Podcast appearances and mentions of Francis Marion

This week our guest is SC250 CEO Molly Fortune. To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Revolution, SC250 has recently published the first volume of the Papers of Francis Marion. To read the letters, visit www.SC250.com and for more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.

After World War II, book publishers and film makers worked to identify American heroes that they could promote to the world.  Frequently these heroes were self-made men who used specialized knowledge or skills to defeat an overwhelming enemy.  One such character was Francis Marion, a South Carolina plantation owner who utlized his knowledge of the countryside to prey upon British garrisons and foraging parties. We talk with John Oller, author of The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution. Tell us what you think! Send us a text message!

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This week we'll be talking with Andrew Waters about his latest book, Backcountry War: The Rise of Francis Marion, Banastre Tarleton, and Thomas Sumter (2024, Westholme Publishing). In it Andrew weaves the history of three key leaders in the American Revolution into in a single narrative, focusing on the events of 1780 in South Carolina that witnessed their collective ascendance from common soldiers to American legends. It was a time when British victories at Charleston and Camden left the Continental Army in tatters and the entire American South vulnerable to British conquest. Yet in those dark hours, Sumter, Marion, and others like them rose in the swamps and hills of the South Carolina wilderness. Their collective efforts led to the stunning American victory at Cowpens and a stalemate at Guilford's Courthouse the following year that finally convinced British general Charles Cornwallis to abandon the Carolinas for Virginia and eventually to Yorktown where his beleaguered army surrendered.

Today I talk about two amazing and different men, Lighthorse Harry Lee and Francis Marion, most commonly known as The Swamp Fox. Episode 50 • Freedom Files #13 • LightHorse Harry Lee & The Swamp Fox Welcome Back Patriots! In previous episodes I have discussed the video series called “The Patriot Power Freedom Files” which is available on TikTok, YouTube, X, Instagram and more. All links are listed below.   These videos are short but packed full of historical information on a person, place, battle or other American Revolutionary War related subject.  The video series also includes photos within the video making it come alive a little more. The audio of each Freedom Files Video Series will be posted within the Patriot Power Podcast, as is this one. You can view all video files on TikTok, YouTube or the shows website. ALL links below are clickable within your podcast platform, so enjoy! ________ • ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patriot Power Podcast Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Email Me⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok - Patriot Power Freedom Files⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠InstaGram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Meet your Host, Ron Kern⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Call or Text: 413-FREEDOM _______________ Please share this podcast with others and we would love for you to leave a review. Do you have a question, comment or suggestion?  Want to suggest a topic for an upcoming show?  I'd love to hear from you, so get in touch!

Send us a textIs your marriage built on the solid foundation of faith? Join us for a heartfelt exploration of how making time for God, engaging with the Bible, and nurturing your marital relationships can transform your life and the lives of your children. We'll share poignant insights from the lives of Dr. Billy Graham and his wife, who exemplified the power of encouragement and patience in marriage. Discover the distinct roles and responsibilities of men and women and the profound impact of embodying these roles faithfully in your everyday life.Ever heard of the "Swamp Fox" and his role in shaping America? Learn about Francis Marion's heroic guerrilla warfare tactics during the American Revolutionary War, his family's escape from religious persecution, and his unwavering belief in the necessity of divine love and Christian faith. We also unpack the historical context of the Pledge of Allegiance, President Eisenhower's addition of "under God," and how faith is intertwined with our national identity. Reflect with us on the pervasive nature of faith in modern society and find inspiration to bless your family, marriage, and nation.Support the showThe American Soul Podcasthttps://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe

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Send us a Text Message.In this episode, host Amelia Old chats with Rachel Knight, tourism director of Berkeley County, South Carolina. Discover the pivotal role Berkeley County played in the American Revolutionary War, the cunning strategies of the Swamp Fox, Francis Marion, and explore historic sites like Fort Fairlawn and Biggins Church.Learn about current preservation efforts, how you can experience battlefield tours, and upcoming events commemorating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolutionary War. Visit exploreberkeleycounty.com to explore this rich legacy.

[PODYSSEY] Xtra Watt (Juliette S. Francis|Marion Koch)

[PODYSSEY] Xtra Watt (Juliette S. Francis|Marion Koch)

What I am determined to stamp out is this idea of being a “likeable” as a Black woman. The RIGHT kind of Black woman not only DOES NOT EXIST, there is no way to exactly REMAIN her if you ARE her (which I assure you, you not sis). Note: I misspoke; her name is PEARL MOORE. Pearl Moore of Francis Marion has the overall women's record with 4,061 points from 1975-79 at the small-college level in the AIAW. Moore had 177 points at Anderson Junior College before enrolling at Francis Marion. This was BEFORE those records were incorporated into the NCAA.

South Carolina's impact on the outcome of the war as well as the founding of the new nation cannot be overstated.  We turn to Walter Edgar, retired George Washington Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina,  host of the popular podcast, “South Carolina from A to Z.” and author of the must-read volume Partisans and Redcoats: The Southern Campaign that Turned the Tide of the American Revolution  to untangle the complicated story of the Revolution at its most violent and fascinating.  

While Pearl Moore's basketball career unfolded far away from the national spotlight, there was no keeping the small-town girl from rural South Carolina out of the record books. The sharpshooting Moore was a scoring machine for Francis Marion College. She notched 4,061 points during her collegiate career, a mark that still stands five decades later. The four-time AIAW Small College All-America averaged over 30 points per game in leading Francis Marion to postseason play for four consecutive years.

Part 6 of our Southern Battles of the American Revolution series is here! This week, we tackle the 'Swamp Fox' himself, .

Chad, Ben, and Erin tell some of the Paranormal Legends surrounding the Palmetto State, South Carolina.(02:48) - Old Charleston house(08:09) - Chad's personal experiences(25:00) - Legends of The Citadel(31:00) - Francis Marion hotel haunting(37:20) - Legend of Poe (Edgar Allen Poe)(42:20) - Strawberry Chapel(47:00) - Boone Hall Plantation(50:30) - Guerin's Pharmacy(01:02:00) - Summerville Light(01:01:00) -The Grey Man of Pawley's Island(01:07:12) - The Hound of Goshin(01:10:00) - Seven Devils Bridge(01:12:18) - Pawn Pawn Chapel of Ease(01:14:20) - Legend of the Town of Ferguson(01:15:00) - Haunted Shamrock House(01:18:00) - The Boy at Graniteville Cemetery(01:20:00) - Crybaby Bridge(01:23:25) - Walhalla Hitchhiker(01:26:43) - Hauntings of Folly Beach(01:29:30) - Old Provost Dungeon(01:34:20) - Old Charleston Jail(01:35:53) - College of Charleston Dorms(01:39:00) - Point Set Bridge(01:40:40) - Jackson Borough Light(01:43:40) - The Legare Tomb(01:49:40) - Rice Hope Plantation(01:51:00) - Nazareth Cemetery(01:52:38) - University of South Carolina Hauntings(01:53:47) - Winthrop University Hauntings(01:56:10) - Babcock Asylum(01:58:32) - Successonville IslandCanine Revolution Dog TrainingIf you need dog training, let us know, mention that you are a podcast listener for potential perks!We have a staff of over 25 people ready to serve you and your dog!Episode 91 : Erinhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/canine-revolution-radio/id1515830522?i=1000630664870Episode 67 : Chadhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/canine-revolution-radio/id1515830522?i=1000587234018Episode 52 : Lexyhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/canine-revolution-radio/id1515830522?i=1000560026534Episode 51 : Kevinhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/canine-revolution-radio/id1515830522?i=1000558581715Episode 48 : Chrishttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/canine-revolution-radio/id1515830522?i=1000553921800www.caninerevolutiondogtraining.comCanine Revolution Apparelcheck out the new storefront on Amazon!Dog shirts, gym shirts, Guinea shirts, rain jackets, hoodies, etc.https://www.amazon.com/stores/CANINEREVOLUTIONAPPAREL/page/FD7AD6BF-FC04-498D-BE1E-43963961CBB1?ref_=ast_bln Origin USA : American sourced & made goodshttps://originmaine.com/?ref=4tHlQsRORNpbY&utm_source=affiliateUse code : Singer101 (10% off)Jocko Fuel : American sourced & made supplements-Redlinehttps://store.jockofuel.com/?ref=SINGERUse code : Singer101 (10% off)Visit Pack Talk Podcast on YouTubeIf you would like Chad to be a guest speaker at your event, email : chadsinger@caninerevolutiondogtraining.comIf you are a business owner and / or dog trainer  that needs a coach / consultant, email Chad at : chadsinger@caninerevolutiondogtraining.comThank you to our military, first responders, teachers, for all you do.  Canine Revolution Dog Training is proud to offer you discounts on dog training services.

This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette Digital News Desk, and I'm here with your update for October 13, 2023. Looks like it will be a rainy morning Friday. According to the National Weather Service there will be a high chance of showers and thunderstorms before noon on Friday, then a little break for rain in the middle of the day, before a chance for more rain Friday evening. The temperature will top out at 63 degrees, with a 15 to 20 mph breeze gusting as high as 30 mph.Francis Marion Intermediate School in Marion is closed to students the rest of the week after Wednesday's storm caused several parts of the school's roof to collapse.Restoration and construction companies were on-site at the school for third- and fourth-graders in the Marion Independent School District Thursday to survey the damage and determine a cost estimate and timeline for repairs.Superintendent Janelle Brouwer said a “significant amount of water” overnight Wednesday damaged three classrooms and seeped into other areas of the building. Brouwer said a construction company likely will be working to make repairs to Francis Marion school, 2301 Third Ave., over the weekend.The district's other schools will remain open.The damage was identified by an evening custodian in the school Wednesday, Brouwer said. Notification that the school would be closed Thursday and Friday was sent to families Wednesday around 8 p.m. The closure impacts about 240 students who attend the school.Alliant Energy's Iowa utility is proposing a rate increase for its electric and gas customers it says comes to about $150 a year — with more to come later.Interstate Power and Light Company is requesting a 7.7 percent increase to residential customers' total electric bills. If approved by the Iowa Utilities Board, the hike would go into effect in October 2024. That corresponds to about $10 extra a month, said spokesperson Morgan Hawk.An additional rate increase of about 5.7 percent would follow in October 2025, which breaks down to about $7 a month.There's only one phase of rate increases for natural gas customers: a 5 percent increase that, if approved, would start in October 2024. It would add about $3 more to customers' total bills.The utility is asking to raise its rates to cover added operation costs, support grid resiliency and allow future growth, Hawk said.IPL is moving overhead power lines underground to decrease the number and the length of power outages. Frequency and duration of Alliant outages have decreased by about 30 percent over the last decade as more lines have moved underground, Hawk said.Iowa state revenue is expected to decline slightly in fiscal 2024 and 2025, owing largely to recent income tax cuts, a panel of revenue forecasters reported Thursday.The latest projections from the Iowa Revenue Estimating Conference — which will guide lawmakers on how much money they have to spend — predict state income in the fiscal year that started July 1 will fall by 0.9 percent from the fiscal 2023 level. The state revenues this budget year are expected to be $9.75 billion.Iowa's revenue in fiscal 2023, which ended June 30, was $9.85 billion, a 0.4 percent increase from the previous year.“The state is showing a modest slowdown in revenue. However, those reductions are planned and being driven by the tax rate reductions for Iowa taxpayers,” said Kraig Paulsen, the director of the Iowa Department of Management and chair of the panel.Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a major tax overhaul law in 2022 that set Iowa's individual income on the course to a flat tax of 3.9 percent for all income brackets, and intended to lower corporate taxes to 5.5 percent if revenues hit a certain target each year.

Brigadier General Francis Marion (c. 1732 – February 27, 1795), also known as the "Swamp Fox", was an American military officer, planter, and politician who served during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. During the American Revolution, Marion supported the Patriot cause and enlisted in the Continental Army, fighting against British forces in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War from 1780 to 1781. Though he never commanded a field army or served as a commander in a major engagement, Marion's use of irregular warfare against the British has led him to be considered one of the fathers of guerrilla and maneuver warfare, and his tactics form a part of the modern-day military doctrine of the U.S. Army's 75th Ranger Regiment.[1][2]

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Coach Doug Novak was most recently the Army West Point Men's Basketball Associate Head Coach. Previously Novak served as the Mississippi State University Women's Basketball Head Coach.Prior to Mississippi State Novak compiled a 112-52 record in 6 seasons as the Men's Head Basketball Coach at D3 Bethel University. He served both The Citadel and Tulane University as a D1 men's basketball assistant coach for a total of seven seasons after having been the men's head coach at D2 Anderson University.Novak spent one season as a men's assistant coach at Francis Marion following a stint as the head coach at Iowa Western Community College. Doug began his basketball coaching career as a men's basketball assistant coach at Roane State Community College.If you're looking to improve your coaching please consider joining the Hoop Heads Mentorship Program. We believe that having a mentor is the best way to maximize your potential and become a transformational coach. By matching you up with one of our experienced mentors you'll develop a one on one relationship that will help your coaching, your team, your program, and your mindset. The Hoop Heads Mentorship Program delivers mentoring services to basketball coaches at all levels through our team of experienced Head Coaches. Find out more at hoopheadspod.com or shoot me an email directly mike@hoopheadspod.comFollow us on social media @hoopheadspod on Twitter and Instagram and be sure to check out the Hoop Heads Podcast Network for more great basketball content.Be sure to take some notes as you listen to this episode with Coach Doug Novak.Website - https://www.coachdougnovak.com/ https://dougnovakbasketball.com/Email - coachdougnovak@gmail.comTwitter - @ImmersionVideosVisit our Sponsors!Dr. Dish BasketballMention the Hoop Heads Podcast when you place your order and get $300 off a brand new state of the art Dr. Dish Shooting Machine! Fast Model SportsFastModel Sports has the most compelling and intuitive basketball software out there! In addition to a great product, they also provide basketball coaching content and resources through their blog and playbank, which features over 8,000 free plays and drills from their online coaching community. For access to these plays and more information, visit fastmodelsports.com or follow them on Twitter @FastModel. Use Promo code HHP15 to save 15%The Coaching PortfolioYour first impression is everything when applying for a new coaching job. A professional coaching portfolio is the tool that highlights your coaching achievements and philosophies and, most of all, helps separate you and your abilities from the other applicants. Special Price of just $25 for all Hoop Heads Listeners.TrainWhether you're a beginner basketball player looking for a place to start or a seasoned vet looking to level up your skills, your new go-to secret weapon is Train.Train is a basketball training and...

