Episode 9: AIA
In this episode, we talk with Ashlie Kozlowski, Outreach Coordinator of the Assateague Island Alliance. AIA is the non-profit partner of Assateague Island National Seashore, and it contributes greatly to…
Episode 8: #TrashFreeAssateague
Conversation with Billy Weiland of Assateague Coastal Trust about ACT’s #TrashFreeAssateague project, Hands Across the Sand, his blog The Marsh, and the most important lesson he’s learned from nature (so…
Episode 7: Assateague Beach Voices
Assateague offers solitude and surf, but it also offers something else: community. Day use visitors, Eurovan travelers, Mother’s Day celebrants, weddings, proposals, surfers and surf fishers, horse lovers, stargazers, and…
Episode 6: Native Son
Billy Weiland is a son of Assateague. He grew up here, surfed here, and got his degree from Salisbury U. before leaving for grad school in North Carolina. He’s back…
Episode 5: Wild Horses
This week, Chris & Brady of the Maryland Conservation Corps. share some surprising information about Assateague Island’s legendary wild horses. Are they ponies or horses? The answer to this burning…
Episode 4: Tiny Beach Houses
This week we visit with Ron Harrigan, the man behind Coastal Campers and Assateague Cottages. Ron talks about his lifelong love of tiny houses and surfing, and we hear from…
Episode 3: Surf’s Up, Part 3
“You’re actually in the lineup where everybody is, you can sit on top of your board and just drift. And then when there’s a wave you paddle and you go.…
Episode 2: Surf’s Up, Part 2
Get your jersey, grab your board. There’s the horn. The first heat’s underway. In this episode, we drop in on the Eastern Surfing Association Delmarva District’s Summer Series Surf contest…
Episode 1: Surf’s Up, Part 1
From the moment I started planning this Assateague podcast, I knew I wanted Michelle Sommers as my first guest. Michelle is the Assateague surfing world’s Big Wahini. She’s revolutionized surfing…