Podcast appearances and mentions of Jackson Street

MindFi - Kia Fay Donovan and Mark Arroyo.What happens when a hair salon becomes a stage, a friendship becomes a band, and a guitar and voice create a whole universe of sound?MindFi is a genre-bending musical duo formed by Kia Fay and Mark Arroyo. Combining their unique talents, they have created something they describe as a wireless mind connection, a performance philosophy, and a creative community rooted in the heart of San Jose's Japantown.The name MindFi is a play on “Wi-Fi for your mind,” and that is exactly what their music feels like—tapping into an unseen, deeply intuitive frequency between two artists who listen as much as they play. Born from a long-standing friendship and shared vision for musical purity, the project came to life post-COVID, blending logistical simplicity with artistic depth. With just guitar and vocals, they challenge themselves to make music that feels expansive, spontaneous, and emotionally raw.MindFi's core performance takes place on the last Wednesday evening of every month at The Curl Consultant, Kia's salon-turned-sound-lab on Jackson Street in Japantown. What makes MindFi especially captivating is their intentionality. Every element—from the curated audience and the timing of their Wednesday shows to their strategic approach to growth—is designed to create connection and community. The band values intimate live performances and how each set is never quite the same. Each breath, mistake, and laugh becomes part of the show, immersing listeners in the moment and the music.Their sound is the product of weekly rehearsals, conversations, active listening, and an ongoing “what if” approach to creation: what if we play this differently? What if we strip it down? What if we rebuild it entirely? Whether covering Depeche Mode with just a guitar and voice or experimenting with chord voicings and layered effects, their goal is always to make the music feel full beyond what most would expect of a duo.While this collaboration between artists was long in the making, Kia received a 2025 San Jose Jazz Jazz Aid Fund commissioning grant, which acted as an accelerator for the project's artistic vision. The fund validated their presence in the local arts scene and gave them the resources to launch MindFi with autonomy and intention. They continue to grow the project on their own terms—developing recordings, videos, and plans for future performances—while bypassing the traditional struggle of new bands constantly chasing gigs.In this conversation, Kia and Mark reveal their approach to music as a creative outlet, a community hub, and a sonic experiment. They discuss their careers making art in other contexts and how MindFi is a place where they decompress, reconnect, and remember why they fell in love with music in the first place.Experience MindFi's sound at Pick-Up Party 17.3 on May 16, 2025 at West Valley College. They will be opening the event at 7p. You can also experience their magic at The Curl Consultant every last Wednesday of the month in Japantown. RSVP.Follow MindFi on Instagram @mindfibandKia Fay was also featured in Issue 11.1, “Sight and Sound”Mark Arroyo was also featured in Issue 9.2, “Sight and Sound”

Thursday, February 27 on Urban Forum Northwest:*Dr. Lezli Baskerville, president and CEO, National Association For Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) comments on the cuts in early childhood education funds that prepare her students to excel once they are college bound. And comment on any adverse effect that the current administration's policies are having on colleges and universities that NAFEO refer students too.*Attorney Yohannes Sium represents the retired Seattle Black Firefighters seeking to retain their interest in property that they purchased in the 1970's. He will be joined by Clarence Williams, president, Northwest Association of Retired Black Firefighters and a plaintiff in the court action and Roberto Jourdan, past president, Seattle Black Firefighters Association.*Elmer Dixon, Co Founder, Seattle Black Panther Party comments on the Seattle Black Panther Party Interpretive Center. The project is divided into three phases and he will comment on phase one which is the Metropole site at 423 2nd Avenue that will include a 1500-square-foot first floor anchor site.* Barney Hilliard is a Seattle Music Legend dating back to Garfield High School in Seattle where he played saxophone in the young Dave Lewis Combo that was in heavy demand. Barney will be featured on KING 5 TV Seattle Facing Race Segment,The History of Jazz on Jackson Street on Friday, February 28 at 6:30 pm & 11:30 pm.Urban Forum Northwest streams live at www.1150kknw.com. Visit us at www.urbanforumnw.com for archived programs and relevant information. Like us on facebook. X@Eddie_Rye. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Thursday, February 27 on Urban Forum Northwest: *Dr. Lezli Baskerville, president and CEO, National Association For Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) comments on the cuts in early childhood education funds that prepare her students to excel once they are college bound. And comment on any adverse effect that the current administration's policies are having on colleges and universities that NAFEO refer students too. *Attorney Yohannes Sium represents the retired Seattle Black Firefighters seeking to retain their interest in property that they purchased in the 1970's. He will be joined by Clarence Williams, president, Northwest Association of Retired Black Firefighters and a plaintiff in the court action and Roberto Jourdan, past president, Seattle Black Firefighters Association. *Elmer Dixon, Co Founder, Seattle Black Panther Party comments on the Seattle Black Panther Party Interpretive Center. The project is divided into three phases and he will comment on phase one which is the Metropole site at 423 2nd Avenue that will include a 1500-square-foot first floor anchor site. * Barney Hilliard is a Seattle Music Legend dating back to Garfield High School in Seattle where he played saxophone in the young Dave Lewis Combo that was in heavy demand. Barney will be featured on KING 5 TV Seattle Facing Race Segment,The History of Jazz on Jackson Street on Friday, February 28 at 6:30 pm & 11:30 pm. Urban Forum Northwest streams live at www.1150kknw.com. Visit us at www.urbanforumnw.com for archived programs and relevant information. Like us on facebook. X@Eddie_Rye. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Thursday, February 27 on Urban Forum Northwest: *Dr. Lezli Baskerville, president and CEO, National Association For Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) comments on the cuts in early childhood education funds that prepare her students to excel once they are college bound. And comment on any adverse effect that the current administration's policies are having on colleges and universities that NAFEO refer students too. *Attorney Yohannes Sium represents the retired Seattle Black Firefighters seeking to retain their interest in property that they purchased in the 1970's. He will be joined by Clarence Williams, president, Northwest Association of Retired Black Firefighters and a plaintiff in the court action and Roberto Jourdan, past president, Seattle Black Firefighters Association. *Elmer Dixon, Co Founder, Seattle Black Panther Party comments on the Seattle Black Panther Party Interpretive Center. The project is divided into three phases and he will comment on phase one which is the Metropole site at 423 2nd Avenue that will include a 1500-square-foot first floor anchor site. * Barney Hilliard is a Seattle Music Legend dating back to Garfield High School in Seattle where he played saxophone in the young Dave Lewis Combo that was in heavy demand. Barney will be featured on KING 5 TV Seattle Facing Race Segment,The History of Jazz on Jackson Street on Friday, February 28 at 6:30 pm & 11:30 pm. Urban Forum Northwest streams live at www.1150kknw.com. Visit us at www.urbanforumnw.com for archived programs and relevant information. Like us on facebook. X@Eddie_Rye.

Bob Ortblad urges officials to evaluate the IBR's underpass plans and consider alternatives. Visit https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/opinion/letter-south-jackson-street-field-trip on www.ClarkCountyToday.com for details. #InterstateBridgeReplacement #IBR #ClarkCountyWa #LocalNews #UrbanDevelopment

Ross had no interest originally in getting into the restaurant industry, but the DiPrima family is very present in Omaha. And after 8 years of working at his brother's restaurant, he decided it was time to own his own place. Hear the story about how he decided to purchase Jackson Street Tavern, how he prioritized people during the transition to his ownership, and what keeps him passionate while working in such a demanding industry.This episode was sponsored by Semo Pasta. Homemade pasta from local ingredients and an unforgettable dining experience awaits. Buon appetito!This is another Hurrdat Media Production. Hurrdat Media is a podcast network and digital media production company based in Omaha, NE. Find more podcasts on the Hurrdat Media Network by going to HurrdatMedia.com or Hurrdat Media YouTube channel!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

GROVE HILL — On an unassuming stretch of Jackson Street and Highway 43 in Grove Hill, Ralph Paul presides over Broke Man's Mart, a discount store that has become something of a local institution. At 74, Ralph is a man of sharp wit and boundless energy, his gray beard neatly trimmed and his eyes alight with curiosity. For five years, Broke Man's Mart has thrived under his stewardship, offering customers a mix of new merchandise at discounted prices. The name, he admits with a chuckle, came from a friend, David Skipper, who once referred to the store as a “broke...Article Link

Call me naïve, but I still believe the government should work for everyone, whether you're rich or poor, young or old. Your color or your class shouldn’t mean different treatment by government agencies. So when I saw that Metro Transit had to suspend a route due to safety concerns, it made me angry and sad. The suspended stop is located at 12th Avenue S. and Jackson Street in Seattle's Chinatown-International District. While it’s not known as the wealthy neighborhood, there are a lot of hard working people there, small businesses and senior citizens. The fact that the city couldn’t protect their ability to safely catch a bus at their preferred stop is embarrassing and unacceptable.

He was one of the greatest musical minds of the 20th century… and he hailed from Seattle. Songwriter, composer, arranger and producer Quincy Jones, died yesterday at the age of 91.  The 28-time Grammy winner moved to the Pacific Northwest at the age of 10 and eventually graduated from Garfield High School. Jones credited Seattle's musical openness with shaping his style. He met Ray Charles here. In a typical night, they would play across the city, from the tony Seattle Tennis Club to hangouts on Jackson Street, which was in the city's red light district, playing classical, jazz, marches, and pop music.   Jones played jazz trumpet. Quincy Jones described his time in Seattle for PBS' “American Masters” in 2021: "We had to play everything with school. We played Sousa. And you play classical music and Debussy… on the jobs… Ray Charles, we, played Debussey on some of the jobs and we had to play Big Fat Butterfly parody, a parody on a poor butterfly. We had to play absolutely everything." That musical openness and genre defying attitude was a thread that he carried throughout his life.  In the 50's, Jones played with some of the jazz greats, including Herbie Mann, Zoot Sims, Hank Jones and Charles Mingus on Evening in Paris from his 1957 LP, “This Is How I Feel About Jazz." A few years later Jones played with Ray Charles on "One Mint Julep." But soon, Jones was branching out stylistically. He left an indelible mark on the music industry through his film scores... And while Soul Bossa Nova wasn't specifically WRITTEN for Austin Powers, it certainly became known as the theme song for the "International Man of Mystery..." He arranged songs for legends like Frank Sinatra. And in the 70's, when funk was EVERYWHERE, Jones turned it into gold, including the track "The Streetbeater," which became the theme song to Sanford & Sons... In the 80's Jones famously produced Michael Jackson's meteoric rise to stardom, with tracks like "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough." He butted heads with Jackson on the opening to Billie Jean... (He thought it was too long, Jackson disagreed.) And made the notorious phone call that got Eddie Van Halen in the studio to play guitar on "Beat It..." Quincy Jones, a giant of American music, is one of few producers to have number one records in three consecutive decades, the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s... Jones passed Sunday night at his home in Los Angeles. He was 91. Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/soundsidenotes Soundside is a production of KUOW in Seattle, a proud member of the NPR Network.  RELATED LINK:  Quincy Jones's Legacy in 14 Essential Songs - New York TimesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With the annual Earshot Jazz Festival now underway, the ribbon is about to be cut on a new path in downtown Seattle highlighting the history and culture of the golden age of jazz in Seattle along and near Jackson Street. Paul de Barros is a longtime local journalist and author, and one of the founders of the Jackson Street Jazz Trail. De Barros, who wrote the seminal book about Seattle’s jazz history, the long out-of-print "Jackson Street After Hours," joined KIRO Newsradio live Friday morning from the "trailhead" at King Street Station.

Today on LIVE! Daily News, the Goodfellow Air Force Base hosted career day this morning, an Angelo State student was will serve as Congressman August Pfluger's intern this fall, and expect more and more rain over the weekend and into next week.Also, a ton of sports news out of ASU, high school volleyball rankings, and COVER1 is back this Friday!Today's Top Stories:Semi-Trailer Hauling Cantaloupes Overturns Near Big Spring (08/28/2024)Texas Tech Celebrates the End of 'The Campaign for Fearless Champions' (08/28/2024)West Texas Oil Field Crash Wrecks Two Work Trucks (08/28/2024)Santa Anna Woman Dies, 7-Year-Old Injured in U.S. 283 Crash (08/28/2024)Missouri Man Files Lawsuit After 18-Wheeler Crash in Big Spring (08/28/2024)Where Does Texas Rank in Retail Theft? (08/28/2024)Couple Kidnapped and Assaulted, Lamborghini Stolen; Six Men Arrested (08/28/2024)Unclaimed $1 Million Mega Millions Ticket Set to Expire (08/28/2024)Bronte Showdown One of State's Best Small-School Volleyball Tournaments (08/28/2024)Eight Dead, Dozens Sickened in Boar's Head Listeria Outbreak Linked to Deli Meats (08/28/2024)Theft Investigations Underway in Odessa (08/28/2024)San Angelo Police Department Issues Flood Advisory (08/28/2024)FBI Releases New Photos of Gun Used in Trump Assassination Attempt (08/28/2024)Texas CBP Officers Seize $3M in Cocaine (08/28/2024)Jewish Man Assaulted by Stranger Shouting Anti-Semitic Slur (08/28/2024)Traffic Alert for Aug. 29: Temporary Stop at Jackson Street and Knickerbocker Road (08/28/2024)Rapper Lil Baby Arrested in Vegas for Allegedly Carrying Concealed Weapon Without Permit (08/28/2024)Dramatic Footage Shows Tree Nearly Striking Cyclist (08/28/2024)Texas to Host World's Largest Steam Locomotive During Fall Tour (08/28/2024)ASU Rambelles Soccer Picked 3rd in LSC Preseason Poll (08/28/2024)Strong Mourning and White-Winged Populations Forecast for Dove Season (08/28/2024)GALLERY: Goodfellow AFB Hosts 'Air Force Career Day' for Potential Recruits (08/28/2024)Fifth Death This Month at Grand Canyon: Man Dies After Boat Capsizes (08/28/2024)Fish With Human-Like Teeth Caught in Texas Lake (08/28/2024)Angelo State Student Chosen for Internship Program in Washington, D.C. (08/28/2024)Texas High School Volleyball State Rankings (08/28/2024)Cowboys to Sign Former Second Round Pick (08/28/2024)San Angelo Central Volleyball Suffers First Loss of Season (08/28/2024)Lake View Chiefs Begin Season With Road Trip to Fort Stockton (08/28/2024)Sex Offender Violation and Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity Top Booking Report (08/28/2024)Angelo State Belles Tennis Named LSC Academic Champions (08/27/2024)Children's Book Battery Ignites Car Seat (08/27/2024) 

Ann Marie Spaude, a 54-year-old woman from Rothschild/Wausau, has been taken into custody nearly a year after being charged in connection with the tragic death of a 4-month-old child in Wausau. Spaude faces a felony charge of child neglect where the consequence is death, along with additional related charges. The case dates back to the early hours of September 23, when emergency responders were called to a home on Jackson Street in Wausau after receiving a report of an unresponsive infant. According to the incident report, the child was found without a pulse and had blood coming from his nose when paramedics arrived. Despite their best efforts, the child was pronounced dead at the scene. Witness statements provided to the police indicate that Spaude was responsible for watching the child during a party that took place at the residence. She was reportedly expected to remain sober while caring for the infant. However, the complaint alleges that Spaude consumed a significant amount of alcohol, including multiple 40-ounce bottles of Mickey's malt liquor and a considerable amount of beer. One witness told authorities that he went to check on the baby and discovered the child face down with his head positioned beneath Spaude. Another witness reportedly rolled Spaude off the child and lifted him up, but he was already lifeless. According to the complaint, Spaude slept through the entire time that police and paramedics were on the scene, desperately attempting to revive the child. An autopsy later determined the cause of death to be "probable asphyxia due to overlay," citing the fact that the infant was found prone under an adult. Other contributing factors also supported this conclusion, according to the report. Following the incident, an arrest warrant was authorized in June for Spaude, who had been free on a cash bond ordered in March. The charges against her were amended on June 21, leading to her eventual arrest. Spaude is currently being held in the Marathon County Jail and was scheduled to appear in court on Friday, August 10. The tragic nature of this case has shocked the local community, raising awareness about the critical importance of responsible caregiving, particularly when young children are involved. As Spaude faces the legal consequences of her actions, the court will seek to determine her level of responsibility in this heartbreaking event. #AnnMarieSpaude #ChildNeglect #Wausau #InfantDeath #MarathonCounty #Asphyxia #WisconsinNews Want to listen to ALL of our podcasts AD-FREE? Subscribe through APPLE PODCASTS, and try it for three days free: https://tinyurl.com/ycw626tj Follow Our Other Cases: https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com The latest on The Downfall of Diddy, The Trial of Karen Read, The Murder Of Maddie Soto, Catching the Long Island Serial Killer, Awaiting Admission: BTK's Unconfessed Crimes, Delphi Murders: Inside the Crime, Chad & Lori Daybell, The Murder of Ana Walshe, Alex Murdaugh, Bryan Kohberger, Lucy Letby, Kouri Richins, Malevolent Mormon Mommys, Justice for Harmony Montgomery, The Murder of Stephen Smith, The Murder of Madeline Kingsbury, and much more! Listen at https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com

