Julian Price Project

Radio Interviews by Julian

C.P. Ellis (48 minutes) (1986 interview)

Julian interviews former “Exalted Cyclops” (chief officer) of the Durham, North Carolina Ku Klux Klan, Claiborne Paul (C.P.) Ellis recounts his evolution from fast-rising Klansman to Union organizer.

Ellis explains why the Klan was so attractive to him and others like him. He also discusses the Greensboro massacre of 1979. This is an in-depth account of Ellis’ personal journey and the rejection he faced, including from his church, when he left the Klan. He discusses the causes he championed after his transformation. (Studs Terkel interviewed C.P. Ellis in 1980. There’s also a book and play about Ellis and civil rights activist Ann Atwater called The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South.)
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This Land of Ours – two shows (from Independent Radio in San Rafael, CA) (30 minutes each).

Episode 1. Julian interviews Lawrence Moore about his shitake mushroom cultivation in western North Carolina, and details the difficulties and joys of the growing process. 

He also interviews Professor Alan Haney of Warren Wilson College about the science, and Toby Ferris about the research and marketing side of the practice. Segment two features an interview with John Kimmey of Sustainable Native Agriculture Center, in Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico, and bringing back old open-pollination seed varieties, and traditional sustainable irrigation practices. Segment three features John and Katie Hudson of Coastways Ranch on the central California Coast. The Hudsons own roadside stand and U-Pick produce, and they struggle to direct market their produce with effective signage that complies with California highway beautification laws, is safe for drivers and works to make their business known to drivers, which is how they survive.

Episode 2. Julian interviews Herbert Jones in Hamilton, MO about the foreclosure of his farm, and the destruction of the property’s trees and landscaping.

The Land Stewardship Project’s Ron Cruise talks about how farmers like Jones should be helped because of their interest in helping sustain the farm resources, with stewardship in mind. Segment two: Julian interviews Bunny Beeson about the South Carolina conservation organization Wildlife Action Inc. and how a hunter and ecologist can be the same person. Julian and Beeson travel the Little Pee Dee River and discuss the threats to the area.

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Bobby Person (12 min.) (1986)

Julian interviews Bobby Person, an African-American prison guard at Moore County Prison, North Carolina and his struggle to become the first black sergeant at the facility.

Person talks about his three-year struggle with his superiors and colleagues, and harassment and bomb threats by the Ku Klux Klan. The Southern Poverty Law Center director Morris Dees filed a lawsuit in 1985 to stop the harassment. (Bobby Person’s story is in 2002’s The Encyclopedia of Terrorism, under the Glenn F. Miller listing)
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WCQS interview – pedestrians. (6 min.)

Interview by Lynette James with Julian about his organization Pedestrian Action League, as he and the reporter discuss pedestrian hazards around Asheville. Barbara Field and Jim Ewing are also interviewed.

Organic garden (4 min.)

JP radio interview with the teachers and students at Manor Elementary School in Fairfax, CA and the creation of a pesticide (and weed-free) garden.

In the Elements (30 min) (1989)

Julian’s “In the Elements” radio program. Edible seaweed harvesting, proposed oil drilling for the Noyo River and environmentally-oriented internships.

Interview with John and Eleanor Mendocino Lewallen about their Mendocino, California edible seaweed harvesting company, and how they found their way “back to the land.” The second segment is about proposed oil drilling proposed for the Noyo River in Mendocino County. North Coast fisherman and activist Nat Bingham addresses it. In the third segment Price discusses environmentally-oriented internships, specifically the Center for Environmental Intern Programs, which helps students and recent graduates acquire jobs involving environmentalism. The segment features a segment produced by Rita Sand.
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This Land of Ours  – two shows (from Independent Radio in San Rafael, CA) (30 minutes each)

Julian interviews Skip Berg and Jim Revoir about a proposed development at Hamilton Field in 1985 and the issues surrounding growth.

Peter Calthorpe and the Sierra Club’s Gail Wilhelm are also interviewed. Efforts to reduce traffic was part of the original plan. Sprawl and density, rental housing, vanishing farmland, and managing growth are addressed. Organizations like American Farmland Trust are represented in the discussion.
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Regeneration West (7 min)

Julian interviews the founders of Regeneration West in San Anselmo, CA about a collaboration among composters, vegetable growers, a food bank community, seed and produce swaps, tours of recycling facility. It’s volunteer-based and non-funded, not a non-profit.

This Land of Ours – two shows (from Independent Radio in San Rafael, CA) (30 minutes each)

Episode 1. Julian interviews various people in Osage County, Oklahoma about whether or not the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve there would have become a National Park, including Brett Holsey of the Sierra Club. 

Osage Tribal oil and mineral rights, prairie chicken breeding habitat, ecology, cattle ranching are addressed. Starting at minute 19, Julian interviews Dr. David Crowe, Canadian pomologist, at Kentville Station, Nova Scotia. Crowe discusses, in depth, the problems related to the reduction of apples varieties, and his efforts in resurrecting old varieties. JP: “I’m impressed with all this of course, but after 30 minutes of standing under an apple tree, I’m ready to stop talking and start tasting.” He eats Scarlet Pimpernel, among others.

Episode 2. Julian interviews David Wingate about one of the longest running restoration projects in the world, at Nonsuch Island, Bermuda. They discuss, in particular the Bermuda petrel, or cahow, once thought to be extinct, and the successful efforts to rescue this bird from the edge of extinction. The cahow conservation program and restoration of the island’s other island plant and wildlife are discussed, and how this restoration positively impacts Bermudians.

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