers and their place in the history of exploration.Earl's website is: earlswift.comWatch the lunar rover in action on the moon - the Lunar Grand Prix film: youtube.com/watch?v=az9nFrnCK60Find Across the Airless Wilds: harpercollins.com/products/across-the-airless-wilds-earl-swift?variant=32915592249378 

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Episode NotesDuring the conversation with Liz Clark, a book was referenced but at that time the title could not be recalled. The book is Earl Swift's Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island.Additional resources recommended by Liz include:Kale Williams: The Loneliest Polar BearIan Urbina's The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed FrontierJeff Goodell's The Water Will ComeJill Heinerth's, Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver.Paul Nicklen's photography for beautiful, devastating images of how our ocean world is changing.

Episode Notes:During the conversation with Liz Clark, a book was referenced but at that time the title could not be recalled. The book is Earl Swift's Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island.Additional resources recommended by Liz include:Kale Williams: The Loneliest Polar BearIan Urbina's The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier Jeff Goodell's The Water Will ComeJill Heinerth's, Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver. Paul Nicklen's photography for beautiful, devastating images of how our ocean world is changing.

Legal historian Emily Prifogle of the University of Michigan Law School and journalist/author Earl Swift discuss the importance of rural places in shaping the laws, customs and attitudes of the people who live in them, as well as their role in the cultural and political future of the nation. The event was the first in the “PLACE and Power” series of virtual conversations exploring connections between human place-based relationships and the law and politics of environmental governance.

Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island. He talks about the slow disappearance of this unique Virginia island to climate change.Support the show (https://www.southernenvironment.org)

Chris and Nell bring you two of their favorite interviews from the past, as we continue contruction, and the transition from the lifting of the stay at home order. Rest assured, they will be back next week, May 11th, with an all new show! Enjoy these interviews with Kirk Wallace Johnson and Earl Swift. Kirk Wallace Johnson - Aired April 16, 2019 - Starts at (01:14) During the first half of the show, Nell and Chris were joined by Kirk Wallace Johnson, the author of The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century. They learned the story of the 20 year old flautist Edwin Rist, who committed one of the most unusual crimes of the 21st century by stealing 299 bird skins from the British Natural History Museum. This theft destroyed an important ecological record gathered by Darwin's peers, disturbing an entire portion of the earth's evolutionary record. Listen in to learn why and how he did this, and the fate of these irreplaceable feathers. Earl Swift -

We welcome our special guests Earl Swift, Southfield Christian basketball assistant coach and former Southfield Blue Jay basketball player, and Tony Foster, brother of Pistons SRD cohost Alex Foster, to this episode of Pistons SRD, to talk remembering Kobe's legacy, how the NBA should honor Kobe, Favorite Kobe moment, what does the Mamba Mentality mean to you, All Star Game Selections, Trade deadline talk, and more. Remember Kobe's legacy with us while also sharing some good laughter. Subscribe to our channel on Apple Music and Spotify. Follow us @sportradiodet @rayvondelmonta @johnleax. Financial support for our podcast is through cash app $jetsmiff and $ajfoster95. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Earl Swift is author of Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island. In this episode Earl explains how the unique community in the Chesapeake Bay is struggling as the island disappears through a combination of erosion, subsidence, and rising seas from climate change. He talks about his time living on Tangier Island, the life of a watermen, and the iconic blue crab. Earl also discusses the reaction to his book and the difficult decisions around saving communities from climate change.

Christmas came early for Pistons SRD as we wrapped up 2019 with two episodes in the final week of the year. Rayvon and Alex invite Southfield Christian Eagles assistant coach Earl Swift on to talk Pistons' plans for 2020. Including whether or not tanking is the right option or scrapping to make the playoffs once again. We break down Christmas games and 1 on 1 matchups between Giannis and Embiid, Kawhi and LeBron, and James Harden vs. the G-League Warriors. Subscribe to our channel on Apple Music and Spotify. Follow us @sportsradiodet @rayvondelmonta @johnleaux. Support for this podcast is through our cash app $jetsmiff and $Ajfoster95. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Virginia JournalistAuthor of Chesapeake Requiem Earl Swift will be our guest.

This is a conversation with best-selling author Earl Swift, whose latest book is titled "Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Water Men of Vanishing Tangier Island." This small island - located in the middle of some of the richest fishing waters in the world - is being rapidly engulfed by rising sea levels. Swift got to know some of the hearty souls who still live there.

