<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.35pt -1pt 0.0001pt 5.8pt; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Baskerville, serif; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">FO</span><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Baskerville, serif;">R<span class="" style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"> </span><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">IMMEDIAT</span>E<span class="" style="letter-spacing: -0.8pt;"> </span><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">RELEASE:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class="" style="margin: 0.9pt 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in -1pt 0.0001pt 5.8pt; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Baskerville, serif;">An Evening of Radio Storytelling in Woods Hole</span><span class="" style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "MS Mincho";">
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0.3pt 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 7pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in -1pt 0.0001pt 5.8pt; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Baskerville, serif; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">November</span><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Baskerville, serif; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"> </span><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Baskerville, serif; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">21</span><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Baskerville, serif;">,<span class="" style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"> </span><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">2019</span>,<span class="" style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;"> </span><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">7</span>:<span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">00</span>-<span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">9</span>:<span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">3</span>0<span class="" style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;"> </span><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">pm</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 6pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 6pt; background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p><div class="" style="margin: 0in 11.7pt 0.0001pt 5.8pt; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Atlantic Public Media presents a public listening event to celebrate the creation of new audio work by nine students at this fall’s Transom Story Workshop.<span class=""> </span>It will be held from 7 – 9:30 pm on Thursday, November 21st,<span class="" style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>at the Community Hall, 68 Water Street, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Admission is free. Seats fill quickly, so come early.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 11.7pt 0.0001pt 5.8pt; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 3.85pt 0.0001pt 5.8pt; line-height: 13.7pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Baskerville, serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">“It's possible there's never been a more energized group of students to come through the workshop, eager to tell Cape Cod stories,” says lead teacher Rob Rosenthal. “From African American literature on the Vineyard, to piano bar music in Provincetown, to the effort to keep Yiddish alive in Falmouth, the stories Transom students are working on are incredibly varied. I can't wait to hear what they make!”</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 3.85pt 0.0001pt 5.8pt; line-height: 13.7pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 3.85pt 0.0001pt 5.8pt; line-height: 13.7pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The students arrived in Woods Hole in late September to learn the craft of audio storytelling. They traveled from </span><span class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Amsterdam, both coasts, the middle of the country, and England by way of Tennessee, </span><span class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;">and range in age from their late 20s to late 30s. Their stories are about local people and issues, and it’s likely that some of the subjects will be in the audience. A question and </span><span class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">answer period will follow each piece.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0.6pt 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 2.5pt 0.0001pt 5.8pt; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Baskerville, serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Executive Director Jay Allison says, “When we gather at our listening and graduation event, we get to hear surprising, even wonderful things about where we live and our community … about us.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0.9pt 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 19.35pt 0.0001pt 5.8pt; line-height: 13.7pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Baskerville, serif;">The listening event will precede a brief graduation ceremony and the public is urged to join us in applauding <i class="">Transom Story Workshop’s </i>17th graduating class.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0.85pt 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in -1pt 0.0001pt 5.8pt; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Baskerville, serif;">Public radio producer Jay Allison founded <u class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(56, 110, 255);">Atlantic Public Media</span></u><span class="" style="color: rgb(56, 110, 255);"> </span><span class="">as a non-profit organization in </span></span><span class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;">1993.</span><span class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;">APM founded </span><u class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(56, 110, 255);">WCAI</span></u><span class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;">, the Public Radio Exchange (</span><u class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(56, 110, 255);">PRX</span></u><span class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;">), </span><u class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(56, 110, 255);"><a href="http://Transom.org" class="">Transom.org</a></span></u><span class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(56, 110, 255);"> </span><span class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;">(the Peabody </span><span class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Award-winning public media website), and produces </span><i class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(56, 110, 255);">The Moth Radio Hour</span></u><span class="" style="color: rgb(56, 110, 255);"> </span></i><span class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;">(also a Peabody </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Baskerville, serif;">winner). APM also crafted the popular NPR series, <u class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(56, 110, 255);">This I Believe</span></u>, and provides programming for </span><span class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;">WCAI, including the </span><i class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sonic IDs</i><span class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><i class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Creative Life </i><span class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;">and </span><i class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Local Food Report</i><span class="" style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0.65pt 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in -1pt 0.0001pt 5.8pt; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Baskerville, serif;">For more information: <u class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(56, 110, 255);"><a href="mailto:info@atlantic.org" class="">info@atlantic.org</a></span></u><span class="">; Web: </span><u class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(56, 110, 255);"><a href="http://atlantic.org" class="">atlantic.org</a></span></u><span class="" style="color: rgb(56, 110, 255);"> </span><span class="">or </span><u class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(56, 110, 255);"><a href="http://transom.org" class="">transom.org</a></span></u><span class="" style="color: rgb(56, 110, 255);"> </span><span class="">–– Photograph attached</span></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in -1pt 0.0001pt 5.8pt; line-height: normal;"></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>