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Before creating the Snap Judgment radio show, Glynn worked as an educator, diplomat, community activist, actor, political strategist, fist-shaker, mountain-hollerer, and foot stomper. Snap Judgment is heard on about 500 public radio stations in the U.S. and on podcasts everywhere. Scroll down for takeaways you can use from today's show.The episode discussed on today's show"Zoo Nebraska," a Snap Classic, Season 13, Episode 18.The story of a chimpanzee and a man whose dream brought disaster to a small American town.This story details violence against animals. Sensitive listeners, please be advised.Read more about Zoo Nebraska in Carson's book, Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream.Additional thanks to Patti Ragan from the Center for Great Apes.Produced by John Fecile and Carson Vaughan, original score by Renzo GorrioAdditional production by Jesse Dukes and Pat Mesiti-MillerArtwork by Teo DucotInterested in protecting Great Apes? Learn more at the Center for Great ApesSubscribe to Sound Judgment, the Newsletter, our once- or twice-monthly newsletter about creative choices in audio storytelling. Share the show! Follow Elaine on Facebook | LinkedIn | InstagramHelp us find and celebrate today's best hosts!Who's your Sound Judgment dream guest? Share them with us! Write us: allies@podcastallies.com. Because of you, that host may appear on Sound Judgment.For more information on Sound Judgment and Podcast Allies, our production and training company, visit us at www.podcastallies.com.Takeaways from today's show: 1. What you're doing is taking the listener on a journey with you. That takes intention. From the very beginning of any episode, Glynn is thinking about how to persuade the listener to go on a journey with him. He's taking you into a different world, introducing you to the interior lives of the characters in these stories. He wants you to be curious, surprised, to feel things. He asks this question: “What piece of myself can act as an avatar for this journey I want to take people on? What piece of me can do that? That's the hostiness of it all.” 2. To have hostiness is to be animated by a question – and the question that lights you up will be different than the one that lights me up. Snap Judgment is all about empathy - how to evoke, how to get listeners to walk in someone else's shoes for a little while. But Jad Abumrad of RadioLab's animating force was curiosity. What animates you? Stay true to that. 3. To Glynn, the best characters are not the famous and successful. They're the people who've made mistakes; who don't want to face the ramifications of their actions, who've had some hard knocks – like Dick, the zookeeper in Zoo Nebraska who didn't want his story told. Rarely – if ever – are people villains on purpose. 4. You don't have to be Batman to have a good story to tell. In fact, you may be able to tell an amazing story about walking across the street, if we learn what it took for you to get from one side of the street to the other, and how high the stakes are. 5. And five…Don't leave out the washing machine. It's the ordinary details of life – even when they happen in the middle of a chimp escape – that make stories real for listeners.
The story of a chimpanzee and a man whose dream brought disaster to a small American town. This story details violence against animals. Sensitive listeners, please be advised. Thank you, Carson Vaughan, for sharing your story with Snap! Read more about Zoo Nebraska in Carson's book, Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream. Additional thanks to Patti Ragan from the Center for Great Apes. Produced by John Fecile and Carson Vaughan, original score by Renzo Gorrio Additional production by Jesse Dukes and Pat Mesiti-Miller Artwork by Teo Ducot Interested in protecting Great Apes? Learn more at the Center for Great Apes Season 13 – Episode 18 - Snap Classic
The New Year's Eve edition of Lives Radio Show & Podcast, which reflects back on a few guests from this past year, focusing on some poets, writers, and artists, who have brought me comfort and inspiration amid the trials of 2020. We will hear from artist Mark Gilbert, and listen to readings from Liz Kay, Rebecca Rotert, Sarah McKinstry-Brown, Carson Vaughan, Maritza Estrada, and - as a teaser for a forthcoming New Year show, Aisha Sharif. And I couldn't resist a few outtakes...
