May is water safety month and Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today is Owen Long, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Sertified, LLC. Sertified is a training company specializing in American Red Cross Lifeguarding, CPR, First Aid, AED, Babysitting, Emergency Medical Response, Basic Life Support classes, or generally any Instructor Trainings.
Read MoreAshleigh Bryant Phillips is Wilson's guest tomorrow morning on Delmarva Today. She will discuss her book Sleepovers and the rural world she grew up in. There is little question that blood, violence, sex, death, poverty, indifference, and forgiveness are powerful details woven into the fabric of every human existence. They appear again and again in the stories we tell ourselves.
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today is Ms. Jean Holloway, the Delaware and Maryland State Manager for the Southeast Rural Community Assistance Project (SERCAP). SERCAP is a nonprofit organization that helps upgrade water and wastewater systems in small rural towns and communities. Other community development services may also be provided.
Read MoreThis is a special one-hour edition of Delmarva Today. It is the second in the station’s three-part series on the Humanities and its contribution to culture in the United States. The first session reviewed the history and nature of the Humanities, how they became institutionalized, and how they helped define the identity of our country.
Read MoreHarold Wilson's guest is Professor Margo Shea. Dr. Shea is a professor of history at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts. Last year I interviewed Margo on her new book Derry City: Memory and Political Struggle in Northern Ireland. Margo agreed to come back to Delmarva Today and talk about the work she is doing on the parallels she finds between the Troubles in Northern Ireland in the 1960’s and the …
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today is Cécile Barlier to discuss her new book of short stories The Gypsy’s Book of Revelation. Barlier was born in France and received her master’s Degree from the Sorbonne University in Paris. She has lived for over 20 years in the United States and has published extensively in English including in the Delmarva Review. Barlier has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times.
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guests on Delmarva Today are Professors Adam Wood and Maarten Pereboom. They discuss the nature of the humanities and the role they play in the development of our personal and national identity. Adam Wood is a professor in the English Department at Salisbury University and Maarten Pereboom is a professor of history and Dean of the Fulton School of Liberal Arts at the University.
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guest is Dr. Michael Murphy, emergency medical physician at the Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, MD. Mike is a frequent guest on Delmarva Today and Harold has asked him to update us on the status of the pandemic in our area here on the Eastern Shore, and review recovery prospects for the future. We are a year now into the global COVID-19 pandemic. Looking back, it has been an incredibly tumultuous 12 months.
Read MoreElizabeth Kolbert published an article in the January 25, 2021 issue of The New Yorker asking if signs of extraterrestrial life have been found. She cites a dot of light sighted by Robert Weryk, and then other astronomers, traveling at an unusually great speed, its brightness varying significantly in intensity. My guest is astronomer Grant Wilson, professor and graduate program director in the astronomy department at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst .
Read MoreWilson’s guest on Delmarva Today is Poet Laureate for Salisbury, Maryland, Nancy Mitchell. Nancy has published extensively, is a 2012 Pushcart Prize winner, and is Associate Editor of Special Features for Plume, an online poetry magazine. Her poetry offers the direct experience of events lived and felt. They are organized in such a way that the ordinary becomes extraordinary and takes on a new meaning for the reader.
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guest is Research Director for The Housing Assistance Council (HAC) in Washington, DC, Lance George. The topic is the lack of plumbing and adequate water in homes and communities in the US that create Third-World conditions for many families. Data indicates that at least 460,000 homes across the country do not have a functioning bathroom or lack an adequate water supply.
Read MoreDr. Karl Maier, a member of the psychology department at Salisbury University in Salisbury. Maryland is featured. This is the third in our series of discussions on the psychological impact of COVID-19 on the general population. After the events of January 6, however, how is it possible to focus on the pandemic and its psychological impact on society in the face of the threat to our democracy we witnessed in the …
Read MoreDr. Michael Murphy, emergency medical physician at the Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, MD is back with Harold Wilson on Delmarva Today. Dr. Murphy will update us on the current surge in the pandemic in Wicomico and surrounding counties here on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and the pressure this increase is placing on the capacity of the local hospital and its staff.
Read MoreIn September 1967, a commission on rural poverty convened by President Lyndon Johnson released a report called The People Left Behind. It cited a rural poverty rate of 25%, which was almost double the urban rate. To discuss these issues, Harold Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today is Lance George, Research Director at The Housing Assistance Council, a national housing and rural development organization.
Read MoreThis growth in cases clearly presents a challenge for front-line workers yet there seems to be limited public concern about the risks of contracting the virus. What is the psychology behind this lack of concern? To help us understand these issues, Harold Wilson’s guest is Dr. Karl Maier a professor in the psychology department of Salisbury University.
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guest is novelist Tom Hollyday. We’re talking about his latest book, Enemy. Tom is a prolific writer with eight novels in his Sunday River Romance Mystery Series, and a number of reference books. In addition, Tom has produced a series of humorous cartoon books featuring …
Read MoreFriday, November 27 is Native American Heritage Day. Harold Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today is Julie Moss to help us honor the heritage of Native Americans. Ms. Moss is a member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians headquartered in Tahlequah Oklahoma.
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guests are Executive Editor of the Review Wilson Wyatt, Poetry Editor Anne Colwell, and Co-Fiction Editor Lee Slater. Volume thirteen of the Review includes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by 64 authors chosen from among thousands of submissions.
Read MoreDr. Michael Murphy, emergency medical physician in Salisbury, is Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today to discuss this third surge in the pandemic and the positive vaccine trial results announced by Pfizer.
Read MoreHarold Wilson's on this Friday's Delmarva Today is writer for The New Yorker Casey Cep. They discuss her book Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee. Casey lives on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
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