Ann Marie Spaude, a 54-year-old woman from Rothschild/Wausau, has been taken into custody nearly a year after being charged in connection with the tragic death of a 4-month-old child in Wausau. Spaude faces a felony charge of child neglect where the consequence is death, along with additional related charges. The case dates back to the early hours of September 23, when emergency responders were called to a home on Jackson Street in Wausau after receiving a report of an unresponsive infant. According to the incident report, the child was found without a pulse and had blood coming from his nose when paramedics arrived. Despite their best efforts, the child was pronounced dead at the scene. Witness statements provided to the police indicate that Spaude was responsible for watching the child during a party that took place at the residence. She was reportedly expected to remain sober while caring for the infant. However, the complaint alleges that Spaude consumed a significant amount of alcohol, including multiple 40-ounce bottles of Mickey's malt liquor and a considerable amount of beer. One witness told authorities that he went to check on the baby and discovered the child face down with his head positioned beneath Spaude. Another witness reportedly rolled Spaude off the child and lifted him up, but he was already lifeless. According to the complaint, Spaude slept through the entire time that police and paramedics were on the scene, desperately attempting to revive the child. An autopsy later determined the cause of death to be "probable asphyxia due to overlay," citing the fact that the infant was found prone under an adult. Other contributing factors also supported this conclusion, according to the report. Following the incident, an arrest warrant was authorized in June for Spaude, who had been free on a cash bond ordered in March. The charges against her were amended on June 21, leading to her eventual arrest. Spaude is currently being held in the Marathon County Jail and was scheduled to appear in court on Friday, August 10. The tragic nature of this case has shocked the local community, raising awareness about the critical importance of responsible caregiving, particularly when young children are involved. As Spaude faces the legal consequences of her actions, the court will seek to determine her level of responsibility in this heartbreaking event. #AnnMarieSpaude #ChildNeglect #Wausau #InfantDeath #MarathonCounty #Asphyxia #WisconsinNews Want to listen to ALL of our podcasts AD-FREE? Subscribe through APPLE PODCASTS, and try it for three days free: https://tinyurl.com/ycw626tj Follow Our Other Cases: https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com The latest on The Downfall of Diddy, The Trial of Karen Read, The Murder Of Maddie Soto, Catching the Long Island Serial Killer, Awaiting Admission: BTK's Unconfessed Crimes, Delphi Murders: Inside the Crime, Chad & Lori Daybell, The Murder of Ana Walshe, Alex Murdaugh, Bryan Kohberger, Lucy Letby, Kouri Richins, Malevolent Mormon Mommys, Justice for Harmony Montgomery, The Murder of Stephen Smith, The Murder of Madeline Kingsbury, and much more! Listen at https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com

Ann Marie Spaude, a 54-year-old woman from Rothschild/Wausau, has been taken into custody nearly a year after being charged in connection with the tragic death of a 4-month-old child in Wausau. Spaude faces a felony charge of child neglect where the consequence is death, along with additional related charges. The case dates back to the early hours of September 23, when emergency responders were called to a home on Jackson Street in Wausau after receiving a report of an unresponsive infant. According to the incident report, the child was found without a pulse and had blood coming from his nose when paramedics arrived. Despite their best efforts, the child was pronounced dead at the scene. Witness statements provided to the police indicate that Spaude was responsible for watching the child during a party that took place at the residence. She was reportedly expected to remain sober while caring for the infant. However, the complaint alleges that Spaude consumed a significant amount of alcohol, including multiple 40-ounce bottles of Mickey's malt liquor and a considerable amount of beer. One witness told authorities that he went to check on the baby and discovered the child face down with his head positioned beneath Spaude. Another witness reportedly rolled Spaude off the child and lifted him up, but he was already lifeless. According to the complaint, Spaude slept through the entire time that police and paramedics were on the scene, desperately attempting to revive the child. An autopsy later determined the cause of death to be "probable asphyxia due to overlay," citing the fact that the infant was found prone under an adult. Other contributing factors also supported this conclusion, according to the report. Following the incident, an arrest warrant was authorized in June for Spaude, who had been free on a cash bond ordered in March. The charges against her were amended on June 21, leading to her eventual arrest. Spaude is currently being held in the Marathon County Jail and was scheduled to appear in court on Friday, August 10. The tragic nature of this case has shocked the local community, raising awareness about the critical importance of responsible caregiving, particularly when young children are involved. As Spaude faces the legal consequences of her actions, the court will seek to determine her level of responsibility in this heartbreaking event. #AnnMarieSpaude #ChildNeglect #Wausau #InfantDeath #MarathonCounty #Asphyxia #WisconsinNews Want to listen to ALL of our podcasts AD-FREE? Subscribe through APPLE PODCASTS, and try it for three days free: https://tinyurl.com/ycw626tj Follow Our Other Cases: https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com The latest on The Downfall of Diddy, The Trial of Karen Read, The Murder Of Maddie Soto, Catching the Long Island Serial Killer, Awaiting Admission: BTK's Unconfessed Crimes, Delphi Murders: Inside the Crime, Chad & Lori Daybell, The Murder of Ana Walshe, Alex Murdaugh, Bryan Kohberger, Lucy Letby, Kouri Richins, Malevolent Mormon Mommys, Justice for Harmony Montgomery, The Murder of Stephen Smith, The Murder of Madeline Kingsbury, and much more! Listen at https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com

Finding a parking space in downtown Dallas is often a daunting and frustrating experience. In this episode, we meet Carolyn Glenn, Senior Associate of the Commercial Studio, to discuss the new parking garage at 700 Jackson Street commissioned by Dallas County to offer jurors and city employees convenient access to parking. However, far from a normal garage, this unique design provides retail spaces at street level along with 12 levels of public parking with 1,228 spaces pre-wired for EV charging.  Designed to be future-proofed, the elegant white structure features pre-stressed foundations and can support a 15-story hotel or office tower built on top. Draped in an attractive white metal panel with barcode-like vertical stripping, the imposing above-ground garage with chamfer edges maximizes every inch of space and stands out in the context of the neighborhood. Activating the downtown environment and adding to the walkability, beauty, and functionality of the neighborhood, the building is a landmark statement and a welcome addition. Visit: https://www.Corgan.com/  Also connect with us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/CorganInc/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CorganInc/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/CorganInc  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/corgan  Video Produced by: Corgan Have Questions? We'd love to hear from you.  Email: communications@corgan.com

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Join Daniel Colindres-Flores, Rediet Giday and Sidh Shroff as they walk down Jackson Street and explore its rich cultural history. Episode webpage: https://www.kuow.org/stories/a-walk-down-jackson-street-seattle-s-jazz-legacy[RadioActive Youth Media is KUOW's radio journalism and audio storytelling program for young people. This story was entirely youth-produced, from the writing to the audio editing.]

Christmas is just weeks away and a lot of activities and events are scheduled around the county, most notably Christmas parades! Here's a rundown of parades coming up in Clarke County. Grove Hill's parade will be Thursday, Dec. 7 at 4:30 p.m. The theme is “Whoville in Grove Hill.” Call the Grove Hill Area Chamber of Commerce to sign up, 251-275-4188. Lineup will be on Church Street in front of Clarke County High School. The parade runs north, turns on Cobb Street to Jackson Street and continues south. This is the usual route. Many Grove Hill businesses will be...Article Link

GDP Script/ Top Stories for Oct 29th Publish Date: Oct 27th Hennsler: 15 From the Henssler Financial Studio Welcome to the Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast. Today is Sunday, October 29th and happy 75th  birthday to Richard Dreyfus I'm Bruce Jenkins and here are your top stories presented by Peggy Slappey Properties. History comes alive at Georgia Gwinnett College with ancient tools demonstration Editorial: Sidney Powell should turn in her Texas bar card Renova Technology Adding 30 Jobs After $600,000 Expansion In Norcross   All of this and more is coming up on the Gwinnett Daily Post podcast, and if you are looking for community news, we encourage you to listen daily and subscribe! Break 1: Peggy Slappey STORY 1: History comes alive at Georgia Gwinnett College with ancient tools demonstration The Arctos Anthropology Club at Georgia Gwinnett College had a demonstration by primitive-living expert Andrew Minnick, who showcased tool-making technologies from the Stone Ages and the pre-contact period in the Americas. Students had the opportunity to learn about ancient tools and try their hand at making them. They explored tools like the Atlatl for hunting and engaged in "flint knapping" to shape stones into tools and decorative pieces. The experience emphasized the sophistication of early human problem-solving and highlighted the importance of preserving knowledge about ancient technologies and their impact on human evolution, history, and culture.   STORY 2: Editorial: Sidney Powell should turn in her Texas bar card Sidney Powell, the former lawyer for Donald Trump, pleaded guilty to six reduced criminal charges in Georgia stemming from her efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. However, in Dallas, she continues to fight a disciplinary lawsuit filed by the State Bar of Texas, which accuses her of violating ethics rules by filing frivolous voter fraud lawsuits in multiple states. In a recent filing, Powell claims the bar lacks evidence to support its case. The editorial calls for her to surrender her Texas bar card and be consistent in her actions, arguing that Powell's conspiracy theories have been discredited, and her legal fight is a waste of taxpayer money.   STORY 3: Renova Technology Adding 30 Jobs After $600,000 Expansion In Norcross Renova Technology Inc., an after-market repair services company, celebrated the grand opening of its expanded facility in Norcross, Gwinnett County. Renova, which has been in the county for 22 years, invested $600,000 in the expansion, with plans to create 30 new jobs in customer service, marketing, sales, and repair work. The company's growth was supported by organizations like Partnership Gwinnett, the Georgia Department of Economic Development, Metro Atlanta Chamber, Georgia Power, Gwinnett County Government, and the Gateway85 Community Improvement District. Local officials and leaders welcomed Renova's expansion, highlighting the company's contribution to the local economy.   We have opportunities for sponsors to get great engagement on these shows. Call 770.874.3200 for more info. We'll be right back Break 2: MOG – TOM WAGES OBITS STORY 4: American dams are being demolished. And nature is pushing that along Dams in the American West are being removed to address their declining power output, environmental damage, and the maintenance challenges they pose. The removal of dams in places like the Klamath River near the California-Oregon border is part of a trend that has seen more than 1,600 dams removed in the U.S. since 1912. Dams have outlived their usefulness, and their removal is seen as a step toward rewilding America. The Klamath River's dams were initially built for power generation, but they generated less than 2% of the power supplied by their utility in recent years. The Klamath restoration also involves partnerships with Native American communities to assert ancestral rights and promote river health.   STORY 5: Simple diet changes can improve health and reduce carbon emissions: study A new study suggests that making simple diet swaps, such as switching from beef to chicken or using plant-based milk instead of cow's milk, can reduce the average carbon footprint of food by 35% and improve the nutritional quality of diets. The research, based on the analysis of diet data from over 7,700 Americans, encourages climate-friendly eating habits to cut carbon emissions from food production, which accounts for a significant portion of greenhouse gas emissions. The study recommends easily achievable dietary substitutions to promote both environmental sustainability and personal health, emphasizing the potential of small changes to have a significant impact on both fronts.   We'll be back in a moment Break 3: ESOG – INGLES 10   STORY 6: It takes the average parent this long to get their kids to fall asleep A study of 1,000 parents with kids aged 0-8 has found that it takes an average of an hour to get each child to sleep every night. Nearly 80% of parents have to read up to three bedtime stories before their children settle down. More than 60% of parents struggle to get their kids to sleep, with many resorting to stalling tactics like asking questions (31%), needing to find a special toy (23%), feeling too hot or cold (29%), claiming to be scared of the dark (25%), or hearing strange noises (17%). Some even claim there's a monster under the bed (19%). The research was commissioned by the children's TV show Hey Duggee to mark the launch of its new Sleepy Time bedtime toy.   STORY 7: 'Lawrenceville Blooms' mural completed The city of Lawrenceville, Georgia, has unveiled its completed community mural, named "Lawrenceville Blooms." This mural project was a collaborative effort between the Lawrenceville Arts Commission and local artist Teresa Abboud. The mural is located at the intersection of Jackson Street and Buford Drive and covers 1,867 square feet. The project began with an open call for designs and was approved by the City Council in April 2023. The artwork is seen as a symbol of unity and diversity in the community and showcases the flourishing arts scene in Lawrenceville. It was created with community involvement, and the artist put in over 300 hours to bring it to life. The mural aims to inspire and connect the community through art.   We'll have final thoughts after this. 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These week on the show profiles a Harlingen CBD shop owner who speaks out about shop being raided. Trevor Kocaoglan owner of  Rio CBD on Jackson Street was raided by the Harlingen Police Department on June, 6. The Texas Health and Safety Code, established by House Bill 1325, says consumable hemp products are legal in Texas, as long  as the levels of Delta 9 THC aren't above 0.3%.Introducing & commenting on this on-going issue of illegal TX RAIDS on CBD store owners is director of the Texas Hemp Federation Jay Maguire.

