On this edition of B-Side, Tamara Keith and Charla Bear get lost on purpose.  They are dropped off in a mysterious suburban location and have to find their way back to downtown Washington, DC.  Think of it as a low budget version of one of those survival shows on the Discovery Channel.  The show is all about losing things from a diary to a stream.  Enjoy!

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Liner Notes:

A hollow in Hueysville, KY that's been filled with mining waste. Photo by: Kristin Espeland.

Lost Streams: Kristin Espeland
Some things seem easy to lose.  But a stream?  Reporter Kristin Espeland has this story from Appalachia, where residents have seen hundreds of miles of streams disappear under piles of coal mining waste.

Hearing Loss: Judah Leblang
Judah had a life-long connection to the deaf.  Then he lost most of the hearing in his left ear.

Music reviewer Dave Segal. Photo by Andrew Walsh.

Lost Collection: Andrew Walsh
Some things get lost and you barely miss them. But when music reviewer Dave Segal lost a huge chunk of his record collection, he lost part of himself.  Dave wrote about his ordeal here if you’d like to read more.

Dear Diary, Where Are You?: Anna Sachs
A lot of girls when they reach a certain age start keeping a journal, a diary. Anna Sachs had a diary when she was younger and she spoke to Tamara about how she discovered she had lost it.

Kristin Espeland Gourlay covers the environment for WFPL, Louisville’s NPR news station.  Her work has aired on NPR, Justice Talking, National Native News, and on stations throughout New York, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kentucky. Before coming to Kentucky, Kristin worked for Wyoming Public Radio, where she helped launch a weekly newsmagazine, which won the station a first place national PRNDI award.  Kristin has a particular fondness for going where the story is: she’s tromped through six feet of snow to find an antelope’s radio collar, danced with an elephant, and donned waders to trudge up a shoulder-high stream in search of endangered mussels.  She lives in Louisville, Kentucky but misses the three-woman ukulele band and Bulgarian women’s choir she helped start in New York.