In small towns and cities everywhere there exist museums that hold artifacts that represent a person or event that changed the world. The Hometown History podcast provides Historians an opportunity to share their knowledge of such artifacts, from museums you would probably have never heard about.
The Hometown History podcast is a captivating and thought-provoking listen. Hosted by a knowledgeable and engaging narrator, this podcast delves into various historical topics with great guests and in-depth discussions. It fearlessly tackles controversial subjects that challenge the listener's perspective and stimulate critical thinking. The storytelling is top-notch, taking listeners on a journey that feels immersive and compelling.
One of the best aspects of The Hometown History podcast is its ability to cover lesser-known or underrepresented areas of history. The show sheds light on stories and events that may have been forgotten or overlooked, making it highly educational and enlightening. The research and production quality are excellent, ensuring factual accuracy and an engaging listening experience. Furthermore, the host's voice and style are easy to listen to, holding the listener's attention throughout each episode.
While there are many positive aspects of this podcast, one potential downside is the rate of speech. Some listeners may find it difficult to keep up with the rapid pace at which information is presented. Slowing down the narration would greatly enhance comprehension and allow for a more enjoyable listening experience.
In conclusion, The Hometown History podcast is a must-listen for any history enthusiast or anyone interested in learning more about our country's past. The combination of great storytelling, well-researched content, and thought-provoking discussions makes this podcast stand out among other history podcasts. Despite the minor issue with pacing, the overall quality of this show cannot be denied. It is an entertaining, informative, and well-produced podcast that truly brings history to life.
…12 dates … …14 love gone wrong stories… …Will YOU be my Valentine? This Valentine's Day, prepare for a unique podcast experience! Shane Waters will introduce 14 crime podcast hosts. Each host brings a new, love gone wrong true story to mix. It's an extra special, two part, more than two-hour, Valentine event. Part 2 of 2. Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance: In this Part 2 Episode: 1. Sirens 2. The Trail Went Cold 3. Method and Madness 4. True Crime Cases with Lanie 5. Crimelines 6. Love Murder 7. Foul Play: Crime Series In the Part 1 Episode: 1. Murder She Told 2. True Crime Island 3. Hillbilly Horror Stories 4. Tapes from the Darkside 5. Coffee and Cases 6. Gone Cold – Texas True Crime 7. Live, Laugh, Larceny
…12 dates … …14 love gone wrong stories… …Will YOU be my Valentine? This Valentine's Day, prepare for a unique podcast experience! Shane Waters will introduce 14 crime podcast hosts. Each host brings a new, love gone wrong true story to mix. It's an extra special, two part, more than two-hour, Valentine event. Part 1 of 2. Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance: In this Part 1 Episode: 1. Murder She Told 2. True Crime Island 3. Hillbilly Horror Stories 4. Tapes from the Darkside 5. Coffee and Cases 6. Gone Cold – Texas True Crime 7. Live, Laugh, Larceny In the next Part 2 Episode: 1. Sirens 2. The Trail Went Cold 3. Method and Madness 4. True Crime Cases with Lanie 5. Crimelines 6. Love Murder 7. Foul Play: Crime Series
Today Jennifer Greene from the University of Southern Indiana is back with us. Jennifer is going to give us a little more insight on New Harmony, The Harmonist, and there way of life. Episode 2 of 3. Find us on all podcasting platforms. Support our podcast by becoming a patron. Visit us online. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.
I'm talking with Jennifer Greene today about one of my favorite hometowns in all of America - New Harmony, Indiana. New Harmony was founded by a religious commune nearly 200 years ago and despite the fact that only 700 people live there, is one of the biggest tourist destinations in all of Indiana. Jennifer is a history professor at the University of Southern Indiana, and one of my favorite guests. She also serves as the school's Reference & Archives Librarian. Episode 1 of 3. Find us on all podcasting platforms. Support our podcast by becoming a patron. Visit us online. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.