In this episode Ben Zeigler and Stephen Motte from the Florence County Museum in Florence, SC, talk with us about the legend of Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion. The current exhibition at the museum, Legend: Francis Marion in the Pee Dee, examines the early decades of American Independence, when poets and painters turned General Francis Marion into a mythical figure; part fact, part folk legend. Those efforts were so effective that the cultural impact of their words and images lingers today.

Welcome to red, white and blue Braveheart! This July 4th, come celebrate America's birthday with us as we discuss 2000's epic of (barely) historical proportions! The Patriot is a historical war film written by Robert Rodat, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Mel Gibson, Chris Cooper, Heath Ledger and Jason Isaacs. The story takes place mainly in rural Berkeley County in South Carolina and depicts Benjamin Martin (Gibson), an American colonist opposed to going to war with Great Britain who, along with his adult son (Ledger), gets swept into the Revolutionary War when his home life is disrupted and one of his sons is murdered by a cruel British officer (Isaacs). Rodat has said Martin is a composite character based on four historical men: Andrew Pickens, Francis Marion, Daniel Morgan and Thomas Sumter. Benjamin Martin: "Before this war is over I'm going to kill you." Col. Tavington: "Why wait?" Pitch Meeting Guy: "So the movie can happen!" Follow the No Flicks Given boys on Instagram to see what we've got coming up next!

Today's Wake Up Carolina:The Importance of Masculinity.Tim Scott vs Barack Obama.Ken discusses Francis Marion with several historical experts.Ken and Dave wrap up with talk about Francis Marion and Joe Biden.www.studio550boston.com

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We do love discussing the Revolutionary War around here. Often, you will hear of that Fateful harsh Winter in Washington's Camp and how the Genius of Washington drove the British completely out of New England. All true, but often it seems the Southern Campaign gets completely glossed over. So today, enjoy a supremely condensed but hyper efficient look at the Southern Colonies under Cornwallis' Occupation in 1780. WE POST DAILY! If you don't see us, check our other socials. If you got a favorite, we are most likely on it! The AllmyLinks has all of our Socials! - https://allmylinks.com/robisright

A week ago, fugitive Michael Burham was on the run from Jamestown, NY and ended up at Rivers Ave Walmart. He managed to evade local law and FBI for four days. He was in the Francis Marion. However, it's our beau Anthony who found Burham and because of that, Michael Burham has been captured. Here's what went down in Anthony's words!

The American Guerillas series continues with part two: “The Sword of the Lord and Gideon”. After the British invasion of South Carolina, American forces had their backs to the wall. But many Patriot militia units refused to give up. They fought valiantly using guerilla style tactics. In this episode, we discuss those tactics in depth.  This episode will cover the following:  The Battle of Musgrove's Mill The Battle of Kings Mountain and the legend of the Over Mountain Men The Swamp Fox, Francis Marion's campaign in the low country The Battle of Blackstock's Plantation Key leaders on the American side: Colonel Isaac Shelby, Colonel William Campbell as well as Thomas Sumter and Francis Marion  Key leaders on the British side: Major Patrick Ferguson After listening to this episode, subscribe and stay tuned for American Guerillas Part Three.  Business update: My company, Alexandria History Tours, provides history tours in Old Town Alexandria, VA. We have a George Washington tour, a Revolutionary War tour, plus Civil War stops on our tours! Check out the website and learn more.   Podcast website: www.professionalmilitaryeducation.com to see maps and pictures.  HELP SPREAD THE WORD! If you like the show and want to hear others, subscribe in iTunes, Spotify, or Audible. Support the show with written reviews, share on social media, and through word of mouth.  Check out the show on Twitter and Facebook To request additional shows or guests, e-mail me: tim@professionalmilitaryeducation.com 

In this episode: The boys talk Youtube prank videos, Francis Marion the swamp fox, and sassy dragon tropes. The duo then tackle questions concerning the prison industrial complex, the funniest topic for a podcast. They then wrap up with a topical tip for former Home Alone 2 star Donald J Trump. Article 1: The ethicist https://web.archive.org/web/20230225035607/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/24/magazine/dating-prisoner-ethics.html Article 2: Carolyn Hax https://www.nj.com/advice/2019/10/carolyn-hax-time-to-come-clean-about-brothers-prison-time.html?outputType=amp Third Seggy: Topical Tip on 45

The chilling tale of love, death, hauntings, and the secrets of the Ockram family concludes in this episode. Vile old patriarch Sir Hugh Ockram's secret is finally revealed. But, what does it hold in store for son and his betrothed?

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F. Marion Crawford is considered a master of ghost stories. This particular tale was published in 1911 and features a macabre mix of family drama, secrets, and haunting imagery.

In this story a ghost haunts a cruise ship, and very strange unexplainable events occur. Read by Robert Crandall All Rights Reserved.

Culler Dore, DII SAAC member and current cross country and track & field/mass communications major at Francis Marion, speaks with Jill Robbins, assistant commissioner and Senior Woman Administrator at Conference Carolinas, about her involvement in her conference SAAC, her work as an SWA and working with the conference athletes. The Division II Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) has created this podcast to help educate and provide guidance to its fellow college athletes in helping them prepare for the next steps of their life career.

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La sonrisa muerta (The Dead Smile) es un relato de terror del escritor británico Francias Marion Crawford (1854-1909), publicado originalmente en la edición de agosto de 1899 de la revista Ainslee's; y luego reeditado en la antología de 1911: Cuentos misteriosos (Uncanny Tales). Posteriormente aparecería en 65 relatos para temblar de miedo (65 Great Spine Chillers) y Un siglo de historias de terror (A Century Of Horror Stories) Antes de comenzar a analizar La sonrisa muerta, uno de los mejores cuentos de Francis Marion Crawford, es pertinente mencionar algunas influencias. Dos de ellas son evidentes: Edgar Allan Poe y Nathaniel Hawthorne, particularmente los cuentos Berenice (Berenice), La caída de la Casa Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) y La Casa de los Siete Tejados (The House of the Seven Gables). Estas son historias sobre males familiares que son heredados por las generaciones más jóvenes, casi como una infección que se activa cuando el miembro más viejo de la familia fallece. En otras palabras, F. Marion Crawford emplea esta herencia maldita que parece entrar en conflicto entre el libre albedrío y el destino [ver: El horror hereditario y la enfermedad de Lovecraft] ¡¡¡¡¡¡ATENCION: SPOILER!!!!!!! En Berenice, Edgar Allan Poe sigue la obsesión morbosa de un hombre con los dientes de su prima. Es una historia cuyo punto de ebullición combina la necrofilia, entierros en vida y mutilación dental. E.A. Poe utilizó el motivo de los dientes para simbolizar el punto de contacto entre la lujuria física y la adoración espiritual. En La sonrisa muerta, F. Marion Crawford emplea el rictus post-mortem como símbolo de carnalidad, odio y maldad. El risus sardonicus [«risa sardónica»] es un espasmo involuntario de los músculos faciales que produce una especie de sonrisa [al parecer, era común en los ahorcados]. El término también se utiliza para referirse a un fenómeno post-mortem que consiste en el retraimiento de los labios del difunto durante las primeras fases de la descomposición, generando lo que parece ser una sonrisa. Si bien la sonrisa muerta del relato de F. Marion Crawford tiene una fuente más sobrenatural que médica, funciona del mismo modo, al menos en el cuerpo de los difuntos Ockram; porque en este caso es un rictus contagioso, capaz de aparecer inesperadamente en el rostro de las personas vivas en Ockram Hall [ver: Psicología de las Casas Embrujadas] La historia comienza con sir Hugh Ockram. El anciano está muriendo y sabe que irá al infierno. Fue un notorio libertino que arruinó la vida de muchas mujeres. Ahora yace en su lecho de muerte con el gesto de suficiencia del pecador impenitente que nunca se arrepentirá. Sir Hugh es anciano, pero la mujer que fue su nodriza [la señora MacDonald, una mujer centenaria] contempla con horror su rostro amarillento y contorsionado por la maldad. También están presentes su sobrina, Evelyn, y su hijo, Gabriel, que han venido a pedir su bendición para casarse. Malévolo hasta el final, sir Hugh señala cínicamente que su bendición no importa, pero que hay una muy buena razón por la que no deberían casarse, una razón que se niega a revelar. Se queda dormido y los novios salen a reflexionar sobre el significado de este secreto. En la bóveda familiar, debajo de Ockram Hall, yacen los cadáveres de generaciones de libertinos. Gabriel solo espera no haber heredado su maldad. El joven relata la historia de un antepasado que fue decapitado, cuya cabeza tiene el pernicioso hábito de salir rodando de su ataúd y mostrar una sonrisa muy parecida a la de sir Hugh, una rictus presente en todos los Ockram desde entonces. Adentro, mientras oscurece, la nodriza MacDonald cree ver a una mujer en la ventana, una mujer que se parece a Evelyn, con los labios fríos y muertos manchados de sangre. El fantasma de repente muestra sus colmillos y emite un gemido espeluznante. La nodriza supone que es un sueño, pero cuando la sirvienta menciona que ella también ha visto a la figura [y comenta su similitud con Evelyn], la nodriza decide que era el alma en pena de la familia y se estremece de miedo. Conmovida, la señora MacDonald se coloca al lado de la cama de sir Hugh y le ruega que revele su «secreto» en nombre de todas las mujeres que ha destruido: su madre [no sabemos cómo], su desconsolada esposa y su amante abandonada. Sin preocuparse por su alma, sir Hugh la rechaza, sonriendo maliciosamente. De repente, Evelyn entra en la habitación, mira hacia afuera y ve a su doppelgänger en la ventana. Momentos después, sir Hugh muere con el rostro contorsionado en esta sonrisa malvada; y Evelyn siente que en su propio rostro comienza a insinuarse un rictus similar, que no puede detener a pesar de sus esfuerzos. Sir Hugh es llevado a la bóveda. Los sirvientes que lo trasladan se niegan a mirarse: cada uno luce una macabra sonrisa involuntaria que no se desvanece hasta que han salido de la bóveda. Tiempo después, Gabriel y Evelyn organizan una fiesta para anunciar su próxima boda. Cuando los invitados se disponen a brindar, resuenan gritos en el salón: el rostro de cada persona está torcido por la sonrisa macabra que no pueden reprimir. Se produce una huida precipitada. Los únicos que quedan son Gabriel y Evelyn, sentados uno junto al otro, incapaces de mirarse porque saben que en el rostro del otro está la sonrisa muerta. Sin embargo, esto no es lo peor. Ambos comienzan a sentir el impulso irresistible de visitar la bóveda para ver el rostro de sir Hugh una vez más. Una noche, casi al borde de la locura, Gabriel se arrastra hasta la bóveda para ver a su padre muerto. Mientras camina por los pasillos, baja las escaleras y se adentra en la oscuridad y el moho, reprime la sonrisa muerta en sus propios labios. Finalmente encuentra el ataúd y retira la mortaja. El rostro de sir Hugh, horriblemente deteriorado, todavía muestra una sonrisa de odio, pero Gabriel se siente atraído por algo que el cadáver sostiene entre sus dedos: un paquete que contiene su «secreto». No se trata de una confesión, sino de un alarde escrito, una jactancia del mal que sir Hugh ha cometido en vida. Según este testimonio, la madre de Evelyn [que era hermana de la esposa de sir Hugh] había estado casada con uno de los camaradas de sir Hugh en el ejército británico. El hombre murió en Afganistán. Sir Hugh la llevó a vivir a Ockram Hall, la sedujo, la embarazó y rechazó a su esposa [madre de Gabriel], que murió de vergüenza. Poco después del nacimiento de Evelyn, hizo lo mismo con su madre, y crió a la niña como su sobrina. Su deseo era ver a su hijo casarse con su media hermana para atormentar el alma de estas dos mujeres: su difunta esposa y su cuñada. Escribió el relato de sus acciones con la esperanza de que algún día, quizás cuando Gabriel y Evelyn estuviesen casados y con hijos, se enteraran de su incesto. En cierto modo, les heredaría el «secreto», que Gabriel y Evelyn se verían obligados a perpetuar para no arruinar la vida de sus propios hijos [endogámicos]. Al leer esto, Gabriel agradece que hayan retrasado la boda. Levanta la vista y ve que la mandíbula de sir Hugh se relaja y se abre; su sonrisa se desvanece. De repente nota a alguien más detrás de él. Es Evelyn, que lo ha seguido hasta la bóveda y ha leído el manuscrito por encima de su hombro. Por un momento se miran, luego se abrazan, tristes pero agradecidos, como hermanos. Hay muchos elementos para analizar en La sonrisa muerta de F. Marion Crawford. Lo primero que asombra es la cantidad de tropos góticos: amantes desafortunados, maldiciones familiares, incesto, antiguas mansiones familiares, bóvedas decrépitas, patriarcas siniestros, fantasmas, secretos y... banshees. Su delicioso goticismo se adentra en lo sobrenatural pero sin hacerlo obvio, empleando sugerencias e insinuaciones para forzar al lector a interpretar los eventos más sensacionales. El alma en pena, la cabeza que se rehúsa a permanecer en el ataúd, el cadáver de pie, las sonrisas inquietantes y todas las coincidencias que unen a Gabriel y Evelyn en una red, parecen genuinamente sobrenaturales, pero en realidad son vulnerables a la investigación escéptica: la cabeza y el cadáver pueden haber sido movidos por un sirviente bromista [o rencoroso], la mujer en la ventana y las sonrisas pueden ser muestras de histeria colectiva. Sin embargo, tal vez son exactamente lo que parecen [ver: Casas como metáfora de la psique en el Horror] La sonrisa muerta parece terminar con una nota feliz: Gabriel y Evelyn descubren que son hermanos, se aceptan como tales y la boda se cancelará. El plan siniestro de sir Hugh ha sido desbaratado. El lector sacude la cabeza, se frota los ojos, y se pregunta si todos estos elementos sobrenaturales fueron causados sólo por sugerencias y completados con sus propias expectativas. Sin embargo, tampoco estamos seguros de que sea un final feliz. En efecto, al final Evelyn llama a Gabriel «mi hermano», y se abrazan, pero, en una consideración más detallada, no sabemos qué ocurrió después. Es un final relativamente vago, donde la posibilidad de que Evelyn y Gabriel se casaran más adelante, aún sabiendo que son hermanos, sigue siendo válida [ver: Casa Tabú] De hecho, podríamos preguntarnos si los jóvenes amantes ya sospechaban de su relación incestuosa, autoproclamándose actores condenados de un melodrama gótico. Al principio esperan la «bendición» de sir Hugh [que no obtienen], pero después de la muerte del anciano no hay razón para postergar la boda; sin embargo, la postergan durante varios meses. Más aún, F. Marion Crawford no hace mucho por ocultar que hay algo extraño entre Evelyn y Gabriel; más bien todo lo contrario. La insinuación de que son dos hermanos a punto de contraer un matrimonio es bastante obvia desde el principio Si bien este final seguramente resulta artificial o insatisfactorio para el lector moderno, es importante mencionar que Francis Marion Crawford estaba derribando el final convencional de las novelas góticas, el cual generalmente involucra alguna forma de incesto involuntario y cuya revelación conduce a la locura o el suicidio de alguno de los protagonistas. Al hacer que Evelyn y Gabriel sobrevivan a esta prueba, F. Marion Crawford no solo está desafiando un motivo común en la literatura gótica, sino que no les hace perder la razón [o la vida], sino que les permite recuperarla. En efecto, Evelyn y Gabriel no enloquecen ni son empujados a una furia homicida al descubrir que son hermanos: se abrazan y siguen adelante. De este modo, una maldición familiar puede ser vencida por la fuerza de voluntad; los pecados del padre pueden ser absueltos por la resolución del hijo. Uno no puede simplemente aceptar que los errores de nuestros padres se perpetúan invariablemente en nosotros. No podemos refugiarnos en la predestinación. Sin embargo, F. Marion Crawford no cierra la puerta a una interpretación inversa: Evelyn y Gabriel se reconocen como hermanos, se abrazan y siguen adelante... como pareja. Ahora bien, el elemento central del relato es la «sonrisa muerta», este rictus que vemos en el rostro de sir Hugh y luego sobre los labios de Evelyn y Gabriel. ¿Se trata de una maldición familiar? ¿De un rasgo degenerativo en la familia? Si es así, ¿por qué la centenaria nodriza Macdonald también lo tiene? ¿Acaso ella también es la hija bastarda de algún Ockram? Ciertamente es curiosa la presencia de esta mujer centenaria que cuidó a sir Hugh cuando era un bebé, y que ahora está maternalmente presente en su lecho de muerte. De hecho, la nodriza MacDonald intenta que sir Hugh confiese su «secreto» [que ella sospecha y calla] para que su alma descanse en paz. ¿La malevolencia de sir Hugh, queriendo hacer sufrir eternamente a sus mujeres a través de la unión incestuosa entre Evelyn y Gabriel es una especie de castigo a su verdadera madre? Quizás la señora MacDonald es su madre después de todo, quizás no. Nunca lo sabremos [ver: La Casa Embrujada como representación del cuerpo de la mujer] ¿Y qué hay de la banshee con la cara de Evelyn que aparece en la ventana? Casi con certeza es el fantasma de la madre de Evelyn, seducida y abandonada por sir Hugh. La sonrisa muerta de F. Marion Crawford tiene una cadencia singular, pero el horror de la historia no está unido de manera explícita y coherente. Evelyn parece decididamente lenta en la comprensión de las insinuaciones de la señora Macdonald, aunque dada su declaración final, tal vez deberíamos concluir que no se permitió darse cuenta de talas implicaciones. Uno se pregunta sobre el plan de sir Hugh. Causó de alguna manera la obsesión de Gabriel, pero calculó mal la intensidad apropiada para hacerle descubrir el documento solo después de haberse casado y engendrado hijos con Evelyn. A propósito, ¿cómo terminó el documento en manos del cadáver? ¿Acaso sir Hugh dispuso que algún sirviente lo colocara entre sus manos tiempo después de ser inhumado en la bóveda? Esta sería una explicación lógica, pero sabemos que las cosas se mueven solas en esa cripta todo el tiempo, como la cabeza inquieta de Vernon Ockram. Análisis de: El Espejo Gótico https://elespejogotico.blogspot.com/2022/09/la-sonrisa-muerta-f-marion-crawford.html Texto del relato extraído de: https://elespejogotico.blogspot.com/2022/09/la-sonrisa-muerta-f-marion-crawford.html Traducido al español: Sebastián Beringheli para El Espejo Gótico Musicas: - 01. PGM Misterio Autor: Antonio Muñoz Guirado en colaboración con Jim Bryan y Brendan Brown - Cedida en exclusiva para este programa de Relatos de Misterio y Suspense. - 02. unsettling-slow-horror-ambience-creepy-and-scratchy-strings-and-scary-bells-for-haunte_Suite Tracks Music Nota: Este audio no se realiza con fines comerciales ni lucrativos. Es de difusión enteramente gratuita e intenta dar a conocer tanto a los escritores de los relatos y cuentos como a los autores de las músicas. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

