Snail Mail Stoke
We just hit our 300th episode! Whether you’ve been a listener from the mic-in-a-closet days, or you just joined us, it’s you– our community– that keeps us going. In honor of our listeners, we have a story about four women taking an idea introduced in one of our stories, adding their own creative spin and running with it.
Happy summer!
Music: If Walls Could Talk by Jacob Bain & Nis Kotto • The Biddy Bong Song by Publish the Quest • Shenanigans by Cordelia Zars • Walking Barefoot by Kai Engel • Delivered by Brendan O’Connell • Tracks provided by Free Music Archive or with permission from the artists.
Endangered Spaces–Oak Flat
Oak Flat, Arizona: a site sacred to the San Carlos Apache, a beloved climbing area, a rare riparian zone in the desert. The catch? It’s slated to become the largest copper mine in the history of North America. Days before the land was set to transfer to the mining company, a group of Native high school students ran 188 miles to Oak Flat– joining a cry of protest loud enough to reach the ears of the White House. We dive into the fight to possess and protect a place with incredible spiritual and economic power.
Ways to take action
Call or write your representatives. Yes, it works! The Save Oak Flat Act needs additional co-sponsors. You can write them through one of the handy tools below. (Think they may have signed? Check House of Reps and Senate co-sponsors)
Arizona Mining Reform Coalition
Center for Biological Diversity
Support Apache Stronghold
Music: If Walls Could Talk by Jacob Bain & Nis Kotto • Sunset by Kai Engel • July by Kai Engel • Numb by Cleod9 • Loops to Aviemore by The Freeharmonic Orchestra • Defend The Sacred by Ed Kabotie • Protect Oak Flat by Ed Kabotie • Jaco 2 by Bradley Carter • Delivered by Brendan O’Connell • Tracks provided by Free Music Archive or with permission from the artists.
The Shorts — Coming In
Cycling intervals, homework assignments, planner items: Emily Schaldach raced through her life checking off her list. When Emily’s grandmother invited her to a silent meditation retreat in the woods of Colorado, she reluctantly accepted. Compelled to sit still for a few days, Emily saw herself in a way she hadn’t yet envisioned.
Music: If Walls Could Talk by Jacob Bain & Nis Kotto • A Thousand Kinds of Gold by Publish the Quest • Up Early by Bradley Carter • Snowmen by Kai Engel • Drifting by Cordelia Zars • Delivered by Brendan O’Connell • Tracks provided by Free Music Archive or with permission from the artists.
Emergency Twix
Michelle Baker and her husband John both fell in love with mountains before they fell in love with each other. As they started a family of their own, they hoped to pass down their passion for outdoor adventure and a respect for the dangers that go with it. While climbing the Grand Teton with their 12 year old son, a lightning storm soon had Michelle questioning whether she’d pushed too far.
Music: If Walls Could Talk by Jacob Bain & Nis Kotto • October Morning by Bradley Carter • The Last Wild Mountain by Bradley Carter • Something by Kai Engel • modum by Kai Engel • Delivered by Brendan O’Connell • Tracks provided by Free Music Archive or with permission from the artists.
Two Mountains
Two mountains, one in California and one in Nevada, named after the president of the Confederate States decades ago. How can a name be changed? Producer Fil Corbitt takes us through the wonky and lengthy process involved in renaming a place.
A version of this episode first appeared on The Wind Podcast.
Music: If Walls Could Talk by Jacob Bain & Nis Kotto • Wild Wind by John Berry • Ode to Mountains by People with Bodies • Ghost Dance by Ken Christianson • Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 by Frederic Chopin • Delivered by Brendan O’Connell • Tracks provided by Free Music Archive or with permission from the artists.
