Podcast appearances and mentions of maggie walker

They say the fires at Caledonia Mills started on their own, but anyone who spent a night there knew something far more sinister was at work.==========HOUR ONE: “The Witching Hour of 3AM” *** You don't have to go to a cemetery or haunted house to experience the supernatural. You don't need to drive a cursed road to encounter a ghost. Sometimes the paranormal takes place on military bases. (The Military And The Mysterious) *** The corpse of a murderer winds up doing advertising for a drug store. (The Murder of Maggie Walker) *** In 1922, an otherwise unremarkable farmhouse in Novia Scotia was the site of alleged poltergeist activity which made headlines all over Canada and the United States. A poltergeist that liked to set fires. (The Fire Spook of Caledonia Mills)==========HOUR TWO: Claiming to audibly hear from God either makes you crazy, or a prophet – and only time can tell which is true. If you claim things are going to happen because God says they will – and then they don't happen – that means you're cray cray, and a false prophet. That also makes your followers a bunch of dupes. Sadly, the 19th and 20th centuries were full of crazy false prophets with mindless sheep worshipping them. (Creating False Prophets) *** Headline: “Exciting Wake!” When you see the words “exciting” and “wake” in the same headline, you can make a guess that someone is not resting in peace! (Exciting Wake)==========SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME: A smitten fan falls in love with a talented actress, and convinces himself she loves him in return. This sounds very much like a story out of today's entertainment magazines – but this tale of unrequited love took place in the 1880's. (The Lunatic James Dougherty) *** The terrifying Aswang is the most feared creature of Philippine folklore—and with good reason. I'll tell you why. (The Deadly Aswang) ** Reports have been coming in from people claiming to see full-sized African lions not in the Savannah or in the wilderness – but in North America. But is there any truth to the their claims? (Phantom Lions of North America)==========SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT'S SHOW:BOOK: “Mysterious America” by Loren Coleman: https://amzn.to/3lZIviBBOOK: “Creatures of Philippine Lower Mythology”: https://amzn.to/3m2Re3kDOCUMENTARY: “The Aswang Phenomenon”: https://amzn.to/3jQrNjC“Creating False Prophets” by Dr. Romeo Vitelli for Providentia: https://tinyurl.com/y5bqt97p,https://tinyurl.com/y26vpmga, https://tinyurl.com/y6tgpcl3, https://tinyurl.com/y2jy3eqf“Phantom Lions of North America” by Brent Swancer for MysteriousUniverse.com: https://tinyurl.com/yygdg3eh“Exciting Wake” from the Huntington, IN “Daily Democrat”, reposted on the Strange Company website: https://tinyurl.com/y5cy4ksa“The Deadly Aswang” by Professor Geller for Mythology.net: https://tinyurl.com/yxhcrcxc“The Witching Hour of 3AM” from Paranormality Magazine“The Fire Spook of Caledonia Mills” by Hammerson Peters for MysteriesOfCanada.com: https://tinyurl.com/y43ug999“The Lunatic James Dougherty” by Robert Wilhelm for MurderByGaslight.com: https://tinyurl.com/yxkxo8b6“The Military and the Mysterious” by Brent Swancer for MysteriousUniverse.org: https://tinyurl.com/y46jdmks“The Murder of Maggie Walker” posted on the website Murders In History: https://tinyurl.com/y2qw2rup==========Join the Weird Darkness Syndicate: https://weirddarkness.com//syndicateWeird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. Background music provided by Alibi Music Library, EpidemicSound and/or StoryBlocks with paid license. Music from Shadows Symphony (https://tinyurl.com/yyrv987t), Midnight Syndicate (http://amzn.to/2BYCoXZ) Kevin MacLeod (https://tinyurl.com/y2v7fgbu), Tony Longworth (https://tinyurl.com/y2nhnbt7), and Nicolas Gasparini (https://tinyurl.com/lnqpfs8) is used with permission of the artists.==========PODCASTS I HOST:Weird Darkness: https://weirddarkness.com/listenParanormality Magazine: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/paranormalitymagMicro Terrors: Scary Stories for Kids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/microterrorsRetro Radio – Old Time Radio In The Dark: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/retroradioChurch of the Undead: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/churchoftheundead==========(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)=========="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46==========WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.==========

In aflevering 59, praat Robbie met Maggie Walker over haar halve marathons in Melbourne, Groenland en de slechte ervaringen bij de halve in Marrakech vorige maand. Ook word er gesproken over haar eerste marathon in Amsterdam, en die komen gaat in New York City, en over haar ambassadeurschap voor Hooka. Heel veel luisterplezier!

In aflevering 51 praten we over Robbie z'n trip naar USA en Canada die 17/9 begint, we bellen met Maggie Walker die zondag 15/9 de halve marathon van Kopenhagen heeft gelopen, we hebben ons allebei ingeschreven voor een 5K, Robbie in Montreal en Martin in Fort Myers Florida. Gewoon om toch iets officieels te lopen tijdens een vakantie. Verder hebben we de kalender, leesvoer en andere tripjes! Veel luisterplezier!