La sonrisa muerta (The Dead Smile) es un relato de terror del escritor británico Francias Marion Crawford (1854-1909), publicado originalmente en la edición de agosto de 1899 de la revista Ainslee's; y luego reeditado en la antología de 1911: Cuentos misteriosos (Uncanny Tales). Posteriormente aparecería en 65 relatos para temblar de miedo (65 Great Spine Chillers) y Un siglo de historias de terror (A Century Of Horror Stories) Antes de comenzar a analizar La sonrisa muerta, uno de los mejores cuentos de Francis Marion Crawford, es pertinente mencionar algunas influencias. Dos de ellas son evidentes: Edgar Allan Poe y Nathaniel Hawthorne, particularmente los cuentos Berenice (Berenice), La caída de la Casa Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) y La Casa de los Siete Tejados (The House of the Seven Gables). Estas son historias sobre males familiares que son heredados por las generaciones más jóvenes, casi como una infección que se activa cuando el miembro más viejo de la familia fallece. En otras palabras, F. Marion Crawford emplea esta herencia maldita que parece entrar en conflicto entre el libre albedrío y el destino [ver: El horror hereditario y la enfermedad de Lovecraft] ¡¡¡¡¡¡ATENCION: SPOILER!!!!!!! En Berenice, Edgar Allan Poe sigue la obsesión morbosa de un hombre con los dientes de su prima. Es una historia cuyo punto de ebullición combina la necrofilia, entierros en vida y mutilación dental. E.A. Poe utilizó el motivo de los dientes para simbolizar el punto de contacto entre la lujuria física y la adoración espiritual. En La sonrisa muerta, F. Marion Crawford emplea el rictus post-mortem como símbolo de carnalidad, odio y maldad. El risus sardonicus [«risa sardónica»] es un espasmo involuntario de los músculos faciales que produce una especie de sonrisa [al parecer, era común en los ahorcados]. El término también se utiliza para referirse a un fenómeno post-mortem que consiste en el retraimiento de los labios del difunto durante las primeras fases de la descomposición, generando lo que parece ser una sonrisa. Si bien la sonrisa muerta del relato de F. Marion Crawford tiene una fuente más sobrenatural que médica, funciona del mismo modo, al menos en el cuerpo de los difuntos Ockram; porque en este caso es un rictus contagioso, capaz de aparecer inesperadamente en el rostro de las personas vivas en Ockram Hall [ver: Psicología de las Casas Embrujadas] La historia comienza con sir Hugh Ockram. El anciano está muriendo y sabe que irá al infierno. Fue un notorio libertino que arruinó la vida de muchas mujeres. Ahora yace en su lecho de muerte con el gesto de suficiencia del pecador impenitente que nunca se arrepentirá. Sir Hugh es anciano, pero la mujer que fue su nodriza [la señora MacDonald, una mujer centenaria] contempla con horror su rostro amarillento y contorsionado por la maldad. También están presentes su sobrina, Evelyn, y su hijo, Gabriel, que han venido a pedir su bendición para casarse. Malévolo hasta el final, sir Hugh señala cínicamente que su bendición no importa, pero que hay una muy buena razón por la que no deberían casarse, una razón que se niega a revelar. Se queda dormido y los novios salen a reflexionar sobre el significado de este secreto. En la bóveda familiar, debajo de Ockram Hall, yacen los cadáveres de generaciones de libertinos. Gabriel solo espera no haber heredado su maldad. El joven relata la historia de un antepasado que fue decapitado, cuya cabeza tiene el pernicioso hábito de salir rodando de su ataúd y mostrar una sonrisa muy parecida a la de sir Hugh, una rictus presente en todos los Ockram desde entonces. Adentro, mientras oscurece, la nodriza MacDonald cree ver a una mujer en la ventana, una mujer que se parece a Evelyn, con los labios fríos y muertos manchados de sangre. El fantasma de repente muestra sus colmillos y emite un gemido espeluznante. La nodriza supone que es un sueño, pero cuando la sirvienta menciona que ella también ha visto a la figura [y comenta su similitud con Evelyn], la nodriza decide que era el alma en pena de la familia y se estremece de miedo. Conmovida, la señora MacDonald se coloca al lado de la cama de sir Hugh y le ruega que revele su «secreto» en nombre de todas las mujeres que ha destruido: su madre [no sabemos cómo], su desconsolada esposa y su amante abandonada. Sin preocuparse por su alma, sir Hugh la rechaza, sonriendo maliciosamente. De repente, Evelyn entra en la habitación, mira hacia afuera y ve a su doppelgänger en la ventana. Momentos después, sir Hugh muere con el rostro contorsionado en esta sonrisa malvada; y Evelyn siente que en su propio rostro comienza a insinuarse un rictus similar, que no puede detener a pesar de sus esfuerzos. Sir Hugh es llevado a la bóveda. Los sirvientes que lo trasladan se niegan a mirarse: cada uno luce una macabra sonrisa involuntaria que no se desvanece hasta que han salido de la bóveda. Tiempo después, Gabriel y Evelyn organizan una fiesta para anunciar su próxima boda. Cuando los invitados se disponen a brindar, resuenan gritos en el salón: el rostro de cada persona está torcido por la sonrisa macabra que no pueden reprimir. Se produce una huida precipitada. Los únicos que quedan son Gabriel y Evelyn, sentados uno junto al otro, incapaces de mirarse porque saben que en el rostro del otro está la sonrisa muerta. Sin embargo, esto no es lo peor. Ambos comienzan a sentir el impulso irresistible de visitar la bóveda para ver el rostro de sir Hugh una vez más. Una noche, casi al borde de la locura, Gabriel se arrastra hasta la bóveda para ver a su padre muerto. Mientras camina por los pasillos, baja las escaleras y se adentra en la oscuridad y el moho, reprime la sonrisa muerta en sus propios labios. Finalmente encuentra el ataúd y retira la mortaja. El rostro de sir Hugh, horriblemente deteriorado, todavía muestra una sonrisa de odio, pero Gabriel se siente atraído por algo que el cadáver sostiene entre sus dedos: un paquete que contiene su «secreto». No se trata de una confesión, sino de un alarde escrito, una jactancia del mal que sir Hugh ha cometido en vida. Según este testimonio, la madre de Evelyn [que era hermana de la esposa de sir Hugh] había estado casada con uno de los camaradas de sir Hugh en el ejército británico. El hombre murió en Afganistán. Sir Hugh la llevó a vivir a Ockram Hall, la sedujo, la embarazó y rechazó a su esposa [madre de Gabriel], que murió de vergüenza. Poco después del nacimiento de Evelyn, hizo lo mismo con su madre, y crió a la niña como su sobrina. Su deseo era ver a su hijo casarse con su media hermana para atormentar el alma de estas dos mujeres: su difunta esposa y su cuñada. Escribió el relato de sus acciones con la esperanza de que algún día, quizás cuando Gabriel y Evelyn estuviesen casados y con hijos, se enteraran de su incesto. En cierto modo, les heredaría el «secreto», que Gabriel y Evelyn se verían obligados a perpetuar para no arruinar la vida de sus propios hijos [endogámicos]. Al leer esto, Gabriel agradece que hayan retrasado la boda. Levanta la vista y ve que la mandíbula de sir Hugh se relaja y se abre; su sonrisa se desvanece. De repente nota a alguien más detrás de él. Es Evelyn, que lo ha seguido hasta la bóveda y ha leído el manuscrito por encima de su hombro. Por un momento se miran, luego se abrazan, tristes pero agradecidos, como hermanos. Hay muchos elementos para analizar en La sonrisa muerta de F. Marion Crawford. Lo primero que asombra es la cantidad de tropos góticos: amantes desafortunados, maldiciones familiares, incesto, antiguas mansiones familiares, bóvedas decrépitas, patriarcas siniestros, fantasmas, secretos y... banshees. Su delicioso goticismo se adentra en lo sobrenatural pero sin hacerlo obvio, empleando sugerencias e insinuaciones para forzar al lector a interpretar los eventos más sensacionales. El alma en pena, la cabeza que se rehúsa a permanecer en el ataúd, el cadáver de pie, las sonrisas inquietantes y todas las coincidencias que unen a Gabriel y Evelyn en una red, parecen genuinamente sobrenaturales, pero en realidad son vulnerables a la investigación escéptica: la cabeza y el cadáver pueden haber sido movidos por un sirviente bromista [o rencoroso], la mujer en la ventana y las sonrisas pueden ser muestras de histeria colectiva. Sin embargo, tal vez son exactamente lo que parecen [ver: Casas como metáfora de la psique en el Horror] La sonrisa muerta parece terminar con una nota feliz: Gabriel y Evelyn descubren que son hermanos, se aceptan como tales y la boda se cancelará. El plan siniestro de sir Hugh ha sido desbaratado. El lector sacude la cabeza, se frota los ojos, y se pregunta si todos estos elementos sobrenaturales fueron causados sólo por sugerencias y completados con sus propias expectativas. Sin embargo, tampoco estamos seguros de que sea un final feliz. En efecto, al final Evelyn llama a Gabriel «mi hermano», y se abrazan, pero, en una consideración más detallada, no sabemos qué ocurrió después. Es un final relativamente vago, donde la posibilidad de que Evelyn y Gabriel se casaran más adelante, aún sabiendo que son hermanos, sigue siendo válida [ver: Casa Tabú] De hecho, podríamos preguntarnos si los jóvenes amantes ya sospechaban de su relación incestuosa, autoproclamándose actores condenados de un melodrama gótico. Al principio esperan la «bendición» de sir Hugh [que no obtienen], pero después de la muerte del anciano no hay razón para postergar la boda; sin embargo, la postergan durante varios meses. Más aún, F. Marion Crawford no hace mucho por ocultar que hay algo extraño entre Evelyn y Gabriel; más bien todo lo contrario. La insinuación de que son dos hermanos a punto de contraer un matrimonio es bastante obvia desde el principio Si bien este final seguramente resulta artificial o insatisfactorio para el lector moderno, es importante mencionar que Francis Marion Crawford estaba derribando el final convencional de las novelas góticas, el cual generalmente involucra alguna forma de incesto involuntario y cuya revelación conduce a la locura o el suicidio de alguno de los protagonistas. Al hacer que Evelyn y Gabriel sobrevivan a esta prueba, F. Marion Crawford no solo está desafiando un motivo común en la literatura gótica, sino que no les hace perder la razón [o la vida], sino que les permite recuperarla. En efecto, Evelyn y Gabriel no enloquecen ni son empujados a una furia homicida al descubrir que son hermanos: se abrazan y siguen adelante. De este modo, una maldición familiar puede ser vencida por la fuerza de voluntad; los pecados del padre pueden ser absueltos por la resolución del hijo. Uno no puede simplemente aceptar que los errores de nuestros padres se perpetúan invariablemente en nosotros. No podemos refugiarnos en la predestinación. Sin embargo, F. Marion Crawford no cierra la puerta a una interpretación inversa: Evelyn y Gabriel se reconocen como hermanos, se abrazan y siguen adelante... como pareja. Ahora bien, el elemento central del relato es la «sonrisa muerta», este rictus que vemos en el rostro de sir Hugh y luego sobre los labios de Evelyn y Gabriel. ¿Se trata de una maldición familiar? ¿De un rasgo degenerativo en la familia? Si es así, ¿por qué la centenaria nodriza Macdonald también lo tiene? ¿Acaso ella también es la hija bastarda de algún Ockram? Ciertamente es curiosa la presencia de esta mujer centenaria que cuidó a sir Hugh cuando era un bebé, y que ahora está maternalmente presente en su lecho de muerte. De hecho, la nodriza MacDonald intenta que sir Hugh confiese su «secreto» [que ella sospecha y calla] para que su alma descanse en paz. ¿La malevolencia de sir Hugh, queriendo hacer sufrir eternamente a sus mujeres a través de la unión incestuosa entre Evelyn y Gabriel es una especie de castigo a su verdadera madre? Quizás la señora MacDonald es su madre después de todo, quizás no. Nunca lo sabremos [ver: La Casa Embrujada como representación del cuerpo de la mujer] ¿Y qué hay de la banshee con la cara de Evelyn que aparece en la ventana? Casi con certeza es el fantasma de la madre de Evelyn, seducida y abandonada por sir Hugh. La sonrisa muerta de F. Marion Crawford tiene una cadencia singular, pero el horror de la historia no está unido de manera explícita y coherente. Evelyn parece decididamente lenta en la comprensión de las insinuaciones de la señora Macdonald, aunque dada su declaración final, tal vez deberíamos concluir que no se permitió darse cuenta de talas implicaciones. Uno se pregunta sobre el plan de sir Hugh. Causó de alguna manera la obsesión de Gabriel, pero calculó mal la intensidad apropiada para hacerle descubrir el documento solo después de haberse casado y engendrado hijos con Evelyn. A propósito, ¿cómo terminó el documento en manos del cadáver? ¿Acaso sir Hugh dispuso que algún sirviente lo colocara entre sus manos tiempo después de ser inhumado en la bóveda? Esta sería una explicación lógica, pero sabemos que las cosas se mueven solas en esa cripta todo el tiempo, como la cabeza inquieta de Vernon Ockram. Análisis de: El Espejo Gótico https://elespejogotico.blogspot.com/2022/09/la-sonrisa-muerta-f-marion-crawford.html Texto del relato extraído de: https://elespejogotico.blogspot.com/2022/09/la-sonrisa-muerta-f-marion-crawford.html Traducido al español: Sebastián Beringheli para El Espejo Gótico Musicas: - 01. PGM Misterio Autor: Antonio Muñoz Guirado en colaboración con Jim Bryan y Brendan Brown - Cedida en exclusiva para este programa de Relatos de Misterio y Suspense. - 02. unsettling-slow-horror-ambience-creepy-and-scratchy-strings-and-scary-bells-for-haunte_Suite Tracks Music Nota: Este audio no se realiza con fines comerciales ni lucrativos. Es de difusión enteramente gratuita e intenta dar a conocer tanto a los escritores de los relatos y cuentos como a los autores de las músicas.