Long time listeners will know that we've been all over the country finding stories - from Florida to Washington State, from Texas to Minneapolis. All this time, there's been one at the end of our street - literally at the end of the street, that we haven't covered. Two blocks from our office, a small circle of about a dozen log cabins, marks the spot of an 1826 treaty between the Potawatomi and Miami Indian Nations and the U.S. Government. Find us on all podcasting platforms. Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory Visit us online at: https://www.itshometownhistory.com Join us on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/itshometownhistory Join us on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/hhistorypod/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D Join us on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/hhistorypod?s=11&t=xIhhe5dlVSFi4ucKg9pdIw Join us on TikTok at: https://www.tiktok.com/@hhistorypod?_t=8Ymnb4trfEQ&_r=1 Episode Sponsor: -Listen to Against the Odds podcast exclusively on Amazon Music and The Wondery Ap.
Last episode we sat down with Brandon at the Beat Museum in San Francisco to learn more about the Beat Movement and the way it forever changed the way Americans have thought about not only literature but life itself. This episode, we're going to be looking specifically at the relationship between this movement and the city of San Francisco, which has been home to so many interesting people and scenes over the years. Find us on all podcasting platforms. Support our podcast by becoming a patron. Visit us online. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.
In High School I read Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road, like everybody else. So, when we were in San Francisco this past spring we stopped at the Beat Museum downtown, to learn more about the movement Kerouac helped found a half century ago. In this episode we speak with Beat Museum guide and poet Brandon Loberg about the museum and the Beat Movement generally. Find us on all podcasting platforms. Support our podcast by becoming a patron. Visit us online. Join us on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram.
After our episode on “the Conqueror's Curse,” we invited Richard Moreno back to the studio to talk more about the history of the city of Reno. One of the reasons I invited Richard back was to help introduce us to the real Reno, which was known for decades as the divorce capital of America. Divorce was so central to Reno's identity that getting divorced here was known as getting “Reno-vated.” Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Find us on all podcasting platforms. Support our podcast by becoming a patron. Visit us online. You can find Shane's other podcasts Foul Play: Crime Series and Mystery Inc here!
Some would say the 1956 movie, The Conqueror, was cursed from the beginning. It had a terrible script, an unhappy crew, and a producer, in Howard Hughes, who would soon lose his mind to obsessive compulsive disorder and any number of other unknown mental challenges. Within two years, he quit wearing clothes or cutting his nails, and would eat only three different foods - chicken, chocolate, and milk. Hughes quit bathing and bought every copy of The Conqueror for the modern-day equivalent of 120 million dollars. In order to punish himself for this commercial and critical flop, he sat alone watching it on repeat, naked in his chair, while peeing into Mason jars. Find us on all podcasting platforms. Support our podcast by becoming a patron. Visit us online.
This episode will be a little different in that we'll be taking you deep underground in Virginia City. This is the city where Mark Twain worked at a local paper in his younger years and became the writer we know and love today. It's also the location of one of the biggest silver strikes in history. The tour begins in the back of this building on main street. A pair of doors opens at the back of the saloon, and you simply walk underground. Our guide, Spencer, agreed to be mic'd for our tour, to allow us to share it with you. We've included most of that tour in this episode, and hope that you enjoy it as much as we did. Find us on all podcasting platforms. Support our podcast by becoming a patron. Visit us online. Episode Sponsors: - Get smarter CBD from NextEvo Naturals, and get up to 25% off subscription orders of $40 or more at NextEvo.com/podcast, promo code HOMETOWN
From the same team that brings you Hometown History, we want to introduce you to Shane's new show Mystery Inc. If you enjoy talking about shady mysteries, Aliens, murder, legends, and of course the occasional tea - then Mystery Inc is the podcast for you! Together brothers Shane and Josh Waters travel in their Mystery Machine Tesla scouting out some of the world's best mysteries to share them here with you on Mystery Inc - which can be found wherever you listen to podcasts. Find all the places to listen. Visit Mystery Inc online. Follow Mystery Inc on Facebook. Josh is also the host of Rotten to the Core.
