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Piece Description
The producer is Julie Sabatier (suh-BAH-tee-ay).
Broadcast History
This was originally broadcast as part of Destination DIY's "DIY Rituals" episode, which has aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUT Austin and a handful of other stations.
Transcript
The Portland Sentinel was a newspaper covering North and NE Portland. It started in 2001 and printed its last edition in March of 2010. I will remember it as one of the best neighborhood papers in the city. Early in my journalism career, the Sentinel gave me writing assignments that sent me on all kinds of adventures. They even let me edit and assign features for a DIY issue of the paper. When I heard that this little gem of a community newspaper was closing its doors, I felt bereft. And I wasn’t alone. Publisher Cornelius Swart organized a ritual for writers, editors and readers to say goodbye to The Sentinel and to burn extra copies of the paper he no longer had room to store.
Cornelius: There’s a line in Medea which is like, “All the ships timbers are rotten.” and that kind of just got me on a riff and so I looked into Greek myths and then I looked into there’s a Wagnerian opera cal...
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INTRO: OUTRO:That piece comes from Julie Sabatier (suh-BAH-tee-ay), host and producer of Destination DIY.
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Music by Jason Leonard. Engineered by Clark Salisbury.
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