The premiere episode of Season Six covers the Revolutionary patriot Francis Marion and his macabre connection to South Carolina's very own Headless Horseman legend.   This episode features the additional vocal talents of Ian Russell. 

Colonel Banastre Tarleton slaughters a group of escaping Continentals at Waxhaw.  General Clinton's edict that all colonists must join loyalist militias convinces many paroled men to rally to patriot units commanded by leaders such as Thomas Sumter and Francis Marion.  Patriots attack and massacre a loyalist regiment commanded by Christian Huck. Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode. Book Recommendation of the Week: The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution, by John Oller (borrow on archive.org). Online Recommendation of the Week: Weems, Mason L. Life of Gen'l Francis Marion, (originally published 1809): https://archive.org/details/lifeofgenlfranci00weem  Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271 Follow the podcast on Twitter @AmRevPodcast Join the podcast mail list: https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy  ARP T-shirts and other merch: http://tee.pub/lic/AmRevPodcast Support this podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast or via PayPal http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast

La calavera que gritaba (The Screaming Skull) es un relato de terror del escritor norteamericano Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909), publicado originalmente en la edición del 11 de julio de 1908 de la revista Collier, y luego reeditado en la antología de 1911: Cuentos misteriosos (Uncanny Tales). La calavera que gritaba, uno de los grandes relatos de terror de F. Marion Crawford, narra la historia de un asesinato y una misteriosa calavera que se rehúsa a guardar en silencio. Análisis de: El Espejo Gótico http://elespejogotico.blogspot.com/2010/06/la-hermandad-oscura-lovecraft-derleth.html Texto del relato extraído de: http://elespejogotico.blogspot.com/2010/06/la-hermandad-oscura-lovecraft-derleth.html Musicas: - 01. PGM Misterio Autor: Antonio Muñoz Guirado en colaboración con Jim Bryan y Brendan Brown - Cedida en exclusiva para este programa de Relatos de Misterio y Suspense. - 02. Música de terror 1 hora de musica ambiental de terror. Youtube - Sin Copyright Nota: Este audio no se realiza con fines comerciales ni lucrativos. Es de difusión enteramente gratuita e intenta dar a conocer tanto a los escritores de los relatos y cuentos como a los autores de las músicas. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Today we have another American hero for you, dear listeners. Francis Marion may look like a doofy bastard, based on the drawings of him, but when a bunch of limey redcoated assholes showed up on his front porch, he put boot to ass until they were no longer a problem. He was so good at it he became something of a mythological figure and got a ton of stuff named after him. Enjoy!