In this episode, Shane visits the former lumber town of Crescent City, California, right at the edge of the Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. Among other things, this quiet coastal village is known for having been hit by multiple tsunamis. Join me as I sit down with the Coordinator of the Del Norte County Historical Society to learn more. Link to The Extraordinary Voyage of Kamome. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. Visit us online. Find us on all podcasting platforms. Support our podcast by becoming a patron.
When things go as well as they did during the Pig War, it can be easy to forget just how wrong they could have gone. I asked former Chief of Interpretation and Historian for the San Juan Island National Historical Park, Mike Vouri, how the Pig War might have ended otherwise. Visit us online. Find us on all podcasting platforms. Support our podcast by becoming a patron.
Have you ever had a fight with a family member over something stupid? Better yet, have you ever had that fight, only to realize it wasn't so stupid after all? That behind that excuse for a fight was a real fight just waiting to be had? That's basically the story of the Pig War. Visit us online. Find us on all podcasting platforms. Support our podcast by becoming a patron. Listen to Shane's true crime podcast Foul Play: Crime Series
After writing "On The Road," and before it was published, Jack Kerouac spent a long summer on Desolation Peak in what is now the North Cascades National Park. We'll be hearing from Kerouac and also our favorite Ranger, Jim Burnett. You can find Jim's books on Amazon or through his website. Visit us online here. Follow us on Facebook. Follow us on Instagram. Follow us on Twitter. Find us on all podcasting platforms. Support our podcast by becoming a patron. Episode Sponsor: - go to NextEvo.com and use promo code HOMETOWN for 25% off subscription orders of $40 or more.
Before we explore Crater Lake National Park, I'd like to share a few pieces of general advice. I hope this series has inspired you to see more of our national parks, so I asked Jim and Will from More Than Just Parks to offer a few tips for those of us who are just getting started. Visit us online at: https://itshometownhistory.com Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory
The Civilian Conservation Corps was founded by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, and operated for roughly a decade until the program was ended in 1942. In this episode, Jim and Will Pattiz, from More Than Just Parks, explain why they believe America should resurrect this popular conservation initiative.
If you enjoy Hometown History, I suggest listening to another podcast our team creates called The Peripheral. Join host Justin Evans with a guest as they talk about some of their darkest and most cringe worthy moments in life to educate, entertain, or to simply release into the world. Every episode has a new topic or theme where nothing is considered taboo.
If you're looking to learn about the history of the Lake Mead National Recreational Area and what to expect if you go, this will be an episode you won't want to miss. Ad-free episodes are available on our Apple Premium Channel. You can support our show by joining our Patreon. Hometown History can be found on all these podcasting platforms.
…1 campfire……1 dark forest……31 bone-chilling stories……Will YOU survive the night?This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire Shane Waters will introduce 31 crime podcast hosts. Each host brings a new, nerve-wracking true story to the circle. It's an extra special, two part, five-hour, Halloween event, but before hitting play you might want to ask yourself…can you really handle this much murder and mayhem?So, pull up to the fire and brace yourself for ‘A Nightmare Before Halloween'…but be warned……bad things happen in these woods….Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance:In this Part 2 Episode: - True Crime Island [https://tinyurl.com/y6kk2npj]- Based on a True Story [https://tinyurl.com/37axzn5z]- The Asian Madness Podcast [https://tinyurl.com/yckkxbjn]- Sistas Who Kill [https://linktr.ee/Sistas.Who.Kill.Podcast]- Hometown History [https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory]- Coffee and Cases [https://linktr.ee/coffeeandcases]- Military Murder [https://tinyurl.com/yc5fxjyh]- Dystopian Simulation Radio [https://tinyurl.com/khpw786w]- Cults, Crimes & Cabernet [https://linktr.ee/cultscrimesandcabernet]- Morbidology [https://tinyurl.com/mshyvxyt]- Dark Pountine [https://tinyurl.com/ycydanm9] - Hillbilly Horror Stories [https://tinyurl.com/567vxrkz] - True Consequences [https://tinyurl.com/39fpfv3h] - Gone Cold [https://tinyurl.com/ytzxudt8]- Crime Stories with Nancy Grace & Crime Online [https://tinyurl.com/3dxp47wf]- True Crime IRL & True Crime Sleep Stories [https://tinyurl.com/ykzwmnxr]In the last Part 1 Episode:- Foul Play: Crime Series [https://link.chtbl.com/foulplay]- Murder She Told [https://tinyurl.com/55473exk]- Crime Salad [https://tinyurl.com/4pbtdtpc] - Crimelines [https://linktr.ee/crimelines]- Frightful [https://link.chtbl.com/frightful]- Reverie True Crime [https://linktr.ee/paigeelmore]- Rotten to the Core [https://link.chtbl.com/Rotten]- The Trail Went Cold [https://tinyurl.com/2zydj3y]- Once Upon A Crime [https://www.truecrimepodcast.com]- Criminology [https://tinyurl.com/yvuu9u8d]- The Peripheral & Generation Why [https://link.chtbl.com/ThePeripheral]- Live, Laugh, Larceny [https://linktr.ee/Live.Laugh.Larceny.Podcast]- The Hidden Staircase [https://link.chtbl.com/TheHiddenStaircase]- True Crime Cases with Lanie & It's Haunted...What Now? [https://linktr.ee/LanieHobbs]- Obscura: A True Crime Podcast & Disaster [https://link.chtbl.com/obscura]
…1 campfire……1 dark forest……31 bone-chilling stories……Will YOU survive the night?This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire Shane Waters will introduce 31 crime podcast host. Each host brings a new, nerve-wracking true story to the circle. It's an extra special, two part, five-hour, Halloween event, but before hitting play you might want to ask yourself…can you really handle this much murder and mayhem?So, pull up to the fire and brace yourself for ‘A Nightmare Before Halloween'…but be warned……bad things happen in these woods….Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance:In this Part 1 Episode: - Foul Play: Crime Series [https://link.chtbl.com/foulplay]- Murder She Told [https://tinyurl.com/55473exk]- Crime Salad [https://tinyurl.com/4pbtdtpc] - Crimelines [https://linktr.ee/crimelines]- Frightful [https://link.chtbl.com/frightful]- Reverie True Crime [https://linktr.ee/paigeelmore]- Rotten to the Core [https://link.chtbl.com/Rotten]- The Trail Went Cold [https://tinyurl.com/2zydj3y]- Once Upon A Crime [https://www.truecrimepodcast.com]- Criminology [https://tinyurl.com/yvuu9u8d]- The Peripheral & Generation Why [https://link.chtbl.com/ThePeripheral]- Live, Laugh, Larceny [https://linktr.ee/Live.Laugh.Larceny.Podcast]- The Hidden Staircase [https://link.chtbl.com/TheHiddenStaircase]- True Crime Cases with Lanie & It's Haunted...What Now? [https://linktr.ee/LanieHobbs]- Obscura: A True Crime Podcast & Disaster [https://link.chtbl.com/obscura]In the next Part 2 Episode: - True Crime Island [https://tinyurl.com/y6kk2npj]- Based on a True Story [https://tinyurl.com/37axzn5z]- The Asian Madness Podcast [https://tinyurl.com/yckkxbjn]- Sistas Who Kill [https://linktr.ee/Sistas.Who.Kill.Podcast]- Hometown History [https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory]- Coffee and Cases [https://linktr.ee/coffeeandcases]- Military Murder [https://tinyurl.com/yc5fxjyh]- Dystopian Simulation Radio [https://tinyurl.com/khpw786w]- Cults, Crimes & Cabernet [https://linktr.ee/cultscrimesandcabernet]- Morbidology [https://tinyurl.com/mshyvxyt]- Dark Pountine [https://tinyurl.com/ycydanm9] - Hillbilly Horror Stories [https://tinyurl.com/567vxrkz] - True Consequences [https://tinyurl.com/39fpfv3h] - Gone Cold [https://tinyurl.com/ytzxudt8]- Crime Stories with Nancy Grace & Crime Online [https://tinyurl.com/3dxp47wf]- True Crime IRL & True Crime Sleep Stories [https://tinyurl.com/ykzwmnxr]
In 1820, the well-known British writer, Sydney Smith, mocked the United States for its lack of culture and sophistication:In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue?"This was a common sentiment at that time. America was a young country, barely forty years old, and most Europeans viewed it as a kind of low-brow, hillbilly backwater.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com
From the team behind Hometown History, we thought you might enjoy our podcast Rotten to the Core hosted by Josh Waters! (Shane's brother)You can find Rotten to the Core here: https://link.chtbl.com/Rotten
There's a scene in the show Mad Men that shook me up the first time I saw it. It's probably not the one you think.In the very first episode, the Draper family picnics along the interstate. The grass is green, the birds are out, and a small portable radio plays softly on a red and white checkered blanket. It's a deeply nostalgic picture of 1960s America.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com
One of my favorite movies as a kid was The Lorax. When I first saw The Lorax, I had some sense that it was about protecting the environment. But it's more than a cartoon. It's a thinly veiled environmental manifesto. I didn't realize, until I was older, that it was also strange masterpiece of historical fiction.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com
