Keeping Kurrent Show

The Place where we talk about the ideas, issues and trends that shape your everyday life.

 

The Nenana river is located immediately adjacent to Denali National Park and Preserve and passes by the McKinley Village where the Host had an overnight stay. The river is glacier fed. There was a sign saying that a Grizzly bear had recently been seen by this property. This river and the surrounding territory is both beautiful and dangerous.

 

Quick Start to Keeping Kurrent

Our lives are busy. Keeping Kurrent is the place where you can listen to short, reasonably in depth interviews and presentations about a variety of issues, ideas and trends are helpful to you. You are invited to take a quick look some of the broad issues we cover by clicking on the items listed below. Or, you can also examine the details for each category by checking the statements on the right hand side of this page.

 

Program Examples

Here's are some examples of the guests that appeared on Keeping Kurrent. Most appeared during 2003, however, some appeared earlier. This will also provide you some information about the scope of the programming.

2005-2008 - 8th - 11th Season

 

Joseph Millar grew up in Western Pennsylvania and received an MA from Johns Hopkins in 1970. He spent the next twenty-five years in the SF Bay Area working at a variety of jobs from telephone repairman to commercial fisherman. Yusuf Komunyakaa, winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for poetry "If you want the real news of how America lives, of what it's like to be here with us, Millar will tell you with exactitude and delicacy in poems like none you've read before. His poems are published are found books like Fortune, published in 2007, and Overtime, published in 2001 and Walking on Flamingo published in 2005. He is a friendly sort of a guy that you find easy to talk with. You can hear a selection of his poems by turning to the audio program page.

Some of the Guests that have appeared on the show:

The Arts and Culture

  • Jorge Zamorano- musician - listen to him - See Fine Arts section - "World Fusion Music"
  • Donna McNabb, Kathy Stanley, and Estelle Golden - story tellers - listen to them - :Halloween Tales
  • Members of the Cast of "Showstoppers" - singers and dancers
  • Richard Erdman - starred in the movie Stalag 17 Listen to him.
  • Richard and Jonathan Jackson of Enation - musicians - listen to them- "Young American Artists"
  • Marv and Rindy Ross of The Oregon Band - listen to them -"Oregon Trail Band in North Korea"
  • Denise Duhamel - Various poems - listen to her
  • Mary Helen Stefaniak - My Mother and the Turk

The Environment

  • Professor Pramrod Parajui and a team of students from PSU - educators and environmentalists - Listen to them - "Leadership in Ecology, Culture and Education"
  • Lisa Mann and Jim Wrathall of Portland Peak Oil.
  • John Kaumann of the Oregon Office of Energy
  • Congressman David Wu from Oregon - Listen to him and others - "Environmental Independence and the Environment"
  • Angus Duncan, Bonneville Environmental Foundation
  • Sandra Soksen, architect, talks about Findhorn and planned communities.

Seniors, Retiree and Boomers

  • Christy Dewey of the Metro YMCA
  • Diane McClean of the YCT Program - Metro YMCA - Listen to her
  • Dr. Paul Hull - YCT Program - physician
  • Dorcas R. Hardy - Chair of the Policy Committee of the White House Conference on Aging -2005
  • Verna Porter - Delegate to the White House Conference on Aging-2005
  • Chris Flamming - Delegate to the White House Conference on Aging-2005
  • Bonnie Vorenberg, President of Art Age Publications -Listen to her - "Healthy Aging Part A"
  • Dr. Elizabeth Kutza, Director of the Oregon Geriatric Education Center, Professor at PSU

Health Care

  • Meribeth Healy, Executive Director of Oregonians for Health Security
  • John Kitzhaber, Former Governor of Oregon, MD Listen to him - Health section
  • Benneth Hugsted, Executive Director of Housecall Providers
  • Rich Stever, Feng Shui health consultant - Listen to him."Feng Shui and Personal Health"
  • Susan Allen, Director, Oregon's Public Health agency
  • Former Governor John Kitzaber speaks about health care reform - Listen to him.
  • Former Governor John Kitzhaber explains what steps are needed to change the health care system - February 9, 2008 - Listen to him
  • Dr. James Beckerman, Cardiologist - Listen to him - "Heart Disease and Care"

Travel

  • Ann Corbett, writer and traveler - Listen to her interview.
  • Wayne Potter and his wife, Pam Brown travelers and writers
  • Raymond Tovaraes, Insurance Agent who lives in Hong Kong
  • Steve Lazar, Human Resource Consultant who lives in Hong Kong
  • David Cohen -Listen to him - Glimpses of India 2007 - "American Travelers to India - Dave Cohen"
  • Rita Mathews - Project Hope - New Delhi, India 2007 - Listen to her "Glimpses of India" section
  • Jungle Sounds - India - Listen to the sounds.

American Writers

Last Modified January 20, 2009