ECO Reflections
By EternalCurrent.Online
Categories: Arts, Books, Society & Culture
Conversations about the families, places and traditions in the books of the ECO Library, the free shelf of novels and stories at EternalCurrent.Online. Every book discussed is free to read at eternalcurrent.online/library.
33 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- Saving Gullah Land Basket by Basket
A conversation about Sweetgrass and Deed. Hattie Grant Polite, 88, a Gullah basket maker on St. Helena Island, tells her great-grandson Malik her life one sweetgrass basket at a time, while the thirty-one heirs to her great-grandfather's forty acres prepare to vote on a developer's offer.Read the…
- Exploring Two Homelands Each Way
A conversation about Two Homelands Each Way. Bia Nakamura Silva, 17, moves between the factory town of Oizumi in Japan and her grandmother Haruko's persimmon farm in Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil, and finds what it means to feel foreign, and at home, in two countries at once.Read the book: Two Homelands…
- A Bracero's Fight for Family Land
A conversation about The Asparagus Knife. In 1956 Rafael Ortega leaves Jerez, Zacatecas on a bracero contract for the asparagus fields of Roberts Island near Stockton, working to raise the pesos his mother needs to buy back the family land before the year runs out.Read the book: The Asparagus…
- Two Soldiers Rebuild a California Boatyard
A conversation about The Long Watch. In the Port Ransom boatyard, Declan and 89-year-old Cork shipwright Fintan Hurley hold off developers while they build a 21-foot oak hull, lofted from chalk lines on the workshop floor.Read the book: The Long WatchMore episodes: ECO Reflections · Every book is…
- A Lima Chef in an Aymara Kitchen
A conversation about Altitude. Lima chef Lucía Sotomayor, 29, moves to the shore of Lake Titicaca at 3,800 meters and earns her place at her mother-in-law Doña Justina's clay stove, learning quinoa soup, chuño and bread that rises too fast in the thin air.Read the book: AltitudeMore episodes: ECO…
- Translating My Grandfather's Letters from Lebanon
A conversation about In the Shelter of Each Other. Maeve O'Malley finds 41 letters her grandfather Tadhg wrote in Irish during his 1979 UN peacekeeping posting in Tibnin, South Lebanon, and learns how his longing for home-baked bread became a weekly bread exchange on Central Avenue in Albany that…
- Smuggling Mango Pickle Across America
A conversation about The Avakaya Miles. An 85-year-old Godavari farmer drives from Irving, Texas to Beaverton, Oregon with a jar of homemade avakaya, and the hosts talk about how Telugu words, irrigation memories and family recipes carry from one generation to the next.Read the book: The Avakaya…
- The Secret Ledgers of Wong's Grocery
A conversation about Last Day at Wong's Grocery. Henry Wong, 71, gets ready to close the family store on Nelson Street in Greenville, Mississippi after 88 years of carrying neighbors on credit, with 34 handwritten ledgers, the daily opening routine and the Delta's tamale traditions.Read the book…
- The Case of the Missing Wedding Sari
A conversation about Auntie Rookmin and the Missing Sari. A 1913 Ghazipur wedding sari crossed the kala pani to Port Mourant, Guyana, was worn by six brides, and then went missing in Schenectady, New York, so a granddaughter starts recording the family's memories around the kitchen table.Read the…
- French Pastry Meets Thai Fruit Carving
A conversation about The Petal and the Fold. The hosts follow a school year that runs from a pastry line on Hollywood Boulevard to fruit carving in Chiang Mai, and talk about how precision, sharp knives and discipline keep a craft and a family heritage alive.Read the book: The Petal and the…
- Writing Memory One Stone at a Time
A conversation about The Carpenter's Pencil. Over ten Saturdays in Half Moon Bay, hands-on building work becomes a way of holding on to family memory on the Northern California coast.Read the book: The Carpenter's PencilMore episodes: ECO Reflections · Every book is free to read in the ECO Library…
- How Family Meal Saved The Bell Buoy
A conversation about Family Meal. One season on the line in a coastal restaurant kitchen, built around the 3:30 staff meal, and how the people and the neighborhood keep the place going through the slow winter months.Read the book: Family MealMore episodes: ECO Reflections · Every book is free to…