Have you ever heard the saying that “Life imitates art”?The person who coined this phrase was Oscar Wilde, the 19th century poet. Some say he was the first modern celebrity. What Wilde meant was simply that art often shows us the world we want to live in, more than the world we actually have. And sometimes, art can be so compelling and attractive that we change our reality to match.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com
There's not much in life you can understand without context.When it comes to the systematic destruction of our planet during the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, the context is this – for the first 300,000 years of human history, nature, as former Laker coach Pat Riley might put it, “kicked our ass.”Nature had us in a choke hold from the first cave to the first cafe, with famine, disease, natural disasters, and the occasional haymaker of a plague, bubonic, choleric, or otherwise.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.comEpisode Sponsor:- Go to Talkspace.com. Make sure to use the code HOMETOWN to get $100 off of your first month and show your support for the show.
In my opinion, the single best online resource for visiting America's national parks, or even appreciating them from afar, is a site called More Than Just Parks. You can find it at morethanjustparks.com. This site is run by two brothers, Will and Jim Pattiz, who will be joining us today.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com
Before we jump back into the story of the Levi and Catharine Coffin, the so-called “President” and first-lady of the Underground Railroad, I thought it'd be helpful to review some of the code words common to the movement. Most of these will be intuitive once you get the hang of the railroad theme-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com
Central Region Director of the Indiana State Museum system. Joanna also manages the Levi & Catharine Coffin State Historic Site, which is where we are today. This small brick home has been called the Underground Railroad's "Grand Central Station." Over a twenty span, from 1826 to 1847, more than 2,000 slaves stopped here on their way north to Canada – and freedom.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com
If you were with us last episode you'll recognize the voice of Erin Adams, Director of Education at Andrew Jackson's Hermitage, the former home of our 7th President, and current museum dedicated to preserving his life story. Erin will be with us again this episode as we consider Jackson's presidential legacy-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com
What's the first step in becoming the most powerful man in America?For our 7th president, Andrew Jackson, the first step in his journey to prominence began with the purchase of his first slave.I sat down with Erin Adams, Director of Education at Andrew Jackson's Hermitage, a museum on the premises of the president's former home, to learn more.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com
I'd like to introduce one of my favorite voices among anyone I've ever interviewed.Parker's Crossroads, Tennessee is a small town of about 284 people, but it has a big history. This place factored in the life of one of the most controversial figures in all of American history, the Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forest, who would become the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com
When you think of Ancient Greece, what images pop into your head?You probably think of the Olympics and philosophers like Plato and Socrates. You might think of stories like the Odyssey and the Iliad that you were forced to read in high school. And if you close your eyes and picture one Ancient Greek building, I would bet you are picturing the Parthenon, the iconic temple complex located on the high rocky hilltop overlooking the city of Athens. Surrounded by a towering ring of white marble pillars, this structure has become a picturesque symbol of Ancient Greece and, by extension, of Greek democracy.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com
That's the voice of Dewey Phillips hosting his radio show called “Red, Hot & Blue,” on WHBQ, a Memphis station. In the 1950s, more than 100,000 people listened to his primetime slot every day.If you couldn't make out what Dewey was saying, don't feel bad. I had to listen to it a few times myself. But for Memphians of that era, Dewey's frantic and crazed cadence was just part of the experience.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com
In 2015, musical artist Jack White paid $300,000 for a 78-rpm record at auction. The record was of Elvis Presley singing the songs “My Happiness” and “That's When Your Heartaches Begin.” It was the first record Elvis ever made.That $300,000 price tag is a far cry from the $4 that Elvis originally paid to make the record at Sun Studio, a place I visited recently.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.comEpisode Sponsor:-go to Talkspace.com. Make sure to use the code HOMETOWN to get $100 off of your first month
