Wooly and Wired

Loona Brogan
Alt Saturdays
7:30pm - 10pm

WOOLY--
Roughly the first half of every episode of Wooly and Wired features history: oral history recordings, local and state history narratives, interviews that cover historic subject matter... primarily focusing on Plainfield and Vermont, but with occasional forrays beyond the Green Mountains. Think "audible RELIC-ness."

WIRED--
The second portion of Wolly and Wired celebrates music with an eclectic approach to (primarily) contemporary &emerging artists' music programming. Alt country, Americana, lo-fi, weird America, indie rock, indie pop and singer-songwriter genres will typically prevail... but my friends' and my favorites-of-the-moment will influence each show, so I'll sometimes stray from those descriptive constraints. Think: "Newer North American" (usually).

Tennie Toussaint (Dick and Nett Langmaid taken in the field near their home soon after 1900, Danville, VT.)

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Click here to see Gallery of Musicians featured on the "Wired end of Wooly'n"

Forestry Centennial

Show Archive:
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Wooly #11
Wilmer Brandt talking with Linda Goldberg about being a forester.  (Will be posted in 2 weeks)

Marjorie and Fifine Johnson at Greatwood Farm, now Goddard College.

Episode #10
Marjorie Martin Johnson Townsend, Martin Johnson’s mother, daughter of Shep (Willard) and Maude Martin, proprietors of Greatwood Farm (now Goddard College). Talking to Goddard students in the late 1960s. This is a three part posting, although only parts A and B may be available this week.
May 15, 2010 part a
May 15, 2010 part b

Historic photos and info about the History of Greatwood Farm (Goddard College). Selected Narratives from talks by Marjorie Martin Johnson Townsend
Beginnings of Goddard and Plainfield (pdf)

Episode #9
Requires extensive editing; it was the fundraiser show and we’re not going to podcast the pitching we did, just the narratives on Native American History in VT that we read. Thanks for your patience!

Episode #8
Martin Johnson and Loona Brogan talking at Martin Manor, now Goddard College
(Recorded January, 2010)
April 17, 2010 part a
April 17, 2010 part b

Episode #7
Featuring the narrations of Sterling Ford, Russ Ford, Josh Hayes-High and Greg Warner from:
Common Landscapes of America (John Stilgoe), Hands on the Land (Jan Albers) & Moving Upcountry (Don Mitchell). Topics: history of North American field grasses, early colonial New England farming history, Vermont farming history and a contemporary perspective on a common farm by-product.
March 20, 2010 part a
March, 20, 2010 part b

Episode #6
Ruminations on trees, milk and haymaking: readings from Champion Trees article from Harper's Monthly, published Nov. 1862; Anne Mendelson's book, Milk; Don Mitchell's book, Moving Upcountry.
March 6, 2010 part a
March 6, 2010 part b


Episode 5: special guest in the studio Linda Goldberg Local historian, author of Here on the Hill
Discussion and examples of oral history.
February 20, 2010 part a
February 20, 2010 part b


Episode 4, featuring guest narrator Joshua Hayes-High: Vermont settlement pattern history from books by Fredrick Jackson Turner & Jan Albers
February 6, 2010 part a
February 6, 2010 part b

Episode 3, featuring guest narrator Torsti Rovainan
Portions of the History of Haiti &
Gazetteer Descriptions of Plainfield, Vermont: Zaddock Thompson & Hamilton Childs
Plus a short excerpt from a Perry Merrill book
January 23, 2010 part a
January 23, 2010 part b

Episode 2, featuring Charlie Cogbill and Steve Sinclair Vermont Forest History and the History of Forestry in Vermont (special thanks to Central Vermont Community Television)
January 9, 2010 part a
January 9, 2010 part b

Episode 1, featuring Martin Johnson
The History of Greatwood Farm
December 26, 2009 Wooly part 1
December 26, 2009 Wooly part 2