When you break it down, being a radio person is a funny job.<\/p>\n
You go into a room that’s a lot like a walk-in closet, shut the door tight, push a red button and talk into a metal tube.<\/p>\n
So it’s funny that radio is the most intimate informational medium. Funny, but true. Print, TV and web just don’t have a similar depth or emotional resonance.<\/p>\n
And it adds another wrinkle when you consider that most listeners don’t know what those people on the radio look like.<\/p>\n
So, it can be a little disconcerting when I’m just out there in the world and I get recognized. It’s rare, but it happens as it did over the weekend.<\/p>\n
I signed a DEC registry book at an Adirondack lake. I had just schlepped my kayak up the trail from the water to the parking area and saw a couple putting their boats on their car. He was tightening the straps, she walked over to the registry book to sign out.<\/p>\n
As I walked up behind her, she mistook me for her husband and said, “Oh, Jonathan Brown’s here… from North Country Public Radio.”<\/p>\n
There was, as you might imagine, a brief moment of confusion as we three figured out who we were to each other. The really cool part is that we had a relationship even though we never met face-to-face before.<\/p>\n
They listen to NCPR. They paddle. They live in Saranac Lake, I live in Canton. But we’re still neighbors, of the Adirondack\/North Country sort.<\/p>\n
That shock of recognition, as Melville said it does, ran the whole circle round.<\/p>\n
And it was just the perfect capper to a perfect day on the water. What a great way to meet your neighbors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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