HOUR ONE: Claiming to audibly hear from God either makes you crazy, or a prophet – and only time can tell which is true. If you claim things are going to happen because God says they will – and then they don't happen – that means you're cray cray, and a false prophet. That also makes your followers a bunch of dupes. Sadly, the 19th and 20th centuries were full of crazy false prophets with mindless sheep worshipping them. (Creating False Prophets) *** Headline: “Exciting Wake!” When you see the words “exciting” and “wake” in the same headline, you can make a guess that someone is not resting in peace! (Exciting Wake)==========HOUR TWO: “The Witching Hour of 3AM” *** You don't have to go to a cemetery or haunted house to experience the supernatural. You don't need to drive a cursed road to encounter a ghost. Sometimes the paranormal takes place on military bases. (The Military And The Mysterious) *** The corpse of a murderer winds up doing advertising for a drug store. (The Murder of Maggie Walker) *** In 1922, an otherwise unremarkable farmhouse in Novia Scotia was the site of alleged poltergeist activity which made headlines all over Canada and the United States. A poltergeist that liked to set fires. (The Fire Spook of Caledonia Mills)==========SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME: A smitten fan falls in love with a talented actress, and convinces himself she loves him in return. This sounds very much like a story out of today's entertainment magazines – but this tale of unrequited love took place in the 1880's. (The Lunatic James Dougherty) *** The terrifying Aswang is the most feared creature of Philippine folklore—and with good reason. I'll tell you why. (The Deadly Aswang) ** Reports have been coming in from people claiming to see full-sized African lions not in the Savannah or in the wilderness – but in North America. But is there any truth to the their claims? (Phantom Lions of North America)==========SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT'S SHOW:BOOK: “Mysterious America” by Loren Coleman: https://amzn.to/3lZIviBBOOK: “Creatures of Philippine Lower Mythology”: https://amzn.to/3m2Re3kDOCUMENTARY: “The Aswang Phenomenon”: https://amzn.to/3jQrNjC“Creating False Prophets” by Dr. Romeo Vitelli for Providentia: https://tinyurl.com/y5bqt97p,https://tinyurl.com/y26vpmga, https://tinyurl.com/y6tgpcl3, https://tinyurl.com/y2jy3eqf“Phantom Lions of North America” by Brent Swancer for MysteriousUniverse.com: https://tinyurl.com/yygdg3eh“Exciting Wake” from the Huntington, IN “Daily Democrat”, reposted on the Strange Company website: https://tinyurl.com/y5cy4ksa“The Deadly Aswang” by Professor Geller for Mythology.net: https://tinyurl.com/yxhcrcxc“The Witching Hour of 3AM” from Paranormality Magazine“The Fire Spook of Caledonia Mills” by Hammerson Peters for MysteriesOfCanada.com: https://tinyurl.com/y43ug999“The Lunatic James Dougherty” by Robert Wilhelm for MurderByGaslight.com: https://tinyurl.com/yxkxo8b6“The Military and the Mysterious” by Brent Swancer for MysteriousUniverse.org: https://tinyurl.com/y46jdmks“The Murder of Maggie Walker” posted on the website Murders In History: https://tinyurl.com/y2qw2rup==========Join the Weird Darkness Syndicate: https://weirddarkness.com//syndicateWeird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. Background music provided by Alibi Music Library, EpidemicSound and/or StoryBlocks with paid license. Music from Shadows Symphony (https://tinyurl.com/yyrv987t), Midnight Syndicate (http://amzn.to/2BYCoXZ) Kevin MacLeod (https://tinyurl.com/y2v7fgbu), Tony Longworth (https://tinyurl.com/y2nhnbt7), and Nicolas Gasparini (https://tinyurl.com/lnqpfs8) is used with permission of the artists.==========PODCASTS I HOST:Weird Darkness: https://weirddarkness.com/listenParanormality Magazine: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/paranormalitymagMicro Terrors: Scary Stories for Kids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/microterrorsRetro Radio – Old Time Radio In The Dark: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/retroradioChurch of the Undead: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/churchoftheundead==========(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)=========="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46==========WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2023, Weird Darkness.==========https://weirddarkness.com/weirddarknessradio-weekend-of-march-23-24-2024/

PLEASE SHARE THIS LINK in your social media so others who loves strange and macabre stories can listen too:https://weirddarkness.com/weekend-of-december-09-10-2023-weirddarknessradio/==========HOUR ONE: “The Witching Hour of 3AM” *** You don't have to go to a cemetery or haunted house to experience the supernatural. You don't need to drive a cursed road to encounter a ghost. Sometimes the paranormal takes place on military bases. (The Military And The Mysterious) *** The corpse of a murderer winds up doing advertising for a drug store. (The Murder of Maggie Walker) *** In 1922, an otherwise unremarkable farmhouse in Novia Scotia was the site of alleged poltergeist activity which made headlines all over Canada and the United States. A poltergeist that liked to set fires. (The Fire Spook of Caledonia Mills)==========HOUR TWO: Claiming to audibly hear from God either makes you crazy, or a prophet – and only time can tell which is true. If you claim things are going to happen because God says they will – and then they don't happen – that means you're cray cray, and a false prophet. That also makes your followers a bunch of dupes. Sadly, the 19th and 20th centuries were full of crazy false prophets with mindless sheep worshipping them. (Creating False Prophets) *** Headline: “Exciting Wake!” When you see the words “exciting” and “wake” in the same headline, you can make a guess that someone is not resting in peace! (Exciting Wake)==========SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME: A smitten fan falls in love with a talented actress, and convinces himself she loves him in return. This sounds very much like a story out of today's entertainment magazines – but this tale of unrequited love took place in the 1880's. (The Lunatic James Dougherty) *** The terrifying Aswang is the most feared creature of Philippine folklore—and with good reason. I'll tell you why. (The Deadly Aswang) ** Reports have been coming in from people claiming to see full-sized African lions not in the Savannah or in the wilderness – but in North America. But is there any truth to the their claims? (Phantom Lions of North America)==========SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT'S SHOW:BOOK: “Mysterious America” by Loren Coleman: https://amzn.to/3lZIviBBOOK: “Creatures of Philippine Lower Mythology”: https://amzn.to/3m2Re3kDOCUMENTARY: “The Aswang Phenomenon”: https://amzn.to/3jQrNjC“Creating False Prophets” by Dr. Romeo Vitelli for Providentia: https://tinyurl.com/y5bqt97p,https://tinyurl.com/y26vpmga, https://tinyurl.com/y6tgpcl3, https://tinyurl.com/y2jy3eqf“Phantom Lions of North America” by Brent Swancer for MysteriousUniverse.com: https://tinyurl.com/yygdg3eh“Exciting Wake” from the Huntington, IN “Daily Democrat”, reposted on the Strange Company website: https://tinyurl.com/y5cy4ksa“The Deadly Aswang” by Professor Geller for Mythology.net: https://tinyurl.com/yxhcrcxc“The Witching Hour of 3AM” from Paranormality Magazine“The Fire Spook of Caledonia Mills” by Hammerson Peters for MysteriesOfCanada.com: https://tinyurl.com/y43ug999“The Lunatic James Dougherty” by Robert Wilhelm for MurderByGaslight.com: https://tinyurl.com/yxkxo8b6“The Military and the Mysterious” by Brent Swancer for MysteriousUniverse.org: https://tinyurl.com/y46jdmks“The Murder of Maggie Walker” posted on the website Murders In History: https://tinyurl.com/y2qw2rup==========Join the Weird Darkness Syndicate: https://weirddarkness.com//syndicateWeird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. 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Ethan Bullard tells the story of Maggie L. Walker, focusing on her legacy as a bank executive, entrepreneur and activist who fought systemic discrimination against women and blacks. Bullard is curator at the Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site in Richmond, Va. Full transcript and related links: https://www.richmondfed.org/podcasts/speaking_of_the_economy/speaking_2023_02_22_maggie_walker

In aflevering 29, praten we weer over onze hardloopplannen, we bellen met Maggie Walker, hoe gaat het met haar training voor de halve marathon van Melbourne voor KIKA, er is wat leesvoer, loopjes op de kalender, en hebben het over reisjes in het komend jaar. Verder is er audio van rondje AZ Stadion en Oudkarspel. Veel luisterplezier!

