"In my roles as husband, father, son, radio producer, and mentor, I am at my core a public media person. I know that you are too, because of your commitment to CAI and the Founders Circle. Together, we believe in the power of public media to bring communities together. When we listen to CAI, support CAI, and share what we hear on CAI, we deepen our community connections. CAI's mission to create a social positive is made possible by YOU. Looking back on this challenging year, I hope we have brought you stories that carried truth, good will, decency, and a strong reflection of this remarkable place. Cheers to 2022. Glad you’re here with us." |
Unique and exclusive opportunities to connect to CAI.
Perks are ways that we can say thank you to Founders Circle members with unique and exciting opportunities to get to know CAI, and each other, on an intimate level.
A new member of the Founders Circle is helping us connect this month. Meet Kathy Edmonston, a local Cape Cod artist who recently donated her time and talent to creating a 2022 desk calendar for Founders Circle members. Kathy is an Artist Member, Copley Society of Art, Boston; Juried Master, Cape Cod Art Association; Member, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, Board Member, 2005-2012; Member, Cotuit Center for the Arts; and, Member, Cape Museum of Fine Art. |
Each calendar month features one of her paintings depicting mostly Cape scenes. I can almost hear our essayists from A Cape Cod Notebook as I look at each picture that is unique to our region. Calendars were mailed on January 4th. Please enjoy this perk with our compliments. |
Another opportunity to connect with each other comes by way of Falmouth Academy: |
FEBRUARY 15, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
WCAI Behind the Scenes
Mindy Todd, Steve Junker, and Dan Tritle
Join Mindy Todd, Host and Executive Producer of “The Point” and Managing Director of Editorial, Steve Junker, Managing Editor for News, and Dan Tritle, Production Director and Host for a behind-the-scenes look at CAI, local NPR for the Cape, Coast, and Islands for a conversation and opportunity to ask your questions. Please check the Falmouth Academy website for event schedule updates. |
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Please note: Proof of vaccinations and masks required. Check the Falmouth Academy website for event schedule updates. |
We applaud the following members of the Founders Circle for their work in our communities:
Vicky from Falmouth helps bikesnotbombs.org. Their mission combines three things she believes in: bicycling, giving economic opportunity to disadvantaged city youth, and sending reconstituted bikes to third world countries (in Africa and Central America) where the bikes are used not only for transportation but in all sorts of creative ways.
Gerie from Harwich is helping to keep open spaces green, accessible, and beautiful for the benefit of all residents and visitors of her community. She has put her green thumb to good use over the years helping the Garden Club of Harwich and the Harwich Conservation Trust to promote wildlife habitats, native plants and environmentally acceptable garden practices.
The Founders Circle is proud to have such caring individuals in our midst, dedicated to making the world a better place and listening to CAI Public Radio. |
A familiar voice returning, and twenty new voices added to the Founders Circle. |
There will be a huge welcome back at the end of the month for Kathryn Eident to her usual spot with Sam Houghton on Morning Edition from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00a.m. Be sure to listen on January 28th to hear their familiar voices together again. Huge thank you to Patrick Flanary who will continue to fill in for Kathryn as needed. Thanks, Patrick, for keeping the seat warm. |
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We also celebrate the success of our end of calendar year match to attract new Founders Circle members. Our overall goal is to get to 250 members by our 25th Anniversary in 2025. Because of our generous match patron and the twenty new members from our listening and streaming communities we are that much closer. See if your community is listed: Chilmark, Cataumet, East Sandwich, Falmouth, New York, Boston, East Orleans, Osterville, Woods Hole, Washington DC, Cambridge, South Orleans, West Yarmouth, Nantucket, Siasconset, Seattle, Vermont. |
Opportunities for Founders Circle members to play a part in promoting the mission of CAI to serve the community.
We are public radio, and we do that well, but we also fulfill our mission by posting our content onto our website for the entire community to access in a traditional way beyond radio. We want to make sure that our website experience is as award worthy as our reporting. You are invited to help elevate the invisible CAI listening experience into a visual CAI website experience.
This is a great time to celebrate our Founders Circle community and highlight our CAI champions. Please consider sharing your favorite self-portrait and/or your listening locale for inclusion on our new pages. If you have questions about this effort and/or would like to send us your photos, please email us at: founders_circle_cai@capeandislands.org.
We look forward to collecting your smiling faces. |
CAI programs and features that create our signature sound.
Arts and Ideas, Sunday evenings from 7:00-11:00 p.m. Join Jay Allison for an eclectic mix of topics that may entertain or stimulate.
A reliably smart weekly show with a range of science, documentary, music, conversation and culture - the lineup is ever changing; you hear first-person stories from the Moth Radio Hour, or stories about hidden kitchens, from prison cells to sheepherders’ ovens, - the next hour it could be a current debate about cancel culture or Amazon's role in the small business marketplace and then it's on to science weighing in on UFO's or the latest climate issues.
Arts and Ideas is Produced by Viki Merrick and Michael Falero. Here are their picks for past episodes to check out or share with others:
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Enjoy at your leisure, and share with your friends, these events and stories you may have missed or can’t stop thinking about.
When asked about her favorite stories of 2021, here is what Eve Zuckoff told us:
“It's really hard to pick my favorite story of the year; each is such a different experience. Some stories are really difficult to write but so fulfilling when you figure out the narrative, others brought me to incredible places, a few brought me to incredible people.
That said, I think this story where I got to see and hear a right whale so close was my favorite to report. It's the kind of story I'll tell my grandchildren about someday. |
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But I loved doing this story about erosion in Chatham for NPR, and our story about coastal seniors vs. climate change introduced me to so many people I loved talking to. Finally, this one about coastal retreat felt like the culmination of all my climate change reporting in many ways. I said at the time: ‘I feel like I’ve spent the last two years preparing to tell this story. It’s about how climate change is forcing people to imagine having to abandon the places they love because they’re impossible to preserve. It's about hope, resilience, and desperation.’” |
Behind the Binoculars with Mark Faherty
Mark Faherty loves birds and listeners love Mark Faherty. On Friday, October 22, Founders Circle members had an exclusive opportunity to join Mindy Todd and Mark for an intimate Zoom event and engage in a behind the scenes look and discussion of the CAI Bird Report.
The recording of this Founders Circle event can be found here. (Password: CAIFCEvents) |
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