Hazel Kahan

Hazel Kahan


Latest Episodes

Mark MacNish on his family and the Orphan Train Movement
February 04, 2025

Mark MacNish, historian, fifth-generation North Fork resident and Executive Director of the Cutchogue-New Suffolk HistoricalCouncil, talks about his familys direct connection to the Orphan Train Mov

Syrian-American musician-composer Malek Jandali on building peace through music
January 07, 2025

We return to a Tidings interview recorded in 2017 with musician, composer and humanitarian activist Malek Jandali, speaking from New York about the important role music plays in peace while his homela

Bob Jester shares what he has learned about pain management
December 26, 2024

Bob Jester, resident of Greenport, returns as North Fork Works guest for a third time, 11 years after he told us about being a chimney sweep, scientist and teacher and seven years since he talked abou

Malek Jandali: Syrian-American composer, pianist, activist
December 15, 2024

Syrian-American composer, pianist and humanitarian activist Malek Jandali talks about his international mission to preserve and protect Syrias rich embattled heritage and to build peace through music

Adam Wilson: Farming and feeding in the gift economy
December 10, 2024

In the first days of the pandemic, farmer and writer Adam Wilson was offered $500k of inherited family money by a local community member to disentangle 113 acres of upstate New York grassland from the

Beth Young: Eyes on the East End 2024
December 05, 2024

Beth Young, journalist-founder of the East End Beacon website and newspaper and 13th-generation member of one of the North Forks founding families, talks to Hazel Kahan on North Fork Works examines t

Shane Burley reports on Jewish educational organizations purging their anti-Zionist professional employees
November 12, 2024

Shane Burley, Oregon-based journalist, author and filmmaker, talks about Anti-Zionist Workers Are Being Purged From Jewish Institutions Across the US, his months-long investigation based on interviews

Rebekah Berndt on magical bookshops and their eccentric owners
September 10, 2024

Rebekah Berndt, writer, spiritual director and psychic reader, talks to us from Charleston, South Carolina about her love of weird and magical bookshops, their often eccentric owners, how she cares fo

Steve Wick, author and journalist, on uncovering the truth and telling the whole story
September 06, 2024

Steve Wick, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist, formerly of Newsday and more recently editor of the Suffolk Times, talks about his earlier work, two new upcoming books, the importance of local

Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht: organic farmer and organic farming advocate
August 03, 2024

Riverhead farmer Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht talks about the twenty years of growing her Garden of Eve Farm and advocating for organic farmers, most recently as Northeast Region Farmer Representative of OFA,