Grant and Bailey discuss the terrifying story of the first murder on the Appalachian trail and the woman who survived to tell the tale. (Article by Earl Swift)

Grant and Bailey discuss the terrifying story of the first murder on the Appalachian trail and the woman who survived to tell the tale. (Article by Earl Swift)

Earl Swift began writing for a living in his teens. In the years since, the Virginia-based journalist has penned seven books and hundreds of major features for newspapers and magazines, and has earned a reputation for fast-moving narrative and scrupulous reporting. His editors have nominated his work for the National Book Award, the National Magazine Award, and six times for a Pulitzer Prize.

Is any cost too much to save a people, a community and a way of life?

From crab shanties to the Supreme Court and God...who are the people of Tangier Island?

In this episode Matt Crawford speaks to author and journalist Earl Swift about his book Chesapeake Requiem. This book tells the story of Tangier Island off the mainland of Virginia. Each chapter brings a different perspective to this time capsule of the island and the struggles it faces. Partly auto biographical, biographical, historical, location piece and even culinary this book traces the effects climate change is having on this island and how it effects the hardy people who inhabit it. 

Sarah, Ezra, and Matt debate the new IPCC report, William Nordhaus's Nobel Prize, and a hot new working paper about Medicaid contraction. References and further reading: The IPCC report on the impact of global warming David Roberts’s piece on the fight over the carbon tax in Washington state during 2016 Earl Swift tells of the disappearing Tangier Island in his book Chesapeake Requiem A white paper on the effects of disenrollment from Medicaid A contrasting paper on the effects of disenrollment led by Craig Garthwaite  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists believe Tangier Island, in the Virginia waters of the Chesapeake Bay, could vanish within the next 25 years. Two-thirds of Tangier's land mass has disappeared since the time of the Civil War, and in recent years sea-level rise caused by global warming took more acres from the island. Fewer than 500 people remain there. Many of them voted for Donald J. Trump, share his rejection of climate change as the reason for their existential challenge and insist that a seawall around the island would save it from further ----wave erosion.---- The deeply religious islanders have frequently been in the media spotlight, often the subject of derision and ridicule for their climate change denials and support of Trump. Journalist and author Earl Swift spent more than a year on Tangier, learning about the island way of life and the work of the watermen who've harvested blue crabs and oysters for generations. Swift has written an elegiac book about the place and the people who could well become the Chesapeake's first climate change refugees. The book is, ----Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island,---- published by Harper Collins.In this episode: A talk with Swift following his appearance at the 2018 Baltimore Book Festival; excerpts of a CBS News report, a Stephen Colbert monologue and ----Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.----

Earl Swift, author of Chesapeake Requiem, stopped by CNFPod HQ to talk about his reporting and writing life.

First, ODU economist Robert McNab will help us make sense of the latest developments in US trade policy. Then we will talk to Earl Swift, author of Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island. Finally, we'll check in with Mal Vincent to find out what's going on this week in Mal's World.

First, Will and Chris talk about a list put out by Food & Wine of the 40 most influential restaurants in the past 40 years. There is some crossover from the list we covered by Robb Report, but this contains about 10 more southern restaurants! Then, they talk about a book Will is reading by Earl Swift called Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island. It is great non-fiction work, chronicling the work of Chesapeake Bay crabbers on a remote island, which has lost well over half its land mass since the late 1800s. Finally, they discuss the Wildsam filed guide on the American South.  Thanks to our sponsors for making this show happen each week:  Dallas & Jane - Chef Alex Belew’s new restaurant in Murfreesboro, TN.  Dallasandjane.net or open table. On Instagram at @dallasandjane Mountain Valley Spring Water - Delicious spring water straight from the source in the Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas. http://mountainvalleyspring.com and on Instagram @MountainValleyWater. Tree House Macarons - Augusta, GA. A French sandwich cookie! http://treehousemacarons.com and on Instagram @TreeHouseMacarons Use code POTLUCK to save 25%. Two Brooks Farm - Mississippi delta rice. No fungicides or insecticides, ever. Great people growing delicious rice. http://twobrooksfarm.com or @TwoBrooksRice on Instagram. Use the code POTLUCK and save 20% on any order. Southern Socks - Based in Lexington, KY, they make Southern-inspired socks. USA-made, super high quality. http://southernsocks.com and on Instagram @SouthernSocks Use code POTLUCK to save 15%.

