Hudson River Radio?

While exploring the great invention of Al Gore, the internet, I stumbled upon an fantastic website and resource from another local liberal arts college. http://www.hudsonriver.vassar.edu/Index.html Vassar College had a radio program during 2003 that is described as “[The Episodes] celebrate the nature and culture of the Hudson River from its source in the Adirondacks to its mouth in New York City.”(from the above link) I think that this is a very neat idea. During the first episode Robert Boyle, the author of The Hudson River, was interviewed. Another episode featured an interview with an endanger species expert form the NYSDEC about the bald eagle population along the river. Zebra mussels were featured during another installment. Annea Lockwood the creator of A Sound Map of the Hudson River, was even featured during one chapter. Over the course of the 16 broadcast series many other great topic and speakers were highlighted. Possibly the most valuable items that we could use from this website would be the soundscape that was featured during each of the episodes throughout the series. We could incorporate these songs into our final presentations to add to the audio experience. Another possibility could be the use of some of these interviews that were conducted for the series. Many topics that we have already touched on during class are feature during some point of their broadcast. Everyone sound take a listen to their work. http://www.hudsonriver.vassar.edu/Archives.html is a list of the 16 episodes that aired. You can listen to any of the 16 episodes, each are broken into 2 segments and are commercial free.