In aflevering 26 een verslag van ons bezoek aan ex-topatleet Rob Druppers, over hardlopen, schoenen en zijn winkel in Utrecht, we bellen met Maggie Walker over haar halve marathon van Amsterdam en hoe het staat met de donaties voor de Kika Halve Marathon in Melbourne, verder leesvoer, de hardloopkalender en nog een stukje audio van Martin's loopje in Egmond. Veel luisterplezier.

Het heeft even geduurd, maar de eerste aflevering van seizoen 3 gaan we het ondermeer hebben over Martin's reis naar Texas, Kansas en Oklahoma in november, en Seattle en Portland in maart, Robbie heeft een audiofragment opgenomen in Tuitjenhorn en we bellen uitgebreid met Maggie Walker en praten over haar vrijwilligersdag bij de Dam tot Damloop en haar voornemen om voor Kika de halve marathon van Melbourne Australie te lopen. Veel luisterplezier.

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A new freshman class at the Maggie Walker Governor's School is the first class admitted under a new admission policy; When middle and high school students return to class in Chesterfield County this week, they'll find a book on library shelves that was almost removed by the school district; A sixth former member of the Delta Chi fraternity at Virginia Commonwealth University pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges connected to the death of student Adam Oakes; and other local news stories.

Click here to find Weird Darkness in your favorite podcast app: https://linktr.ee/weirddarkness IN THIS EPISODE: A smitten fan falls in love with a talented actress, and convinces himself she loves him in return. This sounds very much like a story out of today's entertainment magazines – but this tale of unrequited love took place in the 1880's. (The Lunatic James Dougherty) *** You don't have to go to a cemetery or haunted house to experience the supernatural. You don't need to drive a cursed road to encounter a ghost. Sometimes the paranormal takes place on military bases. (The Military And The Mysterious) *** The corpse of a murderer winds up doing advertising for a drug store. (The Murder of Maggie Walker) *** In 1922, an otherwise unremarkable farmhouse in Novia Scotia was the site of alleged poltergeist activity which made headlines all over Canada and the United States. A poltergeist that liked to set fires. (The Fire Spook of Caledonia Mills)(Dark Archives episode from August 31, 2020)SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…“The Fire Spook of Caledonia Mills” by Hammerson Peters for MysteriesOfCanada.com: https://tinyurl.com/y43ug999 “The Lunatic James Dougherty” by Robert Wilhelm for MurderByGaslight.com: https://tinyurl.com/yxkxo8b6 “The Military and the Mysterious” by Brent Swancer for MysteriousUniverse.org: https://tinyurl.com/y46jdmks “The Murder of Maggie Walker” posted on the website Murders In History: https://tinyurl.com/y2qw2rup = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =Weird Darkness Publishing: https://weirddarkness.com/publishingVisit the Church of the Undead: http://undead.church/ Find out how to escape eternal darkness at https://weirddarkness.com/eternaldarkness = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. Background music provided by Alibi Music, EpidemicSound and/or AudioBlocks with paid license. Music from Shadows Symphony (https://tinyurl.com/yyrv987t), Midnight Syndicate (http://amzn.to/2BYCoXZ), Kevin MacLeod (https://tinyurl.com/y2v7fgbu), Tony Longworth (https://tinyurl.com/y2nhnbt7), and/or Nicolas Gasparini/Myuu (https://tinyurl.com/lnqpfs8) is used with permission. 

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When the Seattle Art Museum opened the Olympic Sculpture Park on the urban waterfront in 2007, it changed the way people could interact with art and experience the city's environment. The fact that it's free and open to everyone makes the park one of the most inclusive places to see art in the Pacific Northwest. The sculpture park contains pieces like Alexander Calder's red sculpture The Eagle, Jaume Plensa's giant head Echo, and Neukom Vivarium, a 60-foot nurse log in a custom-designed greenhouse, among many others. Although many people believe that the greatest work of art at the park is the park itself and the way it connects with its surroundings. Because of the efforts of the Seattle Art Museum and the city, instead of being filled with private condo buildings, this former industrial site has become a welcoming part of the waterfront for the public to enjoy sculptures, activities, and the gorgeous Elliott Bay views. The new book Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park: A Place for Art, Environment, and an Open Mind, pays homage to the interconnected spirit of the park. Mimi Gardner Gates — the director of the Seattle Art Museum (1994–2009) at the time of the Sculpture Park's conception and creation — edited this collection of writings and images about the park and how public-private partnerships can create innovative civic spaces. Other contributors include Barry Bergdoll, Lisa Graziose Corrin, Renée Devine, Mark Dion, Teresita Fernández, Leonard Garfield, Jerry Gorovoy for Louise Bourgeois, Michael A. Manfredi, Lynda V. Mapes, Roy McMakin, Peter Reed, Pedro Reyes, Maggie Walker, and Marion Weiss. Seattle Times journalist Lynda V. Mapes and SAM curator Catharina Manchanda joined Gates in discussion about the remarkable waterfront park and how it might inspire future innovation in civic spaces. Mimi Gardner Gates was director of the Seattle Art Museum for fifteen years and is now director emerita, overseeing the Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas. Previously, she spent nineteen years at Yale University Art Gallery, the last seven-and-a-half of those years as director. She is a fellow of the Yale Corporation; Chairman of the Dunhuang Foundation; Chairman of the Blakemore Foundation; a trustee of the San Francisco Asian Art Museum; a trustee of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, and serves on the boards of the Yale University Art Gallery, the Northwest African American Museum, the Terra Foundation, and Copper Canyon Press. Dr. Gates formerly chaired the National Indemnity Program at the National Endowment for the Arts and served on the Getty Leadership Institute Advisory Committee. Lynda V. Mapes is a journalist, author, and close observer of the natural world, and covers natural history, environmental topics, and issues related to Pacific Northwest indigenous cultures for The Seattle Times. Over the course of her career she has won numerous awards, including the international 2019 and 2012 Kavli gold award for science journalism from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest professional science association. She has written six books, including Orca Shared Waters Shared Home, winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award, and Elwha, a River Reborn. Catharina Manchanda joined the Seattle Art Museum as the Jon & Mary Shirley Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art in 2011. Notable exhibitions for SAM include Pop Departures (2014-15), City Dwellers: Contemporary Art from India (2015), Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas (2017), and Frisson: The Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis Collection (2021). Prior to joining SAM, she was the Senior Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. She has also worked in curatorial positions at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She is the recipient of numerous international awards including an Andy Warhol Foundation grant, Getty Library Research grant, and others. Buy the Book: Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park: A Place For Art, Environment, And An Open Mind from University Book Store Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation click here. 

