Episode #339
Memories in Pictures and Sound
Friday, May 23, 2003
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(Elsa Dorfman)
We remember not only those who died in war, but also a Boston poet, a disappearing musical tradition, and old Penn Station. Also, portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman on using photos to preserve life. And writer Lawrence Weschler on the long-term consequences of the Vietnam Memorial.
White Card
In the 1960s, the next big thing in Amsterdam was white bikes, left unlocked on the street, for anyone to use and then leave for the next rider. Recently, a few lucky New York City subway riders were treated to a similar social experiment with a “use it ...
Portraits of the Living
Talking Trash
Heard on the street in New Orleans...garbage collector and filmmaker C.L. Taylor, sharing the ins and outs of the job, and of his films, all while tossing bags of trash into the back of a truck.
Two Reed Flutes and a Double Bass Drum
While the term Balkanization has come to mean ethnic strife, one of the few groups to avoid the tribal clashes of the last decades have been the Roma, also referred to as the Gypsies. Instead, Romani musicians have unconsciously worked as a kind of cultural glue in the region, keeping ...
Old Penn Station
Forty years ago, the original Penn Station fell victim to demolition. The building was well-documented in photos, but few people know that there's another relic of the place - a documentary field recording intended for use in creating sound effects at a production house. And those sounds create a sense ...
About Himself
By the time Jim Dunn met him in Boston, poet John Wieners was well into his fifties, and prone to reclusiveness and mental instability. Nevertheless, Dunn befriended him - regularly accompanying him to readings, not to mention on trips to Burger King. Dunn, also a poet, shares his memories of ...
About Memorials
Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial set a standard for war memorials that many believe has gone unmatched. But according to Lawrence Weschler, who runs the New York Institute for Humanities at New York University, she also established a view of war that has had profound--albeit unintended--historical consequences.
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