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The Everett Public Library produces review podcasts of movies (The Treatment) , books (The Lone Reader), and music (Mr. Neutron's Record Closet.) We also produce historical podcast series, such as "Everett Voices" and "Smokestack Soundbites." All are produced under Creative Commons licenses with Attribution and Sharealike provisions.
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Now displaying: October, 2019
Oct 29, 2019

Everett Public Library’s latest podcast explores the Great Book Scare of the early 20th century and how libraries coped with it, particularly here in Everett. The seven-minute-long audio podcast is part of the Smokestacks Soundbites series of local-history podcasts.

Credits:

Voice actors:

Van Ramsey

Cameron Johnson

Script: Cameron Johnson

Audio editing and engineering: Cameron Johnson

Music:

“Klincek Stojo Pod Oblokom” — Tomo Sombolac

“String Quartet N. 14, Op. 131” (Beethoven, Ludwig van)

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 Cited works:

Nice, L.B. “The Disinfection of Books,” c1911

“Suggestions For Disinfection,” Wisconsin Library Bulletin, April 1906.

“Public Library Is A Popular Institution,” Everett Herald, 7 April 1906.

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Oct 15, 2019

From punk to country, from old-timey, to sugar-coated power pop, Mr. Neutron scales the best of 2019.

Oct 8, 2019

Jonathan White's description of and homage to the mysterious phenomena we call tides.

 

Music: Francesco Iannuzzelli, "Tarantellamodale"

Oct 1, 2019

A new Everett Public Library (WA) audio podcast brings to life the early history of Everett Public Library, in which a small group of determined Everett women parlayed political muscle and donated books into an enduring civic institution. The podcast is part of the City’s observance of the 125th anniversary of the library’s birth.

21 min.

Voice actors: Abigail Cooley, Van Ramsey, Mindy Van Wingen, Ron Averill, Lisa Labovitch, Andrea Wallis, Carol Ellison, Eileen Schnarr, Alan Jacobson, Joyce Peter, Laura McCarty, Cameron Johnson.

Script: Cameron Johnson

Audio editing: Cameron Johnson

Excerpts:

1Clark, Norman H. Mill Town. Seattle: University of Washington Press, c1970.

2Everett News, July 5, 1894

3 Croly, Mrs. J.C. The History of the Woman’s Club Movement in America, New York: Henry G. Allen & Co., c1898

4 Dilgard, David. “Origins of the Everett Public Library” [unpublished]

5Book Club Member Frances King Sears, 1921 letter [unpublished]

6 “Woman’s Book Club,” composed by WBC Historian Nellie R. Hake. Published in A History of Woman’s Book Club, November 12, 1962. Foremothers’ Luncheon, Elks Home—Everett, WA [Unpublished]

7From: “The Magic City,” date unknown, author unknown. [Unpublished]

8Spriesterbach, Cora. History of Everett Woman’s Book Club: 1894-1940 [Unpublished]

9Everett Public Library Historical Sketch, 1894-1954 [Unpublished]

10Herald editorial November 1, 1894

11 Spriesterbach, Cora. History of Everett Woman’s Book Club: 1894-1940 [Unpublished]

12Origins of the Everett Public Library—date unknown [Unpublished]

13Everett—Thumbnail History. HistoryLink.org

14Origins of the Everett Public Library [Unpublished]

15Herald April 27, 1901

16 “The Origins of Everett Public Library.” [Unpublished]

 

17Everett News, July 5, 1925

 

18 Everett Herald January 20, 1903

19Spriesterbach, Cora. History of Everett Woman’s Book Club: 1894-1940 [Unpublished]

20Application for National Register status [Unpublished]

21 Everett Herald April 7, 1906

22Dilgard, David. EPL Evergreen Branch [Unpublished]

 

Music:

Bach, Johan Sebastian. Cello Suite No. 1 in G. John Michel.

Beethoven, Ludwig van. “Choral Fantasia, op. 80”, Washtenaw Community Orchestra Chorus, Michigan, 20 December 2009.

Barnacled, Cloud Pump.

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Killian, Joy and Richard Beserra, Exotic Music from Enchanted Lands.”

Pianodamper. Schubert, Franz, “Piano Sonata #13.” STE-043-cut-reverb. Internet archive.

 

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Oct 1, 2019

Alan reviews this gorgeously-rendered 2017 Todd Haynes film, which received a three-minute-long standing ovation when it was shown at the Cannes Film Festival.

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