Tangier Island, Virginia, has been home for eight generations to a unique community of now some 470 hardy souls, many of whom make their living harvesting the region’s prized blue crab. But their island home -- a barely 2-acre sliver of mud and sand and grass in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay -- is fast disappearing beneath the waters. Whether the culprit is erosion by the Bay’s relentless currents, as most Islanders believe, or the rising sea levels scientists say have been triggered by global climate change, the outlook for Tangier Island and its people is bleak. Today, Midday senior producer and guest host Rob Sivak spends the hour with Virginia-based writer Earl Swift, a long-time reporter at the Virginia-Pilot who has spent more than 30 years writing about the Chesapeake region, and who has circumnavigated the Bay in his kayak. The Chesapeake is the setting of Swift's newest book -- his seventh -- which chronicles the daily lives and hopes of the Tangier Islanders, against a backdrop of environmental and political forces that seem beyond their control. The book is called Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island, published by Dey Street Books (an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers).

On this episode, we’re rebroadcasting an interview Matt Tullis did with Earl Swift in November 2014. At the time, Swift’s book “Auto Biography: A Classic Car, An Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream” had just been published. Swift has a new book out now. “Chesapeake Requiem: A Year With the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island” was published by Harper Collins, and is getting rave reviews. Auto Biography is also a fantastic book. It tells the life story of a 1957 Chevy that, at the beginning of the book, is falling apart. He also delves deep into the life of the current owner, Tommy Arney. Arney had a brutal childhood. He dropped out of school in the fifth-grade, and lived a life of crime. But had also become a somewhat successful and controversial businessman. The story of this car started as a five-part series for the Virginian-Pilot, where Swift had been a reporter for many years. In this interview, he talked about the differences between reporting for newspaper work and reporting for a book project. Swift is a former Fulbright fellow in New Zealand, and is currently a residential fellow of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Lots of people like baseball, but not everyone can play baseball. That's why MLB players make so much money. Then there are people with disabilities who can't play at all without help; that's what the Miracle League is for. Another group that needs help are the Tangier islanders whose island is dissolving. Sounds exotic, but it's in Virginia. If you want to go there you'd better do it soon.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Earl Swift began writing for a living in his teens. In the years since, the Virginia-based journalist has penned seven books and hundreds of major features for newspapers and magazines, and has earned a reputation for fast-moving narrative and scrupulous reporting. His editors have nominated his work for the National Book Award, the National Magazine Award, and six times for a Pulitzer Prize.

Climate change, global warming, conservation, pollution are at the heart of the conversation when Halli visits with two authors who have spent years studying the subjects, Susan Hand Shatterly whose delightful new book is SEAWEED CHRONICLES, A WORLD AT THE WATER'S EDGE, and with journalist Earl Swift, whose new book is the riveting CHESAPEAKE REQUIEM, A YEAR WITH THE WATERMEN OF VANISHING TANGIER ISLAND, the podcast posted 3 pm ET at Halli Casser-Jayne dot com.For much of the past two years, award-winning journalist Earl Swift lived and reported on a tiny island in Virginia. The resulting book, CHESAPEAKE REQUIEM, A YEAR WITH THE WATERMAN OF VANISHING TANGIER ISLAND, is an elegiac portrait of an isolated community, a sweeping natural history of an extraordinary ecosystem, and a timely meditation on dire environmental realities that extend far beyond the shores of Tangier -- which seems likely to succumb first among U.S. towns to the effects of climate change. First mapped by Jon Smith in 1608, settled during the Revolution, the tiny sliver of mud and marsh is home to 470 hardy people who live with one foot on the twenty-first century and another in times long passed. They are separated from their countrymen by twelve miles of often tempestuous water -- water that for generations has made Tangier a chief source for the prized Chesapeake Bay blue crab. But the very water that has long sustained Tangier now erases it day by day. Experts believe that barring heroic intervention by the federal government, islanders will soon be forced to abandon their homes. And the question remains should the federal government save this tiny island or surrender it to the sea. After all, thousands of American communities are being swallowed up by the sea. The American government can't save them all.In SEAWEED CHRONICLES Susan Hand Shetterly pulls back the curtain on the hidden world of seaweed. Did I say seaweed? Yes that is correct. Seaweed, not a weed at all, is one sexy little algae. It is ancient and basic, a testament to the tenacious beginnings of life on earth and “Why wouldn't seaweeds be a protean life source for the lives that have evolved since?” Shetterly asks in her new book small in size and large in lyrical prose. Shetterly explores all the wonders of the natural world anew through a richly informative and astonishingly elegant storytelling. Through her own research and through interviews, she offers a look into the extraordinary life cycle of seaweed, teaching readers about its role in local environments and its interconnected global significance. Shetterly also introduces us to the people and communities that depend on seaweed—and how they are working to protect this critical natural resource. Most importantly, Shetterly examines the big questions of conservation that have come to light. “What must remain wild for the health of the planet, and what can we responsibly take, as we face climate change and diminishing natural resources?” she asks. Note, it's almost impossible to go through a day without encountering seaweed somewhere in your life, as you will soon discover.Climate change, global warming, the environment, conservation, seaweed, Tangier Island, Donald Trump the subjects of The Halli Casser-Jayne Show the podcast posted at Halli Casser-Jayne dot com.

