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Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass turns 150

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150 years ago this week, a journalist originally from Long Island published his first manuscript of poems, transforming himself as a writer of news and short fiction into one of America’s most important poets. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is being celebrated this summer by the University of Virginia, which has several of the original manuscripts at the Harrison Institute’s Small Special Collections library. Many of these items are on display in the Institute’s first-floor gallery through mid-August.

This past spring, the Virginia Quarterly Review dedicated a special issue to Whitman’s work. VQR is collaborating with special collections on a series of gallery talks, given by editor Ted Genoways, to discuss the library’s holdings. Genoways is working on a dissertation on Whitman, and below is one of his talks, this one from June 28, 2005.

Whitman has famously declared that Leaves of Grass was published on July 4, 2005, but Ted Genoways explains that this isn’t necessarily the case.

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Preparing Central Virginia for Retiring Baby Boomers

How prepared is Central Virginia for the graying Baby Boomer population, the first of whom are beginning to retire? That’s just one of the mandates of the Jefferson Area Board of Aging, a non-profit dedicated to helping people prepare for their golden years. This past June, JABA was one of the hosts of a one-day conference to provide input for the White House Conference on Aging, scheduled for this December. With the nation’s elderly population soon to double, the conference is designed to help policymakers figure out what needs to be done to make sure everyone has access to long-term care.

This audio is a keynote speech from Robert Blancato, the executive director of the last White House Conference on Aging, and a member of the national coordinating committee for this year’s event.



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Wakeup Call: Genocide

Think for a second of all the places that have experienced genocide in the last fifteen years since the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of American influence in the world. Rwanda, Kosovo, and Sudan come to mind, but there’s a whole group of countries and slaughters that never make the news. How can we stop the wholesale killing of entire cultures, races and political factions by those with more political and military power? And, how do we own up to our own history of genocide?

That’s the topic of today’s installment of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wakeup Call. This week, Rick Moore speaks with recent Albemarle High School graduate Casey Shupe, and Pete Ronayne, an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia. Pete is the author of Never Again?: The United States and the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide since the Holocaust. Casey offers the perspective of a young person about to enter college to study political thought. As always, Rick begins the show with a monologue wrapping up the week’s events.

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Charlottesville Pavilion to open July 27

Yes, Charlottesville, the long-awaited Charlottesville Pavilion will open on July 27 with a free concert from funk band Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe. The new facility’s grand opening will be held on July 30, with a joint appearance from Loretta Lynn and Sissy Spacek. That event will be a special benefit for Live Arts.

Luke Church was on hand at a June 20 press conference announcing the Pavilion’s inaugural season, and he’s provided us with the tape. Remarks are from Pavilion general manager Kirby Hutto, Mayor David Brown, City Manager Gary O’Connell, and John Gibson from Live Arts.

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This is the first raw press conference that we’ve been able to feature, and we hope to bring you more of these in the months to come. The way in which the American public interacts with the media is changing. We recognize that not everyone is going to be interested in listening to 15 minutes on this subject, but press conferences are primary sources that journalists use to create stories. Do you hear anything else in this that media accounts did not? One thing I’m curious about is, why do city officials keep referring to the Pavilion as an ampitheater?

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WNRN’s Wakeup Call: Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children

Back this week! Another installment of the Sunday Morning Wakeup Call, courtesy of WNRN. The Charlottesville Podcasting Network will present each program for 7 days, so you’ve got until Saturday to stream or download this file.

This week, Rick Moore waxes poetic about Father’s Day, and then discusses a variety of children’s issues with Dr. Kent Peterson and Dr. Jack Travis of the group Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children discuss childcare with Rick Moore.

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Open Division of the Albemarle County Fair Fiddle Contest

This is the second of two installments of the Albemarle County Fair Fiddle Contest, held May 28, 2005. Earlier this week we brought you the junior contest. Today we bring you the open division, with adult fiddlers from all over the region. This program is about eighty minutes long, and concludes with a jam session with many of the contestants.

 

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Albemarle County Fair Fiddle Contest

One of the highlights of the Albemarle County Fair is the annual fiddle contest, but this year, the event was held significantly earlier than usual. The fair has been moved up a month earlier, to August 2 through August 7. That coincides with the Galax Fiddlers Convention, one of the largest events of its kind in the country.

So, a decision was made to hold the 21st installment of the contest on Saturday, May 28. CPN was there to record the event. Today we’re posting the Juniors contest, and tomorrow we’ll post the seniors event. Thanks to the Gravity Lounge for having a great sound set-up for us to plug into.

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UVA posts several Reunions Weekend events

Planning on a long trip anytime in the next couple of weeks? Why not fill your iPod with lectures from some of the University of Virginia’s top faculty? Browse through
 their listing of available speeches. Larry Sabato takes a look in his political crystal ball, Timothy Naftali explains why its hard to catch terrorists, and Margaret Mohrman discusses spirituality and medicine. Other lectures currently posted are from environmental sciences professor H.H. Shugart, astronomer Ed Murphy, and politics professor David Waldner.

Over the past week, we here at CPN have been producing the audio for these lectures, which has meant we’ve not been able to produce any original programming. Look for some new features in the coming week.

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Civil War author on UVa’s Podcasting site

As you might have noticed if you check the links on the right-hand side of the page, The University of Virginia has begun posting audio files on their podcast page. They’re featuring news conferences, presentations by top university officials and lectures from star faculty.

English professor Stephen Cushman recently addressed a gathering of UVa alumni as part of the College of Arts and Science’s Book Club to discuss Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle. You can listen to it on the UVa podcast site here. In this talk, he laments the usage of the term “buff”, reads some of his Civil War poetry, and discusses how an English instructor teaches history.

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Virginia Talkers: Listening to Memorial Day

Today we present the first of a new series from documentary photographer David Duncan. Virginia Talkers will present stories of the people in the shots taken by David as he travels throughout the state. This piece was recorded last week while he was on assignment in Lynchburg, covering the Memorial Day services at Monument Terrace. Approaching the ceremony, David came across Patrick Hubble and his daughter Meagan, (see below) fully decked out in period costume. Luckily, he had a microphone.

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Wakeup Call: The current state of Central Virginia real estate

On this week’s edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wakeup Call, Rick Moore discusses the current state of Central Virginia real estate with Ken Mextorf, a loan originator with Suntrust, realtor Bob Hughes with Summit Realty and realtor Karen Kehoe with ReMax Excellence. The show was recorded on June 5, 2005.

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Storycorps Arrives in Charlottesville

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Storycorps is an organization with a mission to capture oral histories from around the world. You may have heard their work on NPR. For the next two weeks, the group is in Charlottesville with one of their Mobile Booths to collect stories from Central Virginia. We stopped by on the first day.

(Another version of this story originally aired on WVTF Public Radio)

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