This week saw the publication of Julia Butterfly Hill's book The Legacy of Luna, The Story of a Tree, A Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods published by Harper San Francisco. Butterfly Hill spent more than two years living in a tree, where hawks hunt and people walk around below, some of them thinking about board feet and profit margins. Her efforts were followed closely on this station, and over the years Julia Butterfly Hill was interviewed a number of times by Annie Esposito and others from her perch in the tree. I reported here last December on The Legacy of Luna when it was in manuscript form. Since then, the author has added an epilogue and acknowledgments.
Free radio is important.
I knew that the past two winters I spent in the tree had put my life at the very edge. Many listeners followed Julia Butterfly Hill's adventure on this radio station. It was one of the few places you could hear the story as it developed. As small stores give way to chain store outlets, and small publishers merge into mega-entertainment corporations, small voices, small press, individual heroes and heroic communities all need a public place to speak out, more than ever. This is the time to support your local independent radio station.