Cynthia Berger / WPSU Producer

With this work of historical fiction, you don’t just travel to Amsterdam—you travel to Amsterdam in the 17th century. Listen here to learn more about this New York Times Notable Book.

WPSU radio producer Cynthia Berger and her husband are spending the year traveling by boat around the eastern half of North America. The vessel is unusual . . . it’s a solar-powered canal boat. One goal of their trip is to meet other people who are using “sustainable technologies” in innovative ways.

WPSU radio producer Cynthia Berger is on a yearlong canal boat adventure around the “Great Loop,” a system of waterways that turns North America east of the Mississippi into one great big island. Cynthia sent this audio postcard from a trip through a lock on the Erie Canal.

It’s a big week for horse racing with the Belmont Stakes on June 5th. If you’re a fan, you’ll love this book about a horse race that took place all the way back in 1823.

WPSU’s Cynthia Berger leaves this week for a year-long cruise on a solar-powered boat with her husband, environmental educator Bill Carlsen.

What are the environmental impacts of drilling in the Marcellus Shale? Listen to a recording of the call-in, hosted by WPSU’s Cynthia Berger with experts Tom Murphy (co-director of the Penn State Marcellus Initiative for Outreach and Research), Bryan Swistock (water resources specialist), and Dave Yoxtheimer (graduate student and senior hydrologist with ARM Group, Inc.).

A talented local author brings the classic story of the journey home into the world of science fiction, where monsters and mysteries are everywhere. Publisher’s Weekly named it one of the Best Books of 2009.

This book of children’s poetry won the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award from our very own Pennsylvania Center for the Book.

This novel takes place in Jackson, Mississippi, nearly 50 years ago. Learn about a difficult time in our country’s past through an endearing tale.