GDP Script/ Top Stories for Sept 6 Publish Date:  sept 5 From the Henssler Financial Studio Welcome to the Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast Today is Sunday September 10th, and happy 74th birthday to Bill O'reilly ****O'reilly**** I'm Bruce Jenkins and here are your top stories presented by Mall of Georgia Chrysler Dodge Jeep Gwinnett police looking for missing Alpharetta woman who disappeared after leaving county jail Gwinnett police say East Point man allegedly led crew that broke into hundreds of cars across metro Atlanta Gwinnett County identify victim in fatal shooting in Dacula All of this and more is coming up on the Gwinnett Daily Post podcast, and if you are looking for community news, we encourage you to listen daily and subscribe!    Break 1 : M.O.G.          Story 1. Alpharetta woman who disappeared after leaving county jail   Maury-Ange Martinez, an Alpharetta resident, has been missing since her release from Gwinnett County jail last month. Her family reported her disappearance a week after her release, and the only leads suggest she may be in Cobb or Cherokee counties north of Atlanta. Martinez was last seen leaving the jail on August 21 and may be in the Woodstock or Marietta areas. She had been in a drug abuse recovery program but was released when she was arrested on August 19. Concerns about drug abuse and possible human trafficking have been raised. Surveillance video shows her leaving the jail and getting into a white Chevrolet pickup truck. Her abandoned car was found in Marietta. Martinez is 5'4" tall, weighs about 100 pounds, has long brown hair, brown eyes, and several tattoos, including one of a snake on her sternum. If you have information, please call 911...…….. read more at gwinnettdailypost.com   STORY 2: East Point Man The Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office Fugitive Task Force, in collaboration with U.S. Marshals and Clayton County police agencies, apprehended Javaris Gamble, an East Point man accused of leading a group responsible for hundreds of car break-ins in metro Atlanta since May. Gwinnett County detectives identified Gamble as the crew leader and arrested him on August 31 in Forest Park, linking him to 30 Entering Auto and Motor Vehicle Theft crimes that occurred on June 22, 2023. Over the summer, more than 400 vehicles were entered and 15 stolen in Gwinnett County alone. Detectives plan to pursue numerous additional charges against Gamble. He is currently held without bond in Gwinnett County Jail. The investigation revealed similar break-ins in other areas, including Norcross and Lilburn. Law enforcement agencies across metro Atlanta collaborated to achieve this arrest, showcasing the dedication and cooperation of officers, technicians, analysts, and detectives. Story 3: Dacula shooting Gwinnett County police have identified Kenneth Stockton, a 42-year-old Dawsonville man, as the victim of a fatal shooting in Dacula at the end of August. The shooting occurred on Jona Trail, and investigators believe Stockton was involved in a confrontation before being shot. As of now, no suspect has been identified, and the case is actively under investigation. The incident was reported on August 31 at 11:15 p.m., and Stockton was already deceased when officers arrived. Police are urging anyone with information to contact them at 770-513-5300 or Crime Stoppers at 404-577-8477, where tips can be submitted anonymously. A cash reward is offered for information leading to an arrest and indictment. We have opportunities for sponsors to get great engagement on these shows. Call 770.874.3200 for more info. We'll be right back   Break 2:   Slappey- Tom Wages -  Obits                   Story 4: Lawrenceville mural taking shape ahead of community painting days   Lawrenceville residents will have the chance to participate in painting a new city mural along Jackson Street. The Lawrenceville Arts Commission initiated this community mural project, located on the wall where Jackson Street transitions into Buford Drive. They've scheduled two workdays for residents to join in: the first on Sunday and the second on September 15. To kickstart the project, artist Teresa Abboud began outlining the mural earlier this week. Residents interested in contributing can sign up online. It's an opportunity for the community to engage in the creation of public art.   Story 5: Police looking for man accused of stealing power drills, other items from Norcross-area Home Depot   Gwinnett County police are seeking a man who stole seven Milwaukee power drills valued at approximately $700 from a Home Depot near Norcross. The theft occurred around 7:40 a.m. on a Monday at the store located on Jimmy Carter Blvd. The suspect also allegedly took a large box worth about $5 and a 30-gallon tote worth about $13. He placed the drills inside the box and exited the store. Despite a Home Depot loss prevention officer attempting to intervene, the suspect left in a vehicle with a Texas license plate before being apprehended. The suspect is described as Hispanic, wearing a light blue shirt, khaki pants, and white shoes, possibly white or multi-racial. Anyone with information is urged to contact detectives or Crime Stoppers for a potential cash reward.   Story 6: Collins Hill's Jameson Pifer, Mill Creek's Evelyn Schlitz earn Gwinnett running honors   Jameson Pifer from Collins Hill and Evelyn Schlitz from Mill Creek were recognized as Gwinnett Runners of the Week by the county's cross country coaches. Pifer received the honor for his impressive victory at the Jekyll Island Invite, completing the race in just 15 minutes and 52 seconds. On the girls' side, Schlitz was awarded for her performance at the AT&T Starr's Mill Panther XC Meet, where she secured the 23rd position with a time of 20:03. Both athletes displayed outstanding skills in their respective races, earning them this recognition.   We'll be back in a moment   Break 3:  ESOG – Ingles 2 - Cumming   Story 7: Gwinnett's Monkey Wrench Brewing expanding beer capability and adding spirits   Monkey Wrench Brewing, based in Gwinnett County, is expanding its beer production capabilities and venturing into the world of spirits. The brewery offers a diverse range of beer styles, including experimental beers, NEIPAs, West Coast IPAs, sours, stouts, porters, Belgium ales, and lighter lagers. They aim to make their beer more widely available in local bars and restaurants.   Additionally, Monkey Wrench Brewing is branching into spirits production, equipped with a 500-gallon copper pot still and the capacity to craft rum, gin, vodka, and whiskey.   To accommodate their growing supply of kegs and cans, the brewery has built a spacious walk-in cooler. They've also set up a 26-foot tiki bar, creating a vibrant setting for special events and signature cocktails inspired by the Hawaiian Islands.   In addition to their wide range of brews and spirits, Monkey Wrench Brewing offers flavored "slushies" infused with in-house rum and vodka, featuring flavors like apricot, coconut, and mango. They are also serving craft cocktails.   For more information, you can visit their website at www.monkeywrenchbrewing.com or follow them on social media @MonkeyWrenchBrewing.       We'll have final thoughts after this And now, Leah McGrath, corporate dietician at Ingles markets talks with us about foods that help with swollen feet Break 4:  Henssler 60 Thanks again for hanging out with us on today's Gwinnett Daily Post podcast. If you enjoy these shows, we encourage you to check out our other offerings, like the Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast, the Marietta Daily Journal, the Community Podcast for Rockdale Newton and Morgan Counties, or the Paulding County News Podcast. Read more about all our stories, and get other great content at Gwinnettdailypost.com. Did you know over 50% of Americans listen to podcasts weekly? Giving you important news about our community and telling great stories are what we do. Make sure you join us for our next episode and be sure to share this podcast on social media with your friends and family. 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GDP Script/ Top Stories for Sept 3 Publish Date: sept From the Henssler Financial Studio Welcome to the Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast Today is Sunday September 3rd, and happy 57th birthday to actor Charlie Sheen ****Sheen**** I'm Bruce Jenkins and here are your top stories presented by Mall of Georgia Chrysler Dodge Jeep 1. Gwinnett police seeking information on death of siblings found dead next to I-85 near Buford 2. Decatur woman arrested and charged with allegedly stabbing man at Norcross-area gas station 3. And Transportation officials want funding to begin planning microtransit in northwest Gwinnett All of this and more is coming up on the Gwinnett Daily Post podcast, and if you are looking for community news, we encourage you to listen daily and subscribe!   Break 1 : M.O.G.   Story 1. 2 siblings The Gwinnett County police are investigating the murders of a teenage boy, Juan Angel Montes, 16, and his older sister, Maria Rosaria Montes Dorantes, 23, who were found dead on the side of Interstate 85 in Buford. Their bodies were discovered by a passerby who had pulled off onto the shoulder of I-85 due to car trouble. The siblings had gunshot wounds and were pronounced dead at the scene. There were no vehicles near the bodies, and it remains unclear how they ended up on the roadside. Police are urging anyone with information about the case to come forward and contact detectives or Crime Stoppers. Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward for information leading to an arrest and indictment. ..………….. read more at gwinnettdailypost.com   STORY 2: stabbing A Decatur woman, Keareah Mercedes Harris, 24, is facing aggravated assault and battery charges for an alleged unprovoked stabbing at a Shell gas station on Jimmy Carter Boulevard in unincorporated Norcross. The incident occurred around 11:10 p.m. on August 27. Harris is accused of following a man into the store and slashing his face with a razor blade. Security footage identified Harris as the suspect, and the attack appears to be random and unprovoked. Harris was arrested and is currently held in the Gwinnett County jail. Police are urging anyone with information about the incident to contact detectives or Crime Stoppers, offering a cash reward for information leading to an arrest and indictment. Story 3: transport Gwinnett County transportation officials are planning to expand microtransit services with the creation of a third microtransit zone in northwest Gwinnett, serving residents in Sugar Hill, Buford, and Suwanee. The budget request for this expansion was presented, aiming for capital funds in 2024 and operational funds in 2026. Microtransit, offered through the Ride Gwinnett app, provides on-demand rides within specific zones. Gwinnett has secured $2 million in grant funding for this project, contingent on a $500,000 local match, which is part of the 2024 budget request. The goal is to gradually expand microtransit services throughout the entire county. We have opportunities for sponsors to get great engagement on these shows. Call 770.874.3200 for more info. We'll be right back   Break 2: Slappey- Tom Wages - Obits   Story 4: arts The Lawrenceville Arts Commission is launching Lawrenceville's first community mural project, aiming to transform Jackson Street into a vibrant artistic masterpiece. Artist Teresa Abboud will create the mural, which will welcome visitors to downtown Lawrenceville and promote community engagement. The project began with an open call for local artists to submit designs for a 1,867-square-foot mural, with a portion dedicated to community participation. After reviewing proposals, Abboud was selected as the finalist, and the City Council approved the artwork. This community mural project reflects Lawrenceville's creativity, unity, diversity, and spirit. Story 5: beds   A capacity study commissioned by the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities has identified the need for five more behavioral health crisis centers and the creation of around 120 additional beds in the state hospital network for people involved in the criminal justice system by 2025. However, the state must also address workforce issues to fully utilize these resources, especially with the new national 3-digit dialing code, 988, increasing demand for state services. The study also suggests that if crisis centers do not reach about 85% occupancy, more facilities will be required. The impact of 988 on Georgia's safety net remains uncertain.   Story 6: costs   Georgia Power, clean energy advocates, and state regulators' staff have reached a settlement agreement that could result in several billion dollars in costs being borne by company shareholders for the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion project. The agreement calls for capping the maximum amount paid by Georgia Power customers at $7.6 billion, with expenses above that covered by Georgia Power and its parent company, Southern Co. If approved, the deal would likely result in the average utility customer paying an additional $14 per month for the project. Construction and financing costs for Vogtle have surpassed $34 billion.   We'll be back in a moment   Break 3: ESOG – Ingles 7 - Cumming   Story 7: runner   Jewel Wells and Eli Griggs of Mill Creek High School received the Gwinnett Runner of the Week honors in cross country. Jewel Wells earned the Girls Runner of the Week title for her first-place finish with a course-record time of 19 minutes, 4 seconds in the Kowboy XC Classic. Eli Griggs was named Boys Runner of the Week for his seventh-place finish in the Kowboy XC Classic with a time of 15:48.   Story 8: brookwood   Brookwood secured a 4-3 victory over Grayson in a nine-inning softball game, maintaining their lead in Region 4-7A. The Broncos now hold an 8-2-1 overall record and remain undefeated in the region at 4-0, while Grayson's record stands at 10-3, with a region record of 3-2. Lorelei Sullivan, Tavia Robinson, Madison Oliver, Kiersten Costantino, Keren Leal, and Nya Langlais contributed to Brookwood's offense. Pitcher Jordyn Ray threw all nine innings, allowing three runs on nine hits and striking out six for the win. Mountain View edged past Collins Hill 4-3. Bella Teems pitched a complete game, allowing five hits and striking out seven while also contributing with two hits. Chloe Jones led the Bears' offense, going 3-for-3 with two RBIs. Buford dominated Central Gwinnett with a 17-0 win in three innings. Emma Grace Williams struck out seven in three perfect innings for Buford's victory. Gabby Pierre, Brooklyn Atha, Summer Castorri, and Janie Goldin contributed significantly to Buford's offensive prowess.     We'll have final thoughts after this And now, Leah McGrath, corporate dietician at Ingles markets talks with us about foods that help with swollen feet Break 4: Henssler 60 Thanks again for hanging out with us on today's Gwinnett Daily Post podcast. If you enjoy these shows, we encourage you to check out our other offerings, like the Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast, the Marietta Daily Journal, the Community Podcast for Rockdale Newton and Morgan Counties, or the Paulding County News Podcast. Read more about all our stories, and get other great content at Gwinnettdailypost.com. Did you know over 50% of Americans listen to podcasts weekly? Giving you important news about our community and telling great stories are what we do. Make sure you join us for our next episode and be sure to share this podcast on social media with your friends and family. Add us to your Alexa Flash Briefing or your Google Home Briefing and be sure to like, follow, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. www.wagesfuneralhome.com  www.psponline.com  www.mallofgeorgiachryslerdodgejeep.com  www.esogrepair.com  www.henssler.com  www.ingles-markets.com  www.downtownlawrencevillega.com  www.gcpsk12.org See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rudy Caporaso & Rosey Hay, Co-Artistic Directors of REV Theatre Company, speaking about their return to Scranton to work with a multigenerational cast at United Neighborhood Centers of NEPA on a production of REV's "Lil' Ol' Rodeo Show" to be presented on Saturday, August 26, 2023, at UNC's Oppenheim Center, 1004 Jackson Street on Scranton's West Side. Doors open at 5:30 & the show starts at 6:00 pm. Admission is free. For more information: www.uncnepa.org/

What was it like to bring BJJ to Cenla? We get the story here.

Co-Founder Mikey Bortone's time on Survivor sparked the ingenious idea of crafting a coconut whiskey. Ever since he has relished the invigorating flavor of coconut, today, he is turning his vision into reality with the introduction of Watertown Whiskey, his very own handcrafted signature drink. Watertown Whiskey 42625 Jackson Street, Indio, California 92203, United States Website https://watertownwhiskey.com/ Email prc.pressagency@gmail.com

Ep #542 Of The Clay Edwards Show On 103.9 WYAB (06/28/23) 1. Shaun Yurtkuran joins the show and we spend the better part of the show discussing the Bud Light fiasco falllout and that conversation leads to a discussion about the best beer commercials of all-time. We the get into a crazy conversation about Jackson street walkers, street preachers, streakers & redneck strip club adventures. 2. The absolute worst #TrustTheScience argument ever Check out my website at Www.ClayEdwardsShow.Com for all things Clay

Holyoke Media, en asociación con WHMP radio, emiten diariamente la Síntesis informativa en español a través del 101.5 FM y en el 1240 / 1400 AM. Esta es la síntesis informativa del viernes 24 de marzo de 2023: - El alcalde de Holyoke, Joshua A. García y la Agencia de Protección Ambiental federal han anunciado que, junto con el Departamento de Justicia de los Estados Unidos y el Estado de Massachusetts, han firmado un decreto de consentimiento para resolver las violaciones de la Ley de Agua Limpia y la ley estatal. El decreto exige que Holyoke tome medidas correctivas adicionales para reducir las descargas de aguas residuales en curso en el río Connecticut desde los sistemas de recolección de alcantarillado y aguas pluviales de la ciudad. Durante los períodos de fuertes lluvias, el volumen de aguas residuales ha excedido la capacidad de carga del sistema de alcantarillado combinado o la instalación de tratamiento de Holyoke, lo que ha resultado en la descarga de aguas residuales sin tratar y aguas residuales sin tratar en el río Connecticut. “Este no es un problema nuevo”, dijo el alcalde García. “Esto es lo que el estado de Massachusetts llama un 'problema heredado de la infraestructura inicial'. Muchas comunidades enfrentan el mismo problema y siempre es costoso porque requiere rediseño y actualización. “El problema no es nuevo, pero lo nuevo es la voluntad de los gobiernos federal y estatal de brindarle a Holyoke un respiro para que podamos encontrar una solución permanente al problema de décadas” dijo el alcalde. "Este decreto de consentimiento le da a Holyoke tanto el tiempo como la flexibilidad operativa para planificar su camino hacia calles más limpias, una ciudad más limpia y un río Connecticut más limpio” señaló García. El costo total para cumplir con el decreto de consentimiento propuesto se estima en aproximadamente $27 millones. El decreto impone una multa de $50,000 a la ciudad por supuestas violaciones de permisos anteriores en las que Holyoke supuestamente descargó contaminantes de desbordamientos de alcantarillado combinado (CSO) en el río Connecticut. En cooperación abierta con las agencias ambientales federales y estatales, Holyoke ha tomado medidas en los últimos años para atender el problema de estas descargas, incluida la finalización de un plan de control de desbordamiento a largo plazo, la separación de alcantarillas y la eliminación de desbordamientos en el área de Jackson Street. El decreto de consentimiento requiere que la ciudad lleve a cabo más trabajos de separación de alcantarillado para eliminar o reducir los desbordamientos adicionales de alcantarillado combinado. La ciudad también realizará muestreos de sus descargas de alcantarillado pluvial, trabajará para eliminar las conexiones ilícitas y tomará otras medidas para reducir la contaminación de la escorrentía de aguas pluviales. Holyoke también ha comenzado el proceso de cumplimiento de los nuevos requisitos municipales federales MS-4. Estas reglas son para evitar que los desechos de aguas pluviales sin tratar vayan al río. FUENTE: HOLYOKE MEDIA

CEO Chandra Smiley explains why Community Health Northwest Florida moved its headquarters to Jackson Street in the 32505 zip code.

Before there was Ernestine Anderson, Ray Charles and Quincy Jones, there was Frank Waldron. The unfortunate irony of Seattle's storied jazz scene of the early 20th century is that there are many stories but not much jazz to account for it. While recording technology existed at the time, it wasn't being used to capture much of the music being created in those early years of the Jackson Street music scene. The music has instead spread its influence through compositions and the living tradition of musicians passing the music down through generations. On both counts, Frank Waldron was an original. As a composer, performer and teacher, Waldron helped shape music in the city and across the country for decades. Crosscut's resident historian Knute Berger told the tale of Waldron and the Jackson Street music scene in a recent episode of his Mossback's Northwest video series, but there is more to the story. For this episode of the Mossback podcast, Berger and co-host Sara Bernard explore Waldron's music and discuss the origins of a scene that broke both the rules and racial barriers and gave rise to stars including Ernestine Anderson, Ray Charles and Quincy Jones. Before listening, we suggest you watch the Mossback's Northwest episode about Jackson Street jazz scene here. --- Credits Hosts: Sara Bernard, Knute Berger Producer: Jonah Cohen Executive producer: Mark Baumgarten

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Holyoke Media, en asociación con WHMP radio, emiten diariamente la Síntesis informativa en español a través del 101.5 FM y en el 1240 / 1400 AM. Esta es la síntesis informativa del martes 18 de octubre de 2022: El presidente Joe Biden inició oficialmente el lunes el proceso de solicitud de su programa de cancelación de deuda estudiantil y anunció que 8 millones de prestatarios ya habían solicitado alivio de préstamos durante el período de lanzamiento suave del gobierno federal durante el fin de semana. Animó a las decenas de millones elegibles para un posible alivio a visitar studentaid.gov y promocionó el formulario de solicitud que, según el presidente, tardaría menos de cinco minutos en completarse. Una versión temprana de "lanzamiento beta" del formulario en línea lanzado el viernes por la noche manejó el flujo inicial de solicitudes "sin fallas ni dificultades", dijo Biden. La cantidad de prestatarios que solicitaron durante el período de prueba ya asciende a más de una cuarta parte de la cantidad total de solicitantes que la administración había proyectado que enviarían formularios, lo que subraya la popularidad del programa y el entusiasmo de los prestatarios por recibir el alivio de la deuda. Unos 8 millones de prestatarios que ya tienen información de ingresos en los archivos del Departamento de Educación verían cancelada su deuda sin presentar una solicitud. El plan de Biden exige $10,000 en la cancelación de la deuda estudiantil federal para aquellos con ingresos inferiores a $125,000 al año, u hogares que ganan menos de $250,000 al año. Aquellos que recibieron becas federales Pell para asistir a la universidad son elegibles para $10,000 adicionales. El plan hace que 20 millones sean elegibles para borrar por completo su deuda estudiantil federal. La administración de Biden lo ha promocionado como una aplicación "simple y directa". Solicita el nombre del prestatario, número de Seguro Social, información de contacto y fecha de nacimiento. No requiere información de ingresos, pero pide a los usuarios que marquen una casilla que certifique que son elegibles según los límites de ingresos del programa. Esa información se comparará con los registros del Departamento de Educación para ayudar a identificar a los solicitantes que probablemente excedan los límites de ingresos, dice la administración. A esas personas se les pedirá más información para comprobar sus ingresos. Una vez que el Departamento de Educación comience a procesar las solicitudes, los prestatarios deben esperar ver su deuda condonada en cuatro a seis semanas, dicen los funcionarios. La mayoría de las solicitudes enviadas a mediados de noviembre se procesarán antes del 1 de enero, el día en que se reanudarán los pagos de préstamos federales para estudiantes después de haber sido pausados ​​durante la pandemia. FUENTE: AP La Ciudad de Holyoke anunció el lunes que comenzará la pavimentación de High Street del martes 18 al jueves 20 de octubre. La calle se cerrará completamente al tránsito y estacionamiento y se desviará el tráfico en las secciones que se están pavimentando. El martes 18 de octubre, se cerrará Jackson Street hasta Cabot Street. El cierre del miércoles y jueves se basará en el progreso realizado el martes. Se le recuerda al público hacer los ajustes necesarios así como usar rutas alternas y seguir las instrucciones detalladas de tráfico en High Street durante estos días. FUENTE: HOLYOKE MEDIA