In aflevering 23 praten we even over Martin's citytrip naar de noord Spaanse stad Bilbao, en over de 6,6 km run die hij daar heeft gedaan. We hebben daar een audioclip van. Verder heeft Robbie een audioreportage over zijn loopje met Maggie Walker, zij deden samen de 10 km rond het Geestmerambacht in de Gemeente Langedijk. Er is leesvoer, de hardloopkalender, audio over Martin's run bij Westbeemster van 7,5 km, en alles wat ons bezighoudt. Veel luisterplezier.

Author Sapphire Christine joins us in this special Carearing episode to share her most recent creation, the Hidden Gems book series for children that details three fierce females who came to power in the Gilded Age of the 1800s. The series includes the fascinating stories of Margaret Getchell LaForge, America's first female executive in retail; Anna Sutherland Bissell, America's first female CEO; and Maggie Walker, America's first female bank president. In addition to launching her book series and kickstarter campaign, Sapphire shares how we can better encourage our kids to follow their entrepreneurial dreams and support them in those endeavors. I love, love this episode and hope you will too! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/laurie-halter/message

Girl Scouts of the USA began as an all-white organization in Savannah, Ga., in 1912. But over time, the organization confronted systemic racism in its own ranks and became what Dr. Martin Luther King described as “a force for desegregation.” Listen as Dr. Carol François and her niece Kourtney Square reprise their episode tracing the evolution of Girl Scouts and their connection to Maggie Lena Walker, a little known but powerful figure in economic, civic, and social change in America. Citations “Black History Month: Girl Scouts' Legacy of Inclusivity,” gsblog, February 14, 2021. https://blog.girlscouts.org/2017/02/black-history-month-girl-scouts-legacy.html “Black History Month: A Celebration of #BlackGirlMagic,” gsblog, February 2, 2021https://blog.girlscouts.org/2021/02/black-history-month-celebration-of.html “Exposing Maggie Walker's life one page at a time,” Jim Ducibella. September 17, 2013 William and Mary, https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2013/exposing-maggie-walkers-life,-one-page-at-a-time.php “Girl Scouting Was Once Segregated,” Erin Blakemore, SMITHSONIANMAG.COM February 21, 2017. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/girl-scouting-was-once-segregated-180962208/ "Maggie Walker." Norwood, Arlisha, National Women's History Museum. 2017. www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/maggie-walker. “The Girl Scouts used to segregate Black and White girls. Now they have their first Black CEO,” Jazmin Goodwin, CNN Business, August 19, 2020.https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/business/girl-scouts-first-black-ceo/index.html “Walker, Maggie Lena, Encyclopedia Virginia, https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/walker-maggie-lena-1864-1934/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/carol-francois/support

