WMIR schedule

Schedule

 

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.

 

11

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

 

 

12

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

 

1

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

 

2

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

 

3

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

 

4

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…