The Battle Creek Chamber presents the 7th Annual Backyard Burgers & Brews Festival Saturday, August 27Battle Creek, MI — This Saturday, August 27, 2022, the Battle Creek Area Chamber of Commerce will present its 7th Annual Backyard Burgers & Brews Festival at Festival Market Square outside of Kellogg Arena in Downtown Battle Creek. This community event will provide 25 food truck/vendors in addition to our local downtown restaurants, lots of brews on tap, live music from Brothers Proper and Something Borrowed Event Band, backyard games, a large spacious social district, and an opportunity to close out the summer celebrations with what is projected to be ‘Chamber of Commerce' weather. The festivities begin at 6 p.m. and will run until 11 p.m. We recommend free parking in the Hamblin Parking ramp, Michigan Avenue Parking Ramp, State Street Parking, Willard Library Parking, and the surrounding parking lots. Admission is free thanks to our generous Chamber sponsors. We encourage you to bring your dancing shoes, appetite, your blankets and chairs. “The Backyard Burgers & Brews Festival promotes diversity, it brings neighbors into dialogue, it increases the creativity in our food vendors, and it provides an opportunity for us to increase our civic pride and improve our general wellbeing” stated Kara Beer, President, Battle Creek Area Chamber of Commerce and Festival organizer. Thank you to the following event sponsors: Sound Sponsor: Consumers Energy, Beverage Sponsors: Imperial Beverage, Atlas Sales, Kellogg Community Credit Union, Food Truck Rally Sponsor: Rosler Metal Finishing, USA, TC Transcontinental, Battle Creek Area Chamber of Commerce; Backyard Games Sponsors: Minges Creek Village Apartments, Iac Mendon Who are the bands? The 2022 Backyard Burgers and Brews Festival is proud to have from 6-8 p.m. Brothers Proper and from9-11 p.m. Something Borrowed Event BandWhat is there to eat?**Competing in the Burger Competition1. Ibison Concessions 1-Polish Sausage, Burgers, Chicken Strips2. Ibison Concessions 2-Elephant Ears, Funnel Cakes French Fries, Cheese Fries, Corn Dogs, Pretzels, Lemonade3. Fox's Pizza Den-Pizza & Wings4. 2nd Hand Smoke-BBQ5. Underground Cookie Company-Artisan Ice Cream Sandwiches6. Eli's Doces-Churros7. Bigfoot Burger**-Hamburgers8. Freddy's Food Hut-BBQ & Hotdogs9. Incredible Kettle-Kettle Corn10. PJW Creole Cuisine-Creole Food11. Krystal's Kitchen**-Burgers, Pork Sandwiches, Ribs, Polish Dogs12. Craveable Food Trailer**-100% Plant Based Burgers and Mac n' Cheese13. Later Dudes-Egg Rolls, Fries, Onions Rings, Fried Oreos14. Jamaican Spice-Jerk Chicken, Curry Chicken, Vegan Stew15. Beecher's Pretzels-Handmade Pretzels & Dips16. Curry in a Hurry-Assorted Curry Dishes17. Finger Lickin Chicken-Fried Chicken & Fish18. Locos Food Truck-Tacos 19. Stud Muffin's Cupcakes-Gourmet Cupcakes, cinnamon rolls, coffee drinks, frozen beverages20. Lady Gumbo-Chicken Gumbo, Shrimp Gumbo & Po Boys21. Teresa's Kitchen- Tacos, Tamales, Quesadillas 22. Dirt Road Donuts-Donuts & ToppingsBrick & Mortar Competing in Burger Competition23. Cricket Club/South Side Grubz Collaboration 24. Umami Ramen/Handmap Brewing25. VeggZ Café-Homemade Vegan Burgers, Elote, GF Mac'n'CheeseThese 7 are participating in the burger competition 1. Umami Ramen at Handmap Brewing 2. Craveable Food Trailer (Burger Row)3. Finger Lickin' Chicken (Burger Row)4. Bigfoot Burger (Burger Row)5. Krystal's Kitchen (Burger Row)6. VeggZ Café (Jackson Street)7. Cricket Club/Southside Grubz at Cricket ClubWant to know where to find all of the food vendors?Riverwalk Parking Lot in front of the Chamber OfficeBeecher's Fox's Pizza DenLady GumboUnderground Cookie ClubFestival Market Square (in front of Kellogg Co.)Ibison Trailer #1Ibison Trailer #2Festival Market Square (on Jackson Street in front of Kendall Center)Eli's DocesVeggz CaféIncredible Kettle2nd Hand SmokeLining the street of Jackson/Carlye PJW Creole CuisineLater DudesDirt Road DonutsCurry in a HurryJamaican SpiceFreddy's Food HutLocos Food TruckMcCamly/Jackson Street Corridor (Burger Alley)Bigfoot BurgerFinger Lickin' ChickenCraveable Krystal's KitchenKCCU/Wave Square Parking LotStud Muffin's CupcakesTeresa's KitchenCricket Club will host Southside GrubzPocket Park beside LynnIvan will host Simply Sensational BerriesHandmap Brewing will host UMAMI RAMENThe music will be6-8 p.m. Brothers Proper 9-11 p.m. Something Borrowed Event Band What is on tap?We will have non – alcoholic beverages, a variety of beers on tap, canned wines, and seltzers from Atlas Sales and Imperial Beverage Company. Domestic beers: $4; Craft beers: $5See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

According to several local histories, in 1839 the cradle began to rock vigorously without anyone touching it in the home of Rev. William and Laura Smith on Jackson Street. After the young Methodist minister moved the cradle to the middle of the room, he commanded it to rock by itself in the name of the devil “Geoffrey” (later accounts give the name as “Beezlebub”). Upon demand, it began rocking again. Hundreds of visitors came to see the haunted cradle, and the story passed into local lore.

Rudy Caporaso and Rosey Hay, artistic directors and founders of REV Theatre, speaking about their summer Country Music/Rodeo Revue in partnership with United Neighborhood Centers in Scranton. The cast is multi-generational in the first act; part 2 features the professionals of REV. The show will be presented on Saturday, August 13, 2022, at 6:00 pm at the Oppenheim Arts Center, 1004 Jackson Street in Scranton. Admission is free. www.uncnepa.org/ Facebook.com/uncnepa

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Holyoke Media, en asociación con WHMP radio, emiten diariamente la Síntesis informativa en español a través del 101.5 FM y en el 1240 / 1400 AM. Esta es la síntesis informativa del viernes 15 de julio de 2022: La Oficina de Planificación y Desarrollo Económico de Holyoke (OPED), anunció el jueves que el evento Doors Open 2022, se llevará a cabo el sábado 15 de octubre. Durante 2021, la ciudad de Holyoke organizó su primer evento Doors Open con 25 ubicaciones abiertas y más de 300 visitantes. Algunos de los aspectos más destacados del evento son el Victory Theatre, El Centro de Cómputo Verde de alta eficiencia, El Templo Masónico, el Hotel Jess, así como recorridos por Open Square Water Wheel y City Hall, por nombrar algunos. Los eventos de Puertas Abiertas en todo el país invitan al público a ver detrás de las puertas de muchos lugares que normalmente no están abiertos al público. Doors Open conecta a los residentes y visitantes con lugares locales de importancia histórica, cultural y arquitectónica para unir comunidades e inspirar perspectivas nuevas y más amplias. El primer Doors Open tuvo lugar en Francia en 1984 y el concepto se ha extendido a otros lugares de Europa, América del Norte y otros lugares. Varios sitios estarán abiertos al público para recorridos autoguiados durante todo el día, además de exhibir varios desarrollos del centro e instalaciones de arte público. Este evento gratuito destaca algunos de los bienes culturales y arquitectónicos históricos de la ciudad. Los detalles adicionales de los eventos, las ubicaciones y el calendario de los eventos del DOH de este año estarán disponibles en las próximas semanas en ExploreHolyoke.com y Facebook.com/doorsopenholyoke. FUENTE: HOLYOKE MEDIA El alcalde de Holyoke, Joshua García, anunció el jueves que durante los próximos días se estará realizando el trabajo de pavimentación y asfaltado en diferentes calles del Sur de Holyoke. Este viernes se estará realizando la pavimentación de Adams Street, Clemente Street desde Sargeant Street hasta Jackson Street, South Bridge Street desde Sargeant Street hasta Jackson Street y South Summer Street desde South Canal Street hasta Adams Street. El trabajo comienza a las 6:30 am y continuará durante todo el día. Estas calles estarán cerradas al tráfico y se prohibirá el estacionamiento en la calle. Los vehículos dejados en la calle serán remolcados.
 Para el lunes y martes se tienen programadas otras calles del área para ir completando el área del Sur de Holyoke por etapas. 
Llame al DPW al 413-322-5645 si tiene alguna pregunta. FUENTE: HOLYOKE MEDIA

Today, we are talking about a murder at Dragoon's Gulch, in Sonora, Ca. No evidence of the gulch's murderous past remains on the Dragoon Gulch walking trail area in Sonora.  The trail begins at the top of Woods Creek Rotary Park across from the Mother Lode Fairgrounds. When you cross Wood's Creek you reach the bottom of Dragoon Gulch.  It is free to walk the trail, and dogs are welcome.  Correction: $1,000 in 1851 is worth $37,338.18 today. 1849 it was $38,799.46. $38,385.05 in 1853.   one ounce of gold was valued at $20.67 and is worth around $2000 an ounce today.  Sources: https://www.sonoraca.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/dragoon-trail-history.pdf http://mygoldrushtales.com/murder-at-dragoon-gulch/ the journal of william perkins the history of california - sonora murders 282 the century vol 63   Over 2.5 million acres burned in California in 2021 but the future of Wildfire Protection is clear.   Let Fireback Wildfire Defense Services help protect your home and property with its award winning, non-toxic USFS approved fire retardant technology.  Fireback sprays a clear fire retardant to add a layer of protection to your property. With this extreme drought, fire danger is a real threat for home and business owners in California. Fireback is ready to help you protect your home and property all summer long.  Schedule a Consultation  at www.firebackca.com or by calling 209-288-2376, Follow Fireback on Facebook and instagram. If there's a chance of taking fire your best defense is to FIREBACK - Proudly Serving Tuo Co and surrounding areas Are you looking for something magical for your sacred space this spring? Sisters of the Moon in Sonora, Ca, and online, carries witchy antiques, vintage, handmade items, metaphysical items and organic, farm to jar handmade self care products. So if you are looking for some super awesome gals to support, choose Jenn and Julie for your next shopping spree for mugs, besoms, wreaths, crystals, tarot, incense and more. Sisters of the Moon has two booths in Mountain Treasures at 13643 Tuolumne Road, Sonora CA. You can also shop with Sisters of the Moon online at www.sistersofthemoon31.com and they  will ship anywhere in the US. Use the code sisters13 for 13% off online purchases. Find them on social media at sistersofthemoon3. You know, anything can be magical We are seeing a lot of cool ventures pop up that truly serve a purpose. I am super excited to tell you about these new sponsors of the podcast. Jenn and Rosie met while homeschooling during the Pandemic.Together they are walking the road of business owners and single moms who support one another.  Soulful Mountain Homestead and Farm is an organic/permaculture/regenerative homestead. A dream rooted in reality after the pressure Jenn endured from shelter in place and the horrific Santa Cruz Mountain fire of 2020. Jenn had a desire to help other single parents get sustainable with their food source and  change the way people farm, help the environment, and help parents feed their kids healthy homegrown food. Rosie, the owner or micROWgreenZ, offers highly nutritious microgreens in an array of flavors and species. She has dedication to the quality of microgreens that is unmatched. Roosie founded MicROWgreenZ out of a desire to be able to spend more time with her kids, while helping friends and family heal from sickness and disease through Whole Foods. Both businesses will be available at farmers markets across Tuolumne county, as well as home delivery and pick up from Soulful Mountain Homestead in Soulsbyville.  The mission is to heal people through food while healing the earth. Proudly serving Tuolumne County and the San Jose and Bay Area. The Columbia Mercantile 1855 is a friendly, reimagined mid-19th century style full-service grocery store supporting the needs of regional residents of Tuolumne County and the visitors of the living history town of Columbia, California. Experience “Eureka!” moments of discovery and delight shopping for great food and more. You can find quality staples and imported specialties, local meats/poultry, vegan, dairy-free, and GF options craft beer, local wines, OTC pharmaceuticals, hardware, garden, home goods, antiques, and fine art at fair prices, You'll find yourself saying, “Wow! I didn't expect to find THAT in Columbia!” The Columbia Mercantile 1855 is open DAILY from 9 AM – 6 PM, 11245 Jackson Street, CA 95310 USA and they accept SNAP/EBT benefits, cash, all major credit cards and  Apple pay. Follow them on FB and Instagram for updates and occasional closures or changes to hours.

This is the funeral service for Maurice Calvin -Red- Thompson.---Born on February 21, 1931, in rural Grant parish, to Baxter and Myrtle Thompson, Red was raised on Kateland Plantation. The family sharecropped in the area until his father was hired to oversee the cotton gin and plantation. Red was a proud graduate of Colfax High School and Northwestern College. He served in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Korea where, quite fittingly, he was in charge of the base Officer's Club. Red was a long time executive at Alexander and Bolton Insurance Agency, where he was employed for 50 years. His recognition in the insurance industry led him to serve on various boards and committees on both a state and national level.---I came to know Red well beginning in 1976. --Shortly after I was installed as the pastor of the Presbyterian congregation on Jackson Street in Alexandria in September of 1975, our youth director moved back to Arkansas. I approached the elders and asked that they take over one of the three services I conducted each week -- our mid-week service, so that my wife and I, along with a young deacon and his wife could do the youth.--The plan was simple- We played games, then ate, and then I taught the youth. This aimed at an hour and a half. --Initially this was at our home, the Manse. But in the course of time many parents hosted these meetings, and our youth group grew to roughly 40 high school students.--A favorite place was the Thompsons' home at the corner of Jackson and Elizabeth streets. They had a club house with a pool table and other things to keep their sons home.--Through those meetings, I came to know Red and Cynthia and their sons well.

This is the funeral service for Maurice Calvin -Red- Thompson.---Born on February 21, 1931, in rural Grant parish, to Baxter and Myrtle Thompson, Red was raised on Kateland Plantation. The family sharecropped in the area until his father was hired to oversee the cotton gin and plantation. Red was a proud graduate of Colfax High School and Northwestern College. He served in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Korea where, quite fittingly, he was in charge of the base Officer's Club. Red was a long time executive at Alexander and Bolton Insurance Agency, where he was employed for 50 years. His recognition in the insurance industry led him to serve on various boards and committees on both a state and national level.---I came to know Red well beginning in 1976. --Shortly after I was installed as the pastor of the Presbyterian congregation on Jackson Street in Alexandria in September of 1975, our youth director moved back to Arkansas. I approached the elders and asked that they take over one of the three services I conducted each week -- our mid-week service, so that my wife and I, along with a young deacon and his wife could do the youth.--The plan was simple- We played games, then ate, and then I taught the youth. This aimed at an hour and a half. --Initially this was at our home, the Manse. But in the course of time many parents hosted these meetings, and our youth group grew to roughly 40 high school students.--A favorite place was the Thompsons' home at the corner of Jackson and Elizabeth streets. They had a club house with a pool table and other things to keep their sons home.--Through those meetings, I came to know Red and Cynthia and their sons well.