You're hearing the song “Rocket 88,” widely considered to be the first rock and roll song ever recorded. It was recorded here, at Sun Studio, by Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats. The Delta Cats included Ike Turner, just one of the many legendary musicians to record here.Artists from many genres such as B.B. King, Roy Orbison, and Rufus Thomas all used Sun Studio. It was the home to one of the most legendary nights in music history when the Million Dollar Quartet – consisting of Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis – recorded a spontaneous jam session.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com
In December 1864, Confederate troops were moving toward Nashville with a plan. Union troops had occupied this southern city for the last two years, and Lieutenant General John Bell Hood wanted to take it back.Luckily, the Union army had prepared for this very moment by building a 180,000 square-foot fortress near downtown Nashville called Fort Negley-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.comEpisode Sponsor:Right nowRitual is offering my listeners 10% off your first three months. Visitritual.com/HOMETOWN
Those are a few lines from a song called “Beale Street Blues.” The most famous performance of that song came from Louis Armstrong, but it was written by a man named W.C. Handy, who called himself the “Father of the Blues.”Beale Street, of course, runs through Memphis, Tennessee, where Handy lived when he wrote most of his music. The blues were a cultural phenomenon in the early 1900s that changed American music forever and touched many other musical genres.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.comEpisode Sponsor:-Visit Audible.com/thebiglie
It was raining on the day of the execution. As Fletcher described it,The rain during the forenoon had the effect of making the streets and almost every other place exceedingly sloppy and muddy. The ground having recently been frozen, the mud was not very deep, but every place was very slippery.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.comEpisode Sponsor:- Get 25% off when you go to LIQUIDIV.COM and use code HOMETOWN at checkout.
Before it was called Richvalley, the community the French family was living in was known as Keller Station. Isaac Keller and his brother owned large tracts of land in this area, as well a popular Inn and Tavern that was the social hub of that neighborhood. Isaac Keller actually owned the land that the Frenches, and now the Hubbards, had been living on.On their way to the cabin, the posse locates Keller; they also find a doctor, and they bring both men with them.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.comEpisode Sponsor:- Right now Ritual is offering my listeners 10% off your first three months. Visit ritual.com/HOMETOWN
Aaron French moved in from Cincinnati.He had only been here approximately 6 Months. So he himself was a transient character, he had attempted to be a businessman in Cincinnati, involved in the meat packing industry and went broke. And so he decided to maybe , try his hand at farming.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.comEpisode Sponsor:- Right now Ritual is offering my listeners 10% off your first three months. Visitritual.com/HOMETOWN
I remember the first time I tried to visit the French family grave, just outside of Wabash, Indiana.It was a Sunday, in the middle of the winter, one day before the mini-blizzard that closed county schools and buried every car on Market Street up to its door handles.I had just moved into town, and I was feeling the things you feel when you move someplace new. I was wondering if the people were nice, and I thought of the friends I hoped to make. I wondered if the new job would work out, and I hoped that Wabash was a good place to call home.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com
The sky to the west of the small town of Peshtigo (PESH-ti-go [not pesh-TEE-go]), Wisconsin glowed red before the sunrise, on the morning of October 8th, 1871. It was Sunday, and when the local priest stepped out of his church to greet parishioners, the air was smoky and white ash fell like snow.The priest, whose name was Peter Pernin, turned and went back into the church and ran to the front of the sanctuary. He grabbed the holy tabernacle, the small cabinet that holds the Catholic eucharist.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: Hometown https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.comEpisode Sponsors:- Catalinacrunch.com/HOMETOWN for 15% off your first order—plus FREE shipping.- StoryWorth.com/hometown and save $10 on your first purchase!
