(Complete) Coffee Break Collection #32 - WILDERNESS - Lt

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Corrected

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc32_basletobeil_cc_128kb.mp3

4:10

Craig

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Here's one:

Great Applachian Trail from New Hampshire to the Carolinas by Benton MacKaye (1879-1975)

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc32_appalachiantrail_cm_128kb.mp3

14:27

Source: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1923/02/18/105848492.pdf

Wikipedia on McKaye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benton_MacKaye
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Appalachian Trail is PL OK. I've backpacked parts of it on foot, driven all of it in a Motor Home, and truly love this part of America and what they've done with it to preserve a variety of rural cabins/museums, build the numerous lookouts, and to keep the campgrounds accessible but out of sight. Benton McKaye is what I call a gifted, succinct writer. "Patria is country and patria-tism is country-ism. Love of country!!!" And this is an excellent article looking back to early days promoting the building of the trail. I'd like to read more of his material.
Thanks for choosing this collection to put your recording into. It may surprise you to know that these Coffee Break Collections tend to have wider listenership than you might expect. :D
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Basle to Biel is PL OK. Thanks, Craig.
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Wilderness is PL OK. Great poem, with teeth shall we say! Thanks for your rendition.
I notice this poem is not in the LV collection, thus would make a great fortnightly poem (if they will take one this long). I will suggest it and let you know what they say.
Thanks again!
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Post by DaveAery »

I am Dave Aery and am new to Librivox. Having passed the 1-minute test, I recorded and uploaded a very short poem from the public domain, entitled The Child's Realm. Its mp3 file passed the Checker app. The poem may be too short for Coffee Break, but it makes a sublime comment.

The uploader link:
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc32_childsrealm_da_128kb.mp3

File length: 1m16s

Text of The Child's Realm by L.H. Bailey can be found on Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/43200/43200-h/43200-h.htm#Page_451

It is a poem within the Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets (1904).

There is a Wikipedia page for its author Liberty Hyde Bailey (b. 1858, d. 1954):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Hyde_Bailey

The reader of the poem is me, Dave Aery.
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Coffee Break Wilderness readers: Michele (msfry) is without power in her Louisiana home and likely won't get it back for period of time.
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Post by Lynnet »

Thank you for the reminder, Bill. Hopefully she will be back soon.

Dave, welcome to Librivox! I have added you to the catalog and entered your submission in the MW for proof listening.
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Hello everyone and thanks for covering for me. I finally got my power back late this evening after hurricane IDA rattled our city ----- to my great surprise as they said so much of our area is supposed to be down for 3 weeks! Air Conditioning is ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL! Internet is wonderful. will PL new sections tomorrow.
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Here is a single day from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau -- a thought about walking into the woods, and an appraisal of a muskat. Its mp3 file passed the Checker app.

The uploader link:
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc32_thoreausjournal25nov1850_da_128kb.mp3

File length: 5m 53s

Text of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 8 (of 20). Journal II, 1850-September 15, 1851 by Henry David Thoreau can be found on Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/59031/59031-h/59031-h

Wikipedia page for its author Henry David Thoreau (b. 1817, d. 1862):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau

Original publication date: 1906

The passage does not have an introduction or preface.
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Post by Colebank »

Hi there!

I'm very new to LibriVox.

I don't understand what the Coffee Break Collection #32 is?

If I wanted to contribute, what material do I need to read?
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Colebank wrote: September 27th, 2021, 4:57 pm Hi there!

I'm very new to LibriVox.

I don't understand what the Coffee Break Collection #32 is?

If I wanted to contribute, what material do I need to read?
Hello, Colebank and welcome to the project. I will try to answer your questions. LV has several types of projects:
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The Child's Realm is PL OK

Sorry it took me so long to get back to you, Dave. I've been without internet at home for about 5 days. Hopefully by tomorrow this will be corrected. Your story was very appropo to this collection, and beautiful, and nicely done. Checker reports the following statistics, all within LV's range but worth mentioning.

Volume
86.4 dB
DC Bias
+0 (-0.0012%)
Clipped Audio
0 ms (0.00%)
Background Noise
39.3 dB

I did hear a good bit of background noise which you could easily reduce on future recordings, by just sampling 4 seconds of noise from the last 5 seconds of silence of your file, then go Effect/Noise Reduction/Noise Profile; then grab the whole file and go Effect/Noise Reduction/Reduce 12 6 3/OK. You can play with these numbers until you get a background noise on the first pass that isn't distracting (you don't want dead silence).
Your volume is at the low range, with 89 being our median, so in future you could Amplify +2 or +3, or decrease volume depending on what Checker reports.
Audacity, if you are using that, is very convenient for making these (and many other) adjustments.
I recommend highly that you download Checker and run all your files through that before submitting them. Most of us do that, and it ensures a more uniform quality to our diverse offerings.
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~ Larry
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Post by msfry »

Thanks, Larry. The Wild North Land is PL OK.
Interesting chapter, simultaneously humorous and serious. I like the author very much, and he isn't yet in the LV catalog. Are you going to BC this book? :wink:
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