Mt. Maidu country, revisited

Aired on Living on Earth on October 28, 2011.
http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=11-P13-00043&segmentID=3

A new version of the story of Mt. Maidu people working to gain formal stewardship of tribal lands.

Grapes of Wrath in Volcano, CA

Aired on The California Report magazine on Friday, October 28th, 2011.

http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201110281630/b

I visit a tiny Gold Rush town whose theater company staged a story written 70 years ago that is totally relevant today: The Grapes of Wrath.

Listen In at Log Cabin Ranch: Radio Diaries of Incarcerated Youth

This spring, I got to work with The Beat Within and inspirational co-teacher Will Roy. Each week we drove out to the hills of La Honda to meet with young men from San Francisco incarcerated at Log Cabin Ranch. We interviewed them, gave them a few pointers on collecting audio, and asked them to record diaries of their daily lives. They blew us away with their humor and honesty. These pieces aired in a series called Listen In at Log Cabin Ranch on New America Now on KALW. Here's the whole series:

http://newamericamedia.org/2011/09/nam-radio-log-cabin-ranch.php

Holtville Pauper's Cemetery

Aired the weekend of September 2, 2011 on NPR's Latino USA:

www.latinousa.org/961-2/

(scroll down, it's the third piece)

And on The California Report Magazine:

www.californiareport.org/archive/R201109021630/c

Pauper's cemeteries aren't new. They're where unclaimed and unidentified bodies, or those of families too poor to pay for funerals, are buried. But in the southeastern corner of California, in a small rural town called Holtville, a "John Doe" cemetery tells a larger story about the state, and nation. It's where the bodies of nearly 700 undocumented immigrants are buried -- immigrants who died trying to cross the border.

The Future of Small Town California part VI: Mt. Maidu Country

Aired on The California Report Magazine on July 29, 2011 (with a photo slideshow).

http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201107291630/c

For this story in the series I headed up the Feather River to the mountains of Plumas and Lassen Counties. This story starts before towns we see on a map today even existed; before Greenville or Taylorsville, this land was filled with the villages of native Mt. Maidu people. But Gold Rush prospectors, developers and government agencies honed in on their land. Their population declined, and so did their access to the land for traditional practices. Now Mt. Maidu are now working to regain formal stewardship of their homeland.

With a reporter's notebook:

http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201107291630/cx

Station-Indie "Do-si-do"

Published in the Association of Independents in Radio AIRblast, July 2011.

http://www.airmedia.org/PageInfo.php?PageID=669

I couldn't be doing my small town series if it weren't for the relationship I have with KQED's The California Report, and they wouldn't have reporting in some of the state's far-flung places without this series.

California Song: John Doe's "The Golden State"

Aired on The California Report on May 27, 2011.

http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201105271630/d