Support Queens of the Mines with a tip! Venmo- @queensofthemines CashApp $queensofthemines Paypal southernminequeen@gmail.com   Today, we are talking about an active and daring freedom fighter from California history!   For decades after America's largest migration, the gold rush began, the men who came alone to California to seek their fortunes longed for wives and women of pleasure. It was easier for Chinese traders to convince families to sell their daughters rather than their sons. The traders would offer money to the parents for their daughters, some as young as five years old. The parents were straight up lied to. They were told the traders would help their girls find wealthy husbands, or arrange for them to get an education. The girls would became domestic slaves or were sold into prostitution. The young women lived brutal lives. The youngest girls didn't last more than a few years before their worn and abused bodies gave out. They would usually die within five years after they were first held captive. Some who were on the verge of death were put in a solitary room to starve. Chinese gangs known as Tongs, usually headed up the operations. The local government overlooked the crime. San Francisco City Hall took kickbacks from Tong groups at the time so there was little government action against this problem.   Donaldina Cameron was born on a sheep farm in New Zealand in July of 1869. She spent the first three years of her life there with her Scottish family including her six older siblings. By the time she was four years old, the entire family had immigrated to the United States of America. They brought their skills and knowledge from the farm and made their home on a large sheep ranch in the San Gabriel Valley in California. San Gabriel Valley is to the east of Los Angeles in present-day Pasadena.   Her family and friends called her Dolly. Dolly's childhood was secluded from the outside world. On the ranch, she spent the days picking Johnston's bush lupine and dreaming of marrying. She would have a hard working ranch family and live the kind of comfortable life that her parents had always provided. She knew of nothing else in her new home state of California.    When she was thirteen years old, The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was passed, the first piece of federal immigrant legislation in the United States. It was said to be originally passed to prohibit sex trafficking of Asian women and an influx of Asian male laborers. The Chinese slave trade was as much a part of San Francisco history as was the gold rush. Under the Chinese Exclusion Act, any immigrant from any area considered “undesirable” was prohibited from entering the United States. This included most of Asia. Chinese women could not enter the United States unless they were already married to a man living there. A dangerous and illegal system dubbed the "paper daughters” was created, where papers were forged stating the trafficked victims were already members of Chinese families in the United States.   Hours north, cable cars were first climbing San Francisco's hills. The city had been built to a massive scale since the gold rush began. Protestant women were launching an attack on “yellow slavery” in San Francisco. Cameron came to the city as a young woman to attend school to be a teacher. In the bay, she fell in and out of love.    Her best friend at school had an activist mother, who volunteered at the Presbyterian Mission House in San Francisco. Young Chinese girls who had been shipped from China or kidnapped to work as indentured servants were taking refuge under Maggie Culbertson's team's care. They were provided with “food, shelter, and the teachings of the Christian faith.” At the time, females made up 60 percent of the missionary force. Missionary work, and social work in general, was an example of leadership that was acceptable for Victorian women. Maggie Culbertson, the founder of the Presbyterian Mission House, was ill and needed help.    Dolly had recently left a fiance and quit college and decided to join Culbertson's team. She could teach sewing and other useful skills at the San Francisco Mission House. They agreed on a one year term. Dolly arrived in April of 1895. On her first day ever at the Mission House, sticks of dynamite were found around the premises. She then realized the magnitude of her new situation. The gangs often threatened the mission with death and destruction not just from the Tongs, but, by the police who came to roust the illegal aliens. Magggie Culbertson mentored Dolly in the ways of care and justice. Dolly relished in assisting her in providing the safe haven for the young Chinese girls. She was inspired by Culbertson's courage as she worked by her side.     Tien Fuh Wu was rescued from a Chinatown gambling den and  lived at the home when Cameron arrived. She really didn't care for her and Wu was disobedient for Dolly's first two years at the house. As a child, Wu was told she was going to San Francisco to visit her grandmother. She was taken to a boat in her native province Zhejiang, China. Her father locked her inside a cabin onboard with only a toothbrush and washcloth, told her to eat her supper and left without saying goodbye. Her father had sold her to pay off his gambling debts.    The boat brought her one hundred miles north to Shanghai, then she boarded a steamship to San Francisco. She worked as a mui tsai, or, a domestic servant in a brothel in the city until the owner at the brothel fell into debt. Wu was sold to the gambling den on Jackson Street. There, she was subjected to rigorous household chores, and physically abused by her new owner. When she was old enough, she was transferred to a life of sex work. When rescued, Wu's body was covered in burns, cuts and bruises. She arrived at the home on 920 Sacramento Street 15 months before Dolly. At the turn of the century in San Francisco, this kind of trafficking was rampant, and largely ignored by city authorities.  Culbertson's health failed when Cameron was 25 years old. Two years later, she took over as superintendent of the Presbyterian Home. Wu changed her mind about Dolly after one of the Chinese women who worked alongside Cameron passed away. The intense grief Dolly displayed showed Wu a new side of the woman. Wu worked for Dolly as a translator during court cases, and helped supervise the Mission House, earning $5 a month.    Donaldina Cameron continued Culbertson's mission of the Home. She saved young women from sex slavery and indentured servitude in the worst hellholes of Chinatown. Cameron had an uncanny knack of smelling out the brothels that were often hidden behind trap doors. Secret messages were sent to her from friends and relatives of these captive girls, tipping her off the girl's location. Engaging in chases over rooftops, down dark alleys, hiding in hidden rooms and breaking down doors with an ax. I mean shit worthy of a blockbuster feature action film.   At the safe house, the girls however, were not entirely free. They were to concede to Anglo-American ways. Dolly incorporated Chinese food and decorations into their daily living, but the students were forced to convert to Christianity. Most of the immigrant women welcomed the conversion and looked to Dolly as a hero. They called her “Lo Mo” translated it means Little Mother. Yet there were women who had mixed feelings about this forced conversion. The house was also the site of many happy marriages of girls who eventually found worthy men. When they married their chosen suitor, they would wear a white gown, rather than the traditional red. White gowns symbolize funerals in Chinese culture.   Wu was her favorite aide. Her ability to translate was a fantastic asset. She was also able to comfort the rescued girls. The brothel and slave owners commonly spread fear of "White Devils" to stop the women in their possession from seeking help. The Tongs had many nicknames for Dolly. Jesus Woman, White Spirit, White Witch, White Devil and the Angry Angel of Chinatown. The Tongs would tell their captives that the “White Witch” would drink the blood of the liberated girls to keep up her vitality. Wu would show them her own scars, ensuring their safety. The scars were evidence of her understanding. She accompanied Cameron on the dangerous rescues that took many months and intense investigation to orchestrate. When the fear of the bubonic plague had been in Chinatown. The roads were blocked off and the neighborhood was under quarantine. They used the roofs to get to the girls they were rescuing. Together, Dolly and her 4' 11" cohort saved the lives of thousands of trafficked Chinese girls and women in San Francisco. Wu was targeted by the Tongs because she herself was Chinese. The gangs saw her as a traitor. The threats were so common that after each major rescue, Cameron would stop Wu from going out alone for weeks at a time.    The law wasn't always on her side. Getting legal custody of the girls was nearly impossible for Cameron since child protection laws did not yet exist. Tong leaders would claim that they had a right to the captive as her “sponsor” and the courts often agreed. They would say the captive was a relative, or that she was working voluntarily. If she captured the girl first, she could work the legal problems out later. This way, the girl would be safe in the mission house while the courts hashed out the details.   On March 29, 1900 two Chinese men and a police officer arrived at the Mission Home looking for resident Kum Quai, who they claimed was a thief. This was a typical tactic used by the brothel owners to reclaim the women. Quai was arrested, but Cameron would not let her be alone with the men, so she joined on the train journey to Palo Alto. Quai was to be locked in a cell for the night, and Cameron remained with her. At 2 am, the deputy tried to open the door, but Cameron was suspicious of the early morning entry and barricaded them inside until the officers started breaking down the doors.    After the train, the men loaded Quai in a buggy, and Cameron attempted to follow. She was pushed out and thrown onto the road. Cameron woke townspeople up right away, panicked. Frustration spread throughout the town. A crowd demonstrated the  next day in San Jose at the office of the lawyer who planned the event. “The public uproar led to criminal indictments,” and the men involved were punished.  In 1904, she had her attorneys challenge the courts to provide for child welfare laws. It was a breakthrough that would provide her a most useful tool for her rescues. Some of the girls opted for more education, and one of Donaldina's “daughters” became the first Chinese woman to graduate from Stanford University. Another daughter trained to become the first Chinese nurse through the Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Yet other daughters stayed on at Cameron House to help with the mission's work. Cameron wrote extensively in publications like Women and Missions and a pamphlet titled "The Yellow Slave Traffic", seeking to gain financial support for her mission.    In April 1906, the great San Francisco earthquake and fire forced the evacuation of the Presbyterian Home, which was destroyed in the earthquake. The night the tragedy happened, Dolly ran through the blazing city back to her home to retrieve a logbook that detailed her guardianship over her girls. She did not want them to be forced back into servitude or prostitution.   The home was rebuilt the following year. Hidden passages were constructed in the basement of the new structure. A fire that happened years later burned several girls to death who were trapped in the very room that was supposed to keep them safe. It is said that this is ranked as one of San Francisco's allegedly haunted locations and these very women still haunt the building today. The building, now known as The Donaldina Cameron House is San Francisco Landmark #44. The doors to the basement remain sealed.    Throughout her career, she kept expanding her work. She tried to overturn the Oriental Exclusion Act, which prevented Chinese from owning property, limited where they could live and denied them the right to testify on their own behalf in an American court. Donaldina also founded two homes for Chinese children and raised awareness about widespread prejudice toward all Chinese.  Many of these children were orphans or the children of the rescued women. The Chung Mei Home served young boys, while the Ming Quong Home was for girls. The former Chung Mei house is today part of the Windrush School in El Cerrito, California, and the Ming Quong Home is now a part of Mills College in Oakland, California.    Donaldina retired in 1942 and the Presbyterian Home was renamed the Donaldina Cameron House. After retirement, Donaldina moved to the Palo Alto area. Despite living in Chinatown for 40 years, Cameron never learned Chinese. Three years later, she adopted an orphan from Korea. Wu lived next door to Cameron when she was an elderly woman living in Palo Alto. She is credited with saving and educating over 3,000 Chinese immigrant women and girls and was considered a "national icon". Over 800 women are recorded as having lived there between 1874 and 1909 .    Cameron was remembered for how close she was with the home's residents and for being kind and caring to all people, despite their nationalities. At the same time, she was part of the larger missionary system, in which “the ethnocentric attitude and national and religious absolutism… cannot be denied”. She made an effort to embrace these women's culture when she arrived at the Mission Home. “Nothing angered Miss Cameron more than the racial discrimination to which Chinese were subjected in housing, employment, and education”. For the time, Cameron was progressive and accepting. However, she still forced the residents to comply with her leadership and culture.   Historian Dorothy Gray calls her “perhaps the most active and daring freedom fighter in the history of the West.” Ron Cameron, Donaldina's great nephew, remembers that when visiting the elderly Cameron on her birthday, years after she stopped working, he “would have to get in a line that was about two blocks long of Chinese people who had driven… to wish her a happy birthday    She died in Palo Alto, California, in 1968, at the age of 98. Wu is said to have been at her mentor's side, reading from a Bible until the very end. She is buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in the East Side neighborhood of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles. When Wu passed away seven years later, she was buried next to her friend in Cameron's family plot at the Evergreen Cemetery in Los Angeles.   The Cameron House still stands today in San Francisco, serving as a multi-service agency serving Asian communities by promoting healthy Christian communities through programs like youth sports, tutoring, and counseling. If you call Cameron House today, the phone is still answered in Chinese. Miranda Raison portrays Donaldina Cameron in the Cinemax TV series Warrior as Nellie Davenport. Ah Toy is also a character in that series.  https://cameronhouse.org/ https://truewestmagazine.com/donaldina-cameron/ https://www.kqed.org/arts/13880286/the-child-slave-who-helped-rescue-thousands-of-women-in-chinatown   http://www.sfmuseum.net/1906/ew15.html   https://truewestmagazine.com/donaldina-cameron/ https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Donaldina_Cameron:_The_Person_Behind_the_Legend

