Milepost One: Stories of Hitting the Road, Starting Fresh, and Finding Your Way Home

By
Eric Bork, Alaska Public Media
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This month Arctic Entries brings you: Milepost One: Stories of Hitting the Road, Starting Fresh, and Finding Your Way Home. In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, people tell a seven-minute long true story about themselves relating to the show’s theme. Local musicians perform a few songs as well. Proceeds made from Arctic Entries’s ticket sales go to a non-profit partner selected at the beginning of each season

 

SPEAKERS:

  • Tam Agosti-Gisler – An International Love Story
  • Daniella Shepard – My First Night of Bootcamp
  • Ellen Piekarski – Epic Road Trip
  • Kathy Chastain – Journey to Authenticity
  • John Pearce – Leaving the Room
  • Marcia Howell – Sex, Drugs, and…Disco
  • Westley Dahlgren – Distancing Myself from Darkness

HOSTS: Jason Brandeis and Rosey Robards

 

LINKS:

BROADCAST: Tuesday, October 16th, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. (Alaska time)

RECORDED: Tuesday, September 11th, 2018 at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts

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Eric Bork, Alaska Public Media
Eric Bork, or you can just call him “Bork” because everybody else does, was the Audio Media Content Producer for KSKA-FM. He now produces and edits episodes of Outdoor Explorer, the Alaska focused outdoors program. He also maintains the web posts for that show. You may have heard him filling in for Morning Edition or All Things Considered and can still find him operating the sound board for any of the live broadcast programs. After escaping the Detroit area when he was 18, Bork made it up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where he earned a degree in Communications/Radio Broadcasting from Northern Michigan University. He spent time managing the college radio station, working for the local NPR affiliate and then in top 40 radio in Michigan before coming to Alaska to work his first few summers. After then moving to Chicago, it only took five years to convince him to move back to Alaska in 2010. When not involved in great radio programming he’s probably riding a bicycle, thinking about riding bicycles, dreaming about bikes, reading a book or planning the next place he’ll travel to. Only two continents left to conquer!

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