Earl Swift has paddled the entire James River, circumnavigated the Chesapeake Bay and, for his latest book, spent 14 months living among our most isolated fellow Virginian's on an island in the Chesapeake Bay -- an island that in 50 years, scientists say won't exist.

The Virginian-Pilot has been sold to Tronc Inc., parent company of the Daily Press, officials said on Tuesday, May 29. Tronc also owns the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News and the Baltimore Sun among other publications. We'll unpack what this means for local journalism with a panel of experts. We'll talk with Rick Edmonds, reporter for the Poynter Institute, Earl Swift, former Virginian-Pilot reporter and Jane Elizabeth, Director of the Accountability Journalism Program at the American Press Institute. Elizabeth also created and managed The Virginian-Pilot's first digital news team. And then later on, we'll switch gears and hear the fascinating story of Leroy Graves, who worked his way up from being a Williamsburg maintenance worker to being the leading upholstery conservator in North America and Europe.

Macon Brock, co-founder of Dollar Tree and a prominent philanthropist, died Saturday, December 9. Today, we're bringing back his October HearSay interview and talking with co-author Earl Swift about the legacy Mr. Brock leaves behind. Tune in at noon on 89.5 WHRV-FM.

Earl Swift is the author of "Auto Biography: A Classic Car, An Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream." The book tells the life story of a 1957 Chevy that, at the beginning of the book, is falling apart. Swift profiles the car’s thirteenth owner, Tommy Arney, who has led an extraordinary life, one that started with a brutal childhood, proceeded into a life of crime and ended up as a somewhat successful and controversial businessman. Arney sets out on a quest to restore the car to its former glory, and Swift is there for all of it. Through that narrative, Swift manages to also tell the stories of every single person who had ever owned the car. In the process, he captures America’s strange and abiding relationship with the automobile. This is Swift’s fifth book. Since 2012, he’s been a residential fellow of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities at the University of Virginia. Before that, he was a newspaper reporter for the Virginian-Pilot, where he was nominated five times for a Pulitzer Prize.

In this hour Mark talks about beef consumption on Independence Day, fireworks and over regulation. Also, author Earl Swift calls in to talk about His latest book--AUTO BIOGRAPHY: A CLASSIC CAR, AN OUTLAW MOTORHEAD, AND 57 YEARS OF THE AMERICAN DREAM

Father's Day tomorrow and what would many Dads love to receive? A classic car! A '57 Chevy perhaps? Well, the book Auto Biography traces the history of one '57 Chevy from its initial sale at Colonial Motors in Virginia, through 13 owners including #13, Tommy Arney, a grade-school dropout, a felon, a real estate-nightclub-junkyard ("it's not a junkyard, it's a classic car lot") magnate whose mission was to restore the '57 Chevy. Half a century seen through the windshield of a classic car which allowed to sink into rusted ruin and then brought back again. Is it for sale and is it restored? We'll find out. Roy is joined by Earl Swift author of ''Auto Biography''. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Earl Swift is a veteran journalist and author of non-fiction books. His latest book Auto Biography: A Classic Car, an Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream, had its genesis as a feature piece he wrote in 2004 about the many owners of a 1957 Chevrolet station wagon. The outlaw motorhead in question is one Tommy Armey, whose tumultuous upbringing contributed to his being the meanest brawler in the Virginia Beach metro area, as well as an entrepreneur whose regard for legal restrictions was minimal at best.

Think about advertising for new cars. Better yet, think about looking at a new car in the showroom.  That experience is all about possibilities and dreams. It’s about  what that car can do for you, not just where it will take you geographically, but where it will take you emotionally.From the days of Mad Men, right up to today, that’s what the car dream has always been about.  But usually, like the real disconnect between dreams and life, the car takes on a life of its own. It's often far removed from the ad or the showroom fantasy.Few cars have conjured up this iconography more than the 1957 Chevy. A car that personified our relationship to the automobile and the infinite possibilities that were postwar America. That's the world that Earl Swift captures in Auto Biography: A Classic Car, an Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream.My conversation with Earl Swift: 

 "Saving the Bill of Rights"...Frank Miniter...great peak of history.  Animal rights activists are targeting Iowa's pork industry...video.   How to respond?    Then,  how did we get all these highways anyhow?  "The Big Roads"  Earl Swift.   Vincent Bugliosi touts the "Divinity of Doubt:  the god question."  He says he doesn't know and says you don't either.