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We take a deeper dive into the life of Francis "Swamp Fox" Marion. A look back at our very first president, George Washington. And ways to cool down during this summer season.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, you'll learn what it takes to become a successful author while you discover the upbringing in the Cherokee culture. On this episode of the Gateway to the Smokies Podcast, we have a very special guest, Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, a renowned author, writer, and educator. She is the author of Even as We Breathe, one of the best books of 2020 by National Public Radio. She is a graduate of Yale University and William and Mary and an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Tribe. Annette resides with her family in Qualla, N.C., and is an avid mountain biker, and a staunch advocate for equal rights, education, and Cherokee history. She's joining us to talk about her journey of writing her award-winning debut novel, Even as We Breathe, and her latest book. She will also discuss the Cherokee education system, the importance of language preservation, and how we can influence change in our communities. Don't miss this out! ‍Tune in for this fun conversation at TalkRadio.nyc or watch the Facebook Livestream by clicking here.Show NotesSegment 1Joseph kicks off today's episode mentioning the sponsors, The Meadowlark Motel in Maggie Valley and smokiesadventure.com. Joseph announces that this is his first podcast as a resident again in North Carolina! Some upcoming events include June 11 with a pottery seminar with Cory Plott, a master craftsman, who will teach you how to create your own handmade pottery. On June 18th, there will be part 4 of the heritage book series with Bob Plott, free for guests and members. Check out more events at meadowlarkmotel.com. He also introduces his guest, Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle. She is the author of Even as We Breathe, one of the best books of 2020 by National Public Radio. Annette was born and raised in the Smokies and a member of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Tribe for her whole life. Her grandfather also has history with the tribe as well; his name was Osley Saunooke. She talks about how fascinating he was. Did you know that Osley was a wrestling world champion?! She also speaks about working in the family business and how her parents influenced her in learning and entrepreneurship.Segment 2Annette talks about getting her bachelor's degree from Yale University. She also got her Masters's degree at William and Mary. She talks about why chose to come back to the Smokies. Annette mentions her family and the connections she has in North Carolina and wants to continue to raise her family there. Annette also was a director if the Cherokee Preservation Foundation. She was also a teacher for 12 years. She also talks about her writing. Annette mentions having amazing teachers growing up which influenced her to be creative. She mentions a quote someone from Yale said to her and her mother when they visited the first time. The quote was “the best thing to do with a world-class education is to share it.” Her goals as a teacher are to create empathy and resilience through writing and the process. Some topics she mentions within this are making mistakes and the work that is part of this like the process of editing and writing. She discusses some ways she would teach her students. Annette talks about a manuscript that never officially got published called Going to Water. It's about a fictional story of her grandfather. She never got to know who he actually was as he passed away at an early age. So the character in the story was as close to what she knew of him, full of adventure.Segment 3Annette talks about her book Even as We Breathe, which came out in 2020. She says that she had read an article about the role that the Grove Park Inn played in World War II and Ashville's role as well. This history wasn't familiar to many historians and people like herself who have lived in Ashville for a long time. She gave herself a writing prompt and spent a long time writing on the simplest object that she could think of. In her method of writing, Annette spent time in a very tiny room in the Jackson County Library in Sylva, North Carolina. She talks about the story of what she wrote. She is very inspired by where she loves and the interactions as shown in her novel. It takes place in 1942 and is a coming-of-age kind of story. Until she was working on the marketing packet, she didn't realize that she wrote historical fiction. Other topics include issues of identity, racism, and Cherokee culture. She tells a funny story about teaching her students. She also talks about her decision to retire from teaching.Segment 4Annette says that she is working on a new book, a novel that's contemporary with a female protagonist. It's set in Cherokee, which is close to home. She also does nonfiction writing for regional magazines and edits for the Appalachian Future Series through the University Press of Kentucky. She also talks about teaching workshops in different locations. Annette also talks about mountain biking. She says that she likes to be in the middle of the woods, biking fast, and being isolated for a moment from everything. She even lost 65 pounds by mountain biking. Annette and Joseph also discuss favorite trails in North Carolina. For people going to visit Cherokee Reservation, Annette mentions visiting Sassy Sunflower, a sandwich shop. If you want a country buffet, you have to go to Granny's kitchen and get a pie. You can learn more about Annette at asaunookeclapsaddle.com. You can also search for her name on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to connect!------------------------------------------------------------------------------TRANSCRIPT00:00:34.560 –> 00:00:46.140 Joseph McElroy: howdy welcome to the gateway to the smokies podcast this podcast is about America's most visited National Park, the great smoky mountain National Park in the surrounding towns.00:00:46.530 –> 00:00:55.020 Joseph McElroy: This area is filled with ancient natural beauty a deep storied history and rich mountain cultures that we explore with weekly episodes.00:00:55.350 –> 00:01:06.870 Joseph McElroy: I am Joseph Franklyn McElroy man of the world, but also with deep roots in these mountains My family has lived in the great smokies for over 200 years my business is in travel, but my heart is in culture.00:01:07.410 –> 00:01:14.190 Joseph McElroy: Today we're going to talk about masterful stories of the smokies but first let's talk about our sponsors.00:01:15.150 –> 00:01:26.400 Joseph McElroy: Imagine a place evocative of a motor court of the past, a modern environment with a Chic Appalachian feels. 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Your smoky mountain adventures start with where you stay.00:01:50.310 –> 00:01:58.860 Joseph McElroy: and other sponsors smokiesadventure.com at smokies plural adventure singular dot com smoky mountains and surrounding areas.00:01:59.250 –> 00:02:09.240 Joseph McElroy: It is a vacation destination for all seasons, some of the nation's best hiking trails waterfalls outdoor adventures and family entertainment can be found, right here.00:02:09.870 –> 00:02:21.300 Joseph McElroy: start your adventure by using smokies adventure.com to explore all the wonderful features of the great smoky mountains National Park, the trails the waterfalls, caves Code, the elk, and more.00:02:21.750 –> 00:02:34.890 Joseph McElroy: check out all the awesome family attractions and entertainment and lodging you and your entire family can enjoy and also find places to do life events like weddings and honeymoons and romantic weekends.00:02:35.400 –> 00:02:42.570 Joseph McElroy: The goal of smokies adventures is to become the leading information portal for adventures and experiences and the great smoky mountains.00:02:43.980 –> 00:02:56.130 Joseph McElroy: got some events coming up, by the way, this is my first podcast now as a resident again of North Carolina my family and I just moved to Asheville North Carolina so work at the gateway the smokies.00:02:57.660 –> 00:03:03.750 Joseph McElroy: and looking forward to exploring the smokies even further now being both in Buncombe County and Haywood County00:03:05.430 –> 00:03:12.150 Joseph McElroy: So that's events coming up is this coming weekend June 11 there's gonna be a Pottery Seminar with Cory Plott.00:03:12.720 –> 00:03:18.240 Joseph McElroy: he's a master potter and he's the Owner and Operator Plott Ware Pottery of Clyde North Carolina.00:03:18.840 –> 00:03:29.100 Joseph McElroy: And he brings his mobile studio to our resort to teach participants and to make that to make their own piece of handcrafted pottery you'll walk away with a piece of pottery.00:03:29.670 –> 00:03:40.530 Joseph McElroy: He will also be selling some of his award-winning elegant and durable utilitarian decor at the event, this weekend I just saw some wonderful wine to canvas you made that we're just fabulous.00:03:41.700 –> 00:03:53.640 Joseph McElroy: But you will get hands-on experience with a master craftsman and then you'll make your own pottery class limited to 20 participants and it's 65 for each non-guest and 20 for the.00:03:54.510 –> 00:04:08.040 Joseph McElroy: 25 for motel guests and heritage club members and then over the afterward will be a free Barbecue dinner and music with Michael Ogletree book your slot now call 82 89261717.00:04:09.030 –> 00:04:26.730 Joseph McElroy: On June 18 the following weekend there's going to be a part four of the heritage book series of Bob Plott and it's free for guests and members and so please join us for yet another informative entertaining and fun afternoon of his history, food, and music.00:04:28.200 –> 00:04:35.220 Joseph McElroy: With award-winning Author and Meadowlark Smoky Mountain Heritage Center General Manager Bob Plott, discusses his fourth book.00:04:35.550 –> 00:04:47.790 Joseph McElroy: Colorful Characters of the Great Smoky Mountains  weaves the lively stories of vibrant and intriguing characters such as the Cherokee chiefs Yonaguska,00:04:48.450 –> 00:05:00.150 Joseph McElroy: Oconostota, Dragging Canoe and their allies such as John Watts, along with their combatants—Robert Rogers, Quintin Kennedy, King Haigler, the Stockbridge Mohicans, Francis Marion, and others,00:05:00.540 –> 00:05:06.720 Joseph McElroy: as well as modern-day mountain icons such as Von Plott, Charles Miller, and Earl Lanning.00:05:07.200 –> 00:05:14.640 Joseph McElroy: It will be followed by a book signing and a delicious Barbecue dinner as well, and a company with acoustic music right Mike Ogletree and friends.00:05:14.970 –> 00:05:23.250 Joseph McElroy: The event is free to motel guests and Heritage Club members—there is an admission charge of ten dollars per person for all that are not staying there.00:05:25.320 –> 00:05:30.180 Joseph McElroy: And then August 6th is the Launch of the Cherokee Heritage Series with Davy Arch.00:05:31.170 –> 00:05:36.900 Joseph McElroy: Please join us in spending an intimate and enchanting afternoon with a tree true Appalachian treasure, Davy Arch.00:05:37.710 –> 00:05:44.910 Joseph McElroy: Davy is a world-class Cherokee tribal is storing and award-winning craftsman of traditional Cherokee crafts.00:05:45.330 –> 00:05:52.380 Joseph McElroy: specifically masks and baskets and he's a beloved spokesman for the Eastern band of the Cherokee tribe.00:05:52.860 –> 00:06:04.410 Joseph McElroy: The event will be followed by the Barbecue dinner and music with Michael Ogletree and Friends. Admission is $20 per person, for all these events call eight to 89261717 to reserve your seat now.00:06:05.640 –> 00:06:13.740 Joseph McElroy: Today we have a great guest, who knows a lot about Cherokee culture and stories in these mountains her name is Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle00:06:14.250 –> 00:06:25.140 Joseph McElroy: She is a renowned author writer and educator and is a graduate of Yale University and William and Mary as well as an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Tribe.00:06:25.830 –> 00:06:37.710 Joseph McElroy: Her award-winning debut novel Even as we breathe, was the first novel published by a member of the eastern band of the Cherokee tribe, and his name or the best books of 2020 by the.00:06:38.370 –> 00:06:54.300 Joseph McElroy: NPR and that resides with their family in Qualla North Carolina, which is in in the Cherokee reservation and as an avid mountain bikers well as a staunch advocate for equal rights education Cherokee history hello, and how are you doing.00:06:54.900 –> 00:06:57.540 Annette Clapsaddle: I'm good I'm great to be here with you.00:06:58.110 –> 00:07:05.610 Joseph McElroy: Well, thank you for it's quite an honor to have you join us today you have a you have an interesting history and an impressive resume.00:07:06.000 –> 00:07:15.750 Joseph McElroy: And all of a sudden, you get all sorts of awards for your writing so that's pretty spectacular, but I wanted to start first with your background, you were born and raised in the smokies, right?00:07:16.440 –> 00:07:21.660 Annette Clapsaddle: that's right I lived here all my life, except for undergraduate and graduate school.00:07:22.140 –> 00:07:27.870 Joseph McElroy: cool and you've been a member of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee tribe for that your whole life too right.00:07:28.230 –> 00:07:29.220 Annette Clapsaddle: yeah born in to it.00:07:30.120 –> 00:07:36.990 Joseph McElroy: Born into it, you have some history that your grandfather Osley Saunooke was chief of the tribe, right?00:07:37.680 –> 00:07:49.710 Annette Clapsaddle: yeah it seems Osley Burke Saunooke and he was an Eastern Chief in the 50s and into the early 60s.00:07:51.990 –> 00:07:54.360 Annette Clapsaddle: fan, where he was not a cheap teacher.00:07:54.810 –> 00:08:08.130 Joseph McElroy: cool well, And he was quite an interesting character in his own right, an esteemed tribal chief, a former Marine, who started a thriving tourist business in 1956 that as I understand it, is still operational today. What was that business?00:08:09.720 –> 00:08:10.080 Annette Clapsaddle: yeah.00:08:12.180 –> 00:08:19.590 Annette Clapsaddle: Trading first, and so the land where that is and it's also contiguous with kind of family land.00:08:20.670 –> 00:08:21.060 Annette Clapsaddle: That.00:08:22.170 –> 00:08:33.660 Annette Clapsaddle: That is home to cynics village so there are several shops there that kind of threw out of Chiefs in trading paste including to nicks millen shop that my dad built.00:08:34.890 –> 00:08:38.850 Joseph McElroy: cool well, it sounds like you to write about a book about him, you got any plans for that.00:08:41.340 –> 00:08:44.070 Annette Clapsaddle: I think we're going to talk later about my first novel and.00:08:48.210 –> 00:08:57.990 Joseph McElroy:  Bob Plott, as I mentioned earlier, our Meadowlark Heritage Center Director says his relatives knew him well and hunted with him often and spoke glowingly of him.00:08:59.400 –> 00:09:00.810 Joseph McElroy: Did you know him as a child and.00:09:02.880 –> 00:09:05.370 Joseph McElroy: How did he influence you and your growth.00:09:06.210 –> 00:09:22.080 Annette Clapsaddle: Unfortunately I didn't he died fairly young from complications to diabetes, so he passed away in 1965 at the age of 59 I was born in 81 so even my dad was fairly young.00:09:23.160 –> 00:09:39.930 Annette Clapsaddle: When my grandfather passed away but, honestly, was, in addition to being a to turn chief and a businessman, he was the heavyweight wrestling champion of the world, at one time, so he traveled the wrestling circuit.00:09:41.370 –> 00:09:43.740 Annette Clapsaddle: So he is incredibly fascinated.00:09:44.730 –> 00:09:46.590 Joseph McElroy: With the name from okay I.00:09:47.850 –> 00:09:56.820 Annette Clapsaddle: heard and like I'm sure Bob would say that everybody has a story about him whether it's true or not, what.00:09:58.110 –> 00:10:02.940 Joseph McElroy: When they're a bear museum there that had stuff for him as well, he.00:10:03.240 –> 00:10:03.900 At one paragraph.00:10:05.220 –> 00:10:08.970 Annette Clapsaddle: And yes, and that's it same area yeah.00:10:09.780 –> 00:10:12.630 Joseph McElroy: He wrestled so he wrestled a bear I mean I'm sure it was for sure.00:10:17.130 –> 00:10:24.990 Joseph McElroy: You know in this in this in this neighborhood North Asheville where we moved in we get lots of bears I've already had two black bears in my backyard.00:10:26.850 –> 00:10:28.140 Annette Clapsaddle: wrestling and I don't.00:10:30.210 –> 00:10:31.830 Joseph McElroy: i'm not planning on it, but.00:10:33.090 –> 00:10:36.360 Joseph McElroy: I will, I will say loud noises to them.00:10:39.660 –> 00:10:42.180 Joseph McElroy: So you're your mother.00:10:43.590 –> 00:10:47.550 Joseph McElroy: your mother, who is this daughter was a teacher, which you are as well right.00:10:48.030 –> 00:10:54.390 Annette Clapsaddle: Well, so yes and no so my mother is not his daughter my dad was his son.00:10:54.510 –> 00:11:00.930 Annette Clapsaddle: Oh, I said Okay, but my mom was a teacher for several years.00:11:03.120 –> 00:11:14.010 Annette Clapsaddle: And my dad was building his business and getting started and then my mom went to help full time with the family business and snakes village.00:11:15.030 –> 00:11:24.300 Annette Clapsaddle: But she taught reading, and this was before I was born and didn't really have click in with me that you know you can.00:11:24.690 –> 00:11:35.760 Annette Clapsaddle: You can be a teacher not be in a classroom, and so I think that she did in a lot of ways to influence me, even though I didn't grow up knowing her as a classroom teacher cool.00:11:37.590 –> 00:11:40.380 Joseph McElroy: So you guys, did you work in the family businesses as well.00:11:41.010 –> 00:11:41.640 Annette Clapsaddle: Oh yes.00:11:43.830 –> 00:11:43.980 Annette Clapsaddle: I think.00:11:44.910 –> 00:11:47.700 Joseph McElroy: wanted to work in this I worked in this Meadowlark motel businesses.00:11:49.200 –> 00:11:49.830 Annette Clapsaddle: yeah.00:11:50.250 –> 00:11:53.430 Annette Clapsaddle: As long as we can see over the counter we were hired.00:11:53.940 –> 00:11:56.280 Joseph McElroy: Right I got paid the.00:11:56.280 –> 00:11:58.080 Joseph McElroy: diamond room to clean rooms.00:12:02.220 –> 00:12:04.110 Annette Clapsaddle: got paid a bag of popcorn.00:12:09.300 –> 00:12:12.150 Joseph McElroy: Did that inspire you with his entrepreneurial activities.00:12:12.750 –> 00:12:16.110 Annette Clapsaddle: yeah you know I'm always inspired by my dad and.00:12:16.710 –> 00:12:23.490 Annette Clapsaddle: And yeah, I think, to be an entrepreneur is you know you have to be willing to take risks, so I don't feel like I've been.00:12:24.120 –> 00:12:33.090 Annette Clapsaddle: there yet, but I can take some of the same risks that he's taken throughout his life, it really turned out to be worth it, and but there's a creativity to it.00:12:34.080 –> 00:12:48.300 Annette Clapsaddle: That I have appreciated and I think I have picked up a little bit at least have that from him and I'm laughing myself because my dad was above me and lives in the House of the Hill and.00:12:49.740 –> 00:13:05.940 Annette Clapsaddle: And we my son and I were just helping him move a major piece of equipment in a really peculiar precarious way and that kind of and I, you know there's something that small business owners that want to do it themselves for the cheapest route possible.00:13:07.530 –> 00:13:21.150 Joseph McElroy: I had that imbued with me, but you know until I got into my 50s I did all my moves myself, you know that includes all the heavy furniture, but I can remember, sometimes having a pickup truck with things so pile though so high.00:13:22.200 –> 00:13:24.840 Joseph McElroy: I think, and this is a New York City, no less, and things.00:13:25.470 –> 00:13:30.000 Joseph McElroy: You know, getting ready to fall off, but you know that was just the way you did things right.00:13:32.160 –> 00:13:41.970 Joseph McElroy: That that was the life of the entrepreneur and the children of the entrepreneur, well, we have to go back and go and take a break, now that seems very quick, but we.00:13:42.660 –> 00:13:48.750 Joseph McElroy: we're having a good conversation here, so when we come back we'll start talking about a little bit more about your background and then get into your books.00:13:49.590 –> 00:13:50.190 Annette Clapsaddle: sounds great.00:16:06.270 –> 00:16:23.970 Joseph McElroy: howdy this is Joseph Franklyn McElroy back with the gateway to the smokies podcasts and my guests Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle today is a today's a craft brewery from Western North Carolina is boozer but it's the king of the mountain double IPA and I can recommend that highly.00:16:25.620 –> 00:16:26.190 Annette Clapsaddle: victory.00:16:27.120 –> 00:16:28.140 Annette Clapsaddle: Right yeah.00:16:28.500 –> 00:16:39.210 Joseph McElroy: So that you have this great you had this great family and tribal support system and you became an honor student and then off you go to Yale University to get your bachelor's degree—right?00:16:40.410 –> 00:16:45.960 Joseph McElroy: Were you one of the first students from the Smokies to get an Ivy League education?00:16:46.530 –> 00:16:52.290 Annette Clapsaddle: And there were a few before me did had Ivy league education and.00:16:53.550 –> 00:17:08.310 Annette Clapsaddle: I know that there was a gentleman who had graduated from Dartmouth and there's a Tribal Member, and then a couple that I think we had gotten graduate degrees, maybe one undergraduate from Harvard I believe.00:17:09.060 –> 00:17:17.700 Annette Clapsaddle: don't hold me to it, but I believe that was the first Eastern band undergraduate at Yale, but I'm so happy to say that.00:17:19.020 –> 00:17:30.060 Annette Clapsaddle: Several has followed and after me, some and that just sent off one of my seniors and this year should be going to Yale in the fall.00:17:30.570 –> 00:17:45.120 Joseph McElroy: fabulous that's great no that's always good you know dispel that hillbilly stereotyping I I got to do a little bit of that myself I got to leave here and go to go to what the school system here in Haywood county got to go to Duke.00:17:46.260 –> 00:17:47.310 Joseph McElroy: yeah so.00:17:47.760 –> 00:17:53.190 Joseph McElroy: But you know it can be done in this in this remote wilderness, so to speak.00:17:55.290 –> 00:17:58.560 Joseph McElroy: And then you went to you got your master's degree at William and Mary.00:17:59.100 –> 00:17:59.790 Joseph McElroy: And you.00:17:59.850 –> 00:18:06.720 Joseph McElroy: and could probably have gotten a great job in any major city in the world, but yet you chose to come back home to the Smokies—why?00:18:07.350 –> 00:18:25.410 Annette Clapsaddle: yeah you know I did think for a short time about you know public policy in DC or something like that, but and I always tell people that you know so many people work their whole lives, so they can retire to this area, why don't I just start from the beginning.00:18:26.610 –> 00:18:33.990 Annette Clapsaddle: there's no point wasting time it is beautiful and certainly many family connections here.00:18:35.340 –> 00:18:47.280 Annette Clapsaddle: My husband is also from this area as well he's from swine county so I just had so many routes here and I didn't you know I've traveled my whole life I don't feel like I.00:18:49.020 –> 00:18:51.060 Annette Clapsaddle: was afraid to live anywhere else.00:18:52.170 –> 00:18:56.550 Annette Clapsaddle: But it's just such a beautiful place to be I like this face of it.00:18:58.110 –> 00:19:01.980 Annette Clapsaddle: And you know I want to raise my kids here.00:19:02.730 –> 00:19:07.050 Joseph McElroy: yeah well you got you did your00:19:08.040 –> 00:19:17.250 Joseph McElroy: Working and business and things and public policy or the Executive Director of the Cherokee preservation Foundation and the co-editor of the journal.00:19:17.670 –> 00:19:24.840 Joseph McElroy: Of Cherokee studies, but then you took your master's and your Ivy league degree and you became a teacher was the teacher for 11 years in high school.00:19:26.370 –> 00:19:26.760 Joseph McElroy: wasn't.00:19:28.140 –> 00:19:30.540 Joseph McElroy: That was an interesting choice what made that choice have.00:19:31.800 –> 00:19:45.240 Annette Clapsaddle: yeah so well I just completed my 12th year there was a little bit of a break, there were loud, while I was at the foundation, but I've known since I was little that I wanted to be a teacher I'm not exactly sure why.00:19:47.430 –> 00:20:01.230 Annette Clapsaddle: But we had a garden out in front of our house and they're the really big rocks different places in the garden, and so I made one of the biggest rocks was a teacher's desk and then they were student desk rocks.00:20:02.640 –> 00:20:09.300 Annette Clapsaddle: So my brother he's three years older than me went off to school to you know kindergarten and.00:20:09.870 –> 00:20:24.570 Annette Clapsaddle: How is playing school in our garden there's been something about teaching since I was little and that's interested me but I've also been so blessed with incredible incredible teachers throughout my life.00:20:25.650 –> 00:20:31.770 Annette Clapsaddle: You know, public I was a public school student kindergarten through high school.00:20:31.980 –> 00:20:33.330 Annette Clapsaddle: Meeting yes.00:20:34.560 –> 00:20:47.370 Annette Clapsaddle: And just had phenomenal teachers and I wanted to be like the English teachers, I had who always encouraged my creativity and writing.00:20:47.850 –> 00:20:54.480 Joseph McElroy: I saw a quote where you in a magazine, where you said, the best thing to do with a world-class education is to share it.00:20:55.050 –> 00:20:55.980 Annette Clapsaddle: Yes, so.00:20:56.280 –> 00:20:59.640 Annette Clapsaddle: The Director of the teacher prep program at Yale.00:21:00.810 –> 00:21:04.710 Annette Clapsaddle: is responsible for that quote because I stepped down to the campus.00:21:05.730 –> 00:21:11.340 Annette Clapsaddle: At Yale new haven Connecticut and my mom is with me revisiting and.00:21:12.630 –> 00:21:30.090 Annette Clapsaddle: We were introduced to the director of the teacher prep program and my mom who is very practical looked at him and says why would she go to Yale to become a teacher and he said that's, the best thing you can do with a world-class education.00:21:31.770 –> 00:21:33.510 Annette Clapsaddle: Today and my mom was, like all right good.00:21:34.800 –> 00:21:46.830 Joseph McElroy: yo there you go wow so, but now you also started writing, and in fact, in 2012 years sort of had a little success at it when did you first start writing?00:21:47.760 –> 00:22:05.970 Annette Clapsaddle: I read in my whole life, and you know I as I again I had these great teachers, so I still have these books that we made an elementary school out of you know cardboard and lined paper that we would take together and.00:22:07.080 –> 00:22:11.040 Annette Clapsaddle: I think my first writing contest was.00:22:13.230 –> 00:22:15.780 Annette Clapsaddle: It was either late middle school early.00:22:18.060 –> 00:22:20.490 Annette Clapsaddle: High School i'm actually i'm looking at.00:22:21.690 –> 00:22:34.860 Annette Clapsaddle: Night so my dad got me this very present I'm looking at a framed check and this is the first time I got paid for it my writing and because it was the first time I want a writing contest it happened big poetry which not my thing.00:22:35.910 –> 00:22:38.550 Annette Clapsaddle: But the date on the check is 1995.00:22:39.780 –> 00:22:47.910 Annette Clapsaddle: Freshman year I guess of high school is, I guess, if you know if you're entering contests you're getting a little serious about it.00:22:48.930 –> 00:22:52.050 Joseph McElroy: let's go see you are, you are actually very serious early on.00:22:52.530 –> 00:23:00.330 Joseph McElroy: yeah that's pretty cool and then you continue it, I mean a lot of people have the romance of being a writer, but don't follow through.00:23:00.840 –> 00:23:09.300 Joseph McElroy: it's nice Now I understand you know you're you know you've been writing on the side because you're a teacher but you've been using your experiences.00:23:09.960 –> 00:23:19.980 Joseph McElroy: Such as manuscripts as submissions finding agent rejects and notice, etc, with your so you've been sharing those experiences with your students why Why are you doing that?00:23:20.370 –> 00:23:24.120 Annette Clapsaddle: yeah well rejections a great teacher and I had plenty of it.00:23:27.090 –> 00:23:27.810 Annette Clapsaddle: You know, I think.00:23:29.010 –> 00:23:41.040 Annette Clapsaddle: my goal as a teacher is to one create empathy through literature, but also a sense of resilience in the writing process so.00:23:42.900 –> 00:23:57.780 Annette Clapsaddle: you know I tried to balance, as she lives her, I was teaching and writing and then I realized how much I was learning as a student of literature, through my own process as a writer, so I.00:23:59.700 –> 00:24:13.950 Annette