- From Kitchen Samoan to Family Orator
A conversation about Kitchen Samoan. A young Samoan New Zealander who only knows the Samoan of the family kitchen spends a year learning to speak for the family, from Māngere in Auckland to the family's land on Savai'i.Read the book: Kitchen SamoanMore episodes: ECO Reflections · Every book is…
- A Kenyan Grandmother Retrains a Texas Runner
A conversation about The Third Wairimu. A Texas high school cross-country runner rebuilds her stride under her Kenyan grandmother, her Cucu, who stands at the two-mile mark with the lessons of Iten.Read the book: The Third WairimuMore episodes: ECO Reflections · Every book is free to read in the…
- Living Between Brazil and Japan
A conversation about Two Homelands Each Way and The Thursday Drum. Brazilian families of Japanese descent move between the factory lines of Hamamatsu and the persimmon farms outside São Paulo, and the hosts ask what home means when it runs both ways.Read the book: Two Homelands Each WayRead the…
- Class of '86 Reunion in the Fog
A conversation about Class of '86. Classmates meet again forty years later above Daly City, remember the lunch-table food sharing they called the Bank of Reed, and honor the friends who are gone.Read the book: Class of '86More episodes: ECO Reflections · Every book is free to read in the ECO…
- Planning a 600 Person Lagos Owambe
A conversation about Owambe. Lagos party planner Bisi has twenty-one days to stage a 600-guest homecoming owambe in Ikoyi, including finding a master talking drummer who can recite the family's oriki.Read the book: OwambeMore episodes: ECO Reflections · Every book is free to read in the ECO…
- Mapping a Lost Cuban Town from Memory
A conversation about Clap on the Names. In a Westchester garage, Eloísa Arencibia Ledesma maps her hometown of Bocaclara from memory, 147 house pins in all, while teaching young people in Miami the rivers of Cuba.Read the book: Clap on the NamesMore episodes: ECO Reflections · Every book is free…
- Why My Grandfather Traded Bread Every Friday
A conversation about In the Shelter of Each Other. Every Friday, Grandfather Tadhg bakes two loaves of brown Irish bread and trades them for markouk at Hiyam Jaber's market on Central Avenue.Read the book: In the Shelter of Each OtherMore episodes: ECO Reflections · Every book is free to read in…
- From Queens to the High Himalayas
A conversation about The Pass Above Drangkar. Pemba Diki walks her ten-year-old son Nima from Woodside, Queens, up to her mother's lodge in Drangkar, high in the Khumbu.Read the book: The Pass Above DrangkarMore episodes: ECO Reflections · Every book is free to read in the ECO Library at…
- Smuggling an Armenian Village into Watertown
A conversation about Ask the Crane. Zabel Ashjian Tarpinian bakes lahmajoun with her neighbors in East Watertown and records cassette tapes of her memories of Kharpert.Read the book: Ask the CraneMore episodes: ECO Reflections · Every book is free to read in the ECO Library at EternalCurrent.Online.
- Reclaiming Gaelic at the Milling Board
A conversation about The Milling Board. Effie and the elders of Iona, Cape Breton, keep the Gaelic milling songs alive through a winter of beating wet wool cloth around a wooden table.Read the book: The Milling BoardMore episodes: ECO Reflections · Every book is free to read in the ECO Library at…
- The Seventeen Women Who Paid the Ransom
A conversation about The Village They Bought. Newly freed Guyanese villagers pool what they have to buy their own land, and build a community archive that lasts from emancipation to independence.Read the book: The Village They BoughtMore episodes: ECO Reflections · Every book is free to read in…
- The Fake Village That Saved My Grandmother
A conversation about The Wax Keeps the White. Ukrainian refugees after the Second World War carry their regional songs and memories through the displaced persons camps before settling in Winnipeg's North End.Read the book: The Wax Keeps the WhiteMore episodes: ECO Reflections · Every book is free…
- How Migrants Built Parallel Survival Systems
A conversation about Queen Faces the Window and Pack Tight, and the systems Caribbean migrants built for each other, from a pardner savings hand in Handsworth to barrels packed in Brooklyn for Gouyave. Retired bus conductor Linton Gayle explains how the pardner draw helped Caribbean families in…
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