James Malinchak is known to many as the “Big Money Speaker,” because of his success as a speaker, a motivator, and an inspiration to those who hear him. When I use the term “unstoppable” I refer, as regular listeners know, to a mindset that people adopt that helps them move forward even in the face of extreme adversity.   James discovered early in life that he would have to adopt his own unstoppable mindset if he wanted to survive and succeed first in the world of finance and then as a speaker who could coach and inspire others to raise their own sights.   Mr. Malinchak has been an extremely popular speaker in the college speaking circuit. Not only is he a quite sought-after speaker, but he does make money speaking at colleges and elsewhere. His secret is simple. “If you don't ask for what you are worth then you will never get it.”   James has appeared on the Television show, Secret Millionaire. He will tell you about his experiences and through them you will get to meet a man whose life philosophy is refreshing, positive and unstoppable.   I look forward to hearing your comments after you listen to James. Please email me at michaelhi@accessibe.com and tell me what you think of this interview. Some directories do not show full show notes. For the complete transcription please visit https://michaelhingson.com/podcast   About the Guest: James Malinchak is recognized as one of the most requested, in-demand business and motivational keynote speakers and marketing consultants in the world. He was featured on the Hit ABC TV Show, Secret Millionaire and was twice named National “College Speaker of the Year.” James has delivered over 3,000+ presentations for corporations, associations, business groups, colleges, universities and youth organizations worldwide. James can speak for groups ranging from 20-30,000+.   Giving back is a big part of James' life as he has raised over $1,000,000 for various charities and organizations and has donated thousands of dollars of his own money to help others.   As a speaker marketing coach and consultant, James is the behind-the-scenes, go-to marketing advisor for many top speakers, authors, thought leaders, business professionals, celebrities, sports coaches, athletes and entrepreneurs and is recognized as “The World's #1 Big Money Speaker  Trainer and Coach!”   For more information & FREE Training, visit: www.BigMoneySpeaker.com   About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.     Transcription Notes UM Intro/Outro  00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson  01:22 Well, hi, everyone. This is Mike Kingston, welcome you to another episode of unstoppable mindset. Glad you're here and hope you will enjoy the show. We have, I think a fun and exciting guest. Just listening to information about his company, big money speaker. Well, you can't get more exciting than that. Can you James?   James Malinchak  01:42 So it's it's better than little money speaker.   Michael Hingson  01:45 That is true. So everyone meet James Malin. Check and James were really pleased and gratified that you came on the podcast today.   James Malinchak  01:53 Thanks for having me, Mike. I appreciate it and hope to inspire some of your your great listeners.   Michael Hingson  01:59 Well, we're glad you're here. Well, let's let's start off and see what what we can learn. So you, you've been in the speaking business as well. But tell us about your last little bit. When you weren't obviously you were born like the rest of us. And where does it go from there?   James Malinchak  02:14 I was born in a van down by the river, right? And now what every motivational speaker says.   Michael Hingson  02:18 Either that or you were born in a log cabin. Yeah.   James Malinchak  02:22 Yeah. No, I grew up in a tiny steel town outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania population of about 6000. Great folks. We didn't have much grown up dad was a steel worker and mom was a lunch mother serving lunches to us kids at school. So I had some big dreams and goals. And one of them was the play college basketball. So I accepted a basketball scholarship to the University of Cincinnati, right out of high school. And then my coach had gotten relieved of his duties, which is a great way to say he was fired. So I ended up transferring and playing in Hawaii. And unfortunately, in an exhibition game, I caught a pass twisted my knee and ripped up my knees. I was I was done. And so I moved to Los Angeles. My career, dreams of playing pro basketball were done. And I moved to Los Angeles and started my career as a stockbroker. I worked for a major Wall Street investment firm, and won some awards. They're very early in my young years, my first year starting out opened up about 200 Some accounts. And so my phone rang one day. And it was a gentleman, he said, Hey, my son works with you there in the office. And he said, You just really smashed it did really well, I'd love to have you come and talk to my employees. And I said, I don't I don't really speak and do that kind of stuff. I'm just an advisor. And he said, Well, we only really need you to talk for about 40 minutes. And so I don't really speak or do any of that kind of stuff. You know, I don't even know what that means. And he said, and I'll pay $5,000. And I said I speak I speak. I speak.   Michael Hingson  04:01 Hallelujah.   James Malinchak  04:05 Mama didn't raise no for Mike. Yeah, somebody wants to pay you to show up and talk your yo, you're saying the same stuff anyway. And now they're going to pay you. I said, I mean, I don't know what this means, but I'll do it. Easy. Yes. So I went and did it. And on a scale of one to 10 I was probably in my mind that was a negative two. I mean, I thought I was so awful. You know, just a bad presenter. And he came up and he said that was great. And I'm like, Who were you watching? You're watching me because I was terrible. He said, Well, this first lesson I got he said you might not be a good orator presenter. But you're great at telling your story with your message that inspired my folks to want to be better. I'd like to actually have you come back and do it for a couple different divisions two more times and and would it be okay if I paid you the 5000 bucks each time and I was like Yeah, okay, like really? You thought I was good? He said, No, you weren't like good presenter, but your information was really good. And so I did. And, and I couldn't believe it. I was like, holy cow. I did three talks, and they paid me 15,000 bucks. So guess what I did, Mike. I did a really smart thing, buddy. I went quit my job.   Michael Hingson  05:23 And you learn how to be a better presenter, right?   James Malinchak  05:26 Well, let me tell you what I did learn. I learned that. Bookings like that don't fall out of the sky. No. And I was very blessed and lucky on those three, because I blew through my life savings. And I was so financially destitute and broke that I was forced to work in a video store Montrose video in Montrose, California, and I made seven bucks an hour. And I lived in an apartment that had bars on the windows, and it was $400 a month to rent the apartment in Los Angeles. Yeah. And so yeah, a Top Ramen noodles, a pasta diluted with pot with a spaghetti sauce diluted with water, because it would last longer. And I did that for three years. Because I didn't realize I was running a business, you know, and I thought magically cheques were just gonna fall out of the sky for me, and that never happened. So I was on the phone with a mentor. And he was worth about $500 million. And he knew me since I was a kid. And he said, Hey, you know, you can have the best most impactful message in the world, you can have the biggest heart and want to change lives and help people. But if you don't learn how to run this thing as a business, you're gonna be in for rough roads. And so if he told me to eat the pencil, and it would make me successful, I would do it because he pretty much everything he's told me has worked in my life. So I went on, I started learning the business, and how do I do this. And, you know, and that's why my logo today for big money speaker on my shirt is a coin. Because I always say there's two sides of the coin, in speaking or for any business, number one you have what you do to serve people and help people and make a difference, or your message or your information. But then there's a flip side of the coin, it's called the business of speaking. And so once I've mastered the business of speaking and didn't worry about whether I was a great presenter or anything, that's when I went from zero and then book 40 talks the next year, and then 100 talks, the paid talks, not free talks, paid talks the next year. And then never when I was doing full paid speaking that ever book less than 100 paid talks and my busiest year, as I did 157 locations, 157 locations in some locations, I got six checks, or five checks like Valencia Community College in Orlando, Florida has six campuses. So when I went to Orlando, one location, I spoke six times and got six checks. So that's how I did it. Now I've done over 3000, some paid presentations, and very blessed that I've met a lot of cool people and hopefully in some way help them.   Michael Hingson  08:06 And, you know, that is what it's all about. And the reality is a lot of people don't view speaking is a business. And a lot of people who speak don't use speaking as a business. I actually had a conversation with someone that's involved with authors. And we were we were talking about authors and speaking and she said, The problem is we book authors, but you got to understand they're not professional speakers. And I said, you're viewing you're booking authors to speak, of course, they're professional speakers. What am I missing here?   James Malinchak  08:44 Well, if someone got paid to show up and talk them their professional, not   Michael Hingson  08:49 exactly. That's what I would say. I remember the first speech I gave, I don't know how much you know of my story. I'm sure Michelle told you some. But we were in the World Trade Center on September 11. And came out and the media got the story. And a couple of weeks later, we got a call from a gentleman in New Jersey, and he said, I'm a pastor in a church. We're just holding an evening ecumenical service for all the people who were last in the World Trade Center, who are from New Jersey. And we'd like you to just come and take about five or six minutes and just briefly tell your story. And, you know, we can't pay or anything. By that time, I had actually started getting calls from people who said, We want to pay you to come and speak and of course, my belief was being in sales. Why do I want to sell computers when people want to pay me just to talk, you know, but but I said I would come in and speak to this group. And this happened before any of the paid presentations actually took place. But I made the mistake. I love to say it that way of asking him how many people are going to be at the service, probably 6000. So my first speech was a brief one, six minutes, but to 6000 people in an open air service in New Jersey, and it was fun. And hopefully we moved people and it kind of went from there. So I know exactly what you're saying.   James Malinchak  10:11 That's fantastic. Congratulations on that.   Michael Hingson  10:13 It was it was a lot of fun. And you know, it is in part about serving people, but it is a business as well. And it's great when you can, can put the two together.   James Malinchak  10:25 Absolutely. That's why I say there's two sides of the coin. Right, right. And by the way, not just for speaking, but for any entrepreneurial business out there, I've done 2000 2000 plus one on one consulting for business people. And it doesn't matter what they're in, whether they're a dentist, whether they are running a seminar company, whether they're opening a chain of restaurants, you know, there's the one side where you serve folks, and you help them and you make joy in their life with your restaurant with your food, your service, but don't flip side, there's this thing called the business of you got to figure out how to get people to come to your restaurant, how to get them to keep coming back how to get them to talk and refer others how to set your restaurant up to run on systems, you know how to hire retain great people. I mean, that's all business that has nothing to do with the first side of the coin that has everything to do with running a business.   Michael Hingson  11:18 So you learn a lot of that, I would assume and developing that mindset from the fact that you were in an investment firm for a while that that had to have an influence on all that. I would say   James Malinchak  11:30 yes, a little bit, but not really a lot, because that's not an entrepreneurial business. That's corporate America. Sure. Right. And so, you know, they're trained, I always say that, you know, they're trained a lot to do the same thing. And deliver, you know, you go from one office to the other, all the managers are saying the same thing, doing the same thing. So it's pretty much corporate run, coming down from the shareholders and the board and CEO, CFO C level execs. So when I ventured out, I'll tell you the big one of the big mistakes that I made with speaking when I've ventured out into speaking, I didn't realize it was an entrepreneurial business, I just thought, Oh, this is fun, I get to speak and talk to people and this guy paid me money. So this is pretty cool. And I never realized that this is no different than a flower shop and opening that or, you know, restaurant and opening that or a chiropractic office and opening that. You know, a lot of times folks get into speaking and don't realize that it is a actual real business, a real professional business. And that was my one of my big mistakes in the beginning is not grasping that I just thought this is the coolest thing in the world. I get to speak and get paid holy, wow. I never thought of it as a real business.   Michael Hingson  12:50 But nevertheless, with with the training, you had your your mind, internalize that. And you came to that realization that it was a business.   James Malinchak  12:59 Yeah, very quickly, I realized. And then the other thing I realized is like me and it's no one's fault. They've never been taught this. Most speakers, authors, trainers, coaches, if you will never actually run it as a business. It's a hobby. And they don't have systems in place. They don't have a prospecting tool. They don't have referral mechanisms in place. You know, they don't have upsells downsells cross sells, and I didn't either, and it's all because we're never taught that. I work with a lot. I coach a lot of celebrities now and a lot of pro athletes. I just met I was in. You mentioned trade centers. I was in San Diego speaking it was myself. Emmy award winning TV host Leeza Gibbons, good friend of mine that I've helped and Nick Lowry used to be the kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs all time leading kicks kicker for the Chiefs all time leading scorer Hall of Fame. And I had a chance to have lunch with a guy that played for the Yankees and one four World Series. He knew I was speaking he saw me on social media, he asked if we could meet for lunch and coffee. And we talked and, you know, it was the the same sort of situation. He's like, you know, I played for the Yankees and won World Series play with Gary Jeter or Derek Jeter, and all these you know, talk Yankees, and Steinbrenner, you know, learned a lot. And I want to get into speaking and I said, Well, you do know you're running a business, right? And it's wonderful. You played for the Yankees and won all these World Series. But that doesn't mean you're going to get booked. What means you're going to get booked is when you actually reach out to the people who have the budgets and make decisions and actually get them to book you. And then get them to book you for four talks instead of one and then get them to book you for four talks plus consulting and coaching for their C level execs after and they said that's all business thing. You know, and so that's what I try to impart on people now is right out of the gate, because I told him I said you're gonna you're gonna have a good message about winning World Series and all the stuff you went through and the ups and downs. But if you don't learn this stuff, stuff, all that stuff is never going to be able to share be shared and impact people because you won't know how to get to decision makers, and you won't know what they're looking for, you won't know how to let set fees, then you won't know how to roll it into $100,000 Follow up consulting contracts, etc. And so that and that was that was something I was never taught. And that's something I don't think people are taught. We just get into it. Hey, you got a great message, go talk. Okay. So I really try to impart the entrepreneurial business knowledge that I've been blessed to gain over the years that has helped me go from working in a video store making seven bucks an hour to literally generating millions of dollars as a speaker.   Michael Hingson  15:42 Well, speaking of millions, you were on ABC Secret Millionaire, I remember that show. And I throw a blessing. I think I remember watching the one that you were on. But tell us about secret millionaire and it's not on anymore. That's too bad. But anyway,   James Malinchak  15:57 well, so there'll be touch on that the reason it's not on is because people started figuring it out. And see what happened is that you don't realize this unless, because all you see is me on television. And I'll get into the show piece in a second. But what you don't realize is that got 15 to 20 people around me, I have one guy who his whole job was to control the microphone. And like he would say, stop, stop, stop, we got to stop filming and be like why? So there's a plane, like, you look up and it was the plane like 30,000 feet and like nobody could see it or hear it. But he could pick it up, which meant it was going to be picked up on television. Right. So that was his whole job. We had people there, their job was to just carry the reflector boards to reflect the light to make sure that there were no shadows on my face as I was walking. I mean, so there were a lot of people around us doing this. So it's not like you could just show up in a town have 15 to 20 people around you with security police, you know, big lights, cameras, like on all angles of the street four cameras and, and not know something's going on.   Michael Hingson  17:09 What was your first clue?   James Malinchak  17:10 Yeah, exactly. So that's the reason why the ratings were fantastic. As a matter of fact, when I was on, we had over 10 million people that watched it that night that I appeared and to put it in perspective, Trump's apprentice Donald Trump's the apprentice was on that night and had 7 million. So we I had 10 million on mine, you know, which was so in other words, like the ratings weren't great. But they were people were starting to figure it out and trying to get on TV, because they knew that the you know, they would be awarded money if they were so it just it deflated the essence of the spirit of the show, which was. So for anyone listening, imagine if someone came and grabbed you by crane picked you up out of your current element and dropped you somewhere and said go ahead and live. And by the way, you're not allowed to have any credit cards, no watch, no cell phone, no outside connection, no internet access, no outside connection to the world. They want you to be fully present in the moment. And imagine if they then said, and for this entire eight days, while you're going to be here, we're going to give you a check to live on. And it's $44.66. Now go live. And we'll see you later. And that's what it was it was taken me out of my current entrepreneurial element, with no resources, dropping me in a place. I had no idea where I was going, which happened to be Gary, Indiana. Oh, boy. Yeah, if anybody knows anything about Gary, two things, number one, Michael Jackson and the Jacksons grew up there on 223 Jackson Street. And number two, at the time I went there, it was the number two murder place in the US. And I had no idea I thought I was going to Indiana to milk cows on a farm. That's all I that's what my perception of Indiana was. And so, and basically they put me there and my purpose was to go through their town. Look for amazing people working for organizations who were changing lives and making a difference. Friend them, start working for them in their, their charity, and then volunteering. And then at the end of my time, when I'm going to leave town I go to them. And I say, Mike, thanks so much for having me here and your charity, allowing me to come into your family and start helping folks and to work side by side. I really appreciate it. I have to head out of town now. But before I leave, there's something I haven't told you. And that's my whole acting. That's the only thing they told me I had to do. So that's my acting move. I had to say that and then pause so my acting move, but big debut of acting was I paused I'll do it again for anybody didn't hear. There's something I haven't told you boom, there we go. I had to pause for three seconds. Everything else was real, except they instructed me. I had to pause for three seconds after I said that, so, and then I rebuild my identity. And the reason for the pause is they wanted to get the cameras on people's faces to catch the what? Like, what? Oh, no, what's going on? Like, they want to catch that shock. And so then, then I just told him, I said, you know, I think what you're doing is amazing, you're impacting people's lives, you're making a difference. And I open up my checkbook, and I start writing them checks. To help further their mission, I wrote over $100,000 worth of checks to them. And hence the term secret billionaire. So that's the whole essence of this show. And Mike, I'll just say the last thing is this. One of the true blessings in my life, I met, not people I met angels, people are just serving and doing good to help the fellow man and fellow woman for no other reason than to help them true angels, Great Spirits of serving.   Michael Hingson  21:04 And that kind of thing is always wonderful and a blessing to encounter. And and define that there are people who are committed to doing that, and they do it very selflessly. And they get they get rewarded for it in various ways. And a lot of times, probably the investment world doesn't understand the rewards that they get.   James Malinchak  21:25 Well, so you're 100% right, my friend. When I was doing the media, I mean, I must have done five 600 media appearances to promote the show, maybe 1000. I don't know I did so many of them. I remember one one time we did. 300 was booked for 300 radio shows like satellite tours where I might I probably did 5080 shows in a day, you know, five minutes here, two minutes here, four minutes here. But that was on the Grammy red carpet. I mean, with all the celebrity Will Smith is right next to me, Justin Bieber, the Oak Ridge Boys, Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise. I mean, everybody's right there. And so when I would do these interviews, no matter where it was, or to who it was, people would always say, so what was it like to be on that show? And I said, Well, it's called Secret Millionaire. And I appreciate the fact that it's kind of labeled around someone like me, the entrepreneurial millionaire guy, but this show is not about me, this show was about these unsung heroes, who are finally going to get their due and be recognized for the amazing work they're doing in their community, like you said, Mike, that no one ever hears about. So I always say, you know, it was called Secret Millionaire, but it was really about all these people who were doing amazing work.   Michael Hingson  22:40 And continue to do it. It's, yeah, it's a lot of fun. I worked for a nonprofit for a while I worked up at Guide Dogs for the Blind in salt shell. Yeah, and you know, it is all about doing it because you want to, and doing it because you know, you're accomplishing good things. And for me, of course, it's a little bit different than a lot of people who who work there. And of course, using a guide dog. It's, it's different. Because I'm also involved in trying to relay the message, you know, the average individual thing. So it's a blind person who's got a dog, the dog leads them around, never recognizing that the dogs job is to make sure that we don't fall off a cliff, it's still my job to know where to go and how to get there. And that's no different than you needing, needing to know where to go and how to get there. You use different cues than I do. But I give the dog that commands. And so working up at the school, even a lot of people at the school didn't really understand that. So it was and today as I travel and speak, it is all about input, at least in part, helping to educate people to recognize blindness isn't the problem. It's your attitudes and your misconceptions about blindness. That is a real challenge that we face. And the fact of the matter is that we should be inclusive as a society.   