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After September 11, it would have been understandable if Zade Dirani had cancelled his upcoming American house-concert tour. But as a musician and a Muslim, Zade embraced his opportunity to bridge the cultural divide between East and West. He also has performed larger concerts for Queen Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela, and the Jordanian royal family. Zade joins John to talk about his family, his life in America, and his new self-titled album from producer Will Ackerman.
Learn more at www.zade.com

Henry Homeyer is an organic gardener and writer from Cornish Flat, New Hampshire and he's been gardening most of his life. Henry's gardening column appears in many regional papers and he's written a book called, "Notes from the Garden: Reflections and Observations of an Organic Gardener." He tells us why he feels organic gardening is the way to go, how to deal with deer, and why children are natural gardeners.
Henry's home page is: www.gardening-guy.com

Exeter author Dan Brown?s fourth novel hit the New York Times bestseller list the first week it was out. The DaVinci Code starts with a murder, but that's where any resemblance to a run-of-the-mill thriller ends. Dan brings back Harvard symbolgist Robert Langdon- the protagonist of his previous book- and sets him on a race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe as he follows the clues from a mind-bending code hidden in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci toward an astonishing truth about religion and history that has been hidden for centuries. And it's all true- maybe. Dan talks about the book and his meticulous research.

Hear the extended version of the interview aired July 14, 2003.

Rick Van de Poll makes his living conducting bio-inventories. He takes a piece of land and finds out what lives on it. He works for conservation groups, local governments, land owners and developers. He talks to John about the huge amount of data he has collected about the regional environment and global change.

On April 25th-27th, the New Hampshire Writer’s Project is hosting a conference called Poetry and Politics. It will mark the first ever gathering of the state Poets Laureate. John talks to Marilyn Nelson of Connecticut and Baron Wormser of Maine about their writing the office of the Poet Laureate and the connection between poetry and politics.

And next Friday on the Front Porch, we’ll hear from one of the presenters featured at the conference.
Learn more at http://www.nhwritersproject.org/poetryandpolitics/