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For nearly the first decade of the National Institutes of Health's “All of Us” research program — aimed at increasing diversity in genetic research — a major component was missing: kids. “Children are approximately 24% of our population in the U.S. and 100% of our future,” Dr. Sara Van Driest, director of pediatrics for NIH's All of Us project, told hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter. “In order to provide them with the very best care for the future and have them benefit from this resource, we need to include them.”The journey is personal for Katrina Yamazaki, Ph.D., principal investigator for Community Health Center, Inc., in Connecticut, a partner organization in All of Us. Yamazaki and her husband adopted three boys through the foster care system.“We don't know a whole lot about their … biological families' medical history,” Yamazaki said. “The idea that this program will one day be able to provide some of [that] missing information to me and my husband, in order to become health advocates for our children is really important to me.”The NIH in August began limited enrollment in the program for children age 4 and under.“We started with that youngest age group so we can follow them the longest,” Van Driest said. Community Health Center, Inc., for its part, is partnering with community-based organizations such as the Hartford Public Library to build trust, raise awareness of the project and make a fun atmosphere through activities. All of Us intends to change what might be seen as a “one-size-fits-all” approach to health care. It aims to encompass 1 million individuals of diverse backgrounds but doesn't focus on particular diseases or conditions, Van Driest said. The diversity, too, goes beyond culture, touching geography, age and socioeconomic status.“One of the goals of research is to connect the dots,” she said. Given the scope of the project, “there will be so many dots that we'll be able to connect,” Van Driest said.“If we fail to include a group of individuals or an aspect of diversity, we miss out on that uniqueness. That limits us in what we're able to understand about humanity in general,” she said. “It also limits research and learning about that group of individuals. And it limits downstream how clinicians can care about individuals and give them the very best possible outcomes.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

For nearly the first decade of the National Institutes of Health's “All of Us” research program — aimed at increasing diversity in genetic research — a major component was missing: kids.  “Children are approximately 24% of our population in the U.S. and 100% of our future,” Dr. Sara Van Driest, director of pediatrics for NIH's All of Us project, told hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter. “In order to provide them with the very best care for the future and have them benefit from this resource, we need to include them.” The journey is personal for Katrina Yamazaki, Ph.D., principal investigator for Community Health Center, Inc., in Connecticut, a partner organization in All of Us. Yamazaki and her husband adopted three boys through the foster care system. “We don't know a whole lot about their … biological families' medical history,” Yamazaki said. “The idea that this program will one day be able to provide some of [that] missing information to me and my husband, in order to become health advocates for our children is really important to me.” The NIH in August began limited enrollment in the program for children age 4 and under. “We started with that youngest age group so we can follow them the longest,” Van Driest said.  Community Health Center, Inc., for its part, is partnering with community-based organizations such as the Hartford Public Library to build trust, raise awareness of the project and make a fun atmosphere through activities.  All of Us intends to change what might be seen as a “one-size-fits-all” approach to health care. It aims to encompass 1 million individuals of diverse backgrounds but doesn't focus on particular diseases or conditions, Van Driest said. The diversity, too, goes beyond culture, touching geography, age and socioeconomic status. “One of the goals of research is to connect the dots,” she said.  Given the scope of the project, “there will be so many dots that we'll be able to connect,” Van Driest said. “If we fail to include a group of individuals or an aspect of diversity, we miss out on that uniqueness. That limits us in what we're able to understand about humanity in general,” she said. “It also limits research and learning about that group of individuals. And it limits downstream how clinicians can care about individuals and give them the very best possible outcomes.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ana Alfaro is a Corporate Citizenship Program Manager & Hispanic Media Relations at Eversource Energy. She has over 25 years of diverse experience in various aspects of public, media, and community relations, event management, and television production. In her current position she manages the company's volunteer engagement opportunities and employee giving programs. Ana Alfaro is the producer and host of El Show de Analeh, a weekly program on the Univision network and UniMas. Ana describes El Show as “a dream production turned into a successful reality.” Since 2007, the program has informed, empowered, and entertained the diverse Latino community in Connecticut and Western Massachusetts. El Show de Analeh airs Saturdays at 11:00am, Univision's local channels. The show is produced in partnership with Capital Community College. Ana is currently a board member for Trinity College Center for Caribbean Studies, Capital Community College Foundation, Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford Public Library & Hartford Economic Development Corporation. Together with a small group of community leaders, she was instrumental in ensuring that the Frog Hollow community will benefit from a new library on Park Street, the heart of the Latino community. Ana has received many awards, including Junta for Progressive Action, Hispanic Health Council, Madre Latina, Boy Scouts of America, Bright Future Youth Center, Leadership Greater Hartford Polaris, Malta House Wonder Woman and CBM Mujer Imparable. Ana holds a Bachelor's degree in Communications Media Studies from Post University. A native of Honduras, Ana is the proud mother of Bobby and Bianca, both of who are half Puerto Rican. Ana's work as journalist and community activist has been in the service of the equal rights of Puerto Ricans and all Latino communities alike.

