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Dr. Charles Borden joins a deep intellectual understanding of the power of wilderness with a passion-driven tenacity to protect and preserve wild places like the Sipsey Wilderness and the Bankhead National Forest for future generations.
Rickey Butch Walker with Present Tense Producer Anne Markham Bailey in the offices of Wild South in Moulton, Alabama.
To learn more about Walker and his books:
Jicarilla Apache Chief James A. Garfield, whose grandson blessed sacred sites in the Bankhead National Forest, a spiritual action that infused the movement.
Ruth Manasco is an artist, teacher, conservationist and elder in the Blue Clan of the Echota Cherokee. She is the much loved heart of Dancing Rabbit Pottery studio. Ruth was part of the years-long efforts to have the Sipsey declared Wilderness in 1974, and was part of the movement to save the Bankhead National Forest in the 80’s and 90’s.
The Big Tree
Women of the Sipsey
Janice Barrett of Wild South’s Alabama office introduces the context of the Present Tense Media series, “The Fight For Alabama’s Last Wild Places”.
Janice Barrett of Wild South and Present Tense Executive Producer Anne Markham Bailey in the Bankhead National Forest.
Featuring Terra Manasco, Greg Preston, Dr. Charles Borden and Chief Grey Fox
Launches on Earth Day April 22, 2019
Listen to the voices of the citizen eco-warriors who formed a movement to save Alabama’s last wild places.
Get ready for a lengthy and real conversation with free improvisation musician and writer Davey Williams. We talk about the path of the artist, the struggles of addiction, his journey with cancer and more. This episode is a tribute to Davey Williams who died of cancer on April 05, 2019. This conversation was recorded in October 2018.
About Erica Dawson
Erica is the author of two collections of poetry: The Small Blades Hurt (Measure Press, 2014), winner of the 2016 Poets’ Prize, and Big-Eyed Afraid (Waywiser Press, 2007), winner of the 2006 Anthony Hecht Prize. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Birmingham Poetry Review, Blackbird, Literary Imagination, Unsplendid, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other journals. Her poems have been featured in several anthologies, including Best American Poetry 2008, 2012, and 2015, American Society: What Poets See; Living in Storms: Contemporary Poetry and the Moods of Manic-Depression; and The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets.
Erica’s third book, When Rap Spoke Straight to God, will be published by Tin House Books in Fall 2018.
Born and raised in Maryland, Erica holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University, an MFA from Ohio State University, and a PhD from University of Cincinnati. She’s taught workshops and seminars at the Florida Arts Coalition’s Other Words Conference, St. Leo University’s Sandhill Writers Retreat, and the DISQUIET International Literary Program in Lisbon. Erica is the Director of The University of Tampa’s Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing, and, at UT, an associate professor of English and Writing.
She lives in Tampa with her Shih-Tzu, Stella, whom she named after Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella, not Tennessee Williams’ Stella or Stella Artois, though Erica really likes Tennessee Williams and Stella Artois.
NOTES ON THE EPISODE
Hakīm (alternative transcription Hakeem) indicates a "wise man" or "physician", or in general, a practitioner of herbal medicine, especially of Unani and Islamic medicine (via Wikipedia)
Mullah: a Muslim learned in Islamic theology and sacred law.
Naqchbandi: a major Sunni spiritual order of Sufism. It got its name from Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari and traces its spiritual lineage to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, through Abu Bakr, who his father-in-law , a companion and successor of Muhammad. Some Naqshbandi masters trace their lineage through Ali,[1] his son-in-law and successor, in keeping with most other Sufis.[2][3]
Gaddi Nasheen The Gaddi looks after the shrine and carries out significant rituals
Maulvi (Mawlawi) is an honorific Islamic religious title given to Muslim religious scholars or Ulema preceding their names, similar to the titles Maulana, Mullah, or Shaykh. Mawlawi generally means highly qualified Islamic scholar.
Dera Ismail Khan: British Cantonment town in KPK Province of Pakistan
ABOUT YASMEEN KHAN & THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2011/12/an-interview-with-yasmeen-khan-senior-rare-book-conservator-at-the-library-of-congress/
https://www.loc.gov/
https://www.loc.gov/collections/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/05/toolkit-rare-book-conservation-library-of-congress/
ABOUT BOOK & MANUSCRIPT PRESERVATION & CONSERVATION
https://academicmatters.ca/2017/03/books-ready-dustbin-history/
https://www.loc.gov/preservation/about/history/pres-hist.pdf
RITA FELDMAN
I was born in the beautiful very modern, though very ancient, 2000 years old city, named Tashkent. It is the capital of Uzbekistan, back then a part of the Soviet Union, now it is an independent country in the Middle Asia. In 1993 my family had to leave our homeland because of the etnic problems that not-native, not-Uzbek people started to face in Uzbekistan. We emigrated to America, and we were recognized as a political refugees. The organizations that helped us to move choose the city of Birmingham Al as a place where we were suppose to build our life almost from the sketch. It was hard,very hard, but eventually we did it, though we are still working on it. 🙂. I have many professions, starting with a chemical engineering, computer programming, tour guiding, but all my life I was attracted to working with the people, their outer, and inner conditions and states. That's why for my professional life in America I chose to work as a skin care specialist, massage therapist, and also I do energy healing - I am a Reiki Master, I do Past life regressions, and I facilitate Family Systemic Constellations - powerful therapy that is dealing with a history of people's families, and how it influence our current lives. I have my own business called "Rita’s Touch" since 1998, and this year we are going to celebrate 20 years of it's successful service to the people of Birmingham.
Rita and her mother Genia
Rita and her son Maksim.
If you have not listened to Part 1 of "Not Too Bad" go to Episode 2 and listen now!
In Part 2 of "Not Too Bad," we join J Everett Batterbury as his life changes dramatically.
Everett's place on 12th Street South in Birmingham
My house on 12th Street South, across the street from Everett's place