Iwrite this letter to explain why, as founder of WCAI, I cannot join you for the “ribbon cutting” at its new Falmouth location this Friday.

Atlantic Public Media founded the station 25 years ago as a vital collaboration with the local community. Its airwaves have been shaped, supported, and inhabited by locals, all along.

APM entered a unique partnership with WGBH to combine our missions--two non-profits, one local and one Boston-based, working in harness, sharing a building in Woods Hole. The relationship bore remarkable fruit, locally and nationally, with APM creating The Moth Radio Hour, Sonic IDs, This I Believe, PRX, countless local series and features, The Frontline Dispatch, The Local Listener Line, Lost & Found Sound, Arts and Ideas, Science Story Slams, Sound School, Transom and

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