MAMF Media

HOST NATION HOSPITALITY: Allen Dale Olson

MAMF Director Circe Olson Woessner interviews her father Ole Olson about his life overseas, starting with his experiences as a young soldier in Germany in the 1950s, his career with DODDS, and later, with Schiller University and the friends he made along the way. 

This podcast is brought to you by the Museum of the American Military Family & Learning Center. The museum’s podcasts are supported, in part by New Mexico Arts, the New Mexico Humanities Council, Sandia Area Credit Union and organizations like Military Brat Seal and Military Brats Registry

HOST NATION HOSPITALITY: Karin Tramm

This is first in a series of podcasts focusing on travel, food, living abroad. MAMF Director Circe Olson Woessner talks to teacher and author Karin Tramm about her teaching career overseas, her new book "100 Days Smart"  and teaching Kindergarten on line during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

 

Click here to learn more about Elva Resa and to buy 100 Days Smart. 

Click on the titles to purchase the museum's anthologies: 

Host Nation Hospitality.      Schooling With Uncle Sam

Our podcasts are brought to you by the Museum of the American Military Family & Learning Center and our podcasts are supported, in part by New Mexico Arts, the New Mexico Humanities Council, Sandia Area Credit Union and organizations like Military Brat Seal and Military Brats Registry.

 

AT EASE: Rick Kaempfer

MAMF Director Circe Olson Woessner speaks with publisher and writer Rick Kaempfer author of "Back in the DDR."

Eckhartz Press can be found here. 

This podcast is brought to you by the Museum of the American Military Family & Learning Center. We are located in Tijeras, NM just east of Albuquerque. We collect stories in a variety of formats. Check us out, and if you're interested, send us a story...or two...or three! We will accept short video or audio files, as well as written posts for our blogs. Query us or send a written story to: mamfwriter@gmail.com

Audio Podcasts: Together We Serve: "Service" stories from Brats, Vets, Spouses & Others, Schooling With Uncle Sam: Teachers & Students talk about their DOD school stories, America Remembers 'Nam: Veterans and their families share their thoughts on Vietnam, Brat Time Stories: Can't sleep? Check out our middle-of-the-night bedtime stories, written by, about and for the insomniac Brat

Our Blogs:

We Served Too,

Passports & Pedagogy: Schooling with Uncle Sam; Military Family Stories ;

Frontlines to Homefront: https://militaryfamilymuseumwarstories.wordpress.com

And the MAMF Library: https://militaryfamilymuseumlibrary.wordpress.com;

The museum’s podcasts are supported, in part by New Mexico Arts, the New Mexico Humanities Council, Sandia Area Credit Union and organizations like Military Brat Seal and Military Brats Registry.

At Ease: Lisa Stice & Randy Brown

Poet Lisa Stice and Middle West Press Founder Randy Brown talk with MAMF Director Circe Olson Woessner about poetry, publishing, family, war, and more.

Lisa Stice has a website: https://lisastice.wordpress.com

Middle West Press can be found here: http://www.middlewestpress.com

This podcast is brought to you by the Museum of the American Military Family & Learning Center. The museum’s podcasts are supported, in part by New Mexico Arts, the New Mexico Humanities Council, Sandia Area Credit Union and organizations like Military Brat Seal and Military Brats Registry.

 

 

E Pluribus Unum: Valerie Bonham Moon on Community

"Community"  is again the focus in a conversation between Writer-in-Residence Valerie Bonham Moon and MAMF Director Circe Olson Woessner. How does Valerie define "community?" By S.O.S of course! It appears that all military connected people can share an SOS story...

To purchase a copy of E Pluribus Unum, click here. 

This podcast is brought to you by the Museum of the American Military Family & Learning Center. We are located in Tijeras, NM just east of Albuquerque. We collect stories in a variety of formats. Check us out, and if you're interested, send us a story...or two...or three! We will accept short video or audio files, as well as written posts for our blogs. Query us or send a written story to: mamfwriter@gmail.com

Audio Podcasts: Together We Serve: "Service" stories from Brats, Vets, Spouses & Others, Schooling With Uncle Sam: Teachers & Students talk about their DOD school stories, America Remembers 'Nam: Veterans and their families share their thoughts on Vietnam, Brat Time Stories: Can't sleep? Check out our middle-of-the-night bedtime stories, written by, about and for the insomniac Brat

Video Podcasts:  One Takes: Like the name implies, people share their stories in a short, unedited format, Kitchen Table Convos: The best conversations happen around the kitchen table,  At Ease!  Arts, Entertainment, Literature & Travel-there's a little something for everyone…Here are two of our blogs:

We Served Too

Passports & Pedagogy: Schooling with Uncle Sam;

The museum’s podcasts are supported, in part by New Mexico Arts, the New Mexico Humanities Council, Sandia Area Credit Union and organizations like Military Brat Seal and Military Brats Registry.

E Pluribus Unum: Brandon Palma

Navy Brat Brandon Palma shares some of his art for the museum's GRAICE project, as well as insights on his creative process, design company and products. To purchase a copy of E Pluribus Unum, please click this link.To see Brandon's website visit: https://8thdaycreate.com

After the interview, MAMF Director Circe Olson Woessner wanted to clarify that what she had heard was correct: If Brandon types a sentence like "Make me a pink castle with golden spires" his AI program? robot? will create a picture. Brandon texted back, "Yes, here's your castle." 

The museum’s podcasts are supported, in part by New Mexico Arts, the New Mexico Humanities Council, Sandia Area Credit Union and organizations like Military Brat Seal and Military Brats Registry.