Clapsaddle: Would talk to students about what does a query letter look like and what's important to share, about a story, you know that I'm trying to pitch or whatnot and about the mistakes, I would make.00:24:15.060 –> 00:24:23.880 Annette Clapsaddle: And, and how to overcome them and they love that you know their teachers, making mistakes like this.00:24:25.530 –> 00:24:26.610 Annette Clapsaddle: But also.00:24:29.010 –> 00:24:38.580 Annette Clapsaddle: As you know, there are really like two cohorts of students that went through the process of the novel and it was so exciting to00:24:39.210 –> 00:24:54.630 Annette Clapsaddle: And yeah I told them I would get an email from an agent, this is early on, and then I query you know I would say okay guys, I have an email in my inbox I haven't read it, yet here we go and I would read it to you know.00:24:55.980 –> 00:24:56.940 Annette Clapsaddle: They want to know.00:24:59.580 –> 00:25:17.370 Annette Clapsaddle: The classic got to witness the publication process that means, and that was a very special time and then they went through the editing process with me and with you know, not everything, but to say Okay, do you see this, this is just one page of edits.00:25:18.510 –> 00:25:29.520 Annette Clapsaddle: Do it for them to understand it that's part of it and then, then, of course, this last class and they think they want to go on book tour with me.00:25:33.180 –> 00:25:37.770 Annette Clapsaddle: Right yeah publicity endemic because that's what they've gotten.00:25:37.830 –> 00:25:49.320 Annette Clapsaddle: to witness and they've been a part of some of my like zoom calls and whatnot and especially with the University of it's a good experience for them.00:25:50.160 –> 00:25:59.790 Joseph McElroy: it's nice to make your life part of the education process, I understand that your kids now have your know ambitions to be world-class or whatever they do right.00:26:00.300 –> 00:26:05.370 Annette Clapsaddle: yeah then it's possible that they know somebody it becomes normalized for them and.00:26:07.200 –> 00:26:11.400 Joseph McElroy: normalizes normalizing education normalizing success, I mean.00:26:11.820 –> 00:26:18.390 Joseph McElroy: That you know I talked about where people follow the patterns of success right when they see patterns that are successful.00:26:18.660 –> 00:26:31.560 Joseph McElroy: They will naturally start replicating those right and it's important for children to see those I think it's a wonderful thing to show them that process, you know firsthand well I can't my tip my hat to you that's great.00:26:33.540 –> 00:26:40.200 Joseph McElroy: So I mentioned before, I think, in 2012 your first manuscript won an award that was never published, can you tell us what that was and.00:26:41.220 –> 00:26:43.140 Joseph McElroy: Why I didn't publish and that sort of thing.00:26:43.470 –> 00:26:54.960 Annette Clapsaddle: So the title of that was going to water, and it was a finalist for him bellwether for is essentially engaged fiction and then one a couple of other awards but.00:26:56.160 –> 00:27:07.770 Annette Clapsaddle: It is the fictionalized story of my grandfather asked listening, but I changed names and whatnot to protect the innocent and the reasons.00:27:08.100 –> 00:27:22.470 Annette Clapsaddle: And you know, besides the fact he did the fascinating character, as I mentioned earlier, I never really felt like I'd know the full truth of who he was until I decided to make up, who I thought he would be.00:27:24.120 –> 00:27:36.270 Annette Clapsaddle: How he might react to the situation, so I use a lot of the facts from his life and but you know it is still fiction I don't want to make my aunts and uncles mad at me, sir.00:27:38.550 –> 00:27:56.400 Annette Clapsaddle: But you know it got close to publication a few times and I just I was trying to find an agent who understood that voice of where I come from that initial man Cherokees very different than other tribes and never really could quite connect with the right agent.00:27:56.490 –> 00:27:59.100 Annette Clapsaddle: So it's challenge for now.00:27:59.850 –> 00:28:19.110 Joseph McElroy: I think I think it'd make a wonderful movie or play or something like that, so now his life was yeah it's got all those adventure wrestling business chief, and you know that'd be cool alright, so we have to take another break and we'll get into your book alright.00:28:19.590 –> 00:28:20.370 Annette Clapsaddle: Alright sounds great.00:30:26.700 –> 00:30:34.140 Joseph McElroy: howdy this is Joseph Franklyn McElroy back with the Gateway to the smokies podcast my guest Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle.00:30:35.400 –> 00:30:41.880 Joseph McElroy: So in that you've also written from any national publications, such as the Atlanta and literature hub and.00:30:42.270 –> 00:30:49.020 Joseph McElroy: what's your real breakthrough was their debut novel even as we breathe, which came out in the middle of covid in 2020.00:30:49.500 –> 00:31:02.370 Joseph McElroy: And NPR put it on us best bet best books list and then later won the Thomas Wolfe literary award so congratulations that's great so what inspired you to run right this wonderful now?00:31:03.210 –> 00:31:15.570 Annette Clapsaddle: So I'm a few things kind of came together again and the most significant was that I had read an article in Nashville SIS and times.00:31:16.530 –> 00:31:23.970 Annette Clapsaddle: about the role the growth park plays in World War Two, the summer of 19 and actually.00:31:24.390 –> 00:31:35.820 Annette Clapsaddle: It was that article is really that actual role and during World War Two and there was a small paragraph about the growth parks role and during that time and so.00:31:36.600 –> 00:31:50.460 Annette Clapsaddle: You know, it said that the growth part held access and diplomats and foreign nationals are prisoners of war, the summer of 1942 and, as you mentioned earlier I've lived here my entire life and I had never heard that his.00:31:50.760 –> 00:31:51.810 Joseph McElroy: motive either yeah.00:31:52.710 –> 00:31:54.060 Annette Clapsaddle: And a lot of the people.00:31:55.410 –> 00:31:56.160 Annette Clapsaddle: Who.00:31:56.400 –> 00:31:56.850 Annette Clapsaddle: You know.00:31:57.390 –> 00:32:06.120 Annette Clapsaddle: A lot of local the stories that are that's where my husband is a former history teacher they were also not familiar.00:32:06.480 –> 00:32:12.150 Annette Clapsaddle: With that history so that's enough of a mystery, and for me to dig into a little bit more.00:32:12.720 –> 00:32:22.650 Annette Clapsaddle: And so I'd also given myself a writing prompt and this is after like the first novel I couldn't get published and I just was going to start something new.00:32:23.040 –> 00:32:31.380 Annette Clapsaddle: And so I've given myself a writing prompt right as long as I possibly could and on the simplest object, I could think of.00:32:31.800 –> 00:32:48.030 Annette Clapsaddle: me some reason, I chose a bone a clean bone and I worked for a very long time in a very tiny room in the Jackson county library in Sylva North Carolina, and out of that piece and really thinking about.00:32:49.800 –> 00:33:02.160 Annette Clapsaddle: You know what we leave behind and and and how we are judged on earth and how those things are often counter counter-intuitive right and.00:33:02.940 –> 00:33:21.030 Annette Clapsaddle: I decided that I wanted to see what would happen if I took a member of a sovereign nation so county sequoia is the protagonist who lives, who leaves Cherokee to go work at the grove park in and forgets the don't know the growth part is.00:33:22.230 –> 00:33:33.510 Annette Clapsaddle: A very high-class resort so President stays there girl said, you know, instead of counting guys to work there is a very different.00:33:33.960 –> 00:33:48.510 Annette Clapsaddle: and social environment but it's also during wartime so this question of citizenship and belonging in place all becomes really relevant so and it was a really a setting driven novel.00:33:49.020 –> 00:33:55.950 Annette Clapsaddle: which seems odd to me to write you know and but it made a lot of sense and to really kind of turn up the heat.00:33:57.120 –> 00:33:57.480 Annette Clapsaddle: Like.00:33:57.810 –> 00:34:00.420 Joseph McElroy: That doesn't strike me as odd about you, I mean you.00:34:00.480 –> 00:34:01.080 Joseph McElroy: You love.00:34:01.170 –> 00:34:07.650 Joseph McElroy: The settings of the mountains, you came back to live in it, you know I think settings is actually something that is is important to you.00:34:08.250 –> 00:34:12.810 Annette Clapsaddle: yeah absolutely and daily inspired.00:34:13.830 –> 00:34:33.030 Annette Clapsaddle: By where I live, and the people of this place and in our interactions with this place, so I you know I just I think prior to that I always thought well novels are you like plot-driven or the character-driven but this setting really kind of exploded into the narrative.00:34:34.050 –> 00:34:51.180 Joseph McElroy: So it takes place in 1942 and it's interesting you deal with you know, a love story coming age story now I've you know I've just started the novel you know I just moved to Asheville but you know we move new near to the growth park in.00:34:53.190 –> 00:35:03.840 Joseph McElroy: And yeah Bob Bob was telling me about you and I got the book and I've started writing, but I had a lot of time to finish it, so I don't know all of it but Bob it says it's a masterpiece or a.00:35:06.840 –> 00:35:16.020 Joseph McElroy: History Western North Carolina and I believe he's very good at that sort of thing but it's interesting already that I'm seeing you're also dealing with issues of citizenship.00:35:16.380 –> 00:35:30.450 Joseph McElroy: Identity and racism, all the concepts that we're debating and dealing with today, was that purposeful or came about just from the characters and setting.00:35:31.440 –> 00:35:42.720 Annette Clapsaddle: In some ways, it was purposeful, and even from the earliest writing exercise thinking about the phone and he reminded me of when I worked in.00:35:43.800 –> 00:35:54.840 Annette Clapsaddle: Our chief's office at one time after graduate school as a writer, I was lucky enough to have the office right next door to a political figure.00:35:56.760 –> 00:35:57.960 Annette Clapsaddle: Because I could hear through the wall.00:36:01.530 –> 00:36:11.520 Annette Clapsaddle: Remember, one day, and he had open another local politician, the nontribal politician come in and they were discussing this.00:36:12.240 –> 00:36:25.500 Annette Clapsaddle: Expansion of airport runway that would unearth Cherokee burial sites and I remember, they were obviously at odds about what was about what.00:36:26.160 –> 00:36:37.560 Annette Clapsaddle: this would happen and the chief explained to him that it is the same as going up to the graveyard and digging up that man's grandmother.00:36:37.860 –> 00:36:53.820 Annette Clapsaddle: And I'd never heard it explained so simply, is that right that we are oftentimes people think, and as native American bones as artifacts as opposed to you know the human remains that we consider.00:36:55.020 –> 00:37:16.500 Annette Clapsaddle: Members, so I think you know early on, I was thinking about the political and racial and Aafia implications of this story, but just that and I didn't really consider that I was writing historical fiction until I was working on the marketing packet for my publisher.00:37:19.020 –> 00:37:20.100 Annette Clapsaddle: Oh, this is his story.00:37:22.950 –> 00:37:35.040 Annette Clapsaddle: But it does feel so relevant to me so many of the issues, unfortunately, are still relevant today and I wanted to use them as a lens to look at those issues that are in the news today.00:37:36.000 –> 00:37:44.790 Joseph McElroy: wow when you also wrote, both from the male and female perspective, and I think that that takes a little bit of talent, how did you nail that.00:37:45.630 –> 00:37:53.820 Annette Clapsaddle: Well yeah I often get asked about your writing from a young male perspective, and then I remind people that I taught high school for a dozen years.00:37:55.800 –> 00:37:59.370 Annette Clapsaddle: diet and have an older brother and I grew up with.00:37:59.880 –> 00:38:07.710 Annette Clapsaddle: You know male cousins I have two boys that I'm raising you to know I'm really I've been inundated.00:38:08.760 –> 00:38:09.570 Annette Clapsaddle: With a male.00:38:09.960 –> 00:38:17.190 Annette Clapsaddle: voice in perspective but, and you know also want to be respectful that I'm doing it accurately so.00:38:18.000 –> 00:38:25.410 Joseph McElroy: I think it's I think that your interaction with your students, has been a tremendous benefit for you in terms of writing and then I've seen some of the.00:38:26.190 –> 00:38:34.590 Joseph McElroy: Reference things I love the story of your student who's on a zoom call with some new Yorkers and references prep his preference pronoun is yours.00:38:37.170 –> 00:38:37.890 Annette Clapsaddle: story.00:38:39.600 –> 00:38:42.630 Annette Clapsaddle: We were very rural hospital.00:38:43.980 –> 00:38:53.850 Annette Clapsaddle: Family in the mountains and were paired with Fieldston in New York City, which some of your listeners may be familiar with a private school.00:38:55.560 –> 00:39:11.490 Annette Clapsaddle: And you know the New York kids were like automated that they gave their pronouns and in our students, this was a few years ago to were taken aback when that question came up on this thing called.00:39:14.130 –> 00:39:16.620 Annette Clapsaddle: This kid he just said, my pronouns y'all.00:39:19.980 –> 00:39:20.670 Joseph McElroy: hey good.00:39:22.530 –> 00:39:22.980 Joseph McElroy: Good.00:39:27.270 –> 00:39:29.520 Joseph McElroy: Well that's great, so I think that's.00:39:31.140 –> 00:39:35.460 Joseph McElroy: I think that says a lot about she was a great writer and as a teacher that your students are.00:39:37.590 –> 00:39:54.480 Joseph McElroy: letters are you know that are really involved and really able to you've really educated them to deal with the society, and you know and they've been helped you bring that into your writing so congratulations I think that's that is the definition of success, I think.00:39:56.010 –> 00:40:10.200 Joseph McElroy: So life is going great for you and you've been a great teacher for over a decade living your dream in the smokies with your husband who's also a teacher and your sons and your debut is a huge success.00:40:11.940 –> 00:40:17.010 Joseph McElroy: This year you've sort of turned things upside down, did you decide to retire from teaching.00:40:18.810 –> 00:40:20.730 Joseph McElroy: Writing and family and other projects.00:40:21.150 –> 00:40:24.030 Annette Clapsaddle: yeah my husband says, I can't use the word retire.00:40:25.530 –> 00:40:26.070 Joseph McElroy: Okay.00:40:26.370 –> 00:40:28.920 Annette Clapsaddle: not officially retired and no.00:40:31.110 –> 00:40:45.090 Annette Clapsaddle: It was a tough decision, I really do love teaching I love my students, and but I, you know the book came out in 2020 and since then it's been a full sprint just with and.00:40:45.900 –> 00:40:56.310 Annette Clapsaddle: publicity for the book and then it's led to other opportunity writing opportunities public speaking teaching workshops and you know I don't want.00:40:56.820 –> 00:41:10.260 Annette Clapsaddle: You know I guess it came down to a decision, and then I would have to choose one or the other, I cannot keep up the pace of full-time teaching and pursuing writing you know you get the next novel out.00:41:11.730 –> 00:41:24.030 Annette Clapsaddle: as well, and you know if you are in education or you know anyone in education, you know that the last few years have been incredibly difficult and there.00:41:24.540 –> 00:41:34.770 Annette Clapsaddle: For me, there was not an end in sight to that to that difficulty of being a public school teacher it's just kind of getting harder and harder.00:41:35.310 –> 00:41:47.340 Annette Clapsaddle: And and and you know I don't like to be pessimistic about it because I want to encourage people and but I can't do it in it yeah just couldn't do it anymore if I wanted to continue writing.00:41:48.510 –> 00:41:55.500 Annette Clapsaddle: You know, it is about time but it's also just about like brain space and energy and excuse me to put.00:41:56.880 –> 00:42:00.810 Joseph McElroy: it's a real shame that you have to be at the forefront of cultural wars.00:42:01.440 –> 00:42:05.550 Joseph McElroy: Right in school that's just not fair to the public, teachers, yes.00:42:07.680 –> 00:42:14.100 Joseph McElroy: yeah yeah and it's really a misplaced fear that somehow you're you know you're destroying our children is.00:42:14.100 –> 00:42:15.570 Annette Clapsaddle: ridiculous yeah.00:42:19.020 –> 00:42:19.800 Annette Clapsaddle: I couldn't do it.00:42:21.450 –> 00:42:27.330 Joseph McElroy: I mean the bane of my existence and people can throw darts at me and want it, but I hate homeschooling.00:42:27.840 –> 00:42:41.940 Joseph McElroy: I met too many people that are like not even high school graduates are homeschooling their kids I'm saying homeschooling to be what you know it's like yeah yeah you're going to do more damage than me, you know train teacher with that sorry I'm.00:42:42.270 –> 00:42:43.200 Annette Clapsaddle: i'm being a little political.00:42:43.440 –> 00:42:45.180 Joseph McElroy: don't generally do about this issue.00:42:45.570 –> 00:43:02.940 Joseph McElroy: yeah since I got three and a half-year-old twins that got to go through you know life your schooling I'm I am yeah I understand where you're coming from and I appreciate the work that you did, and I can also understand you know, taking the opportunity to retire from that.00:43:07.470 –> 00:43:12.570 Joseph McElroy: So we're gonna take a break now and come back and find out what you're doing next and talk a little bit about mountain bike.00:45:15.780 –> 00:45:29.940 Joseph McElroy: howdy this is Joseph Franklyn McElroy back with the gateway to the smokies these podcasts and my guest Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, so Annette, what's next for you as a writer you're working on a new book right Is it based on.00:45:30.960 –> 00:45:37.170 Annette Clapsaddle: yeah absolutely and I've been working on one for a little while now, but again I had to put it aside.00:45:38.100 –> 00:45:53.160 Annette Clapsaddle: For the full-time job but um yeah this next novel is contemporary was a female protagonist set in Cherokee so it's pretty close to home, I got to make sure I stay far enough back from it.00:45:54.570 –> 00:45:55.050 Annette Clapsaddle: But.00:45:57.030 –> 00:46:00.150 Annette Clapsaddle: I am fairly early in the process, but it's.00:46:01.470 –> 00:46:20.700 Annette Clapsaddle: kind of being it's inspired by some of our traditional stories it's not a retelling of those stories, but I have mine those for the values that they instill in our culture and I'm kind of overlaying it on a contemporary and political landscape and cheer up that way.00:46:22.320 –> 00:46:23.730 Annette Clapsaddle: So that's what I'm working on.00:46:24.480 –> 00:46:26.400 Joseph McElroy: Your First Non historical fiction.00:46:28.500 –> 00:46:29.460 Annette Clapsaddle: yeah exactly.00:46:31.980 –> 00:46:34.080 Annette Clapsaddle: The time he ruined may be historical.00:46:37.230 –> 00:46:40.590 Joseph McElroy: These will suck to the years of the crisis.00:46:42.900 –> 00:46:45.960 Annette Clapsaddle: yeah because in here and now back to rethink.00:46:47.010 –> 00:46:49.470 Annette Clapsaddle: Whether you know how could this plays into this.00:46:50.070 –> 00:46:51.990 Joseph McElroy: Is covid character yeah.00:46:52.260 –> 00:46:54.510 Annette Clapsaddle: yeah so I have to do a lot of.00:46:55.920 –> 00:47:02.700 Annette Clapsaddle: nonfiction writing for regional magazines and things like that and I'm a.00:47:03.810 –> 00:47:18.840 Annette Clapsaddle: An editor for the Appalachian future series and through the university press of Kentucky so stay pretty busy with different writing projects, but the main one that forces me that focus on the new novel.00:47:20.190 –> 00:47:24.630 Joseph McElroy: that's great and are you doing, are you doing how are things like workshops and.00:47:25.110 –> 00:47:26.100 Annette Clapsaddle: Yes, yes.00:47:26.430 –> 00:47:33.390 Annette Clapsaddle: cool yeah I think it's nice to be able to continue to teach and even though I'll be out of.00:47:34.770 –> 00:47:44.850 Annette Clapsaddle: A public high school right so teaching workshops actually leave Friday and for.00:47:46.050 –> 00:47:47.370 Annette Clapsaddle: LMU for.00:47:48.720 –> 00:48:01.590 Annette Clapsaddle: For the festival there I'll be teaching workshops and then I'll be teaching a full week at John C Campbell folks school in Brasstown and North Carolina starting Sunday so.00:48:01.980 –> 00:48:09.570 Joseph McElroy: That Bob's been trying to put together a literary conference here, I hope you participate in that that'd be you'd be a wonderful part of it yeah.00:48:11.010 –> 00:48:17.010 Joseph McElroy: That should be good so so I want to talk about you are my mountain biking.00:48:19.050 –> 00:48:23.040 Joseph McElroy: enthusiastic yeah, what do you like most about that sport.00:48:24.420 –> 00:48:34.800 Annette Clapsaddle: um well I like being in the middle of the woods and feeling very isolated from everything but also going super fast.00:48:39.720 –> 00:48:53.610 Annette Clapsaddle: superfast downhill and it's I think it's because it is contradictory to how I normally am you know planner and I'm fairly cautious and.00:48:55.050 –> 00:48:58.410 Annette Clapsaddle: This is this forces me out of that comfort zone.00:48:59.790 –> 00:49:03.780 Annette Clapsaddle: And I mean I could talk for days about all the things I love about it, I just started.00:49:04.740 –> 00:49:21.510 Annette Clapsaddle: writing about five years ago and, and you know, first and foremost, for even for my health I'm a former athlete I used to play basketball, but my knees can't take that anymore I lost about 60 pounds when I started mountain biking.00:49:24.990 –> 00:49:25.530 Joseph McElroy: I have a.00:49:25.560 –> 00:49:29.700 Joseph McElroy: three-and-a-half-year-old son named Henry that's challenging you to a race right now.00:49:30.210 –> 00:49:32.070 Annette Clapsaddle: oh three.00:49:33.510 –> 00:49:37.800 Annette Clapsaddle: My student this semester, it was on my bike and he was running.00:49:39.660 –> 00:49:41.850 Annette Clapsaddle: He thought he could beat me that didn't happen.00:49:46.770 –> 00:49:48.360 Joseph McElroy: He loves to go fast.00:49:49.980 –> 00:49:52.950 Joseph McElroy: So, what are your favorite local or regional trails.00:49:53.520 –> 00:50:01.260 Annette Clapsaddle: And what I consider my home trail is fire mountain trail system and Cherokee and it's really kind of.00:50:01.950 –> 00:50:20.820 Annette Clapsaddle: When that trail system, open and I started learning more about mountain biking in general, so it's just a few minutes from my house I get there, myself and I are Sali and near Bryson city and the Fontana area I do a lot of writing out there.00:50:23.460 –> 00:50:37.320 Annette Clapsaddle: And oh gosh there's Dupont and regard, and you know we're really lucky to have so many trails around here and yeah and you know my favorite ones, or maybe not the ones that are more.00:50:39.750 –> 00:50:46.200 Joseph McElroy: that's why, but if you try out some of the new ones up like the new pipe parking chest up the mountain and they would challenge you just.00:50:46.230 –> 00:50:53.040 Annette Clapsaddle: Barely I mean so all of these there yeah there are lots of new places it seems like in the last year and a half.00:50:53.430 –> 00:50:59.040 Annette Clapsaddle: And so, all these places are kind of on my list I'm excited to have a little more flexibility in my schedule.00:50:59.340 –> 00:51:13.590 Annette Clapsaddle: And he had to make some of those day trips and hopefully out with some of my riding buddies may be to go check them out there's a and a group of predominantly ladies that I ride with we like to check out new trails.00:51:14.580 –> 00:51:16.890 Joseph McElroy: cool do you have your son's right as well?00:51:17.550 –> 00:51:19.350 Annette Clapsaddle: They do, and they.00:51:20.550 –> 00:51:28.110 Annette Clapsaddle: know the ride, and you know for a while, then they'll get interested in something else, but they both had bikes so.00:51:29.130 –> 00:51:34.890 Annette Clapsaddle: They don't always go on trails with me and that they're all over our property.00:51:36.630 –> 00:51:39.720 Annette Clapsaddle: at nine and 13 Charlie and Ross00:51:40.170 –> 00:51:42.210 Joseph McElroy: All right, almost teenage.00:51:46.050 –> 00:52:03.120 Joseph McElroy: There you go so what's good, and you, is there any is there, you know, one of the things I'd like to ask is a recommendation for a place to eat for people listening to the show for coming to your part of the country out in the cloud qualified and boundary the Cherokee reservation.00:52:03.870 –> 00:52:05.670 Annette Clapsaddle: All right, and.00:52:07.110 –> 00:52:08.730 Annette Clapsaddle: I feel like I'm sitting on the spot here.00:52:08.940 –> 00:52:10.050 I know I know.00:52:12.690 –> 00:52:17.190 Annette Clapsaddle: I don't know what this one just popped into my head and we're not talking like gourmet food, but.00:52:18.870 –> 00:52:19.170 Joseph McElroy: I think.00:52:19.230 –> 00:52:33.390 Annette Clapsaddle: The people that joy that's all yes that's a sunflower is like a sandwich shop not like a sandwich shop, it is isn't it shop and near the entrance to the great smoky mountain National Park in the snake village area sassy sunflowers a very.00:52:34.950 –> 00:52:40.680 Annette Clapsaddle: Great sandwich place and then I have to say, if you want, like the quintessential.00:52:42.450 –> 00:52:52.470 Annette Clapsaddle: Country Buffet, that has been around since the beginning of time, you have to go to grandma's kitchen and get pie for dessert you got to get high.00:52:52.980 –> 00:52:54.960 Joseph McElroy: Five you got to get a pie yeah.00:52:56.400 –> 00:53:04.680 Joseph McElroy: cool fabulous well this now, we gotta shout outs, you want to mention how people get in contact with you find out more about your book that sort of stuff.00:53:05.190 –> 00:53:12.060 Annette Clapsaddle: So I have a website it's a new asaunookeclapsaddle.com and luckily I have one of.00:53:13.200 –> 00:53:25.260 Annette Clapsaddle: The most unusual names, so you can pretty easily find me on Google search but I'll be updating that website and the coming weeks, speaking of students.00:53:25.560 –> 00:53:31.950 Annette Clapsaddle: And that's that website was developed by a former student of mine, so I gotta get to updating it with.00:53:32.730 –> 00:53:50.760 Annette Clapsaddle: Events going on I'll be busy all summer with festivals and workshops and things like that and also I'm on Facebook and on Instagram and I just use my name I don't do anything special so Twitter also so just it's Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle easy to find.00:53:51.390 –> 00:54:04.440 Joseph McElroy: cool well Thank you so much for being on the show today it's been a wonderful conversation I'm gonna look forward to finishing your book, especially sits in it's in the North Asheville area where I just moved to find out a little bit about the history of that area.00:54:05.700 –> 00:54:12.720 Joseph McElroy: yeah glad to be too, and hopefully we will continue having conversations, and now have you have your Conference at the Meadowlark00:54:13.530 –> 00:54:14.040 yeah.00:54:15.360 –> 00:54:17.610 Annette Clapsaddle: Maybe like doing you love to do that cool.00:54:18.090 –> 00:54:33.180 Joseph McElroy: So this podcast is the gateway to the smokies it's live-streamed on facebook.com/gatewaytothesmokiespodcasts as well as on talkradio.NYC, which is a network of live podcasts.00:54:34.800 –> 00:54:43.590 Joseph McElroy: And I recommend you take a chance to look at that network there are a lot of great podcasts to listen to live, which I find to be a very dynamic format.00:54:44.430 –> 00:55:00.900 Joseph McElroy: And I think interesting if you want to be involved in conversations that seem real and they range from small business self-help to pet care to any number of things and it's I think it's a wonderful network to become aware of and join in.00:55:02.130 –> 00:55:08.160 Joseph McElroy: I also have another podcast and it's never called wise content creates wealth, I have a marketing company that specializes in.00:55:08.820 –> 00:55:28.110 Joseph McElroy: content and memorable tourism experiences for travel and I talked about that quite a bit on wise content create wealth so and that's on Fridays from noon until one, and this podcast gateway to the smokies every week Tuesdays from six to seven on this network.00:55:29.130 –> 00:55:39.690 Joseph McElroy: And I hope you will join me again next week for another great guest, and another great conversation, thank you very much it's been nice having you here.00:55:40.680 –> 00:55:44.460 Annette Clapsaddle: yeah, thank you for having me really enjoy it you're welcome.