Congrats to Adam Bomb, who won week 3 of #moxiemillion, by sharing the show to help it reach 1 million downloads this month! Necessity is the mother of invention and these inventions had real mothers!  Hear about Black female inventors, the tribulations of research, and a story I didn't expect to find and couldn't pass up. 01:00 L'histoire  06:36 Martha Jones's corn husker 07:55 Mary Jones de Leon's cooking apparatus 08:56 Judy Reed's dough kneader-roller 10:30 Sarah Goode's folding bed-desk 11:40 Sarah Boon's ironing board 17:15 Lyda Newman's hairbrush 19:33 Madam CJ Walker's Wonderful Hair-grower 22:03 Biddy Mason Links to all the research resources are on the website. Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.  Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter,  or Instagram.  Become a patron of the podcast arts! Patreon or Ko-Fi.  Or buy the book and a shirt. Music: Kevin MacLeod, David Fesilyan, Dan Henig. and/or Chris Haugen. Sponsors:  What Was That Like, Reddit on Wiki, Sambucol Want to start a podcast or need a better podcast host?  Get up to TWO months hosting for free from Libsyn with coupon code "moxie."   The first Africans arrived at Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. They were recorded as “20 and odd Negroes.” These Africans had been stolen from a Portuguese slave ship, transported to an English warship flying a Dutch flag and sold to colonial settlers in American.  The schooner Clotilda (often misspelled Clotilde) was the last known U.S. slave ship to bring captives from Africa to the United States, arriving at Mobile Bay, in autumn 1859[1] or July 9, 1860   The end of the Civil War and the passage of the 13th and 14th Amendments meant that all black inventors now had the right to apply for patents. The result over the next few decades was a virtual explosion of patented inventions by black mechanics, blacksmiths, domestic workers, and farm laborers — many of them ex-slaves. By 1895 the U.S. Patent Office was able to advertise a special exhibit of inventions patented by black inventors. The list of new inventions patented by blacks after the Civil War reveals what kinds of occupations they held and in which sectors of the labor force they were concentrated. Agricultural implements, devices for easing domestic chores, and devices related to the railroad industry were common subjects for black inventors. Some patented inventions developed in the course of operating businesses like barbershops, restaurants, and tailoring shops. started here Researching African-American history is far tougher than it should be.  Marginalized stories don't get written down, and then there was the whole Lost Cause thing, actively eradicating what stories had been recorded.  For those in far-flung parts fortunate enough not to have have attended a school whose history books were written or chosen by these [sfx bleep], the Lost Cause was people like the Daughters of the Confederacy purposefully rewriting history.  Their version of events was that civil war generals were heroes, slaves were generally treated well and were happy to work for their enslavers, and that the war was about state's rights, not the immorality of owning another human being.  It was from this movement that my hometown of Richmond, VA got a beautiful tree-lined avenue of expensive row houses and every third block had a statue of a civil war general.  the number of Confederate memorial installations peaked around 1910 — 50 years after the end of the Civil War and at the height of Jim Crow, an era defined by segregation and disenfranchisement laws against black Americans. Confederate installations spiked again in the 1950s and 1960s, during the Civil Rights Movement.  It weren't nothing to do with celebrating ancestors who fought for what they believed in, which you shouldn't do if your ancestor was so stunningly wrong in their beliefs, it was about telling African-Americans that you haven't forgotten when they were under your boot and you'd bring all that back tomorrow if you could.  The statues are on my mind today because I was just in a networking event with Noah Scalin and Mark Cheatham, the artists who created a now iconic (regionally) iconic image of the empty plinth where the Robert E Lee statue stood.  Scalin was the guy that started the Skull A Day website, if you ever saw that, and my husband helped him do an art installation in Times Square.   But my squirrel brain was talking about the inherent difficulty of researching this topic.  Details were sparse for the male inventors and it wasn't uncommon for me to find the same photo used on articles about different people, and if I ever, say, shared an image of Benjamin Montgomery with the caption Henry Boyd, many many apologies for the inconvenience.  But in researching black *women inventors, I'd be lucking to *find a picture, misattributed or otherwise.  Or their story or even enough of a bio to fill out aa 3x5 index card.  I got nothing, bupkis, el zilcho.  Well, not nothing-nothing, but not a fraction of what I wanted to present to you.  One of my goals with YBOF is to amplify the stories of POC, women, and the LGBT (see my recent Tiktok about the amazing Gladys Bently for the trifecta), but I guess if I really mean to do that, I'm going to have to abandon Google in favor of an actual library, when I no longer have to be wary of strangers trying to kill me with their selfishness.  That aside, I love a library.  I used to spend summer afternoons at the one by my house in high school – it was cool, quiet, full of amazing knowledge and new stories, and best of all, my 4 little sisters had no interest in going.  When you come from a herd of six kids, anything you can have exclusively to yourself, even if it's because no one else wants it, immediately becomes your favorite thing.   So I don't have as much as I wanted about Black female inventors of the pre-Civil War era, but I did find one real gem that I almost gave the entire episode to, but we'll come to her.  As with male inventors, it can be a little sketch to say this one was first or that one was first.  There are a number of reasons for this.  Black people kept in bondage were expressly prohibited from being issued patents by a law in 18??.  Some would change their names in an attempt to hide their race, some would use white proxies, and of course many Black inventors had their ideas stolen, often by their enslavers, who believed that they owned not only the person, but all of their work output, that they owned the inventor's ideas as much as they owned the crops he harvested, the horseshoes he applied, or the goods he built.     The other big thing that makes early patent history tricky is something I've dealt with personally, twice - a good ol' fashioned structure fire.  A fire broke out in a temporary patent office and even though there was a fire station right next door, 10,000 early patents were lost, as were about 7000 patent models, which used to be part of the application process.  Long story short, we don't, and probably can't, know definitively who was the first, second, and third Black woman to receive a patent, so I'm going to take what names I *can find and put them in chronological order, though surely there are some inventors whose names have been lost, possibly forever.   Martha Jones is believed to be the first Black woman to receive a U.S. patent in 1868, three years after the end of the Civil War, for her improvement to the “Corn Husker, Sheller.”  Her invention made it possible to husk, shell, cut and separate corn all in one step, saving time and labor.  This would be for dry or field corn, the kind used to make cornbread, not sweet corn, the kind you eat on the bone in the summer.  This invention laid a foundation stone for advancements in automatic agricultural processes that are still in use today.  I can show you the schematics from Jones' patent, but as for Jones herself, I've got sweet Fanny Adams.  But I can tell you that her patent came 59 years after the first white woman got hers in 1809, for a weaving process for bonnets, which I think also illustrates what constituted a “problem” in each woman's life.  On the gender side of things, Jones' patent came 47 years after Thomas Jennings became the first black man to receive a U.S. Patent in 1821 for the precursor to dry-cleaning, whose details we lost in that fire.   Next up, or so it is believed, was another Jones (it's like Wales in here today), Mary Jones De Leon.  In 1873, De Leon was granted U.S. patent No. 140,253 for her invention titled ”Cooking Apparatus.”  De Leon, who lived in Baltimore, Maryland, and is buried outside Atlanta, GA, created an apparatus for heating or cooking food either by dry heat or steam, or both.  It was an early precursor to the steam tables now used in buffets and cafeterias.  Remember buffets?  We'll be explaining them to our grandkids.  You'd go to a restaurant and eat out of communal troughs with strangers for $10.  By the way, if I were to say ‘chafing dish' and you thought of a throw-away line from the 1991 movie Hot Shot, “No, a crock pot is for cooking all day,” that's why we're friends.  If you didn't, don‘t worry, we're still friends.   The third patent in our particular pattern went to Judy Woodford Reed, and that patent is about the only records we have for her.  She improved existing machines for working bread dough with her "Dough Kneader and Roller" in 1884.  Her design mixed the dough more evenly, while keeping it covered, which would basically constitute sterile conditions back then.  Reed appears in the 1870 Federal Census as a 44 year old seamstress near Charlottesville, Virginia, along with her husband Allen, a gardener, and their five children.  Sometime between 1880 and 1885, Allen Reed died, and Judy W. Reed, calling herself "widow of Allen," moved to Washington, D. C.  It is unlikely that Reed was able to read, write, or even sign her name.  The census refers to Judy and Allen both as illiterate, and her patent is signed with an "X".   That might have actually worked to her favor.  