This week on Seasoned, we're talking with people connected to our state's libraries who mix their work with a passion for food, drink and community. The downtown branch of the Hartford Public Library may be closed for renovations, but that hasn't stopped Andréa Hawkins and Doug Barber from opening up a coffee shop on the light-filled first floor of the library. They talk with us about how the shop fosters community. And, pairing wine with cheese and charcuterie is too obvious. What wine might pair with Virginia Woolf's Orlando? How about Madame Bovary or Anna Karenina? Shannon Barillari, of the Russell Library in Middletown, talks with us about how she pairs wine with books. Plus, how does Youth Services Librarian Kristen Slepecki get kids excited about the library's Teen Test Kitchen program? "I bribe them with food," she says. "Sugary treats are, for sure, the way to go." We talk with Kristen and Christine Michaud, the Durham Library's director, about the intrinsic value of the library's Cookbook Club, which is part book discussion, part pot luck. Also, some city and town libraries in our state have what's called a Library of Things. Home cooks, ask your librarian if you can borrow a Barbie cake pan, cookie cutters, an air fryer, rice cooker or pizza oven! Bridget Quinn, President and CEO and Head Librarian at the Hartford Public Library describes the awesomeness of the Library of Things. GUESTS: Andréa Hawkins and Doug Barber: Co-owners of Berkins on Main, the coffee shop on the first floor of the Hartford Public Library. They also own Berkins Blend Cafe in Glastonbury, Conn. Shannon Barillari: Head of Digital and Emerging Technologies, Russell Library, Middletown, Conn. Christine Michaud: Director of the Durham Public Library and the leader of the library's Cookbook Club. Kristen Slepecki: Youth Services and Teen Librarian at the Durham Public Library. She runs the Teen Test Kitchen program, where teenagers participate in fun taste tests and make edible experiments. Bridget Quinn: President and CEO, and Head Librarian, of the Hartford Public Library. Interested in the book and wine pairings Shannon Barallari suggests? The Guest by Emma Cline - Bajta Kerouac by Ann Charters - Château Redortier, Beaumes de Venise  Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - Chateau Thivin (producer) Cote de Brouilly (one of the twelve appellations in Beaujolais) – Les sept vignes T. R. The Last Romantic by H.W. Brands (Teddy Roosevelt Biography) - Elijah Craig Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Orlando by Virginia Woolf - Bodet-Herold Crémant de Lorie Physis This show was produced by Robyn Doyon-Aitken, Meg Dalton, Katrice Claudio, Stephanie Stender, Tagan Engel, and Meg Fitzgerald. Scout Raimondo is our intern. Sabrina Herrera, Francesca Fontanez, Martha Castillo, Katherine Jimenez and Janae Spinato are our Social team. Join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and email: seasoned@ctpublic.org. Seasoned is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, TuneIn, Listen Notes, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode.Support the show: https://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Connecticut Explored magazine is celebrating its 20th anniversary and our Grating the Nutmeg podcast it's 7th anniversary. Neither of these milestones could have been reached without your support! Please make a gift to our new Fund for Excellence in Publishing at https://www.ctexplored.org/subscribe/friends-of-connecticut-explored/   We need to ask our listeners for your help! This podcast is part of our “20 for 20: Innovation in Connecticut History” series, and we'd like your feedback. Take our 5-minute survey and get a free copy of Connecticut Explored magazine. You'll find the survey link in the Shownotes for this episode below. Thank you! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HARTEA12   When was the color line broken in the Hartford Fire Department? And how did a high school dropout and a Vietnam vet both become distinguished firefighters in the Hartford Fire Department? Hear their inspiring first-hand stories of growing up in Hartford's African American community in the North End in and dive into the detective work done to uncover the story of William Henry Jacklyn, Hartford's first Black firefighter.   Our 2022 Winter issue of Connecticut Explored magazine celebrates citizen historians who come to their subjects because of a deep need to understand or uncover some person or event or answer a question they could not brush aside. Many become public advocates for their historical findings and projects. Both of the guests in this episode, Chief Charles Teale, Sr. and Captain Steven Harris were honored as Connecticut History Game Changers by Connecticut Explored magazine and both are passionate avocational historians.   Chief Teale served as a member of the Hartford Fire Dept. from 1982-2010, retiring as chief. Always interested in Hartford's history even as a teenager, Chief Teale researched and documented the many outstanding accomplishments of the Hartford Fire Dept to the fire service profession throughout its 221-year history. This included uncovering the William Henry Jacklyn story.   Captain Steven Harris began his career as a fire fighter in 1970, retiring in 1997 as a captain in the department and was voted Firefighter of the Year in Connecticut. In 2021, the Hartford Public Library partnered with Captain Harris to create a mural honoring Jacklyn on the Phoenix Society building at 729 Windsor St. in Hartford. The mural was painted by artists Lindaluz Carrillo and Kayla Farrell with an intergenerational group of community members.   The Phoenix Society is a black fraternal organization of firefighters the was formed in 1965 in Hartford. John B. Stewart, Jr, Hartford's first African American fire chief, was the first president. The Society works to help its members toward promotional goals and to foster a closer relationship with the community. Learn more about the Phoenix Society at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Society_(firefighters)   Read more about our 20 for 20 Connecticut History Game Changers here: https://www.ctexplored.org/special-section-20-for-20-innovation-in-connecticut-history/   And read more about Hartford history from Chief Teale here; https://www.ctexplored.org/shoebox-archives-my-summers-at-camp-courant/   https://www.ctexplored.org/i-called-him-mr-hurley/     Join Connecticut Explored's 20th anniversary celebration by subscribing at ctexplored.org New subscribers can get 6 issues for the price of 4 with our Holiday sale before 12/31/2022.   This episode of Grating the Nutmeg was produced by Mary Donohue and engineered by Patrick O'Sullivan of High Wattage Media at https://www.highwattagemedia.com/   Donohue has documented the built environment and pop culture for over 30 years. Contact her at marydonohue@comcast.net            

