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(8/28/23) - In today's Federal Newscast: Exceeding its goal, the VA finds housing for thousands of homeless veterans. An original digital services SWAT team celebrates nine years on the job. And Confederate Civil War officer A.P. Hill just got his name removed from the army base that bore his name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(8/28/23) In today's Federal Newscast: Exceeding its goal, the VA finds housing for thousands of homeless veterans. An original digital services SWAT team celebrates nine years on the job. And Confederate General A.P. Hill just got his name removed from the army base that bore his name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The idea for a monument to honor Felix Battles germinated about five years ago at the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County. “Felix Battles is somebody that we at the historical society we've been studying for about 30 years,” explained program director Markus Krueger. “But he never really got out of our archives. He's got a fascinating story.”The story is about a Black man born into slavery who fought in the Civil War and was among the first residents of a new town on the western Minnesota prairie. As Krueger listened to the national debate in 2018 about removing Confederate Civil War statues in the south, he says he thought, “I know who deserves a statue. Felix Battles.”Started with a stencilWith a limited budget in mind, it began as a simple idea. “It started off with cutting out a piece of paper and spray painting a stencil onto a piece of wood,” said Krueger. The idea was to perhaps paint the stencil on a wall. Then a conversation with his neighbor, an engineer, raised the idea of cutting a silhouette from a thick sheet of steel. Krueger recently watched as a water jet machine carved the monument at a metal fabrication shop in Fargo, N.D. Using high pressure water jet the size of a pencil lead infused with crushed garnet, the computer guided machine precisely cut the design into a large steel plate. “It's three-quarter-inch steel. I can't do this in my garage. So this is pretty cool,” said Krueger. There are no known photographs of Battles and researchers have not found any living descendants. Krueger intentionally used a photo of an unidentified Black Civil War soldier to guide his design. “The idea of an unidentified soldier is just to represent everybody. So this particular statue is for Felix Battles, but it's also for all 209,000 African American soldiers and sailors who fought in the Civil War,” he said. A remarkable storyFelix Battles was born into slavery near Memphis, Tenn. Records track him to a plantation in Mississippi as a teenager.Battles then escaped and made his way north to St. Paul, working on Mississippi River steamboats, said Krueger.In 1864 he joined the army at Fort Snelling and fought for the Union. “I think one of America's great stories is at the start of the Civil War, we had millions of enslaved people. And then by the end of the war there were over 200,000 African American soldiers and sailors fighting in the United States Army,” said Krueger. “The stories of Black soldiers in the U.S. Army were intentionally written out of history. And so what we're trying to do here is bring awareness to that.”After the war, Battles became one of the earliest residents of Moorhead, arriving in 1873 with his wife Kate and several extended family members. A job with the newly constructed railroad likely led him to settle in Moorhead.A newspaper at the time called him “the pioneer barber of the Red River Valley.” He lived in Moorhead until his death in 1907. He shares a simple marker with other family members in a Moorhead cemetery.“He was a quiet guy, his obituary said, respected by all who knew him,” recalls Krueger. “All the old pioneers were going to go to his funeral, as well as the old soldiers of the community going to honor him at his funeral.”Delson Saintal also watched the monument take shape. Saintal is one of several Black community members on a committee advising the historical society on this project. He owns several barber shops and runs a barber school in Fargo.He's 30 years old, the same age Felix Battles was when he arrived in Moorhead 150 years ago. “Imagining what it was like around that time back in the early 1900s for him to be a Black barber in the Fargo-Moorhead area probably wasn't quite easy,” said Saintal, who thinks a permanent statue honoring a Black community pioneer is about representation. “And that really matters,” he said. “And if we have a Felix Battles monument in the Fargo-Moorhead area I think it just gives a chance for the younger generation to see that they are capable of doing stuff,” he said. Felix Battle More about the project Long overlooked Stories of Black history Felix Battles was 5 feet, 8 inches tall according to his army enlistment papers. The monument will be life size because Krueger wants people to be able to look Battles in the eye as they contemplate the history he represents. It will be located on a street corner where Battles once lived. The home is long gone and the site is now part of the Minnesota State University Moorhead campus. The goal is to raise enough money for benches and a small interpretive display so the spot can be a community gathering point. Krueger calls the statue an illustration to a biography, a marker that allows more people to learn the story of Felix Battles and a forgotten piece of history.