Lots of whites, about 1 in 5, were illiterate back then, too, and an X reveals neither race nor gender.   The first African-American woman to fully sign a patent was Sarah E. Goode of Chicago.  Bonus fact: illiteracy is why we use an X to mean a kiss at the bottom of a letter or greeting card.  People who couldn't sign their name to a contract or legal document would mark it with an X and kiss it to seal their oath.  Tracing the origin of O meaning hug is entirely unclear, though, and theories abound.   Sarah Elisabeth Goode obtained a patent in 1885 for a Cabinet-bed, a "sectional bedsteads adapted to be folded together when not in use, so as to occupy less space, and made generally to resemble some article of furniture when so folded."  Details continue to be sparse, but we know that as of age 5 in 1860, she was free and living in Ohio.  She moved to Chicago 10 years later and 10 years after that, married a man named Archibald, who was a carpenter, as her father had been.  They had some kids, as people often do, though we don't know how many.   If they had many kids or lived in a small space for the number of kids they had, that could have been what motivated Goode to create a very early version of the cool desk that turns into a bed things you can see online that sell for hundreds or thousands of dollars.  Goode's invention had hinged sections that were easily raised or lowered. When not functioning as a bed, the invention could easily be used as a desk with small compartments for storage, ideal for a small city apartment, especially if there were hella kids in there.   We have a bit more on another Sarah inventor, this time Sarah Boone of NC.  Born into bondage in 1832, Sarah may have acquired her freedom by marrying James Boone, a free Black man, in 1847.  Together, they had eight children and worked to help the Underground Railroad.  Soon the family, along with Sarah's widowed mother, made their way north to New Haven, Connecticut.  Sarah worked as a dressmaker and James as a bricklayer until his death in the 1870s.  They'd done well enough for themselves to purchase their own home.  Far removed from the strictures and structures of enslavement, Sarah became a valued member of her community and began taking reading and writing lessons.     It was through her workaday life as a dressmaker that she invented a product you might well have in your home today, the modern-day ironing board.  Quick personal aside in an episode that's already chock-full of them–did anyone else marry military or former military and make your spouse do all the ironing because you assume they'd be better at it from having to do their uniforms?  I can't be the only one.  Back to Sarah Boone, who wanted “to produce a cheap, simple, convenient and highly effective device, particularly adapted to be used in ironing the sleeves and bodies of ladies garments.”   You might think the ironing board didn't *need to be “invented,” that it was just one of those things everybody kinda just had, but no.  Prior to Boone, you'd put bits of wood between the backs of two chairs, like a makeshift sawhorse.  And anyone who's ever used a makeshift sawhorse only to have it slide apart out from under them or end up sawing into their dining room table will attest that there was indeed room for improvement.  She began by creating a narrower, curved board that could slip into the  sleeves of dresses and shirts, with padding to stop the texture of the wooden base from being imprinted onto the fabric, and the whole thing collapsed for easy storage.   With a bit of help from other dressmakers, she finalized the design for which she'd be awarded her patent in 1892.  Such a simple device was a boon to many a homemaker, though there remains the extent to which she profited from the invention, particularly as they became a product for mass distribution by companies. Even so, we know that it was soon an indispensable household device and made manufacturers wealthy.   MIDROLL   Lyda Newman is remembered for two things, patented the first hairbrush with synthetic bristles in 1898 and her activism in the women's voting rights movement of the early 20th century – she was a key organizer of a Black branch of the Woman Suffrage Party, which was trying to give women the legal right to vote.  We know she was born in Ohio sometime between 1865 and 1885, which is a helluva range for history so relatively recent, and that she spent most of her life living in New York City, working as a hairdresser.      As a hairdresser, and an owner of a head of hair herself, Newman wanted the process of brushing hair to be more hygienic and efficient.  Most hairbrushes at the time were made using animal hair, the same kind you might get in shaving brushes or paint brushes.  Now imagine trying to get knots out with a shaving brush.  Animal-based bristles were too soft for the job, which is where we get the old trope/advice of 100 strokes – it took that many to get the job done.  And that was for white woman.  These brushes were practically useless for the thicker textures of African American hair.  Animal hair also harbored bacteria like it's nobody's business, which is unfortunate since it was also used to bristle toothbrushes and, oh yeah, back in the day, you'd have a single household toothbrush that everyone shared.  Newman's brush used synthetic fibers, which were more durable and easier to clean, in evenly spaced rows of bristles with open slots to clear debris away from the hair into a recessed compartment.  The back could be opened with a button for cleaning out the compartment.     This wasn't a gimmick or fly-by-night idea.  Newman's invention changed the hair-care industry by making hairbrushes less expensive and easier to manufacture.  This paved the way for other Black inventors in the hair-care space to actually *create the black hair care industry, chief among them, Sarah Breedlove.  Don't recognize the name?  What if I call her Madam C.J. Walker?  Well, I'm gonna tell you about her either way.  Breedlove, born in 1867 in Louisiana, was the first child in her family born into freedom, but found herself an orphan at age seven after both parents died of yellow fever.  She lived with a brother-in-law, who abused her, before marrying Moses McWilliams at age 14 to get away from him.  Sarah was a mother at 17 and a widow at 20, so on the whole, not having a good time of it.  And to top it all off, her hair was falling out.   She developed a product to treat the unspecified scalp disease that caused it, made of petroleum jelly, sulfur, and a little perfume to make it smell better.  And it worked!  She called it Madame C.J.Walker Wonderful Hair Grower (she was now married to Charles Walker) and along with Madame C.J.Walker Vegetable Shampoo, began selling door-to-door to other African-American women suffering from the same disease.  5 years later, she set up the Madame C.J.Walker Manufacturing Company in the US, and later expanded her business to Central America and the Caribbean.  She recruited 25,000 black women by the early 1900s to act as door-to-door beauty consultants across North and Central America, and the Caribbean.  Walker was the first one using the method known today as direct sales marketing to distribute and sell her products, a method adopted later on by Avon, TupperWare, and others.  And she paid well, too!  You could earn $25 a week with Walker, a damn site better than $2 per week as a domestic servant.  Her workforce would grow to be 40,000 strong.  So don't be telling me that paying a living wage is bad for business.   Walker didn't keep her success to herself, but used her wealth to support African-American institutions, the black YMCA, helped people with their mortgages, donated to orphanages and senior citizens homes, and was a believer in the power of education.  Now be sure you don't do as I am wont to do and accidentally conflate Madame CJ Walker with Maggie Walker, the first African American woman to charter a bank and the first African American woman to serve as a bank president, and an advocate for the disabled, because she deserves coverage of her own.    As I was searching for black female inventors, I came across one listicle with a paragraph on a woman the author claimed helped “invent” the city of Los Angeles.  That's a bit of a stretch, I thought to myself, but as I read the story of Bridget “Biddy” Mason, I became so utterly fascinated, I almost flipped the script to do the episode entirely about her.  I did not, as you've plainly noticed, since I'd already done primary research for the first six pages of an eight page script. Biddy was born into slavery in 1818 in Georgia, maybe.  We do know she spent most of her early life on a plantation owned by Robert Smithson.  During her teenage years, she learned domestic and agricultural skills, as well as herbal medicine and midwifery from African, Caribbean, and Native American traditions of other female slaves.  Her knowledge and skill made her beneficial to both the slaves and the plantation owners.  According to some authors, Biddy was either given to or sold to Robert Smith and his wife Rebecca in Mississippi in the 1840s.  Biddy had three children, Ellen, Ann, and Harriet.  Their paternity is unknown, but it's been speculated that Ann and Harriet were fathered by Smith.   Smith, a Mormon convert, followed the call of church leaders to settle in the West to establish a new Mormon community in what would become Salt Lake City, Utah in what was at the time still part of Mexico.  The Mormon church was a-okay with slavery, encouraging people to treat the enslaved kindly, as they were lesser beings who needed the white man's protection.  In 1848, 30-year-old Mason *walked 1,700 miles behind a 300-wagon caravan. Along the route west Mason's responsibilities included setting up and breaking camp, cooking the meals, herding livestock, and serving as a midwife as well as taking care of her three young daughters aged ten, four, and an infant.  Utah didn't last long for the Smiths and 3 years later, they set out in a 150-wagon caravan for San Bernardino, California to establish another Mormon community.  