Note to Planet Waves FM listeners
Tonight's edition is a special season-end documentary about the Love Canal tragedy in Niagara Falls, N.Y. Please note a change in publishing pattern.
Dear Friend and Listener:
Tonight’s Substack mailing of Planet Waves FM will contain a photo documentary and essay about my return to Love Canal 40 years after my first toxins investigation in 1983 — which covered the ill-fated suburban neighborhood. I was 19-years-old.
Three weeks ago, I walked the abandoned streets, talked to the neighbors, and have done my best to convey the feeling of the place in photos and writing, as it exists today.
The forthcoming Substack mailing package includes an outstanding interview with Luella Kenney, a mother of three who co-organized the evacuation of the neighborhood between 1978 and 1980. She is 86-years-old and lost her youngest son to the poisoning of her home. She has devoted the past 45 years of her life to the toxins issue and was the subject of the recent book Paradise Falls.
Linked from that mailing is a full edition of Planet Waves FM, which is done early. That includes the Luella Kenney interview, plus my introduction to the project and the history of “forever chemicals” and endocrine disruptors; and a special comment in Tantra Studio on the “MeThree” movement currently unfolding.
Tonight’s is the last program of the summer season. Planet Waves FM will resume Friday, Oct. 13 and the autumn season will run through Friday, Dec. 8. There will be a Thanksgiving music special released Weds., Nov. 22 in lieu of the Friday show.
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Thank you to those who support the program and Chiron Return with your direct donations or by being a paid subscriber to this mission-based Substack. I am devoted to teaching professional skills to journalists, and media literacy skills to my readers and listeners.
Thank you for your generosity and your trust. Thank you for sharing my vision of a world where journalism honors ethics, protocols, honesty and fair play. There’s such a thing as the real thing.
I’ll be back in a few hours, with an email titled “A Sort of Homecoming: Return to Love Canal.”
With love,
My father in law, long dead, worked at the Love Canal. He also worked on the Manhattan project. In his retirement he owned companies that recovered oil. Chemical engineer.
I grew up less than 20 miles from Love Canal in Niagara County, Class of ‘74 and heard next to nothing about Love Canal growing up. Driving into the city of Niagara Falls one can still smell a chemical smell about the place.