Jeremy Landsman Has Left Us

I learned today that Jeremy Landsman, a very complex, intelligent man with many talents, and not a few loose ends untied, passed away on December 28, 2024 at his home in Grabouw, South Africa.  He and I had very different skills.  He knew as much about birds and plants as I knew about power lines.  Yet we also had much in common and we had a wonderful and playful relationship in which we both learned from each other.  

He's a legendary figure in the community radio world and he's the only person I know who thinks that electrical towers of any kind improve the landscape.  To the point where I have photos of such things in my files, because of him.  

There's so much more to say about him, but this will have to do for now.  

There will be a celebration of his life in his garden in Gabrouw, South Africa on February 15, 2025.  

Google doesn't tell us much about Jeremy, but here are a couple of links.  Just search 'Jeremy Landsman' when you get to the pages.

[Note:  not to be confused with Baltimore's "Jeremy Landsman, the developer/pot-dealer/money-launderer chronicled in City Paper's coverage until his January 2013 sentencing, is out of prison and heading to Hawaii."]

https://pacificanetwork.org/kopn-celebrates-50-years-of-service-to-columbia-missouri-the-people-run-the-radio/

https://www.kopn.org/about/history/

https://people.well.com/user/dmsml/kfat/

https://kpfa.org/episode/5368/

https://pacificanetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CAMPAIGN_57.pdf

https://sites.google.com/site/robertfeldman23/plays-and-short-stories/kbdy-clothesline-radio-if-wishes-were-fishes-we-d-all-cast-nets

https://acrnewsfeed.blogspot.com/2020_05_17_archive.html?m=1

Jeremy was in my life weekly, often daily, for maybe five or ten years before he went off to South Africa.  He was a good friend and I already missed him when he left Anchorage.  He left with bizarre blood issues that had him scouring the internet to figure out ways to lengthen the dire prognosis he got from his doctors.  And he lived another life still during the years in South Africa.  

Miss you.