"The Band's first album, Music from Big Pink, seemed to come out of nowhere, with its ramshackle musical blend and songs of rural tragedy. The Band, the group's second album, was a more deliberate and even more accomplished effort, partially because the players had become a more cohesive unit, and partially because guitarist Robbie Robertson had taken over the songwriting, writing or co-writing all 12 songs. Though a Canadian, Robertson focused on a series of American archetypes from the union worker in "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" and the retired sailor in "Rockin' Chair" to, most famously, the Confederate Civil War observer Virgil Cane in "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." The album effectively mixed the kind of mournful songs that had dominated Music from Big Pink, here including "Whispering Pines" and "When You Awake" (both co-written by Richard Manuel), with rollicking up-tempo numbers like "Rag Mama Rag" and "Up on Cripple Creek" (both sung by Levon Helm and released as singles, with "Up on Cripple Creek" making the Top 40). As had been true of the first album, it was The Band's sound that stood out the most, from Helm's (and occasionally Manuel's) propulsive drumming to Robertson's distinctive guitar fills and the endlessly inventive keyboard textures of Garth Hudson, all topped by the rough, expressive singing of Manuel, Helm, and Rick Danko that mixed leads with harmonies. The arrangements were simultaneously loose and assured, giving the songs a timeless appeal, while the lyrics continued to paint portraits of 19th century rural life (especially Southern life, as references to Tennessee and Virginia made clear), its sometimes less savory aspects treated with warmth and humor." - William Ruhlmann, All MusicSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/polyphonic-press1229/donations

Welcome to Alexander City, Alabama!  The town was originally incorporated as Youngsville, but the name was changed shortly after to honor Edward Porter Alexander, a Confederate Civil War hero and president of Savannah and Memphis Railroad.  The town name has been unofficially shortened to Alex City by locals, who pronounce  it "El-ix City".   The town is located on the shores of Lake Martin, which was once the largest man-made lake in the world.  Created in the 1920s by the construction of the Martin Dam, the reservoir was intended to provide flood control, hydroelectric power, and  a water supply.  The lake has also become a popular recreation area for swimming, boating, and fishing.  Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird, once visited the town to attend the trial of Robert Burns for the murder of Reverend Willie Maxwell.  It is an incredibly strange story that ends with Burns shooting Maxwell at a funeral he was attending.  The town is also the birthplace of John Saxon, father of our very own Dr. Jess.  We hope you enjoy our stay in Alex City!

One of the most mysterious submarine disasters in history was the sinking of the HL Hunley, a Confederate Civil War submarine. This 40-foot-long tin can was the first to successfully attack another ship—but the results were as disastrous as they were historic. Shortly after its torpedo exploded, the Hunley disappeared off the coast of Charleston. The mystery of what happened to the Hunley and its crewmembers persisted for over a century, until the sub was finally recovered in 2000. But the discovery of the sub only led to a more puzzling mystery—the skeletons of all eight crew members were found in the cramped interior, each seated at their stations with no indication they ever tried to escape. Those mysterious deaths piqued the interest of today’s guest Rachel Lance, the leading underwater blast trauma specialist in North America, who found the case so fascinating that she banked her PhD career on solving it. Lance, the author of the new book In the Waves, provides a definitive answer to what happened to the submarine and its crew on that fateful night. During three years of investigation, she went through archives, delved into previously unknown aspects of blast and shock science and built her own mini-submarine and explosives.