The day after leaving Copper County, I took the obligatory cruise of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. It might be the one thing up here that people from outside the UP are likely to have heard of. And these open cliff faces, roughly 200 feet high, are truly spectacular. But they're especially pictured in more ways than one. First, they have mineral stains covering their face, due to the huge amount of metal in the ground up here. There's red and orange, from iron; blue and green, from copper; brown and black, from manganese; white, from limonite, and other colors besides.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com-Find us on all platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistoryEpisode Sponsor:- Experience better hydration today at LIQUIDIV.COM, promo code HOMETOWN.
That sound you hear in the background is the hoist control of the Quincy Mine just outside Hancock, Michigan, where we're heading today.Quincy is sort of the Madison Square Garden of the northern Michigan ghost mining world. During its lifetime, the Quincy was the 2nd most profitable mine in Keweenaw County. Whereas the Adventure Mine, which was huge, was 7 levels deep, the Quincy Mine is 92 levels deep – that's two full miles into the ground.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Find us on all podcasting platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.comEpisode Sponsors:-Right now Ritual is offering my listeners 10% off your first three months. Visit ritual.com/HOMETOWN and turn healthy habits into a Ritual.-Find your inner detective --Download June's Journey free today on the Apple App Store or Google Play!
So, the motel that I stayed at in Eagle Harbor, Fletchy's Otter Belly Lodge, formerly the Shoreline Motel, was apparently the location of well-known feud between a local doctor and the president of the most powerful mine in Michigan. Because it speaks to some of the tensions that existed between the mining companies and the general population, I'll add a brief episode to Black Label, telling that story.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Find us on all platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory
One of the things I'd heard about my next stop, Phoenix, Michigan, was that it was home to a well-known bridge troll – but instead of a bridge, it was a 148-year-old general store, and instead of a troll, it was an 87-year woman who owned the store and more or less lived in the front window, scowling at passerby and customers alike, as her one and only hobby.Find us on all platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.comEpisode Sponsors: -That's 25% off ANYTHING you order when you use promo code HOMETOWN at LIQUIDIV.COM-Go to Framebridge.com and use promo code HOMETOWN to save an additional 15% off your first order.
The following morning, my first real stop across the canal, apart from gawking at random pieces of rotting machinery, was the ghost town of Gregoryville – which is of a very different sort than the one at Fayette. As far as I could tell, looking out from the empty gravel parking lot of the Maple Leaf Bar, it isn't just the people of Gregoryville, but also the buildings, that are ghosts.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistory-Check out our other podcasts: itsarclightmedia.com-Find us on all platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory
The first mining boom in American history was not the California Gold Rush, the Klondike Gold Rush, or any other gold rush. The first mining boom in American history was the copper rush of the uppermost part of the Upper Peninsula, the Keweenaw peninsula. And by the time it was over, this boom actually had a greater economic impact than either of those gold rushes.In fact, from the 1860s to the 1920s, this part of Michigan supplied over 90% of the world's copper.-Visit us online at: Itshometownhistory.com-Support our podcast by becoming a patron at: Patreon.com/itshometownhistoryFind us on all platforms: https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistoryEpisode Sponsors:- Right now Ritual is offering my listeners 10% off your first three months. Visit ritual.com/HOMETOWN- Find your inner detective --Download June's Journey free today on the Apple App Store or Google Play!
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