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of The Folk Life ( Inc. 1976)
John McLaughlin and
Jamie Downs, Editors
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The Digital
Folk Life Chapter III
July 21, 2001, A Visit to Hydropowered Radio Catskill, WJFF-FM
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 The dam here in Jeffersonville provides the hydroelectric power for the radio station. |
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 John and Christine Ahearn and Katie in front of Lord Buckley |
Got up the Delaware as far as Callicoon, NY today -- Jamie's father used to go up there fishing with her mother's father, which is how her father met her mother -- turned east, on the advice of a wee lassie waitressing in the pizza parlor, and wound up running into the town of Jeffersonville -- and WJFF, hydro-electric-powered radio for the Catskills, "Home of Lord Buckley." Say wot? Pulled in -- an old folkdj buddy, Angela Page, has a show on there, but she'd just left, half an hour before, so her buddy, Christine Ahearn, showed me around the station -- "Lord Buckley" is the gigantic old Worthington engine that transformed the Jeffersonville Dam into the signal for WJFF Radio (There's a quote from "The Hip Gan" about the work of the spinning wheel taped tothe engine)-- and I wound up doing an on-air pitch for their fund-raiser, in progress on Cindy Levindofske's story-telling show -- "Jist stoap pretendin' tae be Scottish, unzip yer spurrans and give, tae WJFF, Hydro-Powered Radio for the Upper Delaware!" -- and left them with a taped ID for the station -- "John McLaughlin, for WJFF Radio...." It ! was fun -- Jamie got great pictures, including one of Christine and me -- with her dog, Katie -- standing next to "Lord Buckley," in the engine-room. Told her about The Digital Folk Life, left her the URL before we got back in the purple Tracker. Total mind-job of a stopover. Looks as if ah jist haftae go back on folkdj soon.... It's the beads, y'know? |
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