Our Road to Walk: Then and Now
Deborah and Ken Ferruccio
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The Warren Record Keeps the Record: Stopping the Mega Solar Land Grab
Send a textArticle and photo by Luci Weldon, Warren Record assistant editor and photographer.Above WR Photo: Deborah Ferruccio asks zoning consultant Jake Petrosky if he’s ever seen outright…
Our Road: Then —EP46: PCB Dead Sea Scrolls: Seven Personal Journals
Send a textPhoto: A stack of Deborah’s journals spanning from 1977 — 1982 taken from the Ferruccio’s Warren County PCB Dead Sea Scrolls. …
Our Road — Now: EP 45 The Petrochemical Industry Take Over: An All Hands on Deck Moment
Send a textScreenshot photo: Vice-President Al Gore speaking at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, Opening Reception of Climate Week, April 21, 2025 (ABC7 News Bay…
Our Road — Then — EP 44: 15 Days: Extraordinary People, Extraordinary Times
Send a textKen and Deborah were recently asked by Michael Lamphier, Executive Director of the Wake Forest University School of Business, if they will speak to a class he is taking called…
Our Road: Then — EP 43 That Latest Yankee Invasion: Our Move from North to South
Send a textAbove Photo: “Making Music,” Left: Sylvia Davis Bumgardner, Robert Ferruccio, Ken Ferruccio, Robert Macon Davis (harmonica), Deborah Ferruccio (harmonica), Charlie Davis (guitar), Laura…
Our Road: Then — EP 42: How long? Not long. Ferruccio’s 5-Point Detoxification Framework
Send a textIn this episode, Ken echoes Dr. King’s notable “How, Long? Not Long" question and refrain in a memorandum to Jonathan Howes, Secretary of North Carolina’s Department of Environment, Health…
Our Road Then — EP41 The Lickskillet Landfill: “It Takes Rosa Parks and Puts Her on the Back of the Bus Once Again"
Send a textAbove Photo: “Warren Residents Oppose Regional Landfill," front-page, Henderson Daily Dispatch,” by Scott Ragland, March 19, 1992. Inset reads: “It takes Rosa Parks and puts her on the…
Our Road: Then and Now — EP40: HIJACKED! Historic PCB Marker, 30th Anniversary
Send a textAbove Photo: Bill Kearney and Dollie Burwell unveil the PCB historic marker at the September 15, 2012 30th anniversary PCB celebration held at Coley Springs Baptist Church, (Henderson…
Episode 39: Ferruccios’ Interview with WUNC NPR Radio Host Frank Stasio
Send a textKen and Deborah begin this episode with an update on the status of the Warren County Environmental Action Team's proposal for a partnership with county officials to seek EPA Justice40…
Our Road: Then and Now — E38: PCB Legacy: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction
Send a textIn this episode, Ken and Deborah continue to address the re-narration of the PCB history as they contradistinguish fact from fiction. They explain how the PCB landfill legacy is relevant…
E37 - Our Road: Then and Now — In the Room Where It Happened
Send a textPhoto Collage: EPA Public Hearing, Warren County Armory, January 4, 1979. Archives. Eight-hundred Warren County Citizens Concerned About PCBs listen intently to their independent…
Our Road: Then & Now -- E36 How the Rift Was Won
Send a textEpisode Photo: For this hard-hitting episode, we chose to feature this quote by Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Montgomery, Alabama, National Memorial for Peace and Justice,…
Our Road: Then - - 35: Environmental Justice: The Reversal and the Rift
Send a textThis photo of Reverend Leon White and Ken Ferruccio, President and Spokesperson for Warren County Citizens Concerned About PCBs, was taken in December 1982, soon after the PCB protest…
Our Road: Now -- E34: The EPA's Environmental Justice Emperor Has No Clothes
Send a textPulitzer Prize-winning author Than Viet “argues that the way nations remember and re-narrate their pasts isn’t random or coincidental. It’s intentionally curated in memories, monuments,…
Our Road: Then & Now -- E33: Ken's 19-Day Fast in Jail: PCB Landfill Abysmal Failure
Send a textIn this episode, Ken and Deborah take off their gloves as the chemical war of words rages and is playing out in Warren County as a winner-takes-all battle for the PCB environmental justice…
Our Road: Then -- E32: The Dastardly Deed: What Was Behind the PCB Crime?
Send a textThe above photo of T. Mitchell Langdon, a Johnston County, North Carolina farmer, was published in Newsweek magazine on September 6, 1982, with an article titled "Toxic Time Bomb." The…
Our Road: Then -- E31: 1980: A Landmark Victory for Polluters -- Only the NIMBYs Stand in the Way
Send a textPhoto: At his parent’s home in New Hampshire, Ken works on his manuscript titled: Toxic Aggression, Fighting on the Front Lines: The North Carolina PCB Story (October, 1980). In this…
Our Road: Then -- E30: 45th Anniversary: The Grassroots Uprising that Birthed the Warren Co. Environmental Justice Movement:
Send a textIn this late December, 2023, Podcast Episode 30, Deborah and Ken break from their chronological narrative in order to recognize and celebrate the 45th anniversary of the actual birth of…
Our Road: Then -- E29: PCB Issues and Gubernatorial Candidates' Response
Send a textIn this episode, the Warrenton Rotary Club invites Ken to speak about the PCB problem. Citizens are really concerned about Warren County becoming a PCB and toxic waste dumping grounds. Ken…
Our Road: Then -- E28 "The Past is Never Past," Reflections on NPR Throughline Podcast
Send a textPhoto: William Sanjour, Former Branch Chief of EPA's Division of Hazardous Waste Disposal, warned in the late 1970s that reducing the scope of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)…
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Our Road to Walk: Then and Now has published 48 episodes since September 2022, covering topics in Documentary, Society & Culture.
Our Road to Walk: Then and Now is currently highly active with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 31m.
