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KEDM
Airs Excerpts of Bayou Farewell
Bayou Farewell: The
Rich Life and Tragic Death of
Louisiana
's
Cajun
Coast
(Vintage Departures), by Mike Tidwell, is making an impact in
northeast
Louisiana
. The book chronicles the condition of the disappearing
Louisiana
coastline. The author hopes to make public, in his own words, “The
greatest untold story about the biggest calamity in the nation right
now.”
KEDM, 90.3 F.M., the
public radio station housed on campus, is offering some help in getting
that story told. Every Saturday morning at
10 a.m.
you can hear community volunteers read excerpts from the book. If you have
missed previous Saturday morning readings on-the-air you can catch up in
the listening room on the KEDM website at www.KEDM.org.
Co-owner of a local
bookstore Windows a bookshop, Elisabeth Grant-Gibson, worked with KEDM to
get the readings on the air. She said it is something that she wanted to
do for this area for a long time.
“It’s very great to
hear these
Louisiana
voices reading this book aloud,” Gibson said. “We have men, women, and
children reading aloud. Our youngest person reading is 10-year-old Anna
MacMillan. She did a science project on this book. We have senior citizens
reading as well. People from all walks of life have called and asked to
read. It has not been hard at all to find people. It had been so
successful that we have increased air-time of the readings from 30 minutes
to one hour on Saturdays. Everyone sounds good and it has been received
very well in the community.”
Gibson has spoken with
the book’s author and says he is thrilled about them reading the book.
Once it is completely read, a CD recording will be made available for
libraries in the state.
“The book is fabulously
well-written,” Gibson said. “I usually read fiction but this man is a
story teller. He takes a vast amount of information and weaves it into a
story about all of these different people and you hear about them and see
how it is affecting these people and you are engaged. I picked it up
very causally and I was hooked from page one.”
This project is a great
way for
ULM
and the community to participate in a project together. A number of people
connected to the university including Dr. Bob Eisenstadt, Dr. Marsha McGhee,
Dr. Bette Kauffman, Ann Smith, Dr. John Rettenmeyer, Sue Edmunds, Susan
Allain, and Dr. Holly Casey. Elisabeth Grant-Gibson is the coordinator of
the reading project and Mark Wilson is the engineer.
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