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This is WMIR, Marsh Island Radio, at 990 AM on the radio dial, broadcasting from a salt marsh island in the rising waters of Boston Harbor.  Community radio letting you talk to the marsh and letting the marsh talk to you.

 

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Bedtime stories for the marsh:                 Andi Suttons reads John Jay Muth, The Three Questions

Letters to the Marsh:                                   Jane D. Marsching reads A letter to Spartina Alterniflora on her birthday

Songs about flooding:                                 Johnny Cash, Five Feet High and Rising, 1959, 1:44

 

 

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Letters to the Marsh:                                   Marc McNulty reads Too Many Jellies

Songs about flooding:                                  Memphis Minnie, When the Levee Breaks, 1929, 3:09

Our science segment:                                   Andi Sutton reads an excerpt from K. Bromberg Gedan, B.R. Silliman,  M.D. Bertness, “Centuries of Human-Driven Change in Salt Marsh Ecosystems”

Songs about flooding:                                   Led Zeppelin, When the Levee Breaks, 1971, 7:07

 

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Letters to the marsh:                                   Andi Sutton reads Concerning a Fraught Relationship

Bird sounds:                                                  Dawn on the Chesapeake, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, 1965

Bedtime stories for the marsh:                 Marc McNulty reads Belle Isle Lullaby

Songs about flooding:                                 Los Angeles New Years Flood, Woody Guthrie, 1963, 3:35

 

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Letters to the marsh:                                   Keely Gilmartin reads Ode to the Marsh

Our science segment:                                  Jane D. Marsching reads an excerpt from K. Bromberg Gedan, B.R. Silliman, + M.D. Bertness, “Centuries of Human-Driven Change in Salt Marsh Ecosystems”

Bird sounds:                                                   Stilted Waders of the Coast, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, 1965

Songs about flooding:                                  Marc McNulty, Drying Salt Scent, 2012

 

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Letters to the marsh:                                  Julia Frederick reads Untitled haiku

Our science segment:                                  Andi Sutton reads an excerpt from K. Bromberg Gedan, B.R. Silliman, + M.D. Bertness, “Centuries of Human-Driven Change in Salt Marsh Ecosystems”

Songs about flooding:                                Papoose, Mother Nature, 2005, 4:52

Jay Electronica, The Levees Broke, 2008

Lil Wayne, Tie My Hands, 2008

 

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Letters to the marsh:                                  Katherine Mitchell reads Thomas Frederick Green, Love Like Salt, 1885

Songs about flooding:                                Bob Dylan, High Water (for Charley Patton), 2001, 4:01

Bedtime stories for the marsh:                 Colin Wilkins reads Aldo Leopold’s A Marshland Elegy from A Sand County Almanac, 1948

Songs about flooding:                                 Echo and the Bunnymen, Ocean Rain, 2004

 

 

You have listened to WRMI, Radio Marsh Island, at 990 AM on the radio dial, broadcasting from a salt marsh island in the rising waters of Boston Harbor.  Community radio letting you talk to the marsh and letting the marsh talk to you.  Tune in tomorrow…

 

 

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