James Malinchak  24:00 Hmm, no, I love that. And kudos to what you're doing to help educate all of us who don't understand and better maybe shift our paradigm because we have false beliefs or false misconceptions. But yeah, it's it's amazing. It's amazing that when you just you know, I say that the secret to living is giving and when you come from a servant's heart, and you just truly want to make a difference. My dad and mom used to always tell me when I would do something good, like win an award like basketball or something and I'd come home Hey, Mom, Hey, Dad, I got this and they say, Oh, we love you, son that so proud of you. But remember, you didn't come into this world with anything and you're not leaving with anything. The only thing you got son is the difference that you make while you're here the impact that you make, the lives you change and the legacy you leave. And every time every time I made an award like some sort of warm throughout my whole life. Oh, that's great, son. We love you. We're proud Have you but remember, let it go right back into it. So you're   Michael Hingson  25:04 gonna take, you're not going to take those plaques and trophies with you when you leave   James Malinchak  25:08 100%. I just gathered dust. The it's amazing. It's funny you say that because I have some of those plaques and trophies from basketball or from when I was a stock broker and they literally are in a box in a storage unit. Right? Literally, that's it had been there for years. Yeah, 20 years, some of them.   Michael Hingson  25:32 I, when I first relocated to the New York area, I was there about a year and then got recruited away by a company that I had worked with some and knew the owner of. And I worked there for about a year and a half before I got recruited by quantum to open an office for them in New York, which we did in the World Trade Center. But this company, my first year out, I was number one in sales. And since I hadn't worked for the company before, they gave me Rookie of the Year plaque, which was great. And that was on my wall in the World Trade Center. When the building was attacked, of course, everything was lost. Two weeks later, this guy calls our house and I was in the city, meeting with someone at the time, of course now after 911. And he didn't know whether he's alive or dead. He talked to my wife and finally got up the nerve to say why he was calling. And she said, Well, he's in the city meeting with someone right now. And she said, you could just hear the relief in his voice knowing that I was alive. Well, we met up and he gave me this plaque, this rookie of the year plaque he worked for 9x now part of a reason. He found that plaque in the pile grounds away, counted up. And it's just it is one of those things. So it's taken on a whole lot more meaning but it still is a plaque and it's it's really still what you accomplish.   James Malinchak  26:59 Wow. That's unbelievable that it survived that. You know, what a what a great Wow. I'm speechless, literally speechless.   Michael Hingson  27:09 I it was amazing. When he he found it, he cleaned it all up, it was still in great shape, it still is in great shape. And it's just kind of one of those memories that you have. And memories are good things to have. So it's okay.   James Malinchak  27:23 Oh, yeah, absolutely. But you know, it's the memory I don't I don't really care about the the tangible trophies and all that I have. You know, hopefully, by doing some of those accomplishments, I was able to make someone's life better that that's what really matters to me.   Michael Hingson  27:39 Sure. It's, it's about what you said, it's about what you do. The rewards and all that stuff are great. And the money is great. And we do need money. And that's the way the world is set up. But still, the bigger rewards are what we do to help people and and the things that we accomplish and can look back on and say, I made a difference. Well, what I?   James Malinchak  28:01 Yeah, what I tell folks all the time, I said look, and I asked a friend of mine and you may know him neato Cobain. Nieto used to be the past president of something called the National Speakers Association. And he's the president of High Point University in High Point North Carolina right now a great phenomenal, one of the best speakers ever. And they came to America with $50 in his pocket. And I asked him one time we were sitting in the back of a room, we're both speaking at a Dan Kennedy marketing event. And I asked him, I said, neato. I just Just curious, I've always wanted to ask you this. I said, you're amazing philanthropist you give you serve, you know, you're you're pretty much running this university and taking no payment just because you want to do it and help people help kids. And I said, I know money's not everything. But how would you frame it? He goes, Well, I put money right up there with oxygen. Yeah. So what do you mean? He said, Well, I mean, you gotta have it. Everything we require in life is money. And it's, it's ridiculous for people to think that like, it should be a focus. And then so I always tell my talks, like I said, look, the more money you make, and I tell speakers this all the time more money you make, the more you can give away. Yeah, there is that. The more money you make, the more you can feed people who are hungry. The more money you make, the more you can build roofs for churches, or you could build water wells, or like I have, and I don't ever really talk about my philanthropy, but I have, you know, schools I've built in Africa, for kids who were sitting on rocks to learn because they had no shelter. And I said, this, this is terrible, you know, we ought to be able to do something about it. And so I would give them a whole bunch of money. So we can build schools over there and get textbooks and get, you know, desks and so kids don't have to sit outside and the heat, but like think about it, it takes money to do that kind of stuff. All the pie in the sky. I hear what people talk about manifestation and the secret and all that I get it But at the end of the day, you got to write a check. And at the end of the day, you got to be able to buy tangible stuff. And if you don't have the money in your bank account, you can't build the school in Africa, all the wishing and hoping in the world and getting that school bill, that stroke in a check, to buy concrete to buy supplies to pay the workers to build get trucks to come over and help them build it that that takes money to do that. So I tell people all the time, make a lot of money in your profession, so that you can impact more people. Last thing I'll say is, you know, when I was helping to feed a lot of folks, you know, it was amazing because lunch meat, bread, Manet's drinks, that all takes money to buy it, you know, so that we could actually feed people, even if we made it, we had to hire workers and pay them to make the food so we could feed people. So anyone that thinks that money doesn't play into how big and well you serve, of course, you can serve with time, you can serve with talents, but at the end of the day, if you make some more money than you can help and serve and give back in a bigger way,   Michael Hingson  31:17 as you should,   James Malinchak  31:18 as we all should. Yeah, so I tell people make out gazillion dollars, don't keep any of that, give it away and help a lot of less fortunate folks.   Michael Hingson  31:25 Absolutely. So with things like secret millionaire, and so on, you have faced some pretty challenging things in your life. How do you do that? I think some people would say, without fear. And I know that that doesn't really make sense, because of course, there's fear. But how? How do you deal with challenges like that?   James Malinchak  31:47 Well, my sister Vicki, unexpectedly passed away years ago of a brain tumor. And when she was diagnosed with it, and it was about three months before she passed, I saw her in a hospital room and in a bed, you know, with medication and all these things happening, and never one time. Never once. Did I ever hear her complaint? Never once did I ever hear her say why me? Never once? Did I ever hear her, you know, say anything about that. And I thought that I watched my sister deteriorate and start to pass away. And I said, What the hell am I complaining about? This is a human being that lost her life. And there we know many people, everybody knows someone that lost a life. And so that really changed me and made me realize that why am I scared of things? She wasn't scared of transitioning out of this world into a different place. What I'm going to be scared because I haven't tried something. And by the way, psychologists tell us that human beings are born with two fears and two fears only the fear of falling. And the fear of boom, loud noises. No. So if you have any other fear in your life, that means you created it, and you manifested it. And basically, you know this, whether you think about something good or bad, it expands. So if you think about fear and nervousness, and oh my gosh, here's the thing I learned Mike, when when we say I'm scared of this, I'm worried about this, oh, my god, well, then isn't the focus on you. And so what I do, and all I do in my talks is try to share people with people what I do that works for me, and if it works for you, great, use it. If not, they've crumble up, throw it away. I'm not here to tell you that, like I have figured everything out, I just figured out a couple things for me, and maybe these will work for you. And so what I tell folks is, when you're fearful, either one you haven't practiced, you haven't honed it, you don't have your skills down. Number two, maybe it's brand new, and you haven't tried it before, right? Like first time we tried to ride a bike or something. We were fearful everything we're always first time we started a job, we were nervous. But the third thing to realize is, is if you weren't born with that, right? It's because there was two fears fear of falling and fear of loud noises. So it's Fe AR is, is you've heard this before false evidence. It's false evidence because you weren't born with it, it appears real, because you focus on it and blow it up in your mind. Right? And so then we start the fourth thing is to focus on what what if like, Oh, what if I screw up? What if this doesn't work? I'm scared because of and then you think of a negative but what if you turn that into positive energy? And said, I'm so excited about this? Because I get this opportunity to and then fill in the blank? Yeah. So change your languaging change the way you think about it change the way you act toward it. And the last thing the fifth thing I always say is this for myself. This is part of the process. Because everything I started that was brand new, I was always nervous about and fearful. That's just part of the process. Now, I'll get through this. And then I'll look back on it the same way I look back on learning to ride a bike or learning to drive a car. And I'll look back on this situation and say, What was I so nervous about that nonsense?   Michael Hingson  35:22 Well, and one of the things that that I have learned, especially over the last 20 years, and internalizing September 11, and so on is we do have fears they do happen. And some of those fears can be pretty overwhelming. But they're overwhelming, because we haven't developed a mindset that allows us to look at them, analyze them, which you can do in the blink of an eye, and be able to move forward with we've got this pandemic going on around us. And I submit that a lot of the people who choose not to get vaccinated not to wear masks who claim it's all a hoax, are really reacting out of fear, rather than recognizing there is something going on here. And we can be proud proactive in dealing with it. But mostly controlling our own mindset, so that we can move forward in the circumstances, and deal with them successfully. And with the World Trade Center. There are still people who I know who are afraid to fly because they saw the airplanes hit the towers, or they're afraid of other things, they won't go into tall buildings. And they developed these fears. And as you said, they they let them expand, rather than della developing a mindset to look at how to overcome them or use the fear because they're, there's a part of fear, that's a biological reaction. But use the fear to your advantage to allow you to be motivated to move forward.   James Malinchak  37:03 Right, and you can control your fear. People don't realize that but if you studied neuro linguistic programming and timeline therapy, you could step out of it. Look at it almost as a movie going by see it not actually being engaged and let your emotions be shifted by the situation. And you literally can control that. I'm not fearful, I'm looking at it. And I'm fearful because I'm in it. But if I step back and just look at it metaphorically, then what am I really fearful of it makes no sense. And I'm watching this go by instead of actually feeling it inside of me.   Michael Hingson  37:37 Exactly right. And using what's going on to heighten your senses. So traveling around the stairs at the World Trade Center was not a big deal for me. But I had developed a mindset, because I learned what to do. In the case of an emergency, I consulted with Port Authority, security people, I learned the complex and so on. And I did all that because I ran an office and I knew darn well that if there were ever an emergency, especially if we happen to be in an area that was smoke filled, all you light dependent sighted people are going to have a world of hurt trying to figure out how to get out because you can't see where you're going. And then would take us normal people to get you out. So I, I learned what I needed to know. But I was the leader of the office. So it was my responsibility to do it. But what I didn't realize until later was that was developing a mindset that says, okay, things are happening. You don't have control over some of the things that are happening, perhaps. But you can certainly use all the information that you have and all the knowledge that you've gained to work through it.   James Malinchak  38:41 Yeah, absolutely. 100%. And preparation, I think is a big thing, too. And then there's, there's something too, they teach at Harvard Business School that I always loved. And it's called Future Perfect planning. Right, you plan for the future. And that means good or bad. There's a great book one of my favorite books of all time, and I've read about 5000 Some books now, over the years and one of my favorite books of all time and includes listening to books on audio, I don't want you to think that I just read them. I actually listened to a lot I listened to read, if you will. But it's called the positive power of negative preparation. And it's all it's all about preparing for the negative, there's a positive force in preparing for potential negative situations because God forbid if something happens, as you know, not always are we fully prepared, but at least you have some sort of preparation, an idea of how to handle it as a situation. And so I remember reading that book about 20 Some years ago changed my life because I was like, Oh, I'm not as fearful as certain situations. If I'm preparing for them, there is a positive power in negative preparation, meaning preparing for the negative.   Michael Hingson  39:55 You're not going to be able to prepare them for everything that happens but it's really developing the tools that give you the ability to deal with whatever happens, correct? Yeah. Yeah. And it's an it's something that all too often we don't do do, but it is developing those tools, that's really the big issue that we have to deal with, and should deal with. And fortunately, I did that. Yeah, I'll give you   James Malinchak  40:21 an example. You know, you mentioned the terrible 911 tragedy, which, you know, God bless you that you were able to pull through that. And, man, just, it's an honor talking to you, and you're the first person. And I'll always cherish this first person that I've met in my life to actually survive that situation. So it is truly an honor to be able to know you a little bit and talk to you about it. It's a special bonus for me. But I've never flown the same way ever since. You know, I have a friend who's a when now he's retired, but former CIA agent, and I hired him to consult with me and share ideas on how you know, I'm a speaker, I'm out there, I'm traveling, like how do I protect myself with something I'm on planes all the time. And he gave me a tool or resource, if you will, like I carry what a lot of the CIA officers carry what's called Tactical ink pens, they're pens, but they're tactical, meaning that they have a steel core center, so that you can use them in any situations, and they make them through metal they you can make through, that's the only type of how do I want to say defending mechanism that you're leaning, it's really nice, and that you can actually get through metal detectors, the TSA, right. And all of all of the Secret Service people carry him all the CIA officers, and so I was able to get them through him. And so I carry those on flights in my belt. So literally, they're with me at all times. Now. The other thing is situational awareness, he taught me of knowing where the fire extinguishers are on the airplane, in case someone does do something, you can get to a fire extinguisher, blow that smoke in their face. And with your tactical pens, you'll be able to take them down, taught me techniques to take someone down and disabled people, if they have a knife or box cutters or any kind of object. Well, those are all tools, if you will, like you put it. And thank God and 20 some years, I've never ever had to do any of that. But I never get on a plane without knowing where the fire extinguishers were a matter of fact, I'll tell you this, when I booked my flight, I always took a seat near where the fire extinguishers are, in case, just in case that one time, I need to jump up and grab one of those fire extinguishers. I know where the tool is. And I was prepared by him on how to attempt to handle that situation.   Michael Hingson  42:51 That is most important, the mental tool that you draw in the knowledge and the mindset that you could put that mental tool to work and do whatever you needed to do. I mean, you can think of any number of people who could have those same physical tools, but would freeze up or not know what to do to really use them in an emergency.   James Malinchak  43:15 Sure, absolutely. Well, I'll tell you my mental. My mental motivation was taught by my father, I'll never forget he said I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by six. Yes. I'd trust me, I would have no problems going through that. I don't know how you want to call that. The techniques and the system he taught me? Because what's the adverse effect? Possibly not making it or having others harmed or children harmed for no reason? So that's my motivation. Is it to sit here or do something? Yeah. And if you know what to do and have the confidence to do it, that's really important. And I'll tell you if I didn't know what to do, I wouldn't probably have that confidence. Sure. I wouldn't. I'd probably be nervous and fearful and doubt but because I know step one, this step two is this step three is this got it? You know, here, I'll tell you some LC Tom, because I think it's really important step one, you grab the magazines in the seat, rest and you put them around your waist inside of your pants, because if someone has a box, cutter knife, etc, that's the first place they're going to try and stab you. So if you have padding there, then it doesn't work. You know, second thing is you have your tactical pin in your right hand and you have the fire extinguisher in your left and you blow the fire extinguisher and you step through the smoke because they're going to put their hands up and block their face. You step through the smoke and you go right for their midsection because that's the largest part of a human being. Right so my point is this not to say like this is a self defense podcast, but But it's he gave me step by step of stuff that logically made sense therefore, not as known. Nervous, not as fearful to possibly use those techniques and engage in the system, if you will, I didn't know that, oh, I would be completely fearful and nervous.   Michael Hingson  45:11 Sure. But you made a choice.   James Malinchak  45:15 Yes, 100%.   Michael Hingson  45:17 And that was to learn, which is what it's really all about. And by making the choice and by developing the mindset to deal with fear, and to deal with different situations, and understand as much as you could about different situations, you can live in those kinds of environments, and, and be more unstoppable to use the vernacular of the title of the podcast, but it is all about understanding what you can do and what you can I suppose there is something to be said for Harry Callahan and Magnum Force, A man's got to know his limitations, but you know, you got to really know them, and you know them best by learning them.   James Malinchak  45:53 Correct? Yeah, exactly. Mike, I just want to share with you, my friend, I got about two minutes. And then I've got to jump on the next podcast that someone has.   Michael Hingson  46:02 Real quick. Why is Why do you consider public speaking the highest paid profession? Well, because it's the   James Malinchak  46:11 only profession I know, where you don't have to have any college or high school, even education. You don't need a master's degree a PhD, you need no actual, I hate to say it this way. But real skills, in order to do it, all you have to have is some sort of life experience or, you know, some sort of thing that you figured out that you want to share with others that would help them some sort of steps to teach them. And anybody can do, it doesn't matter if you're tall or short, rich, or poor, young, or old, male or female, doesn't matter where you came from, doesn't matter where you're going, you know, it's the only profession I know, last thing I'll say is where the the more jacked up, you've been in your past, the actual law you're gonna make.   Michael Hingson  46:51 There you go. Well, this has really been an honor. And I am just as blessed to get the chance to talk with you. And I would like to find ways that we can work together and stay in touch definitely. I think it would be a lot of fun to do. And I hope that we can do it. And I think that you've offered a lot here. And you've demonstrated that you clearly are able to deal with a lot of different situations. So I appreciate you being here. How can people reach out to you or learn more about your get a hold of you?   James Malinchak  47:23 Thank you. First of all, it's an honor and a privilege. As I said earlier, you really put a special imprint on my heart, being able to meet someone who went through such a historical, devastating situation in our world. So thank you for allowing me to come on and share with some of your great listeners really easy. I'm on this mission to I took my four day big money speaker boot camp, and I actually have written it into a book. And it's over 250 pages. I'm giving it all away for free. It's how I can leave a legacy and the biggest, better best way. There's nothing to pay, you don't have to get a credit card. You just simply go and download it in a digital format. And please pass it around to anybody that you think it might help. It's www dot fri speaker book.com www dot fri speaker book.com?   Michael Hingson  48:19 Yes. Really cool. And people can find you that way. Is there an audio version?   James Malinchak  48:24 Yes, we actually have an audio version as well. And at some point, we'll also have a video version too. But right now it's the book and then the audio book as well.   Michael Hingson  48:35 Cool. So free speaker book.com Correct. Well, James Belichick Thank you very much for being here. It's been an honor. And for anyone who listens to this, please go. Wherever you get your podcasts and give us a five star rating. We would appreciate it. If you'd like to comment or reach out to us in any way you can reach me at Michael H I M i C H A E L H I at accessiBe A C C E S S I B E.com, who didn't get a chance to talk about accessiBe, but we should sometime it's a great way to make websites more usable and accessible. We got to look at your website and see if it's as accessible as it could be James.   James Malinchak  49:16 Well, thank you, Mike. I appreciate it. Thank you so much, my friend for having me on.   Michael Hingson  49:20 Thank you. It's been an honor. It's my honor. You beat you to my friend.   UM Intro/Outro  49:31 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. 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In anticipation of Season 3 launching February 15, we're replaying some listener favorites from our first two seasons. Season 2's episode with the ladies of Vintage Hope first aired June 2021, and since then, their business has flourished. After seamlessly transitioning into The Guild's space, Emily, Katie & Elise decided 611 Jackson Street needed to be the permanent home for their business. Starting this February, Vintage Hope will officially take over the space. We're re-airing this fun, and heart-warming episode to acquaint (or re-acquaint) you with the newest gals on the Jax & 7th block!