In this episode, recorded at the Park Street Library@the Lyric on Sept. 21, 2022 to a full house, two of our Connecticut History Game Changer Honorees discuss their work. The conversation was hosted by Jasmin Agosto, Community Outreach Coordinator for the Hartford History Center at the Hartford Public Library.   Before we go to our new episode, I need to ask our listeners for your help! We need your thoughts and ideas about the podcasts that highlight our 20 Connecticut History Game Changers in the field of Connecticut history. This 5-minute survey will help us plan episodes that you want to hear! As a thank you, we will send you a free, introductory copy of our print magazine or if you are already a subscriber, we will add a free issue to your existing subscription. I hope you will share your thoughts on the podcast by going to the Shownotes for this episode and clicking the link here  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DELROS to take the survey. Thank you!   What can we learn about Hartford's Puerto Rican community today through art and history? Photographer and Trinity College Fine Arts professor Pablo Delano and emerging scholar and public historian PhD candidate Elena Rosario explore their work in the context of Hartford's Puerto Rican history and the broader United States-Puerto Rico relationship.   Thank you to our guests Pablo Delano, Elena Rosario and Jasmin Agosto. For more about Pablo Delano's work, go to his website at  http://museumoftheoldcolony.org/about/curatorial/   And for more about the Hartford History Center at the Hartford Public Library, visit https://hplct.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/history/   Connecticut Explored, the nonprofit organization that publishes Connecticut Explored magazine, announced its “20 for 20: Innovation in Connecticut History,” series highlighting 20 “Game Changers” whose work is advancing the study, interpretation, and dissemination of Connecticut history. The initiative, funded by Connecticut Humanities and sponsored by Trinity College, is the centerpiece of Connecticut Explored's year-long celebration of its 20th anniversary. Subscribe at https://www.ctexplored.org/subscribe/   The episode of Grating the Nutmeg was produced by Mary Donohue and engineered by Patrick O'Sullivan of High Wattage Media  www.highwattagemedia.com/   Donohue has documented the built environment and pop culture for over 30 years. Contact her at marydonohue@comcast.net

Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission launched a task force to target digital discrimination and "digital redlining." This hour, FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel joins us to discuss this effort. "Your zip code should not determine access to broadband," the Chairwoman has said. She tells us, "The pandemic made this issue crystal clear for everyone." The Chairwoman explains how digital discrimination is "more nuanced" than urban-rural divides. Plus, during Digital Inclusion Week, we discuss the important role local libraries play in bridging digital or informational divides? American Library Association executive director Tracie D. Hall joins us, along with Connecticut librarians and organizations like East Hartford Works. To learn more about Wednesday's panel discussion featuring Hall and others, hosted by Hartford Public Library, click here. GUESTS: Jessica Rosenworcel: Chairwoman, Federal Communications Commission Tracie D. Hall: Executive Director, American Library Association Melissa Canham-Clyne: Director, Hamden Public Library System Yadira Jeter: Career Navigator, East Hartford Works Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Are you your family's historian? The one that listens to all the elders' stories or digs into that big box of old family photographs? Ever wonder how many of your dad's stories are really true? Or if you have a big family secret that hasn't been revealed for generations? If so, this episode is for you! In celebration of National Archives Month, we're talking to two accomplished family historians. Mary Donohue, Asst. Publisher of Connecticut Explored, the state's history magazine, interviews author Jill Marie Snyder. Snyder has a B.A. in Urban Studies from the University of Connecticut and an M.A. in Communication from Fairfield University. Retired from a corporate career in the insurance industry, she's completed Boston University's Principles of Genealogy course. Her book Dear Mary, Dear Luther, based on letters written between her parents, won the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Award for Nonfiction Romance/history in 2020. Jill will be teaching a workshop on “Telling Your Family Story, Putting it all together” on Oct 20, 2021 for the Ancient Burying Ground Association and Hartford Public Library. Register for the workshop on the Ancient Burying Ground Association's Facebook page under events. Our second guest is well-known Hartford Jazz musician and recording artist Orice Jenkins. He studied music at the Hartt School and has released four solo albums including the fantastic Centennial Cole: the Music of Nate King Cole in 2019. He teaches in his hometown of Hartford and tours nationally with the Afro-Semitic Experience. His website features his family history blog Chesta's Children: a Collection of Stories, People, History, Records and Research. Find out more about our guests at their websites, https://www.jillmariesnyder.com/  https://oricejenkins.com/ Order Snyder's book at https://www.amazon.com/Dear-Mary-Luther-Courtship-Letters-ebook/dp/B0793Q7LTM/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Jill+marie+snyder&qid=1633030224&sr=8-1 For more about family histories, read the stories in Connecticut Explored's Family History issue here https://www.ctexplored.org/fall-2019-family-history-separating-fact-from-fiction/ For more on Connecticut's African American history, visit our Topics page at https://www.ctexplored.org/african-american-history-in-connecticut-2/ This episode was produced by Mary Donohue and engineered by Patrick O'Sullivan. Donohue as documented the built environment and pop culture for over 30 years. Contact her at marydonohue@comcast.net Subscribe to Connecticut Explored at https://www.ctexplored.org/subscribe/  

Governor Lamont promised free coronavirus testing for all Connecticut residents who want one. This hour, who’s footing the bill for coronavirus testing and how much does it really cost? Connecticut Public Reporter Patrick Skahill joins us to talk about his reporting on this. Later, how do University of Connecticut students feel about returning to college in the fall?  A University professor and psychologist tells us what she learned after holding a focus group with students---their questions, concerns and their ideas for having a successful campus reopening.  And later, we hear how the Hartford History Center at the Hartford Public Library is working to update the traditional historical narrative of the capital city. GUESTS Patrick Skahill - reporter for Connecticut Public Radio (@ptskahill) Sherry Pagoto - Professor in the department of allied health sciences and clinical psychologist (@DrSherryPagoto) Jasmin Agosto - Education and Community Outreach Manager, Hartford History Center at Hartford Public Library (@sageseeker) Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

Fiona Vernal talks about the migration stories of Hartford Connecticut’s many communities. Vernal is an associate professor of history at the University of Connecticut and the creator of the exhibition “From Human Rights to Civil Rights: African American, Puerto Rican, and West Indian Housing Struggles in Hartford County Connecticut, 1940-2019” now open at the Hartford Public Library.

Fiona Vernal talks about the migration stories of Hartford Connecticut’s many communities. Vernal is an associate professor of history at the University of Connecticut and the creator of the exhibition “From Human Rights to Civil Rights: African American, Puerto Rican, and West Indian Housing Struggles in Hartford County Connecticut, 1940-2019” now open at the Hartford Public Library.