Episode Summary Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American physician, who used her training and expertise to campaign for social reform and health care in her Omaha community. Learn more about us and other women in science at our website www.stemfatalepodcast.com And order some holiday merch here! https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/merch Sources Main Story - Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte “The Incredible Legacy of Susan La Flesche, The First Native America to Earn a Medical Degree” by Carson Vaughan, Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/incredible-legacy-susan-la-flesche-first-native-american-earn-medical-degree-180962332/ “The First Native American to Receive a Medical Degree” by Allison C. Meier, JStor Daily. https://daily.jstor.org/the-first-native-american-to-receive-a-medical-degree/ “Native American Disease and Epidemics,” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_epidemics Susan la flesche picotte: A doctor who spanned two cultures. The Lancet. 2019;393(10173):734. “Susan La Flesche Picotte,” National Park Service. https://www.nps.gov/people/susan-la-flesche-picotte.htm “Ulysses S. Grant: Mass Genocide Through ‘Permanent Peace’ Policy” by Alysa Landry, Indian Country Today. https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/ulysses-s-grant-mass-genocide-through-permanent-peace-policy-Ing8OYiNuU6hw6ZgulRA9Q Starita, Joe. A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor. New York, St. Martin’s Press, 2016. Women who Work Flaherty, Colleen. Study finds gender bias in TA evals, too. Inside Higher Ed. 2020. Music “Mary Anning” by Artichoke “Work” by Rihanna Cover Image Courtesy of the Nebraska State Historical Society Photograph Collections. This image was found at The National Library of Medicine. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_253.html
Carson Vaughan is a freelance journalist who writes about the American West and Midwest. We talk about our struggles to explain rural America to people who don't understand rural America. We also talk about his book, Zoo Nebraska—which I highly recommend. The post Two Americas appeared first on Two Old Millennials.
“Oh, hey, that’s where Reuben got shot.” So began a decade of investigating, interviewing, and writing for Carson Vaughan, author of Zoo Nebraska, the story of a zoo in the small town of Royal in north east Nebraska and how the wild dreams of its founder and the conflicting tensions in the community culminate in tragedy. Recorded over Skype, this week’s show features my conversation with Carson about his writing career, the book Zoo Nebraska, Cowboy poetry, John Neihardt's interest in parapsychology, a year on the road in a tiny van, and more.
Carson Vaughan shares the story of Zoo Nebraska, which housed dozens of exotic animals in a town of less than 100 people. Andy Jewell describes the love and terror that the Nebraska landscape inspired in one of its most famous writers, Willa Cather.
The story of a chimpanzee and a man whose dream brought disaster to a small American town. This story details violence against animals. Sensitive listeners, please be advised. Thank you, Carson Vaughan, for sharing your story with Snap! Read more about Zoo Nebraska in Carson's book, Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream. Additional thanks to Patti Ragan from the Center for Great Apes. Produced by John Fecile and Carson Vaughan, original score by Renzo Gorrio Additional production by Jesse Dukes and Pat Mesiti-Miller Interested in protecting Great Apes? Learn more at the Center for Great Apes Season 11 - Episode 6 The beat doesn’t happen without YOU. Support Snap storytelling... stories you won't hear anywhere else.
Carson Vaughan is the author of ZOO NEBRASKA, which digs deeply into the true story of Zoo Nebraska. As a journalist, Carson's work has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Paris Review Daily, Outside, Pacific Standard, Travel + Leisure, The Atlantic, VICE, Runner's World, In These Times, and more. WATCH this interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7ZO_bXuAFlg Carson Vaughan's website: https://www.carsonvaughan.com/ Christie Stratos's website: http://christiestratos.com Creative Edge: www.creative-edge.services Like our Facebook page to watch LIVE author interviews: www.facebook.com/writersshowcasepodcast/ *This is a copyrighted podcast owned by the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network and Creative Edge Publicity*
Carson Vaughan has written a book about a zoo in Royal, Nebraska, a town with a population of under 100 people. Vaughan vividly describes the scene that leads to the end of the zoo in Royal; he vividly shares the stories of the characters who make this story interesting. It's his first book, and he shares with us the process of reporting and writing it and getting it published, all over a ten-year period that started while he was still an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Doug Miles talks with Carson Vaughan author “Zoo Nebraska, The Dismantling of an American Dream” on “Talk Across America”. Book available at www.dougmilesmedia.com
On this episode, host Matt Tullis talks with Carson Vaughan, the author of the “Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream,” which focuses on a small-town zoo in Royal, Nebraska, and its eventual downfall. Vaughan started reporting and writing this book as an undergraduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He then took the project to graduate school, where it was his master’s thesis in the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s MFA creative writing program. That’s the same program that Tullis graduated from in 2005. “Zoo Nebraska” was published by Little A, an imprint of Amazon Publishing that focuses on literary fiction and nonfiction. Vaughan is a freelance journalist who writes frequently about the Great Plains. He wrote “My Cousin, the Cowboy Poet” for the New Yorker. He’s also written for the New York Times, The Guardian, The Paris Review Daily, Outside, The Atlantic, Roads & Kingdoms, and Runner’s World, among others.