Ignoring warnings that slavery was illegal in California, Smith gathered his livestock and people they treated like livestock and schlepped them along.  Although California joined the United States as a free state in 1850, the laws around slavery were complicated and there was a lot of forced labor to be found.  Indigenous people could be forced to work as "contract laborers."  How, you ask?  Well this made we swear loudly when I read it.  Every weekend, local authorities would arrest intoxicated Natives on dubious charges and take them to what was essentially a slave mart and auction off their labor for the coming week. If they were paid at the end of that week, they were usually paid in alcohol so they could get drunk and be arrested to be auctioned off again.   Along the way, biddy Mason met free blacks who urged her to legally contest her slave status once she reached California, a free state.  When they got to Cali, Mason met more free blacks, like her lifelong friends Robert and Minnie Owens, who told her the same thing.  Smith must have noticed this, because a few years later, fearing the loss of his slaves, he decided to move the whole kit and caboodle to Texas, a slave state.  This was obviously real bad news for Mason and the other enslaved people, but thankfully Mason had the Owens on her side, particularly since her now 17 year old daughter was in love with their son.  The law was on her side, too.  The California Fugitive Slave Act, enacted in 1852, allowed slave owners to temporarily hold enslaved persons in California and transport them back to their home state, but this law wouldn't have covered Smith because he wasn't from Texas.  When Robert Owens told the Los Angeles County Sheriff that there were people being illegally held in bondage and being taken back to a slave state, the sheriff gathered a posse, including Owens, his sons, and cattleman from Owens' ranch, and cut Smith off at the pass, literally Cajon Pass, and prevented him from leaving the state.  The sheriff was armed with a legal document, a writ of habeus corpus, signed by Judge Benjamin Hayes.   On January 19, 1856 she petitioned the court for freedom for herself and her extended family of 13 women and children.  Their fate was now in the hands of Judge Hayes.  You wouldn't expect Hayes to be on Mason's side in a dispute against Smith.  Hayes hailed from a slave state and had owned slaves himself, plus in his time as a journalist, he's written pro-Mormon articles.  The trial started with a damning statement from Biddy's eldest daughter Hannah, herself a mother of a newborn, saying she wanted to go to Texas.  The sheriff spoke to her afterwards and found she was terrified of Smith and had said what she was told to say.  She wasn't wrong to be scared.  Smith threatened Mason's lawyer and bribed him to leave the case.  Smith's son and hired men trail hands went to the jail where Mason and her family were being kept safe and tried to intimidate the jailer.  They also threatened the Owens family and a neighborhood grocer and a doctor. They said 'If this case isn't resolved on Southern principles, you'll all pay the price, all people of color.'    Judge Hayes…he wasn't having any of this.  Technically, Mason and her children had also become free the minute they stepped into California. The new California constitution stated that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude unless for the punishment of crimes shall ever be tolerated in this state.” However, lacking options and probably unaware of her full rights, Mason continued to serve in the Smith household.  Smith claimed Mason and the others had stayed because they were “members of his family” who voluntarily offered to go with him to Texas.  Mason, as a non-white person, was legally barred from testifying against the white Smith in court, so Judge Hayes took her into his chambers along with two trustworthy local gentlemen who acted as observers to depose her.  He asked her only whether she was going voluntarily, and what she said was, 'I always do what I have been told, but I have always been afraid of this trip to Texas."    Smith fled to Texas before the trial could conclude.  On January 19, Judge Hays ruled in favor of Mason.  "And it further appearing by satisfactory proof to the Judge here, that all the said persons of color are entitled to their freedom and are free and cannot be held in slavery or involuntary servitude, it is therefore argued that they are entitled to their freedom and are free forever."  He hoped they would “become settled and go to work for themselves—in peace and without fear.”   Okay, now we're getting to the part of Biddy Mason's story that the listicle writer used to include her in a gallery of inventrixes.  Mason and her family moved to Los Angeles, then a dusty little town of only 2,000 or so residents, less than 20 of whom were black, where she worked as midwife and nurse.  As the town grew, so did her business.  Basically, if you were having a baby, Biddy Mason was delivering it.  Well, her friend Dr. Griffin probably helped, but we're hear to talk about Biddy.  After tending to hundreds of births and illnesses, she was known about town as Aunt Biddy.  As a midwife, Mason was able to cross class and color lines and she viewed everyone as part of her extended family.  In her big black medicine bag, she carried the tools of her trade, and the papers Judge Hayes had given her affirming that she was free, just in case.    By 1866, she had saved enough money to buy a property on Spring Street.  Her daughter Ellen remembered that her mother firmly told her family that “the first homestead must never be sold.”  She wanted her family to always have a home to call their own.  My family is the same way – if you can own land, even if it's an empty lot, do.  Mason's small wood frame house at 311 Spring Street was not just a family home, it became a “refuge for stranded and needy settlers,” a daycare center for working women, and a civic meeting place.  In 1872, a group of black Angelenos founded the First African Methodist Episcopal Church at her house and they met there until they were able to move to their own building.     She also continued to invest in real estate, while always making sure to give back. According to the Los Angeles Times: “She was a frequent visitor to the jail, speaking a word of cheer and leaving some token and a prayerful hope with every prisoner. In the slums of the city, she was known as “Grandma Mason,” and did much active service toward uplifting the worst element in Los Angeles. She paid taxes and all expenses on church property to hold it for her people. During the flood of the early eighties, she gave an open order to a little grocery store, which was located on Fourth and Spring Streets. By the terms of this order, all families made homeless by the flood were to be supplied with groceries, while Biddy Mason cheerfully paid the bill.”   Eventually she was able to buy 10 acres, on which she built rental homes and eventually a larger commercial building she rented out.  That land she invested in and developed is now the heart of downtown L.A. three substantial plots near what is now Grand Central Market as well as land on San Pedro Street in Little Tokyo.  Mason was a shrewd businesswoman too.  Los Angeles was booming, and rural Spring Street was becoming crowded with shops and boarding houses. In 1884, she sold the north half of her Spring Street property for $1,500 and had a mixed-use building built on the other half.  She sold a lot she had purchased on Olive Street for $2,800, turning a tidy profit considering she'd bought it for less than $400.  In 1885, she deeded a portion of her remaining Spring Street property to her grandsons “for the sum of love and affection and ten dollars.”  She signed the deed with her customary flourished “X.” Though she was a successful real estate pioneer and nurse, who stressed the importance of education for her children and grandchildren, and taught herself Spanish, she had never learned to read or write.   Bridget “Biddy” Mason died 1891, one of the wealthiest women in Los Angeles.  For reasons never fully explained, she was buried in an unmarked grave at Evergreen Cemetery.  While you can't visit her grave, you can visit the mini-park created in her honor.  Designed by landscape architects Katherine Spitz and Pamela Burton, an 80-foot-long poured concrete wall, created by artist Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, displays a timeline of Biddy's life, illustrated with images like wagon wheels and a midwife's bag, as well as images such as an early survey map of Los Angeles and Biddy's freedom papers, from the northernmost end of the wall with the text “Biddy Mason born a slave,” all the way down to “Los Angeles mourns and reveres Grandma Mason.”  If you're ever down near the Bradbury Building on Spring street, get some pictures for me.   Sources: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/mason-bridget-biddy-1818-1891/ https://la.curbed.com/2017/3/1/14756308/biddy-mason-california-black-history https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/biddy-mason-memorial-park https://alliesforracialjustice.org/shark-tank-in-the-1800s-black-women-reigned-in-household-inventions/ https://interestingengineering.com/black-inventors-the-complete-list-of-genius-black-american-african-american-inventors-scientists-and-engineers-with-their-revolutionary-inventions-that-changed-the-world-and-impacted-history-part-two https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/02/08/revolutionizing-cooking-mary-jones-de-leon/id=129701/ https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/lyda-newman https://interestingengineering.com/black-inventors-the-complete-list-of-genius-black-american-african-american-inventors-scientists-and-engineers-with-their-revolutionary-inventions-that-changed-the-world-and-impacted-history-part-two https://laist.com/news/la-history/biddy-mason-free-forever-the-contentious-hearing-that-made-her-a-legend-los-angeles-black-history  

