Old Mole Variety Hour for February 1

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Air date: 
Mon, 02/01/2016 - 9:00am to 10:00am
ISIS and Syria, a novel of slave times, snow and socialism, loggers and unions
Norm Diamond is our special host for this episode of the Mole, featuring the music of a new Eugene group, appropriately called Monday Morning Denial. On the show we will hear these pieces:
  • Bill Resnick and Dave Finkle will discuss the origins of ISIS, the situation in Syria, and what diplomacy may or may not be able to do to end the fighting.
  • Larry Bowlden will review Tara Conklin’s The House Girl, about a trove of paintings attributed to a southern landowner’s wife, then discovered to be the work of a slave girl in the house. The novel explores the underground railroad experience and the girl’s desire to “run.”
  • Clayton Morgareidge will read from a piece by Owen Hill that asks what winter would look like in a socialist society. 
  • Norm Diamond tells the story of seemingly long-dead labor history, the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, newly “resurrected” in a historic site.