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  • Community Matters with Scott Cordischi featuring The Atlantic Shark Institute with Jon F. Dodd 6-28-25

    Community Matters with Scott Cordischi featuring The Atlantic Shark Institute with Jon F. Dodd 6-28-25
    Jun 28 2025
    "Shark Health is Ocean Health, and Ocean Health is Our Health." ™, is the credo The Atlantic Shark Institute (ASI) lives by. Jon F Dodd, Executive Director, ASI joins us to describe how they conduct cutting-edge research on Atlantic shark species. We've observed how the recent 20 foot shark in a pond in Block Island caused public concern, despite the absence of any real threat. Listen as he discusses, tagging technologies and why they are important, the extensive acoustic receiver array they have set up to detect sharks and anything with an acoustic tag in/on it, the importance of sharks in our ecosystem, things to do to avoid shark interactions, the white sharks in New England and RI, and RI’s growing seal population, As an added bonus, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the movie "Jaws". You can hear the inner "Hooper" in Jon's motivation in his passion for researching sharks.
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    19 m
  • Community Matters with Scott Cordischi featuring Stages of Freedom with Ray Rickman and Robb Dimmick 6-21-25

    Community Matters with Scott Cordischi featuring Stages of Freedom with Ray Rickman and Robb Dimmick 6-21-25
    Jun 21 2025
    There's so much to celebrate in June! We're celebrating Juneteenth all week and Pride all month with Providence's Stages of Freedom. Ray Rickman, Co-Founder and Executive Director and Robb Dimmick, Co-Founder and Program Director join us for a rundown of what can be learned from their museum exhibits, programs and events. All their efforts are to further fund the goal of free swimming lessons for BIPOC youths, who are five times more likely to drown than white youths. With this being summertime, everyone should be able to enjoy a dip in the pool or waterways! They're having a FREE Juneteenth historic walking tour/event "Finding Bannister- A lively introduction to the exciting lives, work and sites of Providence artist and visionary Edward, and hair doctress and philanthropist Christiana". Listen as they detail the theme for this month's e-blast "Connected", a daily email arriving in your inbox full of interesting people, places and events with respect to Black Rhode Island. All through June, the subject of "Connected" is "Mysteries & Marvels of Black RI", with historical figures highlighted such as Elleanor Eldridge (1st RI Woman to Represent Herself in Court) to Perry Watkins (Broadway’s 1st Black Scenic Designer) among many others. Mr Watkins is also featured in Stages of Freedom’s Black Lavender exhibit, currently on display in the SOF museum. Be sure to check out the Stages of Freedom website for materials, exhibits and programs that can further your education or be shared as a learning tool. Coming attractions include "The Underground Railroad in RI" project.
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    22 m
  • Community Matters with Scott Cordischi featuring Gaspee Days with Jen Kious 6-14-25.wav

    Community Matters with Scott Cordischi featuring Gaspee Days with Jen Kious 6-14-25.wav
    Jun 14 2025
    "Rhode Island's Original Waterfire" happens this time of the year in Pawtuxet Village RI, otherwise known as The Gaspee Days burning of the HMS Gaspee, now in it's 60th year. Jen Kious, Director of The Gaspee Days Committee joins us to reveal the history and happenings. This weekend of events "kicks off" with a 5K footrace and when the race concludes, the Gaspee Days Parade begins. The Gaspee Days Committee is a community nonprofit organization that operates many events in and around Pawtuxet Village, and is active year round. "These events are all designed to commemorate the burning of the hated British revenue schooner, HMS Gaspee, by Rhode Island patriots in 1772 as "America’s ‘First Blow for Freedom’, a short step from here to the First Continental Congress and eventually the Declaration of Independence". The weekend continues with a "Colonial Reenactment" (Saturday & Sunday), "Blessing of the Fleet" (Sunday) for all nautical participants, culminating in a scenic "Sunday in the Park" with a view of Pawtuxet Cove, for the HMS Gaspee symbolic blaze. Listen as Jen describes the scene as people line their chairs along the street in an annual pilgrimage, for the parade along Narragansett Parkway. The parade never disappoints, as individuals march in period garb with fife and drum and muskets performed by the Pawtuxet rangers and Lexington Minutemen. There's also always a show of vintage automobiles. She also describes the folks who participate in the Colonial Reenactment, true to the period in all aspects. You can hear the passion in Jen's voice as she reveals the history of the conflict and victory of the colonists. They used the sloop "Hannah" commanded by Captain Lindsey as a decoy, against the British soldiers under "the hated commander, Lt. William Dudingston, sent by King George III." Curiously, the Hannah has never been found!
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    14 m
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