Other Voices

By: The Altamont Enterprise & Albany County Post
Listen for free

  • Summary

  • Often, truth isn’t handed down from public officials but comes from listening to other voices. Once a week, you can hear a wide variety of views from people who shape our corner of the world in New York’s Capital Region. The Altamont Enterprise is the weekly newspaper of record for Albany County, New York.

    We’ve talked with a Buddhist who provided therapy for Gilda Radner and then helped set up Gilda’s Club after she died; with a Muslim woman who is trying to educate people about her religion as she feels increased hatred; with an African-American man who, as a teenager, helped ferry people north from a town in Mississippi haunted by lynchings.


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
    All rights reserved
    Show More Show Less
Children's Audiobooks Politics & Government Social Sciences
Show More Show Less
activate_samplebutton_t1
Episodes
  • Wiles publishes a book on lessons in leadership learned from the Bard

    Wiles publishes a book on lessons in leadership learned from the Bard
    Jan 20 2024

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
    Show More Show Less
    34 mins
  • Kate Cohen says, to save the country, atheists should make themselves known

    Kate Cohen says, to save the country, atheists should make themselves known
    Oct 6 2023

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
    Show More Show Less
    43 mins
  • Daughter and mother coach dragon-boat paddlers

    Daughter and mother coach dragon-boat paddlers
    Aug 29 2023

    Anna Judge and Louisa Matthew realize they live in an ageist and sexist society — but, with generous spirits, they are paddling against the current.

    The mother-daughter duo together coach a crew of dragon boat paddlers.

    Matthew, the mother, is an art professor at Union College. Judge, her daughter, is a certified personal trainer who led her mother into the sport.

    “A dragon boat is a 40-foot long, very narrow racing boat,” explains Matthew in this week’s Enterprise podcast. “That became standardized in the 20th Century but it’s based on a thousands-year-old Chinese tradition of racing the big rivers in China.”

    A dragon boat has 20 paddlers, two to a seat, with a person in the stern who steers and a person in the bow signaling directions, traditionally by drumming.

    “It’s the national sport of China,” said Judge “so it’s quite big in Asia and has subsequently spread to Australia, New Zealand, and Europe.”

    It came to the United States through Canada, she said, citing the work of a doctor in British Columbia who changed prevailing medical opinion on exercise for breast-cancer survivors.


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
    Show More Show Less
    32 mins

What listeners say about Other Voices

Average Customer Ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.com.au reviews

Amazon Reviews
No Reviews are Available
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.