Losang Samten
February 25th, 2011
Show #155 Recorded 12/23/10 Aired 2/25/11
Ancient Teachings in Modern Times: Buddhism in the 21st Century
Venerable Lama Losang Samten is a Tibetan scholar and spiritual teacher who fled his homeland in 1959. He was personal attendant to the Dalai Lama and played the role of attendant to the young Dalai Lama in Martin Scorsese's movie Kundun. He regularly comes to Chico to create colorful sand mandalas. This year he created the Mandala of Compassion on the Chico State campus.
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Judi Loren Grace
February 18th, 2011
Show #154 Recorded 1/27/11 Aired 2/18/11
The Third Floor
When Judi Loren Grace was 15 she became pregnant and had her baby on the third floor of a home for unwed mothers.
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Mary Volmer
November 16th, 2010
Show 152 Recorded 11/16/10 Air date 2/4/11
Crown of Dust
Author Mary Volmer was born in Grass Valley and her historical novel is set in California gold country during the time of the Gold Rush.
From the New York Times Sunday Book Review December 26, 2010:
Volmer’s gold rush yarn opens lowdown cute with, among others, a drunken preacher and a bossy innkeeper named Emaline, who grouses in salty rustic fashion like Marjorie Main’s Ma Kettle giving what-for to Pa. The tone ascends thoughtfully with the arrival of Alex Ford, a young woman disguised (quite convincingly, so it appears) as a young man. Except for a few hints, we won’t know until the tumultuous final chapters why Alex has adopted male drag to pan for gold in a California mining settlement named Motherlode. With the sort of beginner’s luck that earns her the nickname Golden Boy, she finds a mostly welcoming alternative family among the roughshod male residents of the Victoria Inn, where Emaline commands as keeper of the peace, enforcer of attendance at church on Sundays and one-woman bordello. Somewhat predictably, Alex’s androgynous allure incites homosexual panic in a repressed young immigrant from Cornwall. There are subliminal echoes of L. Frank Baum in Volmer’s mythmaking, with Motherlode as an Old West Emerald City, Emaline as the Good Witch and Alex’s punitive Gran as the defunct Bad Witch of the East. But Volmer keeps whimsy in check with a terse present-tense voice that invests her pioneers with piquant inner lives and a poker-faced lyricism.
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