Meet WJFF’s Carol Pozefsky
Carol Pozefsky has always been interested in language and its oddities. “When my brother was about 8, I heard him disagreeing with my father on an issue. My father made a statement and my 4 year old ears heard my brother say, “well, be that as it may, Daddy...” Because of his intonation I understood the phrase, thought it was smart and wonderful, and from then on I wanted to talk like my brother. “When I was barely a teenager, my brother, who is the best extemporaneous speaker I have ever heard, was at Harvard. He invited me there to listen to a discourse among my brother and his friends. Afterwards, I longed to elevate my own teenage discourse and be able to talk and think like that and be in a world that had those phrases that he used. I aspired to that higher level of discourse.” After a stint as the Albany correspondent for 1010WINS-NY, she was an anchor for radio newsrooms in Albany and for the CBS and NBC radio networks. Now she is “her own boss” at Northeast Broadcasting, a news service supplying stories to radio stations. When she moved to Sullivan County in 2004, “I wanted to get to know the community. My world was radio and people told me they thought highly of WJFF. I approached WJFF’s Christine Ahearn with an idea, a notion I had
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of just having fun with words. I put together a tape for her and she said “yes”. “I would check out the hundreds of books on word derivation, on poetry, Latin and other foreign phrases, etc. I’d go to websites and see lots of humor in the last words of celebrities, in headline juxtapositions, in menu prose, and other curiosities. “And it runs in my family. My younger son is known throughout cyberspace for his superb skills at Scrabble. He, too, loves words.” Carol is proud to be a patron of American Friends of the Royal Naval Museum and a member of the Civil War Round Table of NY. And, “I played the cello and I am involved with the Jussi Bjorling Society.” Every Thursday at 10:00am you can hear her five minute program on WJFF public radio, Take My Word For It. It is also available on WJFF’s archives, so you can listen at home at your convenience on the computer. Her most recent accomplishment is May I Have A Word With You, and it is the title of her forthcoming monthly contributions to CANVAS. She will soon be explaining lexilogica, nyctalopia, morology, the derivation of ‘ham actor,’ and will bust your gut with drivers’ explanations of their car accidents. Look for her humorous and edifying tidbits. We thank you Carol.
February 2014
Table d’Hôte: Dinner, Stories & Jokes
Shorts & Sweets for Sweethearts includes short stories, silly jokes and songs about love and romance read by Carol Montana (top right) and De Lois “Cookie” House (bottom right) of Big Sky Productions. “This dinner-theatre experience, will hopefully include a special treat - love songs performed by the incredible Patti Greco Sunshine, who wowed attendees at the Shorts & Sweets for the Holiday Season in December,” said Montana. “Guests will be served salad, meatloaf, mashed potatoes and vegetables, iced tea,
lemonade, coffee or hot tea, and the entertainment begins while guests enjoy delectable homemade desserts. “ The special Valentine’s fundraiser is on February 15 at 6:00pm in the United Methodist Church of Monticello, 445 Broadway. Tickets are available in advance or at the door. Everyone is welcome, including singles. Parking is available in the church parking lot, the driveway for which is accessible from North Lakewood Avenue. Just follow the signs. For information call 845-985-7783.
Valentine’s Day Desserts Benefit NVM
All of your chocolate wishes can come true at the Neversink Valley Museum’s Valentine’s Day Chocolate Dessert Social Many delicious varieties of chocolate and other desserts will be available. Choose from three irresistible desserts. In addition, the Museum will offer fresh, handcrafted chocolate candies and other sweet treats bundled in festive Valentine’s Day packages for sale at the event. Items are reasonably priced and make perfect gifts “for all of your favorite sweethearts!” This event is to raise funds for the Museum, which will open the 2014 season in April with
a new exhibition, Then and Now around the D&H Canal, featuring “then” photographs from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the D&H Canal reigned supreme in the region, and “now” photographs by Andrew Chattaway, taken in or near the same locations. Beverages are free. All items are available for takeout or to enjoy at the D&H Canal Visitor’s Center on February 9, Noon-4:00pm. The museum is at 26 Hoag Road, right off Route 209 in Cuddebackville. For information call 845-754-8870.