Coach Chelsea speaks with Jeri Porter on her faith and love for God and Servant Leadership. Porter was named to the position on May 11, 2015, and made an immediate impact. Inheriting a squad that lost 20 games the year before and was picked to finish next to last according to the pre-season Peach Belt Conference coaches' poll, she directed the Patriots to a 24-9 record, a No.23 national rankings, and an appearance in the NCAA Division II Elite Eight. That squad produced one All-Conference performer and one PBC All-Academic Team selection. During her second year, FMU went 18-12 and placed second in the Peach Belt Conference's East Division. The Patriots advanced to the PBC Tournament semifinals, one player earned All-Conference honors, and one garnered Academic All-Conference recognition. In 2017-18, the Patriots posted a 16-12 mark and saw two players earn All-Conference honors and one pick up All-Region and All-America accolades. In 2018-19, FMU went 12-15 with one player gaining All-Conference and All-Region honors, and during the 2019-20 season the Patriots were 14-13 and featured a pair of All-PBC performers. Altogether, Porter has 21 years experience as a collegiate head coach – 11 at the NCAA Division I level and 10 at the Division II level – and has recorded a 294-300 career mark. She came to Florence after spending the 2014-15 season at Georgia State University as an assistant on the Panthers' staff. Porter's first head coaching position was at Division II University of North Alabama, where she posted three winning marks in four seasons, including a 21-7 record in 1999-2000. That squad captured the Gulf South Conference East Division title, while Porter garnered conference Coach of the Year recognition. She was named the head coach at Radford in 2002 and led the Highlanders to 93 wins in six seasons, including a pair of 20-win campaigns and two second-place finishes in the Big South Conference. Her 2007-08 squad was 23-12 and earned a WNIT invitation. In 2008, she accepted the head coaching position at George Mason University, where she remained until 2013. Porter increased the Patriots' win total over her first four seasons (from four to 15 wins). During her time in Fairfax, she also created and directed the Jeri Porter Girls' Basketball Camps. Her final two squads posted a cumulative team grade point average of 3.09. Porter is a 1991 graduate of Liberty University, where she earned a B.S. degree in psychology. She garnered first-team All-Big South Conference honors as a senior and was twice named her squad's most valuable player. She was inducted into the university's Lady Flames Hall of Fame in 1998. She began her coaching career at her alma mater serving as an assistant coach for six seasons, during which time the Lady Flames won two conference tournament championships and advanced to the 1997 and 1998 NCAA Tournaments. She married Michael Porter of Manassas, Va., in 1997 and the couple has a son (EJ, age 20) and a daughter (Jada, 11). Her son plays basketball at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Porter is the 13th head coach in the storied history of the Francis Marion program. The Francis Marion program has an all-time record of 897-499 in 48 seasons and ranks 12th among all NCAA Division II institutions in total wins. The Patriots have captured two national championships, the 1982 AIAW Division II title and the 1986 NAIA title, and also advanced to the 1998 NCAA Division II Final Four. The program made five straight NCAA Division II Tournament appearances between 1997 and 2001, and four consecutive appearances between 2008 and 2011. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chefranjohn/support

