Cyd Raschke Discusses “Home of the Spirit Animals” on The Morning Show
July 2, 2025July 3, 2024
Cyd Raschke Discusses “Home of the Spirit Animals”
Cynthia “Cyd” Raschke, whose community service in Newburyport includes being a co-founder of the Newburyport Black History Initiative, will visit this week to discuss her recently published novel, “Home of the Spirit Animals.”
Set during the Age of Exploration, the novel depicts “a Native American girl on the run in Texas who binds her fate with a young sailor of Moorish descent shipwrecked alongside five beautiful Spanish horses.”
I will interview Cyd about the sources of her inspiration for the novel, including her lifelong love for horses, her Native American heritage, and wanting to set the historical record straight that Equus first evolved in North America.
Cyd will also tell us how she learned to describe what it would be like to sail on a 15th-century Spanish ship when the Custom House Maritime Museum brought the recreated Spanish tall ship “El Galeon” to Newburyport from Spain in 2016, enabling her to interview members of the crew.
For more information on Raschke and “Home of the Spirit Animals,” visit www.firstfoal.com.
Due to Newburyport Community Media’s Summer Camp offerings in July, the “Morning Show” will air reruns for the rest of July. For information about NCM’s Youth Programs, visit https://ncmhub.org/learn/youth-programs/
Here is a list of the topics that will air again — some of my favorite topics and interviewees:
July 10, episode from 5/4/23, Prof. Adam Laats on Censorship of Racial History in the U.S.
July 17, from 2/4/21, Professor Paul Slovic on Psychic Numbing and the Deadly Arithmatic of Compassion
July 24, from 7/27/23, Lisa Dube on Fears and Misconceptions regarding Gender Affirming Care of Trans Youth
July 31, from 9/28/23, Sankofa Tour Guide Sonya Martino on her NH Black History Trail tour, Bound Together: George and Martha Washington and Ona Marie Judge
How to Find “The Morning Show”
Broadcast at 9 AM on Thursday on WJOP (FM 96.3), and on Channel 9
After Broadcast on YouTube:
Visit http://www.NCMHub.org, then click on YouTube, click on Playlist, and scroll down to the “Morning Show”
Listen on WJOP (FM 96.3) on Friday at 8 AM, or the following Tues. 4 p.m. or Wed, at 3 p.m. Listen on the Sound Cloud; Go to NCMHub.org and click on the Cloud, then scroll down.
Thanks for watching!
