WCLS in Whatcom County Presents Library Stories!

Welcome to our podcast!

This twice-monthly show will feature conversations and interviews all about your public libraries and the people who populate them. Tune in to laugh a little and learn a little about the communities, the staff, the events, the backrooms, the happenings, and, of course, the books!

It’s a half hour of happiness delivered to your earbuds every two weeks!

Open your eyes to all the ways your local libraries matter.

Listen to the podcast here or subscribe on your favorite Podcast platform.

Let us know what you would like to hear. Email the host at neil.mckay@wcls.org

You can also listen to the show on Mondays at 6:00 pm and Fridays at 10:00 am on KVAX 102.5 FM in East Whatcom County and on Saturdays at 11:00 am on KMRE 102.3 FM in Bellingham

Episode 24 Notes

Read & Share
Previous Read & Share books
- My Old Man and the Mountain by Leif Whittaker
- Thirst by Heather Anderson
- House Lessons by Erica Bauermeister

Episode 23 Notes

Historical Photos from the Washington Rural Heritage website

Book Recommendations

Vern Yadon and Ann Marie Impero at North Fork Library

WCLS staff clown around at North Fork Library — WCLS staff entertaining at the North Fork Library 11th Anniversary Party

Raising a wall of the North Fork Library in 2010

Episode 22 Notes

Episode 21 Notes

Cayla standing in Sumas Library during flood repairs — Sumas Library undergoing repairs

Donate to Sumas Library Recovery Fund

Blaine Library Events

Sumas Events

Jonathan’s recommendations

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Maid by Nita Prose

Marie and Emma podcasting — Marie and Emma talking YA Lit

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Books by Sarah Dessen
Books by Mindy McGinness
The Cask of Amontillado and other stories by Edgar Allen Poe
Legendbor n by Tracie Deonn
Blood and Bone by Erin Hunter
Vicious by V. E. Schwab
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
The Beautiful Ones by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

Marie's puffy paint tee shirt with text: "Team Edward or Jacob?" — Puffy paint t-shirt

Barely Adulting Book Club

Episode 20 Notes

Crowd of people with long haired man staring at camera — Buzzy wondering why I’m taking a photo

image of Neil McKay and Buzzy Nielsen — Neil and Buzzy, separated at birth

Go to 1:36 to see the WCLS staff group photo shoot!

Rena Priest presenting at Whatcom READS

Episode 19 Notes

Episode 18 Notes

“A community that reads is nothing but good.” – Paul Hanson
Greenwood by Michael Christie
WhatcomREADS Events
Village Books
Chuckanut Radio Hour on KMRE 102.3 FM
The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman
Ordinary Monsters by J. M. Miro

“Brutiful”
The Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word,
is the difference between the lightning and the lightning bug.” – Mark Twain
Ken Burns’ documentary on Mark Twain on Kanopy (free with your WCLS library card)

Episode 17 Notes

Episode 16 Notes

Whatcom READS
Singer Debby Harry explains The Pogo, the dance that was all the rage in central Missouri in the 1980s.

Episode 15 Notes

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face” – Victor Hugo
Books and items in the WCLS collection by and about Victor Hugo
Radio’s Favorite Bloopers (CD available at WCLS)
The Haunted Library by Dori Hillestad Butler

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things,
trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself,
changing yourself, changing your world.
You’re doing things you’ve never done before,
and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.”

Neil Gaiman
(Books and items written by Neil Gaiman)

Episode 14 Notes

Hopeful Book Recommendation