The GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour – Great Lakes Great Read

The Great Lakes Odyssey Radio Hour is broadcast on NPR (National Public Radio)

s4.e3. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour – Great Lakes Great Read

Inspired by its beauty, the Great Lakes Great Read is a “one book, one community” program impassioned to deepen the connection to a waterway system that has shaped national histories and continues to sculpt stories today.

John Freeman, B.A., M.F.A., publishes poetry and creative nonfiction under the name “Cal Freeman” while lecturing in his unique style at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.

Anne Moser is Manager at Wisconsin Water Library in the Aquatic Sciences Center, the administrative home for the Sea Grant and Water Resources Institutes, and is the Education Coordinator for the Wisconsin Sea Grant.

Sally Cole-Misch, advocate of the natural world, an environmental communicator, a writer, and author of ‘The Best Part Of Us’ where we find cultural understanding of the Ojibwe and Welsh traditions.

Joanne Robertson, Misko Anungo Kwe (Red Star Woman) is an Anishinaabe author, illustrator, and water protection activist, and she champions the late Josephine Mandamin.

Anna Stadick is the library director at U of Wisconsin-Parkside and serves on the Council of UW Libraries, a group that brings the library directors of UW campuses together to strategize.

Featured Music: Stephen Fearing. Drastic. Holly Miranda (feat. Kyp Malone). Supermoon vs The Great Lakes. The Fuddles.
Music beds: Doug Wilde. Roddy Elias. Rusty McCarthy. Michael Yurich.
Theme music: Ray Bonneville. Rusty McCarthy.

Illustration: Joey Scarfone ‘Poet’s Corner’

s4.e3. Great Lakes Great Read Music Credits

Title – Big Five Water
Artist – Ray Bonneville

Title – Above The Water
Album – The Empathist
Artist/ Composer – Stephen Fearing

Title – Lake Erie Wave
Album – Wits
Artist / Composer – Drastic

Title – Water Music
Album – Sixth Dimension
Artist / Composer – Doug Wilde

Title – Water Is Life
Album – Virtual Funeral
Artist / Composer – Holly Miranda (feat. Kyp Malone)

Title – Sketches Of Tomorrow
Album – Sixth Dimension
Artist / Composer – Doug Wilde

Title – Moon Over Lake
Album – Moon Over Lake
Artist / Composer – Roddy Elias

Title – Rainbow Dance
Album – Moon Over Lake
Artist / Composer – Roddy Elias

Title – Butterfly Dreams
Album – Moon Over Lake
Artist / Composer – Roddy Elias

Title – Chant
Album – Moon Over Lake
Artist / Composer – Roddy Elias

Title – Prelude
Album – Moon Over Lake
Artist / Composer – Roddy Elias

Title – Monkey Business
Album – Moon Over Lake
Artist / Composer – Roddy Elias

Title – Introduction
Album – Supermoon vs The Great Lakes
Artist – Supermoon vs The Great Lakes
Composer – Gehring Miller & Sarah Johnson

Title – Caravan Ho
Album – Little Things
Artist /Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – G Minoe Mood
Album – InstruMental
Artist / Composer – Michael Yurich

Title – Name It
Album – InstruMental
Artist / Composer – Michael Yurich

Title – Get Ready I Have Questions
Album – The Fuddles
Artist / Composer – The Fuddles

Visit: raybonneville.com

Visit: rustyandmaja.com

Visit: oakland.edu/wrt/facultystaff-directory/freeman

Visit: greatlakesgreatread.org

Visit: library.wisc.edu/people/anne-moser

Visit: hollymiranda.com

Visit: sallycole-misch.com

Visit: facebook.com/JoanneRobertsonStudio

Visit: supermoonvs.bandcamp.com/album/supermoon-vs-the-great-lakes

Visit: thefuddles.com

This program produced by GLOW Radio Partners in venture with The Borderline Events Co.

Great Lakes Odyssey World

Inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the Great Lakes Odyssey World is a multi-national effort to strengthen and explore our relationship with the natural wonders known as the Great Lakes.

In this part of the project, we have created a multi-part audio series looking at the way the Great Lakes shape our lives, our livelihoods, our health and our culture.

50 years ago, folks in the media and elsewhere were ready to declare the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie “dead.”

The thought so appalled citizens in Canada and the United States, they forced their national governments to act.

Because, of course, the Great Lakes shape the life of both Canada and the United States. And, of course, the Great Lakes are a single system stretching from Duluth to Ottawa and down the St. Lawrence seaway. What happens to any of the Lakes will soon happen to the others.

So, the politicians of 50 years ago negotiated the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, “for the purpose of restoring, protecting and enhancing the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes basin.”

50 years later, we can see the agreement worked. We see more fish, cleaner water, and less pollution. Unlike the early settlers and colonials, who mostly saw the Lakes as a resource to tap, we now recognize, like the First Nations, the Lakes are part of our identity. They shape our relationships, our songs and celebrations of place, the way we eat, how we play, and what we make, or sell, or harvest.

50 years since the wake-up call of a burning river, Great Lakes Odyssey wants to learn how we live and love, hurt and restore the incredible gift which is the Great Lakes.

We will explore Great Lakes art and artistic expression, and meet the artists, writers, musicians who make it. We will also dip into Great Lakes history and lore – and learn from the people who have been here the longest and know it the best: The People of the Three Fires, the Anishinaabek.

On our Odyssey around the Great Lakes, we will also hear from people working to prevent poisonous algal blooms or stop the spread of invasive species. We will meet visionaries undoing decades of development that hardened shorelines, emptied marshes and wetlands, and destroyed critical spawning grounds. We will talk to people working to ensure all beings have access to pure drinking water.

Because none of us can live without pure drinking water.

In this wondrous place we call the Great Lakes, we know we are blessed by these Sweet Water Seas. We claim them as our H.O.M.E.S. as the emotionally accurate mnemonic says. They are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior, and they are our HOMES.

As long as humans have lived in, and of and through the Lakes, people have told stories about them, sung about them, and gloried in this great gift of the long departed Ice Age. Left by glaciers thousands of years ago, they are the World’s storehouse of fresh water. If they are drained… or ruined… or damaged, they can never be replaced.

So, as we travel around the Great Lakes basin, we want to see how we are doing – what we are doing – how we’re feeling and what we’re learning as we try to live as lovers and restorers – and children and family – of the being whom the Anishinaabek call Nayaano-nibiimaang Gichigamiin, the five freshwater seas.

We hope to galvanize, inspire, and motivate you to strengthen, support and steward the Great Lakes to a beautiful and healthy future.

So please join us on this magical, dare we say “magical mystery tour” of the Great Lakes basin and Great Lakes culture.

Tagged as: Great Lakes, books, environment.