Liberty RoundTable Radio Show Hour 2 – 9/24/2019 * Guest: Jim Clymer - The Party of "Integrity, Liberty, & Prosperity!" - ConstitutionParty.com. * Facebook Admits it is a Publisher, not a Free-Speech Platform. That’s Important Because Publishers are not Protected from Lawsuits. * Facebook:suspended tens of thousands of apps for improperly sucking up users' personal information and other transgressions, a tacit admission that the scale of its data privacy issues was far larger than it had previously acknowledged. * FBI Reached Deep for Data, and in Secret. * The Secrets of Silicon Valley: What Big Tech Doesn't Want You to Know - James Corbett - CorbettReport.com. * Bridging technology, venture, and intelligence - In-Q-Tel! * The latest madness on California campuses. * The Hartford Public Library in Connecticut will host two Drag Queen Story Hour events Saturday as part of the library’s celebration of its LGBTQ “Big Read” campaign. * Ocasio-Cortez still hasn't paid her delinquent taxes! * Franklin Graham Tells Trump Haters to ‘Give It a Rest’. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

On today's podcast, we are talking about how the Connecticut GOP republicans are facing an uphill battle in getting the grocery tax repealed because it's gona hurt everyone in the worst way. The other is how the Hartford Public library is promoting Drag queen story hour and trying to promote sexuality to vulnerable minors. Source; Republican legislators petition for special session to fix prepared food tax https://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-food-tax-petition-session-20190918-oml6b36givbkvksaesfvludva4-story.html Three words. Big argument on what they mean. https://ctmirror.org/2019/09/18/three-words-big-argument-on-what-they-mean/ Despite protests elsewhere, Hartford library hosting a Drag Queen Story Hour as part of its LGBTQ-themed Big Read https://www.courant.com/ctnow/arts-theater/hc-ctnow-drag-queen-story-hour-hartford-20190918-titr6htzibgj7igomr4wl7ruwq-story.html Connect with Nicky via My Blog https://nickysworld.wordpress.com/ Social media Gab - https://gab.com/Bofehuge Mewe - https://mewe.com/i/nickychaleunphone Minds - https://www.minds.com/Shianp Tumblr- http://kamododragon.tumblr.com/ Parler - https://parler.com/profile/Kamodo/ Bitcoin Donation - 3Q2K9oeYdXSf7GEBxdz1gLtDSq3oqiwP8E --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nickysworld/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nickysworld/support

Four hundred years ago, in August 1619, more than 20 kidnapped enslaved African people were sold to the Virginia colonists. Slavery was well established in the early Connecticut Colony, too. Traded, sold, given as gifts, and subjected to beatings as documents attest, the enslaved people of Hartford suffered no less than enslaved people anywhere. In today’s episode, Connecticut Explored’s Mary Donohue finds out about an innovative, model project that uses fine-grained scholarship to uncover the lives of almost 500 Africans, African Americans, and Native Americans buried between 1640 and 1815 in Hartford’s oldest historic site, the Ancient Burying Ground. She talks with Dr. Kathy Hermes, professor at Central Connecticut State University, about the project, sponsored by the Ancient Burying Ground Association and about the new website that makes all this research available with a click of a mouse. For more information, visit the new website at www.africannativeburialsct.org. Join us on September 12, 2019 at 6 p.m. at the Hartford History Center, Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, in downtown Hartford for a free lecture by Dr. Hermes “Uncovering Their History: African, African American and Native Americans Buried in Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground, 1640-1815” that will launch the website. To learn more about how to research Hartford’s early black community, join Dr. Hermes for a workshop at the Hartford History Center, October 5, 2019, 11 a.m., also free to the public. And come view the exhibition at the Hartford History Center: Uncovering the Ancient Burying Ground, an exhibition featuring historic photos, maps, drawings, and postcards. This episode was produced by Mary Donohue, assistant publisher, Connecticut Explored, and engineered by Patrick O’Sullivan. Visual art by coramarshall.com. To order a Fall 2019 issue of Connecticut Explored with a feature article by Dr. Hermes about this project, go to ctexplored.org. Subscribe to Connecticut Explored and get the upcoming Winter issue with stories about events or inventions that disrupted history.  Subscribe, buy back issues and collections—including a make-your-own collection at a special price—at ctexplored.org.  To hear more episodes of Grating the Nutmeg subscribe on iTunes, IHeartRadio, GooglePlay, Spotify or at gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com  

During episode 4 of our #OnTheRoadULC road trip, we sat down with top innovators Noma Naficy and Beverly Redd to discuss their workforce and economic development programming at Hartford Public Library in Connecticut.Building upon an already strong immigrant programming framework, in order to further immigrant integration into the community fabric, the team launched their Immigrant Career Pathways Initiative three years ago. By partnering with other community agencies, the local school system, and neighborhood businesses, they were able to build a course that went far beyond simply obtaining a job. Listen in to discover how this library team built a program centered around developing sustainable employment, soft skills, and knowledge of immigrant workplace rights to promote economic growth for immigrants.

