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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Naturalist and environmental activist Janisse Ray talks with Jim Fleming about her memoir, "Ecology of A Cracker Childhood." Ray now devotes herself to long leaf pine restoration.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

TTBOOK host Jim Fleming responds to the documentary  film “If a Tree Falls” that follows Daniel McGowan – a convicted terrorist… currently serving time. McGowan used arson as political protest with The Earth Liberation Front – a group the FBI considers America’s number one domestic terrorist threat.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rita Golden Gelman tells Anne Strainchamps how she became a professional nomad, and recounts some stories from her travels in Bali and rural Mexico.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Alexander Weinstein’s “Children of the New World” is a collection of cautionary tales about extreme emotional attachment to software and silicon.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jennifer Cohen flew off to Russia to be a journalist and live with the man of her dreams.  Things didn’t quite work out the way she planned

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

How do you set poetry to music?  Grammy Award-winning jazz composer Maria Schneider did it with Ted Kooser's poems, sung by Dawn Upshaw.  She tells Anne Strainchamps how she finds beauty in her art.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John Freyer decided to sell everything in his apartment on E-Bay. He tells the story in a book called “All My Life for Sale.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robert Thurman tells Anne Strainchamps about the Buddhist concept of self and why it leads to compassion and understanding.

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