My interview with the radio broadcaster for the 2016 National Champion Coastal Carolina Chanticleers! Here are the timestamps: :43 - What impressed Dr. Griffith about the 2016 National Championship Coastal Carolina Chanticleers who he did play-by-play for. 4:29 - Dr. Griffith describes his relationship with 26 year Coastal Carolina baseball coach Gary Gilmore. 6:15 - Dr. Griffith discusses the narrative that minor league baseball has subpar working conditions, speaking from his experience working in the minors. 8:57 - Dr. Griffith describes if the personal relationships you develop with minor league organizations changes the way he does play-by-play in comparison to calling college games. 10:46 - Dr. Griffith goes into the creation of his book “Meandering Through The Minor Leagues”, and the inspiration behind it. 14:35 - Dr. Griffith dives into the many different roles a minor league announcer has to perform, including advertising. Along with how people are sort of pressured into performing both roles. 17:44 - Dr. Griffith's path to becoming a professor at Francis Marion. 19:46 - Dr. Griffith talks about his goal of becoming an MLB broadcaster, but also finding fulfillment is the career he's had. 27:26 - The moment Dr. Griffith knew Communications would be the field he pursues in life. 31:21 - The best players Dr. Griffith's broadcasted live, including 3-time MLB all-star shortstop Rafael Furcal.

"La Calavera que Gritaba" (The Screaming Skull) es un relato de terror del escritor norteamericano Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909), publicado originalmente en la edición del 11 de julio de 1908 de la revista Collier, y luego reeditado en la antología de 1911: Cuentos misteriosos (Uncanny Tales). Música: "Alice Madness Returns" Jason Tai Marshall "Outlast" Samuel Laflamme Blog del Podcast: https://lanebulosaeclectica.blogspot.com/ Twitter: @jomategu

Known for his guerilla warfare tactics and psychological cunningness, Francis Marion came to be known by his infamous moniker, The Swamp Fox, by both allies and adversaries.

A new era is underway for Austin Peay women's basketball with the arrival of Brittany Young, the 11th head coach in program history. A former Academic All-American at Francis Marion, Young has risen quickly in college basketball, helping Nikki McCray-Penson lead a revival at Old Dominion before spending last season at Mississippi State. She sits down with Colby Wilson for a look at her past experience, her excitement for the future and what intrigued her most about the chance to lead this program. Young Intro/Outro: William Murphy, "The Anthem"