In 2010, Jamaicans became the largest foreign born population in Connecticut. At the same time, Jamaicans have the highest percentage of property ownership in Hartford County of any foreign born group. How did so many West Indians come to call Connecticut home? University of Connecticut Associate Professor Fiona Vernal documents this 70 year transformation in her traveling exhibit "Home Away From Home: Greater Hartford's West Indian Diaspora," currently at the Hartford Public Library.  HPL's Jasmin Agusto and I asked Fiona to share this fascinating story with Grating the Nutmeg listeners. Its a great story, told by a natural-born story-teller.    This episode presented by Attorney Peter Bowman, helping the seriously injured and holding distracted drivers accountable for their actions. More at bowman.legal. And Connecticut Humanities, co-publisher of Connecticut Explored magazine. The episode was produced by Walter Woodward. 

This week I sat down with Nicki personal trainer at Body Elite Training Facility, formerly known as the Lions Dens. Nicki and I literally talked about love, life, wellness and everything in between. Ps. we recorded at the very busy The Kitchen at Hartford Public Library.  Need a personal trainer? Here's how to find Nicki! Body Elite Training Facility 20 New Park Avenue, West Hartford, CT. Instagram: @fitbodynicki Email: fitbodynicki@yahoo.com. Books Recommendations: You are a Badass - Jen Sincero “Accept people for who they are and not what you want them to be” Sound Editing: Gabbie Barnes Music: Michael Gunnz Make sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram @basiclatinapodcast. Email your questions, comments and suggestions to basiclatinapodcast@gmail.com Stay Well & Take Care.

      It's a brand new year, and what better way to start 2018 than with a Treasure Hunt.   Join Brenda Miller, Executive Director of the History Center at Hartford Public Library and State Historian Walt Woodward as they explore the treasures of the Watkinson Library at Trinity College with curator Rick Ring. 

