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THE GOOD EARTH
To The Best of Our Knowledge
from Wisconsin Public Radio
There are about 675 species of native birds in North
America. To win the most demanding and prestigious birdwatching
competition in the country you have to see ALL of them. And then
some. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, die-hard
birders compete in "The Big Year." Also, we'll get the
dirt on the gardener's best friend: the worm, from the nightcrawler
in your backyard to the Australian worm that shakes the ground you
stand on.
SEGMENT 1:
Mark Obmascik is the author of "The
Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession." He
tells Anne Strainchamps about the biggest competition in North
American bird-watching and how he got drawn into the quest. Also,
TTBOOK's Veronica Rueckert performs her essay called "Remembrance
of Birds Past."
SEGMENT 2:
David George Gordon is the author of "The
Eat-A-Bug Cookbook." He tells Jim Fleming cicadas outnumber
human beings two hundred thousand to one, so we have to do something
to even the odds. Why not eat them? If you're really taken with
the idea, click here for the cicada pizza
recipe. Also, Amy Stewart tells Steve Paulson why she
adores earthworms. She lives with upwards of forty thousand of
them in her worm bins and they take very good care of her garden.
Her book is "The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements
of Earthworms."
SEGMENT 3:
Judith Farr is the author of "The Gardens
of Emily Dickinson." She tells Jim Fleming that Emily Dickinson
had several gardens and a conservatory and wrote about flowers
in her poems and in her letters. And we hear a couple of her flower
poems read by actress Colleen Madden.
Cassette copies are available
at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 04-04-25-A.
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Books:
- Judith Farr, The Gardens
of Emily Dickinson (Harvard)
- David George Gordon, The Eat-a -Bug Cookbook
(Ten Speed Press)
- Mark Obmascik, The Big Year: A Tale of
Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession (Free Press)
- Amy Stewart, The Earth Moved: On the
Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms (Algonquin)
Music:
- -Lilacs/ Howard Shelley, Piano/
Rachmaninoff: The Transcriptions/ Hyperion
- -Jumpin at the Woodside/ Los
Angeles Guitar Quaret/ Labyrinth/ Delos
- -Hymn/ Bond/Bond/ Decca
- -Jackalope/ Twink/ Supercute/ Mulatta Records
- -In the Hall of the Mountain Queen/ Raymond Scott/
Manhattan Research/ Basta
- -Serenade to Music/ London Philharmonic
Orchestra, Vernon Handley, cond./
Chandos
- -Summer Evening/ London Philharmonic Orchestra,
Vernon Handley, cond./ Chandos
Distribution dates:
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be addressed to: flemingj@wpr.org
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