Episodes

  • Episode 90: The Asbury Park Arts & Culture Plan

    Episode 90: The Asbury Park Arts & Culture Plan
    Apr 30 2023
    This week we discuss updates to the Asbury Park Arts and Culture Plan and welcome back Carrie Turner from the Asbury Park Arts Council.  We also welcome Eric Galipo from Francis Cauffman Architects who did the hard work of designing the Arts & Culture plan which will now be presented to the City Council.  Welcome […]
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    58 mins
  • Episode 89: Local Poet Cord Moreski

    Episode 89: Local Poet Cord Moreski
    Apr 15 2023
    In honor of National Poetry Month, we welcome local poet Cord Moreski, who is the host, curator and driving force behind the wildly popular “Coffee and Words” poetry series held at Asbury Park Roastery—a series that is in turn just a small part of the New Jersey Poetry Renaissance which is bringing poetry readings to […]
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    51 mins
  • Episode 88: Part II of our Talk With Reverend David Parreott Jr.

    Episode 88: Part II of our Talk With Reverend David Parreott Jr.
    Mar 13 2023
    Welcome to part two of our conversation with long-time Asbury Park Police Officer, former member of the Asbury Park City Council, former state champion tennis player from Asbury Park High School, and local Pastor—the Reverend David Parreott Jr. He reminisces about being a police officer during the 1970 riots in Asbury Park, being a neighborhood […]
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    46 mins
  • Episode 87: Reverend David Parreott Jr.

    Episode 87: Reverend David Parreott Jr.
    Mar 5 2023
    When Amy & Joe sit down to interview guests, we try to keep our conversations somewhere near the 45-minute mark just to keep things simple. But this week’s guest, who has been a resident of Asbury Park since the 1930s, was such an engaging storyteller that they ended up with over 90 minutes of conversation […]
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    44 mins
  • Episode 86: The Coaster’s Editor Ellen Carroll

    Episode 86: The Coaster’s Editor Ellen Carroll
    Feb 6 2023
    Recording at the historic Stephen Crane House here in Asbury Park, this week Amy & Joe return to the local news scene and talk to Ellen Carroll, editor of The Coaster, one of the last remaining family-owned, hyper-local newspapers on the Jersey shore–which is also celebrating its 40 anniversary this year.
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    55 mins
  • Episode 85: Singer-songwriter Lisa Bouchelle

    Episode 85: Singer-songwriter Lisa Bouchelle
    Jan 17 2023
    This past week, Asbury Park was once again hosting the Light of Day Foundation’s series of concerts, which raise money to fund research into possible cures, improved treatments and support for patients with Parkinson’s Disease and its related illnesses, ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) and PSP (Progressive Supranuclear Palsy). We were lucky enough to talk to one […]
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    45 mins
  • Episode 84: Tom Chesek

    Episode 84: Tom Chesek
    Dec 18 2022
    Recording at the historic Stephen Crane House here in Asbury Park, this week Amy & Joe talk to Tom Chesek, writer in residence and docent of the Stephen Crane House. We learn a little bit about the time young Stephen Crane spent here with his family,  as well as what Tom was doing before he […]
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Episode 83: Michelle Grezner & Celia Cattani talk about the Asbury Park Holiday Toy Drive

    Episode 83: Michelle Grezner & Celia Cattani talk about the Asbury Park Holiday Toy Drive
    Dec 16 2022
    This week Amy & Joe, with the help of Ming Chen of A Shared Universe, talk all things Christmas and the Asbury Park Holiday Toy Drive with repeat guest Michelle Grezner of the Asbury Park Kiwanis Club and new guest Celia Cattani from Community Karma. They discuss what’s been happening with the Asbury Park Toy […]
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    48 mins