We Can Be Their Bridges

On Befriending Amphibians

with Friends School of Atlanta

(May 2024/May 2025 for Masters of Two Worlds/November 2025) For expanded content, please see On Being Bridges: Their Worlds and the Climate Factor (2024).

Many thanks to Friends School of Atlanta (FSA) students for sharing their artwork and voices, their teachers Joanna Gerber, John Grijak, and Jennifer Wardell Smith, Amphibian Foundation, and Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (PARC).

Thanks also to producer Sam Moore at Threshold Podcast and Bess Samuel for contributing her recording of Cope's gray tree frogs originally recorded for Moore’s Operation Frog Sound project and featured in Threshold Podcast’s Hark: Disquieting on how human-made sounds make it difficult for other beings to hear one another and to be heard by humans. Disquieting begins with cetaceans and concludes with diverse frog song, and includes amphibian facts and sentiment on our global circumstances offered in Frog Song. Please see the link below to listen.

Thanks also to Keith Lockwood for editing the 2025 revisions.

FILM CREDITS:

Written and directed by Megan Hollingsworth. Voiced by FSA students (spring 2025), Megan Hollingsworth, and Toughie (d. 2016).

New frog and imagined world illustrations by FSA 4th graders (spring 2024). To view all of the students’ artwork, please see the FSA Frog Song Gallery.

Toughie illustration by Bonnie Gordon-Lucas from Joel Sartore’s 2013 photo for The Photo Ark (National Geographic). joelsartore.com/ani078-00494/

Recording of Cope's gray tree frogs (00:00-00:15) courtesy of Bess Samuel for Threshold Podcast’s Hark: Disquieting (Season 5: Episode 14)

Recording of Toughie’s song (1:50-2:42) courtesy of Mark Mandica, Amphibian Foundation co-founder.

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