Program 382: Pirates of the Carolinas; Faeries of Ireland; Ghosts of San Francisco

Legends and folklore come together, just in time for Halloween and All Souls Day, on the next Travel with Rick Steves. 

We'll explore the legacy of the real-life pirates who operated off the Carolina coast in colonial America. 

A pair of Irishmen clue us in to their country's traditions about the different orders of faery people, that some people still believe might inhabit Ireland. 

And we'll learn about ghost sightings in San Francisco, and the stories that come with them.

Get in the spirit, "from ghost to ghost," on the next Travel with Rick Steves.

• Today's edition of Travel with Rick Steves has a Halloween-All Souls Day theme. 
• Stations who air the program on Thursday or Friday can delay program #382 to air on October 30 or 31, and substitute program #383 (scheduled for Nov. 1) to air on Oct. 23 or 24.  
• The Segment A interview is a re-edit of one that aired on program #316 in February 2013.
• The latest set of Travel with Rick Steves fundraiser modules (fundraiser 2014-2), are now posted to this site, and are designed for you to use anytime through 2015.  If you also want to fundraise during one of the regular weekly shows, contact producer Tim Tattan for suggestions for clean cutaway options to shorten any week's show.

• Terrance Zepke, author of "Pirates of the Carolinas" (Pineapple Press)
• Irish tour guides Barry Moloney and Stephen McPhilemy
• Mark Lyon, author of "San Francisco Ghosts" (Windwhistle Press)
• Feature from freelance producer Jake Warga

• Terrance Zepke has a website and blog that includes a section about the Pirates of the Carolinas, in which she lists pirate-related sites along the U.S. East Coast.  She's also written a number of ghost hunting guides. 
• The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources has a website dedicated to the recovery efforts for Blackbeard's ship Queen Anne's Revenge.
• Barry Moloney conducts walking tours of historic Kinsale in County Cork.   
• Stephen McPhilemy operates the Milltown House on the Dingle Harbour in the Republic of Ireland.
• Information about the púca, and the banshee, in Irish folklore.
• Jake Warga has a website that includes photos and videos from his world travels. 

• "While visiting Ireland in May, my cousins took me to a fairy stone near Lough Gur in Limerick. I was told to place a few coins on the stone and make a wish. As soon as I made my wish the sky suddenly blackened and heavy rain and wind began. We ran to the car and just as I got in the car the wind and rain stopped and the skies cleared! I was told that the fairies wanted me out of their ring. What do you think?"    (e-mail from Eileen in Kent, Washington)
• "How would I recognize a faery tree?  Is it true that the Irish will not disturb a ring, building/landscaping around it instead?  How much sway do faery rings hold in today's Ireland?"  (Mary in Boynton Beach, Florida)
• Caller asks how stories of faery beings began in Ireland, if  people still believe they exist, and if they are discussed in school.  (Barbara in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota)
• "I know two people in County Kildare who told me of seeing leprechauns at a fairy fort near their home on separate occasions, which included a detail which they could not understand but which proved the truth of their story to me." (Mark in Nevada City, California)
• "As a resident of San Francisco, I would be most interested to know if, in addition to having come across documents of ghost sightings in San Fran., Mr. Lyon has spotted one here himself -- and if so, where?  I will avoid that spot!" (Jennifer in San Francisco)

• City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, "La clé de la victoire," The City of Lost Children (soundtrack) / Point Music-Polygram
• Michael Hedges, “Fantasia,” The Renaissance Album (collection) / Windham Hill
• The New England Music Collection, “Admiral Bendow,” The Wind In the Rigging / North Star Records
• Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel, cond., "New Hampshire Hornpipe (from the film 'On Golden Pond')," Sailing / Telarc
• * Tomita, “‘Passepied’ from the ‘Suite Bergamasque No. 4’ (Debussy),” Snowflakes are Dancing / RCA
• Loreena McKennitt, "The Mummer's Dance," The Olive and the Cedar / Verve
• Ensemble Galilei, "King of the Fairies," The Emerald Isles (collection) / Telarc
• Mannheim Steamroller, "Crystal" and "Enchanted Forest," Halloween / American Gramaphone
• Paul Winter and Friends, "After the Fleadh,"  Celtic Solstice / Living Music
• Loreena McKennitt, "All Soul's Night," The Visit / Quinlan Road
• * London Symphony Orchestra, “Marcradh Shíodha (Fairy Cavalcade) (from ‘The Children of Lir,’ composed by Patrick Cassidy),” Patrick Cassidy:  The Children of Lir / Celtic Heartbeat
• Simon Gledhill, "San Francisco / California Here I Come!," California Here I Come (on the Wurlitzer organ at San Francisco's Castro Theatre) / TV Recording
• Mike Oldfield, "Musica Universalis," Music of the Spheres  / Decca
• Harry Reser, "Flaperette," Banjo Crackerjax 1922-1930 / Yazoo
• Tomita, "'Gardens in the Rain' from 'Estampes No. 3' (Debussy)," Snowflakes are Dancing / RCA Red Seal
• City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, "Theme: Marcello," The City of Lost Children (soundtrack) / Point Music-Polygram
• Patrick Wedd, "Funeral March of a Marionette (Gounod),"  CBC Special Edition, vol. 2 (collection) / CBC Records
• Cab Calloway, "San Francisco Fan," Jazz of the 40's (collection) / Vintage Masters Inc
• Loreena McKennitt, "The Old Ways," The Visit / Quinlan Road 
• Oscar Peterson, "I Don't Stand A Ghost Of a Chance,"  Pastel Moods / Verve 

• This week's edition of Travel with Rick Steves has a Halloween-All Soul's Day theme, particularly in segments B and C.  Barry Moloney makes a reference to Halloween in the Billboard.  Rick also remarks, at 38:03, "why not, it's Halloween!," and wishes guest Mark Lyon "a ghoulish Halloween" at 53:16.
• E-mailer Eileen reports she was in Ireland in May at 25:34.