Director Barry Sonnenfeld (The Addams Family, Men in Black, Get Shorty) talks recalls his first gig out of film school as a cameraman for adult films, working with Joel and Ethan Coen on their debut picture Blood Simple, and why you never want to receive a cake on a Coen Bros movie.  Barry discusses his difficulties working with Penny Marshall on Big, how Rob Reiner taught him about something called “the silent schmuck,” and why he and Danny Devito had such a hard time convincing a studio to make Get Shorty.  He talks about his fight with Larry David over who is the most neurotic person on the planet, his astounding ability to beat any celebrity at leg wrestling, and his secret to making children cry on camera.  Plus what it is like to work with Will Smith and bunch of Confederate Civil War reenactors, Eleanor Roosevelt Jokes, and more. Order Barry's new book Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker on Amazon, Audible or wherever books are sold.

Suzie and her husband move down south to try and repair their strained marriage.  They move into a beautiful southern mansion and soon have a baby.  Things turn spooky when the ghost of a Confederate Civil War general begins to haunt Suize and her child while delivering an ominous message. 

ESPN reassigns announcer because he shares a name with a Confederate Civil War general. We proactively have bleeped his name today just in case we're not allowed to utter it without facing fines and possible prosecution. This is the same group (Disney) that has access to our kids. Just saying. Trump rally in Phoenix. In his element. Attacks media. Fires up audience. Gets into some issues. Covers some of their successes to date. James Clapper's response about Trump's 'fitness.' Don Lemon calls Trump 'unhinged.' What happened to Russia, by the way? The strategy is to paint Trump as a Nazi. If that doesn't work, he's a colluder with Russia. If that doesn't work, he's clinically unfit for office. #WhateverItTakes. Mitch McConnell uncertain if Trump can save presidency. What about if McConnell can save the legislative agenda and get something done. Republicans are more aggravated with Congress than Trump. Wish I had more time. Gotta run. 

ESPN reassigns announcer because he shares a name with a Confederate Civil War general. We proactively have bleeped his name today just in case we're not allowed to utter it without facing fines and possible prosecution. This is the same group (Disney) that has access to our kids. Just saying. Trump rally in Phoenix. In his element. Attacks media. Fires up audience. Gets into some issues. Covers some of their successes to date. James Clapper's response about Trump's 'fitness.' Don Lemon calls Trump 'unhinged.' What happened to Russia, by the way? The strategy is to paint Trump as a Nazi. If that doesn't work, he's a colluder with Russia. If that doesn't work, he's clinically unfit for office. #WhateverItTakes. Mitch McConnell uncertain if Trump can save presidency. What about if McConnell can save the legislative agenda and get something done. Republicans are more aggravated with Congress than Trump. Wish I had more time. Gotta run. 

ESPN reassigns announcer because he shares a name with a Confederate Civil War general. We proactively have bleeped his name today just in case we're not allowed to utter it without facing fines and possible prosecution. This is the same group (Disney) that has access to our kids. Just saying. Trump rally in Phoenix. In his element. Attacks media. Fires up audience. Gets into some issues. Covers some of their successes to date. James Clapper's response about Trump's 'fitness.' Don Lemon calls Trump 'unhinged.' What happened to Russia, by the way? The strategy is to paint Trump as a Nazi. If that doesn't work, he's a colluder with Russia. If that doesn't work, he's clinically unfit for office. #WhateverItTakes. Mitch McConnell uncertain if Trump can save presidency. What about if McConnell can save the legislative agenda and get something done. Republicans are more aggravated with Congress than Trump. Wish I had more time. Gotta run. 

In this episode we talk about the recent removal of Confederate Civil War monuments in New Orleans and the nature of historical memory.

State University of New York at Buffalo professor Carole Emberton teaches a class about Andersonville Prison, the Confederate Civil War military prison where 13,000 Union soldiers died, and the trial of its commander, Henry Wirz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

End Time Current Events: 8-30-15 — Part 6 Table of Contents: • Memphis city council votes to dig up remains of Confederate Civil War general & his wife • Black Rebel Flag Supporter Dies After Being Ran Off Road After Speaking at the Confederate Flag Rally!! • Police investigate armed dispute over Confederate flag •…