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A curious film student's questions about homelessness leads him to a shelter in downtown Phoenix. He talks with Chaplain Ron, who provides him with answers as to who these people are, how they got here and why they can't seem to get off the streets. But when he befriends an endearing homeless woman named Felony, the chaplain's explanations don't seem to add up.

We're making like the devil and heading on down to Georgia.  Most people's minds go straight to Savanah when picturing the haunted South, but today we're setting our sights the smaller, lesser known town of Americus.  Specifically, we're honing in on the historic Windsor Hotel.  Among the living, many denizens of the dead are said to be checked in as permanent guests-- but are the only true spirits those on the shelf in the pub?    Follow the Podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crimesandwitchdemeanors Submit your feedback or personal stories to crimesandwitchdemeanors@gmail.com  Like The Podcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crimesandwitchdemeanors  Episode Transcript: Available below the sources in the show notes Visit the website: https://www.crimesandwitchdemeanors.com    Sources: 1920 United States Federal Census—AncestryLibrary.com. (n.d.). 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Americus Windsor Hotel—Haunted House. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5al8YZFU0I   TRANSCRIPT: Hello, and welcome to another episode of Crimes & Witch-Demeanors, the podcast where we use historic and archival resources to investigate ghost stories and separate fact from fiction.  I'm your host, and loveable librarian, Joshua Spellman.   I wanted to take care of some housekeeping before we get into the episode: I hope the new podcast artwork didn't spook you!  I love the illustration my good Judy GiAnna Ligammari made for the podcast, and I'm still using it on the website and other branding, but I needed something that read better as a thumbnail and that is graphic and punchy for new listeners.  So…I hope you don't mind the change!  I did it as a stress doodle while waiting for updates about my mom who is in the hospital this last week and I fell in love with it…and I hope you do too!   But I digress!   On today's episode we're making like the devil and heading on down to Georgia.  Most people's minds go straight to Savanah when picturing the haunted South, but today we're setting our sights the smaller, lesser known town of Americus.  Specifically, we're honing in on the historic Windsor Hotel.  Among the living, many denizens of the dead are said to be checked in as permanent guests-- but are the only true spirits those on the shelf in the pub?  Let's find out.  But first, here is the alleged history of the ghosts at Americus Georgia's Windsor Hotel.         The Windsor Hotel, despite being located in the small city of Americus, Georgia, is a grand and opulent structure, not unlike the castle across the pond that shares its name.  Like Windsor Castle, the hotel has housed great figures of history and harbors ghosts of the past.   In August of 1888 a reporter for the Americus Recorder discovered John Sheffield and Ross Harper measuring the court square of the city.  When the reporter inquired as to why, Mr. Sheffield responded simply, “because Major Moses Speer and Papa told me to.”  Without hesitation, the reporter rushed to the Bank of Southwestern Georgia and asked to speak with the president, Major Moses Speer to get the real scoop on the story. Major Speer told the reporter that he planned on building a hotel and that “the hotel will be built and in short order.  There is no doubt about that…it will be a building worthy of the city.” And indeed it would be.   Two architects submitted plans for the hotel: W.H. Parkins and G.L. Norman.  On March 21st, 1888 the selection committee for the project, which consisted of S.H. Hawkins, John Windsor, and C.M. Wheatley, favored the design drafted by Parkins.    Parkins' plan for the hotel was to erect a square, four-story wooden structure with 120 rooms.  The front of the building would run the entire length of Jackson Street and the corner would house two additional floors.   However, G.L. Normann would not take no for an answer, and the remainder of the corporation preferred his design.  Normann described his plan as being “a more fanciful character, greatly resembling the Hotel Alcazar at St. Augustine” (which, by the way, is the modern day Ripley's Believe it or Not? Building).  Normann's design was a brick structure of three and five stories in height, contained 100 rooms, and space for ten shops on the street level.   On April 17th the committee chose Normann's proposal with an estimated budget of $80,000.  Construction began in September of 1890 and was completed on June 16, 1892.   The lavish hotel would go on to house famous guests including Presidents William Jennings Bryan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter. The hotel is the epitome of Victorian architecture.  The Windsor spans an entire city block, complete with a tower, turret, balconies, and an open three-story open atrium.    The Windsor's outlook was auspicious from the start but it immediately fall on hard times.  In 1893, two years after its construction, an economic depression swept the nation, decimating the tourism trade – the hotel's only reason for being.  By the turn of the century, the Windsor filed for bankruptcy and was sold to Charles A. Fricker, a jeweler, for $40,000, a mere fraction of what the building was worth.   In September of 1910 the hotel was completely renovated, installing electric lights, telephones, steam heat, and new elevators…the likes of which would end up being the genesis of our first pair of hotel ghosts.   There was a maid, Emily Mae, and her daughter, Abigail, who lived in the hotel in the servant's quarters.  Emily Mae served as the head housekeeper but in order to support her and her child she wasn't a stranger to offering extra services to the gentlemen of the hotel.  However, Emily Mae had a jealous lover who did not appreciate the work she did to supplement her income.   One day, while working in the third floor hallway, Emily Mae's lover angrily confronted her, apparently jealous about her conducting sex work. Things got heated.  Voiced were raised.  Little Abigail heard the commotion and rushed to her mother's side, at first cowering behind her, but then holding her hand in a show of defiance and support.  Her and her mother would no longer tolerate the abuse from this man.   “You WENCH!” the man bellowed as he shoved Emily Mae backwards into the open elevator.  However, what he didn't notice…or perhaps he did…was that the elevator doors were open, but the lift was not stopped on the third floor.  Emily Mae and Abigail tumbled hand in hand down the empty elevator shaft, landing in a mangled heap on the ground floor with their fingers still interlocked.  They were together until the very end.   Their spirits still roam the third floor.  Many people spot Abigail rushing up and down the hall, playing with her toys seemingly in good…spirits.  Sometimes Emily Mae's ghost can be spotted in the mirror, but when you turn around…there's no one there, just you and an icy chill running down your spine.   Alas, Emily Mae and Abigail's accident wasn't the only treacherous tumble at the Windsor Hotel.  As a young and beautiful bride made her way down the private bridal suite staircase to wed her beloved, she tripped on her gown, fell down the steep staircase, and broke her neck.  Her spirit now roams the hotel, her bridal gown transformed from white to black, as she mourns the married life she never had.   As time ticked on, Windsor Hotel never fully recaptured the initial success it garnered in its first two years of operation.  The property was sold once again in the 1930's to Mr. Howard Dayton, of Daytona Beach, Florida.  Mr. Dayton would operate the hotel for four decades until it closed in 1974, having been open for 82 years.    Floyd Lowery, a doorman and lift operator, worked at the Windsor Hotel for the full 40 years that Dayton owned it.  Lowery was a happy, chipper man, who loved his job, the guests, and the hotel.  Floyd always made sure that visitors were happy and comfortable.  Luckily, Floyd did not die a tragic death in the hotel.  However, despite that fact, his ghost still roams the property.   Sadly, after the hotel closed in 1974, the Windsor fell to ruin, as buildings do, without living souls to inhabit it.  The hotel was donated to the city of Americus in 1978 by Howard Dayton's family and it sat for decades.  The only visitors being the pigeons roosting in the rafters and the rodents scurrying along the rotting floors.   The city had a big decision to make: either demolish the building and replace it with a parking lot, or funnel millions of dollars into its restoration.  The residents of Americus were almost unanimous in the decision to restore the city's gem.  It cost the city a lot of money to restore the hotel.  However, since the city owned the property, they managed to save nearly have a million dollars by utilizing the prison industrial complex and exploiting inmates for slave labor.  Construction and planning took many years, but the restoration was completed in 1991.    The Windsor Hotel is once again the opulent centerpiece to the small city of Americus.  While many guests come to stay for a night, the presence of its permanent, spectral residents are strongly felt.   Guests often approach the front desk to complain about the child running around the third floor…but are disturbed to discover that there are no children currently staying at the hotel. Countless others ask to speak to the manager to complement the courteous bellhop, Floyd who carried their bags to their rooms.  However, there's only one problem…that is not a service the hotel currently offers.  Nor do they employ anyone by the name of Floyd.   Floyd's ghost brings positive and uplifting energy to the old hotel, even assisting the staff on occasion.  While his spirit may have departed, his legacy lives on as the namesake of the hotel's restaurant, Floyd's Pub.   Ghost Hunters have come to the hotel and certified it as “haunted” and there is even a plaque that boasts this fact in the hotel's lobby.  So, if you ever find yourself in Americus, book a night at the Windsor, you may be in for a ghoulish treat.  And say hello to Floyd for me.         You don't know the heaps of trash I had to wade through to scrape together enough rotted crumbs to write this episode.  I think this is the most amount of sources I have in the bibli-ahh-graphy, but not because they're good.  I just had so much garbage to sort through.  There isn't a lot to go on in these stories, even the names of the mother and daughter took a while to find…and even then they are always changing.  I had to watch so many terrible shaky-cam ghost investigator videos and awful mommy vlogs…don't get me started on Hot Mama Travel…but I did manage to find out some very interesting things.  Including the ghost report from paranormal investigators.   The Windsor's original name was going to be the “Alhambra” but this quote “struck a discordant note in the community” and instead the name Windsor was chosen for John T. Windsor who was one of the leading capitalists in Americus and the community decided the name was “more suggestive of the aristocratic qualities to which Americus aspired”   Honestly, in a city in the south, named Americus, I'm not surprised they'd rather go with a very white sounding name of a prominent capitalist because it was “more suggestive of the qualities to which  they aspired”.  Aka.  White.  Rich.  And white.  But I digress.   The first thing I want to get out of the way is the date the hotel was completed.  Many sources say that it was completed in June 1892.  The building itself was actually completed in October of 1891.  However, the hotel didn't officially open until the grand opening in June of 1892.  Minor detail…but it bothered me.   So many things bothered me, honestly.  Like the fact there is another librarian coming for my gig?!  Fricken Lesia Miller Schnur, the Haunted Librarian!  She was extremely helpful in providing some of the names applied to the mother and daughter: Emma, Abigail, and Emily Mae.  Other sources say that the little girl's name was  Sallie, Theresa, or Selina.  Lesia reveals that John T. Windsor's name was Emily Amelia so there may be a link there to this legend.   But…other than that her post didn't reveal anything I hadn't read elsewhere despite claiming “I'm the history buff, so I still did my research…apparently other groups may not have”  I have.  I have, Lesia!   The story of the mother and daughter has many holes.  The first is the date of the occurrence: either the early  1910's or in the 1920's.  Second, is the fact that these two were poor, possibly people of color, and so their murder may not have been reported in any substantial matter.  Third, is the fact there aren't actually any names to assign to it.  I spent a few hours searching and while I did not find anything on this story, as great of a ghost tale as it is, I think I found something…better?   Someone did fall down the elevator shaft.   The Columbus Enquirer published on January  7, 1894 the following story:   “Down the Elevator Shaft: Serious Accident in Americus to a Wealthy Ohioan   Mr. R.S. Rust, an aged gentleman of 78, from Cincinnati, Ohio, vice-president of the Union Central Life Insurance Company of that city, fell down the elevator shaft of the Windsor Hotel today and sustained seriously injuries.  His shoulder is fractured and his nose broken in three places.  He fell about 10 feet from the office floor to the basement.  The elevator was above but supposing it at the office floor, opened the door of the shaft and stepped into the basement below.  Owing to his advanced age, serious results are feared from the shock.”   Now this is something to go on.  He's a man?  Check.  He's white?  Check.  He's wealthy?  Check.  These make up the trifecta you need to be preserved in history as anything other than a nameless stereotype!   Now using the name from article I did find an old white man from Cincinnati born around 78 years prior to the article's publication: Reverend Richard Sutton Rust, Senior.  There was one problem though…no modern material identified that he had any involvement with the Union Central Life Insurance Company.  You would think this would be highlighted in the book passages and articles I found about him.   Instead, these articles paint a picture of a man fully dedicated to the Episcopal Church who was a staunch abolitionist.  Was this the wrong man?  Nah.  It turns out when you're rich and white you can pick and choose what parts of your legacy are propagated.    I did find an alumni catalogue of his college fraternity and legislative documents from 1905 which confirmed that the Reverend Richard Sutton Rust and R.S. Rust from the Union Central Life Insurance company were one in the same.   During the civil war, Rust helped found the Freedman's Aid Society which gave teachers from the North supplies and housing to teach freed slaves in the south.  Rust also assisted nearly 30 colleges with educating former slaves and their children.   After the war he set up the Freedman's Bureau which was a division of the United States Department of War that provided shelter and supplies to refugees, freedman, along with their wives and children.   So it seems R.S. Rust was actually a really good guy!  I kind of felt bad that I hoped he died from the elevator accident…just so we'd actually have an elevator ghost in the hotel.  Turns out he lived and died in 1906 at the age of 91.  Good for her.   Part of me wants to change his Wikipedia page to include his major involvement in the insurance company (it's how he got that Daddy Morebucks money after all) as well as his embarrassing tumble down the Windsor's elevator but I'll exhibit some self-control.   While the elevator ghost story is bunk I was happy to find out that Floyd Lowery was indeed a real person…which I would hope since the pub is named after him…and he did work at the Windsor Hotel for a very long time.  I found a variety of fantastic records that I'll put on the podcast Instagram, @crimesandwitchdemeanors for you to look at.   Census records from 1920 to 1940 list Floyd's occupation as porter at the Windsor Hotel, the 1923 Americus City Directory (which is super cool) lists Floyd Lowery as a bellman; and I also discovered Floyd's draft cards.  It appears he was drafted during the second World War.    Floyd Ardell Lowery was an African-American man and was born on February 28, 1903.  I don't believe that he ever married as multiple census records show that he lived with his mother, Mammie throughout his lifetime.  Floyd Lowery died on February 1, 1982 according to the Georgia Department of Health's Death Index.  However, in that particular document birth is listed as 1915 and that he was 67 years old at the time of his death.  However, his military records and census records corroborate another and confirm his birthdate was indeed 1903, making him almost 79 at the time of his death.   I love that Floyd is such a presence at the hotel and that his memory is able to live on through the name of the pub.  However, some the ghost stories about him make me uncomfy.  But racism is uncomfortable.   When we say racism is systemic, we mean it is systemic.  It is so insidious that it even feeds down into the ghost stories we tell our children.  Ghost stories involving marginalized people, or people of color, are often based in, and perpetuate, stereotypes.  This is most apparent in the ghost tourism of the south which exploits the tales slaves but it can be observed elsewhere as well.   These types of stories served to illustrate what would happen if you dared to misbehave, stand up for yourself, or fight for your survival.  These spirits often are left to suffer in the afterlife for their apparent misdeeds and act as a warning – or threat – to stay in your lane lest you suffer a similar fate.    Other ghost tales tell of those who led a life of “good” servitude, who's life didn't tragically end, but came instead to a graceful close.  If you act like this you can rewarded in the afterlife, to continue to dutifully serve and labor even after death (wow—what a reward). These stories perpetuate the idea of the “good black” stereotype and further dehumanize the people they are about.   I feel like this is the kind of mold that Floyd Lowery has been put into as he is often helping guests with their luggage or working in the elevator.  Never having fun, never having a drink or just kicking back to relax.  But Floyd was more than his job, he was a human being.  I could hardly believe that he would want to spend his afterlife working for no wages.  Would you?  God, no.  Some of us already make ghost wages here among the living.  But I digress.  Onwards to more ghostly tomfoolery.   The story of the bride tripping and falling down the stairs is a strange one.  I have only read about it on one article about the hotel and it's hauntings.  However, that didn't stop me from investigating it for a ridiculously long amount of time.   I did find…something?  While it doesn't match the ghost story, there is some piping hot 129-year-old tea.   This excerpt is from the March 14, 1892 issue of the Macon Telegraph in an article titled “Married in Haste: and now the bride is without a husband”   (continued below)     So, it only tangentially involved the Windsor but I thought it was some hot Victorian goss to share with y'all!   But enough about gossip.  Back to the ghosts.  The ghouls.  The ghastly gremlins.   There was a big hub-bub in 2006 about how paranormal investigators claimed the hotel as “certifiably haunted”.  A number of articles were written about it, the hotel made a page on its website for the full ghost report and even put a plaque in the lobby boasting about it.   But now…it's gone vanished.  Gone.  Disappeared.  Stricken from the internet.  The hotel, which used to brag about it's ghosts, doesn't even mention it on their website anymore.  The paranormal investigators, the Big Bend Ghost Trackers, even removed it from their website.  I have a feeling that may be because they are now owned by Best Western and they want to keep it hush-hush.   Or…maybe they're embarrassed about what this “certificate of hauntedticity” contains.   So it's been deleted from the internet.  They tried to cover it up.  But they didn't know a librarian would be on their case.   Obviously, I found it.  It's not that hard.  If you're ever looking for a page that is now a 404 there are two really easy methods to see the previous  page.  First is just paste the URL in Google and search.  When the page comes up in the search results, hit the three dots and view the cached page.  Voila!  But if their cache isn't old enough, go to the good ‘ol internet archive and use the Wayback machine, hopefully you'll find what you're looking for!   And  boy did I find what I was looking for.  This oh so legitimate report was…something.   Here are the official findings from the report:   Out of 150 digital photos 3 yielded possible anomalies 2 EMF fluctuations were documented. One between the second and third floors with a 6 degree spike, and one on the left hallway of the third floor with an 8 degree spike Several cold spots have been detected…in a 129 year old building…you don't say? Some anomalies caught on film One of the hallway light bulbs that was completely unscrewed turned on without anyone near it Through channeling one investigator picked up the names of little girls: Theresa and Sallie   Because of the above phenomena the report lists the Windsor Hotel as H-A-U-N-T-E-D.  Yes.  They spelled it out in the report.   I do have some issues with these findings.  Especially the very subjective “evidence” they found via channeling.  Which was conducted thusly:   BBGT members Betty and Lisa were in states of meditation and channeling in attempting to make contact with the ghostly inhabitants of the hotel. Betty, while stationed in an adjoining 3rd floor hallway singing in a child-like voice the old turn of the century tune "A tisket a tasket", suddenly felt a cool breeze on her right side and the digital thermometer displayed asudden 6 degree drop in temperature. While continuing to sing she was clearly able to sense the presence of a young girl. After a brief time the camera recorded what appears to be orbs bouncing a short distance down the 3rd. floor hallway. The names Sallie (with an ie) and the names Theresa were very much attached to the young girl. BBGT member Lisa was also visually picking up and sensing the strong presence of an entity with the name Adams. Later, while attempting to validate our findings it was discovered that in the early 1940's there had been an employee named Adams.   But mediums aren't…a great source of reliable information.  I watched videos where other mediums visited the hotel so you don't have to, and dear lord they were an hour and fifty minutes of shaky cam footage.  But, for example the mediums in these videos experienced “giddy feelings” outside the bar and decided the ghost was a child definitely named “Selina”  But…that's an entirely new name than the ones provided, truly a shot in the dark.  And if we're experiencing a giddy feeling outside the bar…I would like to think that's good ‘ol Floyd.  Happy to see his name in lights and people enjoying a cocktail.   I tried to look for some first-hand encounters with ghosts at the hotel and I didn't find much.  Maybe because not too many people stay at the hotel.  I found a lot of Americus locals saying they've never even been inside.  But here are two experiences I did find:   “I was staying in room 308 and smelled old fashioned women's perfume several times while in the shower”   Honestly…to me that just sounds like catching a waft of some awful hotel soaps and shampoo.  But maybe there's an old lady who fell in the shower.  The next experience…also involves a bathroom?  Lending some credence to this new hypothesis.    Why is there a bath towel in the toilet? That's what my wife asked me last Wednesday the 17th of March 2021at 2:30 AM. I was staying there on business. What a beautiful hotel. I asked the staff at Floyds if they had experienced anything. I got mixed replies. Things about the lights turning on and off occasionally. My wife who was already in GA decided to surprises me on her way back to Florida. That night she got up to use the bathroom in room 211 and quickly came back to bed asking me why a full sized folded bath towel was in the toilet. Didn't sleep well that night obviously. It wasn't till the next day that the stories of hauntings came from everyone I spoke to when I told where I was staying. Weird experience and no plausible explanation on how the towel ended up in the toilet. I slammed doors, jumped up and down and could not get a folded towel to so much as move off the rack above the toilet. If I ever go back to Americus , I surly choose the Windsor Hotel again. Magnificently strange!   So maybe investigators should spend less time singing creepy folk-tunes in the hallways at 2:30 in the morning and spend more time on the toilet.   So what do you think?  Is the Windsor Haunted?  Would you want to stay?  Personally, I don't think it's very haunted.  2 thirds of its stories aren't even true.  But I think I'd like to enjoy an Old Fashioned in Floyd's pub just for the fun of it.   Please follow the podcast Instagram to view documents, historic photos, and other scans from today's episode.  If you listen on Overcast and enjoyed the episode, be sure to hit that little star icon on today's episode – it helps with  the algorithm a lot!  And likewise, if you're an apple fiend and  you haven't left a review, please do!   So please, look before you enter an elevator, remember racism is systemic, sex work is real work, and of course, as always – stay spooky!      

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