 

 

E Pluribus Unum: Shanon Hyde on Community

MAMF Student Liaison Shanon Hyde talks about his book Dear Military Teen and what "community" means to him-both as part of the museum's GRAICE project and also in his book. Dear Military Teen is available on Amazon, and check out www.theshanonshow.com. E Pluribus Unum is the museum's anthology which features writings by Shanon and dozens of other military connected writers. E Pluribus Unum can be purchased here:

https://tinyurl.com/2t9y9e3v .

 

The museum’s podcasts are supported, in part, by New Mexico Arts, the New Mexico Humanities Council, Sandia Area Credit Union and organizations like Military Brat Seal and Military Brats Registry.

E Pluribus Unum: Boxes

Circe Olson Woessner reflects on the word "boxes" as it relates to military families. She reads her essay from the anthology E Pluribus Unum and discusses moving and all the boxes associated with that. Visit the museum website at www.militaryfamilymuseum.org to learn more about MAMF. Look for us on Facebook: Museum of the American Military Family & Learning Center. 

The museum’s podcasts are supported, in part by New Mexico Arts, the New Mexico Humanities Council, Sandia Area Credit Union and organizations like Military Brat Seal and Military Brats Registry.

 

E PLURIBUS UNUM: Connie Kinsey

2020-2022 Writer in Residence Connie Kinsey joins Director Circe Olson Woessner to read her "Reflection" in MAMF's publication E Pluribus Unum: GRAICE Under Pressure.  

The book is available here. 

This podcast is brought to you by the Museum of the American Military Family & Learning Center. The museum’s podcasts are supported, in part by New Mexico Arts, the New Mexico Humanities Council, Sandia Area Credit Union and organizations like Military Brat Seal and Military Brats Registry.

E Pluribus Unum: MAMF Writers-in-Residence & the GRAICE Project

 “The motto, E Pluribus Unum, means ‘out of many, one.’ The museum’s latest project E Pluribus Unum: GRAICE Under Pressure-- gives title and substance to a newly-released multi-faceted study exploring if the many, do indeed, become one.” Museum Director Circe Olson Woessner and Writers-in-Residence Connie Kinsey and Valerie Bonham Moon discuss their writing and the importance of the project. The "GRAICE project" was funded in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New Mexico Humanities Council, the McCune and Griffinharte foundations.  Here's the link to Connie's blog. To read Valerie's blog click here.

This podcast is brought to you by the Museum of the American Military Family & Learning Center. The museum’s podcasts are supported, in part by New Mexico Arts, the New Mexico Humanities Council, Sandia Area Credit Union and organizations like Military Brat Seal and Military Brats Registry.

AT EASE:Rick Tavares

MAMF Director Circe Olson Woessner speaks with military brat/veteran author Rick Tavares about his first-ever book, a novel titled It Began in Japan. It is available here on Amazon. Proceeds from It Began in Japan will be donated to the Museum of the American Military Family & Learning Center. 

This podcast is brought to you by the Museum of the American Military Family & Learning Center. We are located in Tijeras, NM just east of Albuquerque. We collect stories in a variety of formats. Check us out, and if you're interested, send us a story...or two...or three! We will accept short video or audio files, as well as written posts for our blogs. Query us or send a written story to: mamfwriter@gmail.com

Audio Podcasts: Together We Serve: "Service" stories from Brats, Vets, Spouses & Others, Schooling With Uncle Sam: Teachers & Students talk about their DOD school stories, America Remembers 'Nam: Veterans and their families share their thoughts on Vietnam, Brat Time Stories: Can't sleep? Check out our middle-of-the-night bedtime stories, written by, about and for the insomniac Brat

Our Blogs:

We Served Too,

Passports & Pedagogy: Schooling with Uncle Sam; Military Family Stories ;

Frontlines to Homefront: https://militaryfamilymuseumwarstories.wordpress.com

And the MAMF Library: https://militaryfamilymuseumlibrary.wordpress.com;

The museum’s podcasts are supported, in part by New Mexico Arts, the New Mexico Humanities Council, Sandia Area Credit Union and organizations like Military Brat Seal and Military Brats Registry.

AT EASE: Nancie Laird Young

MAMF Director Circe Olson Woessner interviews Army Brat author Nancie Laird Young about her book, Tea with Dad. Click here for Nancie's info. Buy the book at any bookseller to include Amazon.

This podcast is brought to you by the Museum of the American Military Family & Learning Center. We are located in Tijeras, NM just east of Albuquerque. We collect stories in a variety of formats. Check us out, and if you're interested, send us a story...or two...or three! We will accept short video or audio files, as well as written posts for our blogs. Query us or send a written story to: mamfwriter@gmail.com

Audio Podcasts: Together We Serve: "Service" stories from Brats, Vets, Spouses & Others, Schooling With Uncle Sam: Teachers & Students talk about their DOD school stories, America Remembers 'Nam: Veterans and their families share their thoughts on Vietnam, Brat Time Stories: Can't sleep? Check out our middle-of-the-night bedtime stories, written by, about and for the insomniac Brat

Our Blogs:

We Served Too,

Passports & Pedagogy: Schooling with Uncle Sam; Military Family Stories ;

Frontlines to Homefront: https://militaryfamilymuseumwarstories.wordpress.com

And the MAMF Library: https://militaryfamilymuseumlibrary.wordpress.com;

This podcast is brought to you by the Museum of the American Military Family & Learning Center. The museum’s podcasts are supported, in part by New Mexico Arts, the New Mexico Humanities Council, Sandia Area Credit Union and organizations like Military Brat Seal and Military Brats Registry.