The New Hampshire state parole board often addresses inmates using “indelicate language.” Is it defensible? Plus, an investigation into the long-term fallout from Rhode Island’s disastrous deal with former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling. And, we look back at the history of the Newport Folk Festival, and Vermont’s short-lived gold rush. The Newport Folk Festival at Fort Adams in July 2014. Photo by Matthew Bennett via Flickr Business of the State A parole hearing at New Hampshire’s State Prison for Men in Concord. Photo by Emily Corwin for NHPR New Hampshire's criminal justice system has just one parole board. Its nine members decide which inmates get out on parole, and which parolees return to prison. While hearings are open to the public, they take place with little oversight or public scrutiny. As New Hampshire Public Radio’s Emily Corwin reports, unlike most legal proceedings – these can be surprisingly unrefined affairs. A warning: this story contains crude language. There’s more to come from Emily Corwin on parole in New Hampshire. Stay tuned to NEXT or follow @emilycorwin on Twitter. Retired Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling autographs a baseball for a sailor during a USO-sponsored visit. Photo by Seth Coulter for the U.S. Navy Red Sox fans across New England remember Curt Schilling. The star pitcher helped lead the team to two world series titles. Since his playing career ended, though, there hasn't been as much cheering. He was fired from his job as an analyst for ESPN after a series of controversial social media comments about Muslims and transgender people. The staunch conservative now has his own online radio show on Breitbart.com. But in the state of Rhode Island, he's also remembered for a disastrous public financing deal. The state invested $75 million in taxpayer money in Schilling's video game company, 38 Studios, and lost it all before a lawsuit clawed back most of the money. A screen grab from 38 Studio’s only video game, Kingdoms of Amular, via YouTube It was one of the worst financial decisions in Rhode Island history. Yet as Rhode Island Public Radio’s Ian Donnis reports, the company that served as the state's financial adviser on the deal has continued doing business throughout Rhode Island. Live at Newport! Courtesy of Wesleyan University Press At the end of this month, 10,000 music lovers will descend on Fort Adams in Newport, Rhode Island for the Newport Folk Festival. Through the years, the festival has been a focal point for discussions of what “authentic” folk music truly is. And in turn, Newport has shaped the public's image of American folk music for more than half a century. We spoke with Rick Massimo, author of the new book I Got a Song: A History of the Newport Folk Festival. As a reporter at the Providence Journal, Massimo covered the festival for nine years.  Below: Bob Dylan performs “Mr. Tambourine Man” at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival, introduced by Pete Seeger. According to Rick Massimo, Dylan’s decision to perform a song with a personal, rather than political theme represented a departure from the festival’s first years, and set the stage for his historic electric performance of “Like a Rolling Stone” in 1965. Libraries and Gold Mines Today’s libraries are more than just repositories for books. Pianist Emory Smith performed as part of the Hartford Public Library’s Baby Grand Jazz series last year. Photo courtesy of Hartford Public Library Without a state budget in place, Connecticut is operating under executive order. Governor Dannel Malloy has made cuts to get state finances in line. Among those cuts are funds for local libraries. Elsewhere in New England, public libraries are also struggling to maintain core programs like inter-library book exchanges. Tom Verde reports. Stick a shovel in New England soil and you're bound to hit rocks. But what if some of those rocks could make you rich? The allure of the 1849 California Gold Rush drove many Vermonters west — though very few made any money. Vermont gold miners in the 1850s. Photo by E.G.Davis, courtesy of the Plymouth Historical Society But the story goes that two of those men returned to Vermont and realized that the topography of the Plymouth-Bridgewater area, east of Killington Peak, was similar to a hotspot for gold in the Sierra Nevada. In the 1850s, a small but vibrant community grew up around a gold mining operation in the Plymouth-Bridgewater area of Vermont. Called Plymouth Five Corners, it had a hotel, a school and a dance hall. Photo by E. G. Davis, courtesy Plymouth Historical Society To this day, you can still walk through the forest and poke around the remnants of the old mines that were established during Vermont’s own gold rush.  For the podcast Brave Little State, Vermont Public Radio’s Kathleen Masterson took a tour of one old mine with Nelson Illinski, a gold panning hobbyist and a self-taught Vermont gold historian. About NEXT Do you have a question about New England you’d like NEXT to investigate? Tell us about it here. NEXT is produced at WNPR. Host: John Dankosky Producer: Andrea Muraskin Executive Producer: Catie Talarski Digital Content Manager/Editor: Heather Brandon Contributors to this episode: Emily Corwin, Ian Donnis, Carmen Baskauf, Tom Verde, Kathleen Masterson Music: Todd Merrell, “New England” by Goodnight Blue Moon, the Gorillaz Odetta, Bob Dylan, the Indigo Girls, the Avett Brothers,  and Jalen N’Gonda Get all the NEXT episodes. We appreciate your feedback! 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This week we meet a couple who found themselves drinking water contaminated by radioactive lab waste, and a man who has to wear a hazmat suit to enter his house. We’ll also learn about the down and dirty politics of Providence, Rhode Island in the 1970s and 80s, when city leaders cozied up to the mob. Finally, immigrants to New England give us a sense of what we should be grateful for. Dan and Dawn Crim stand on the front porch of the Laconia, New Hampshire home they fled in 2014. They say shoddy construction and water infiltration led to mold and yeast, which in turn made them and their son sick. (Credit: Jack Rodolico/NHPR) Radioactive Carcasses and Mold Magnates A hand-drawn map of the Rennie Farm burial site provided by Dartmouth College for the initial clean-up. (Credit: Dartmouth College) In Hanover, New Hampshire, near Dartmouth College, there’s a macabre burial site. Lab animals and the chemicals that were used on them – were dumped by researchers in the 1960s and 70s. Now a toxic chemical – 1,4 dioxane – has shown up in the groundwater of nearby homeowners. Rebecca Sananes has been covering the story for Vermont Public Radio, and she gets us caught up. Brady Sullivan Properties has, to put it mildly, had a pretty bad couple of years. They've made the news after state and federal investigations into lead contamination and illegal dumping of asbestos. And those are just the cases that made headlines – in recent years there have been other complaints involving Brady Sullivan projects from homeowners and others. NHPR’s Jack Rodolico investigates.  Lobsters and Mobsters Logo for the Crimetown podcast. (Credit: Gimlet Media) A Republican who ran on the promise of breaking up the corrupt Democratic machine in Providence in 1974, Vincent “Buddy Cianci” was a hard-working mayor. He’d stay at the office into the night fixing problems,  and would even show up at a fire at two in the morning. But in order to get elected, Cianci cut deals with the political machine, and he “made arrangements” with the local mob. Marc Smerling and Zac Stewart-Pontier, producers of the HBO documentary series the Jinx, sat down with mobsters and bureaucrats years later to create Crimetown, a new podcast from Gimlet Media. Crimetown’s first season chronicles the decades-long dance between Cianci, the mob empire of Raymond Patriarca, and the people of Providence. Marc and Zac talked with NEXT about feeling torn over making their audience “fall in love with gangsters,” and how Providence has changed. Crimetown: Excerpts from “A Promise For Change” Campaign Film from Gimlet Media on Vimeo. Words in Transit New England Public Radio is out with a new book– Words in Transit: Stories of Immigrants, based their oral history project by the same name. Words in Transit is stories from a diverse group of foreign-born Americans in Western Massachusetts and northern Connecticut, told in their own words. Georges Annan Kingsley, an artist from Cote D’Ivoire, with one of his works. (Credit: Beth Reynolds) Nayomi Dasanayake’s husband and daughter look on as she speaks at Hartford Public Library. (Credit: Bernie Michel) NEXT producer Andrea Muraskin caught up with contributors Georges Annan Kingsley, from Cote D’Ivoire, Nayomi Dasanayake, from Sri Lanka, and Veronica Vaida, from Romania, at a book launch event at the Hartford Public Library. Stay tuned for our upcoming series “Facing Change,” exploring New England's changing identity, starting next week. About NEXT NEXT is produced at WNPR. Host: John Dankosky Producer: Andrea Muraskin Executive Producer: Catie Talarski Digital Content Manager/Editor: Heather Brandon Contributors to this episode: Rebecca Sananes, Jack Rodilico, John Voci Music: Todd Merrell, “New England” by Goodnight Blue Moon Get all the NEXT episodes. We appreciate your feedback! Send praise, critique, suggestions, questions, story leads, and pictures of your corner of New England to next@wnpr.org.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

