CURRENT PROJECTS
Podcast & Book
Kent Garrett and
Harvard classmates: Then and now
Podcast & Radio
Kent Garrett and the people who work, live and play in the Catskills
Radio & Channel
Kent Garrett's regional focus on news, weather, and interviews
projects from the Catskills
projects from the Catskills
Podcasts | Documentaries | Radio | Journalism
Podcasts | Documentaries | Radio | Journalism
the last negroes at harvard
Podcast, documentary book, and documentary videos.
The Last Negroes at Harvard (2020)
by Kent Garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth
The book explores the untold story of the Harvard class of '63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action.
The podcast continues to delve further into the lives and experiences of Kent and his fellow Harvard alums. Includes additional original interviews that didn't make it into the book, and real time interviews from the present day.
- ONE IN A MILLIONPodcast and radio segment on WIOX.
In this podcast and radio segment, Kent Garrett interviews one of the nearly one million people that live, work, and play in the Catskills. Discover their fascinating stories as to how they ended up in the Catskills, what they do here, and plans for the future.
- THE 8:01
Radio segment on WIOX and YouTube channel.
The 8:01 with Kent Garrett provides a regional focus on world and national news, sports, politics, local weather, and interviews with a diverse array of luminaries.
Weekday mornings, 8:01 AM - 9:00 AM
WIOX Radio
- FLASHLIGHTPodcast.
FLASHLIGHT is a biweekly look back at history, casting a beam on fascinating and sometimes long forgotten events. Written and narrated by Jeanne Ellsworth. Produced by Kent Garrett and Original Theme music by Robert Cucinotta.
Kent Garrett
I graduated from Harvard College in 1963 and worked for a few years in advertising, as an account executive and television commercial producer. Soon, however, journalism became my passion and I moved on to a career of over 30 years in television news. For ten years, I traveled throughout the world as a Senior Producer with the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw broadcast; ten years before that, I was a Producer with The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. Most recently, I was News Director with WICZ-TV, a Fox affiliate station in Binghamton, while at the same time operating an organic dairy farm in Delaware County, supplying milk to Horizon Organic.
During my journalism career I was honored with two News & Documentary EMMY Awards in 1984, produced three hour-long, network documentaries for CBS Reports, worked as News Director in the award winning WCVB -TV News and Public Affairs unit in Needham, Massachusetts and won a PEABODY Award in 1968 as Producer on the National Education Television Series Black Journal.
Jeanne Ellsworth
I grew up in rural New Jersey (not an oxymoron, or at least it wasn’t back in the 1950s). I have more formal education than is probably good for a person, and I have been a teacher, in one form or another, for nearly fifty years. I have taught art to second graders, science to sixth graders, math to incarcerated men, English to recent immigrants and to women in China, and various education courses to wannabe teachers. When I'm not trying to teach anyone anything, I enjoy birdwatching, traveling, and hanging out with family and friends, preferably in Roxbury, New York, aka The Center of the Universe.
