by CKTZ | May 22, 2017 | Season 1
Deconstructing the history of logging on Cortes into a metaphor for decolonization, writer/producer Brittany Baxter presents this collage of moments from over the past 150 years, each containing important clues to how our community is transforming in response to our growing desire to belong to each other and to the land.
by CKTZ | Apr 28, 2017 | Season 1
Why are we so afraid of death and how do we prepare for it? For something that’s inevitable we sure do our best to avoid it. Mercedes Grant takes us on a personal journey of grief and resolution. A Reshuffling Of Atoms by Mercedes Grant | Deep Roots http://rest.s3for.me/deep-roots/A+Reshuffling+of+Atoms.mp3 “It is December 14, 2016, five years since the death of Gloria. She was the first woman in her temperament and in her convictions. Gloria always sought the company of flowers and trees, toiling over garden beds and new species to propagate. She volunteered as a master gardener with the Calgary zoo. I suspect she may have enjoyed the plants company to most peoples, but who can blame her. She was a closet astronomer also, keeping up to date with all of the latest news from NASA. She grew up in a traditional Ukrainian Catholic environment, but developed her own ideas about the world and its wonders at a young age. Her devotion to the natural world was reflected in her practises, composting in the suburbs of Calgary and developing an advanced and very particular household recycling system long before such things were considered normal by most. Gloria was awed and softened by the vast brilliance of this planet and of human innovation. She planned to donate her body to science when she died. It was early afternoon on a cold bright day when Gloria, my mother, took her last breath.” Talking to residents of Cortes Island: modern death midwives, experts and my friends to explore how or disconnection with the cycle of the natural world influences or relationship to...
by CKTZ 89.5fm | Jan 15, 2017 | Podcasts
Come on board for the first season of Vintage Vignettes. The joint project of Cortes Community Radio and Cortes Island Museum and Archives, brings you “radio snapshots” of local life in simpler times. These brief episodes feature dramatized voices from the past with archive recordings of music from the “Old Timers”, a dance band that played locally for several decades.In Vintage Vignettes 1 -18 we focus on colourful characters and memorable events, from winter sledding to major earthquakes. Cortes Radio · CKTZ Vintage Vignettes Lost Teeth Lost Teeth http://rest.s3for.me/vintage-vignettes/Vintage_Vignette_1_lost_teeth.mp3 Lost Teeth Hot off the press from the late 1940’s Whaletown National Enquirer! The Wharf is Out http://traffic.libsyn.com/vintagevignettes/Vintage_Vignette_2_wharf_out.mp3 The Wharf is Out Penned by Peg Pyner, reporting for the Manson’s Landing Mirror, Nov. 5, 1954 Escape The Anthill http://traffic.libsyn.com/vintagevignettes/Vintage_Vignette_3_escape_the_anthill.mp3 Escape the Antihill Ruminations from retired logger Elton Anderson, questioning the soundness of his decision to move away from Cortes Island and take up residence on the Vancouver anthill. Moving A Cow To Cortes http://traffic.libsyn.com/vintagevignettes/Vintage_Vignette_4_cow.mp3 Moving a Cow to Cortes From the typewriter of Mary Ward, reporting for the Cortes Grapevine 1964 Earthquake http://traffic.libsyn.com/vintagevignettes/Vintage_Vignette_5_earthquake.mp3 Earthquake When an earthquake hit the islands in 1946, it left the islanders a little shaken up. Reverend RM Boas reports. Overland Route http://traffic.libsyn.com/vintagevignettes/Vintage_vignette_6_overland_route.mp3 Overland Route The first overland drive the length of Cortes Island; a True Tale of Travel and Adventure as told by Frank Hayes. Women Loggers http://traffic.libsyn.com/vintagevignettes/Vintage_Vignette_7_women_loggers.mp3 Women Loggers Women loggers! Barbara Thompson looks back on her days of being a logger in Carrington Bay Steamship http://traffic.libsyn.com/vintagevignettes/Vintage_Vignette_8_steamship.mp3 Steamship A tale from Gladys Houghton-Brown Rekert about her first adventure up to Cortes aboard the Union...
