WJFF-Borders with Ron Bernthal: Recent Episodes
Ron Bernthal & WJFF Radio Catskill
A mix of interviews, music, and travel narratives about another region of the country and the world. Ron Bernthal is an award-winning print and broadcast, travel journalist. He is a Professor of Tourism Management at the State University of New York in Loch Sheldrake, NY.
Elliott Ferguson, CEO/Pres Destination DC; Ashleigh Pearson, Owner, Petite Soeur; Patrick Revord, Director of Technology & Community Engagement, The Wharf; Aliza Bran, Media Relations Manager, International Spy Museum; Mark Huntley, Regional VP & General Manager, Fairmont Washington DC Georgetown Hotel
Interviews with various Washington DC hospitality industry workers, regarding new hospitality venues and predictions for domestic & international tourism to Washington moving forward.
Website: washington.org
Guests: Greg M. Peters, former director of communications at the National Forest Foundation.
Mr. Peters' latest book, Our National Forests, is about maintaining and protecting the country's public lands for both recreational and commercial use.
https://www.workman.com/authors/greg-m-peters
Guests: Joe Riccio, Dallas Texas Speaking Foreign Languages. Joe Riccio speaks nine foreign languages, most fluently, and offers suggestions about learning different languages.
Harold Sarafin, Artistic Director
Morbisch Music Festival, Austria
Episode focuses on the Morbisch Music Festival, in Mörbisch, Austria
Guest Website: https://m-festival.biz/en/introduce/seefestspiele-morbisch
Camilla Lundberg, Senior Project Manager, and Tour Guide Eating Europe Amsterdam. The episode focuses on a food tour of Amsterdam's Jordaan district.
Guest Website: www.eatingeurope.com
Chris Dougless, chef, Ashmont Tavern & Tavalo, Dorchester, MA
Guest Topic: Boston's Wholesale Seafood/Fish Market. The episode focuses on Chef Douglass as he purchases fresh fish for his two Boston-area restaurants.
The episode focuses on Icelandic "youth" hostels, all of them open to adults and families.
Guest Website: www.hostel.is
Vctoria Larson, Founder & Publisher; Linda Cabasin, Travel Writer & Editor; Sophia Shuhui Zhou, Professional Pianist; Catherine Tharin, Dance Curator & Choreographer. Website www.sideofculture.com and cultural venues in mid-Hudson River Valley with upcoming summer/fall events.
The sideofculture.com website offers information about cultural venues around the country. This episode is focused on upcoming summer/fall cultural events within the mid-Hudson River Valley in New York State. Website founder and local artists and writers provide commentary.
Guest Website: www.sideofculture.com
Tim McOsker, Executive Director, AltaSea Research; Mike Ungaro, Owner, San Pedro Public Market; Jonathan Williams, Board President, San Pedro Improvement District.
Revitalization of San Pedro, California
The revitalization of San Pedro, adjacent to the larger port city of Long Beach, CA., is a work in progress. Local business executives provide commentary. Guest Websites: altasea.org; nbclosangeles.com/the-scene/san-pedro-public-market-rebrands-as-west-harbor/2440709/; sanpedrobid.com
Host talks about new developments in Montreal's Griffintown neighborhood. Part II of Montreal Neighborhoods series. http://lerichmond.com
Montreal's Rosemont neighborhood. Tour of Jean-Talon Food Market. Part I of the Montreal Neighborhoods series. Guest Website: https://spadeandpalacio.com/
The history of Motown music is documented with artifacts, audio and video displays.
Guest Website: https://www.motownmuseum.org/
The film tells the story of a Swiss bridge-builder who designed many of New York City's most famous bridges.
Website: https://www.newdocs.de/gateways-to-new-york/
The museum opened on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto.
Website: https://www.polin.pl/en
The house was designed by noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1902 and the architect's quintessential Prairie House design is one of his most famous residential structures.
Guest Website: https://martinhouse.org/
In contrast to Ibiza's southern coast where resorts offer loud, club music to young Europeans, the northern half of the island has rural retreats for visitors interested in yoga or quiet vacations.
Website: https://canpujolet.com/en/rural-hotel-can-pujolet-ibiza
Ibiza is noted both for music "clubbing" vacations for young Europeans, and quiet yoga and nature vacations for older, wealthy Europeans. Website: https://www.theushuaiaexperience.com/en/
The show's producer spends several days visiting Crickhowell, a Welsh village near Brecon Beacons National Park. The village is noted for its 17th century stone bridge that crosses the River Usk, the longest river in Wales.
https://visitcrickhowell.wales/
The city's Arts United Center, designed by Louis Kahn, and Concordia Theological Seminary, designed by Eero Saarinen, are two of Fort Wayne's most well-known structures.
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he Dalí Museum (St. Petersburg, Florida) has been the unofficial heart of fine arts in the Tampa Bay area since its opening in 1982. The debut of the new building in January 2011 has contributed to the cultural renaissance of the city.
Guest website: www.thedali.org
East Liverpool was the Pottery Capital of the U.S. in the 1800's. Pottery manufacturing was an early industry in this part of Ohio and West Virginia, until Asian factories started to manufacture products that were much cheaper than the American ceramic in this part of the U.S.
Guest website: https://www.themuseumofceramics.com/
The resurgence of Cape Town as a leisure and business destination
Show notes: Business hotels are flourishing (pre-pandemic), and
new Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art is attracting leisure visitors.
Edward Mauger, Philadelphia Tour Guide & Author (died April 2020); George Boudreau, Historian, Penn State Harrisburg Ben Franklin's Philadelphia and the importance of Benjamin Franklin's life and inventions in colonial Philadelphia.
Bauhaus housing development in Karlsruhe, Germany. Walter Gropius, one of the founders of the Bauhaus architectural movement in Germany designed the Dammerstock residential houses site in 1920's, a historic landmark that is still , a thriving neighborhood in Karlsruhe, southwest Germany. https://www.karlsruhe-erleben.de/en/media/attractions/Dammerstock-housing-development#/article/8cbde074-0c5f-48eb-9779-8e6e6ae3eb65
What was it like to live in a historic hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas, as a 12-year-old girl? The former Baker Hotel, built-in 1929, was where Ms. Wilson lived for a while in1960's, as a 12-year-old girl. theatrequorum@gmail.com
History of German air-ships, Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany guest will describe exhibits
Fresh fish and seafood is a major Swedish industry in Gothenburg Sweden. Swenson is a chef at one of Gothenburg's popular fish restaurants.
http://restauranggabriel.com/