https://www.facebook.com/GizmosFrens   Gizmo is a little dog with a very big heart! In addition to his work supporting pet rescues and many different community organizations, he is also a dedicated therapy dog with Paws for Friendship, Inc. He visits Eastern CT Health Network Hospitals, a large Hartford, CT area high school, Manchester Dialysis Clinic, Spectrum Care rehab centers, and several nursing homes. As a certified Paws to Read reading assistance dog, he also visits Hartford Public Library, where he was recently named the official K-9 Unit of the Hartford Public Library Security Team.. Gizmo's motto is "Cuz we're frens!" and that is precisely why he does what he does. Juno was two months old and sick with pneumonia when Young adopted her and nursed her back to health with a lot of "TLC, sleepless nights and a steam shower running." The pair quickly bonded, and soon Juno was traveling with Young 24/7. And even while Juno herself was slowly getting over her serious pneumonia, the little dog would cuddle and clean the rescued kittens that Young was also caring for. Thanks to Young's love and dedication, Juno is now a five-year-old, "six pound ball of energy with a big personality!" For one thing, according to Young, Juno does not know she is a dog but really thinks she is a little person.  Juno is also a Paws For Friendship and Paws to Read dog.  She's a little dog doing big things! Follow Juno's Place on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/JunosPlace Find Gizmo on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/GizmosFrens  

https://www.facebook.com/GizmosFrens   Gizmo is a little dog with a very big heart! In addition to his work supporting pet rescues and many different community organizations, he is also a dedicated therapy dog with Paws for Friendship, Inc. He visits Eastern CT Health Network Hospitals, a large Hartford, CT area high school, Manchester Dialysis Clinic, Spectrum Care rehab centers, and several nursing homes. As a certified Paws to Read reading assistance dog, he also visits Hartford Public Library, where he was recently named the official K-9 Unit of the Hartford Public Library Security Team.. Gizmo's motto is "Cuz we're frens!" and that is precisely why he does what he does. Burt's Brigade promotes fundraising for shelters and rescues and recently won a Petco foundation grant to begin renovations of SweetPea Shelter in Paxton Mass. They are involved with several local shelters campaigning long term shelter dogs awaiting forever homes. Burt's Brigade advocates to stop and prosecute animal abusers and end BSL. Their roots initially began in animal therapy work for the Dept. mental health specializing in mentally disabled young adults. Zoe is a registered therapy dog with Therapy Dogs, Inc., and now is a 3 year volunteer with Pets on Wheels of Scottsdale, Inc. (POW) and a two year volunteer for Hospice of the Valley. Her assigned visits through (POW) are Sante Rehab Center and weekly visits to the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center in Scottsdale; through Hospice of the Valley, she rotates weekly visitation between two memory facilities, and does weekly visits to a group home.  Most recently she was asked to do bi-weekly visits to a 6th grade life skills class at a local middle school and Tail Wagging Tutors at one of the Scottsdale public libraries. Through her Facebook page and followers, she has made guest visits to local hospitals, patients’ homes, and school events.

Looking for great jazz? You'll find it in Hartford, Connecticut - even at the Hartford Public Library. This is the first On Your Block story from Adam Chiara and Sarah Miner.