Robbie gaat in deze aflevering naar IJmuiden en heeft een gesprek met Maggie Walker, ambasadeur van Virtueel.nl, ze schrijft oa voor mijnhardloopschoen.nl, ze blogt, heeft haar eigen website en geeft ondernemers een boost want ze is werkzaam als adviseur op een ondernemers desk……Maggie won als 13 jarige de 5 km van de Gaasperplas en zo is eigenlijk het hardlopen begonnen. Robbie loopt met haar voor Kika binnenkort de halve marathon op de Veluwe, en heeft een mooi gesprek over het leven, tegenslagen, en de liefde voor het lopen. Veel luisterplezier met Robbie in gesprek met Maggie Walker.

In this episode of TGC Q&A, our third in a six-week series on faith and work, Amy Sherman answers the question, “How did followers of Jesus serve the poor?”She discusses:• Imitating Jesus (:32) • Formalizing the process (1:58) • John Calvin and the Reformation influence (2:47) • John Wesley and the Methodist tradition (4:04) • The influence of Octavia Hill (5:00) • Maggie Walker's bank (7:08) • Explore more from TGC on the topic of Serving the Poor.

Join the Spook Sistaz as we chat about an Ancient Hair Style that is popular today, also as we chat about the amazing Maggie Walker in this first of November 2021. 

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Container Entrainment (intentional possibility understructure)" - Show #619, from Oct. 24, 2018 [Augmented live today in 2021 List of source samples follows:] Thomas Park - One Minute Vacations Ambrose Pottie - "Petting Zoo" - One-Minute Vacations Stars of the Lid - "Articulate Silences" - And Their Refinement Of The Decline Aaron Ximm - "Tradewinds in Palm" - One-Minute Vacations Simon Hampson - "Walking near Poh's House" - One-Minute Vacations - "Creek Frogs, Panoche Valley CA" - One-Minute Vacations Ken - "I think you have your headphones on (you're taking slow, deep breaths)" - "Maine Shorebreak" - One-Minute Vacations Ken - "You don't do anything anymore (you're not trying, not anymore)" - "Granada Park" - One-Minute Vacations Vlissingen - "Wind Organ" - One-Minute Vacations Ken - "This is our last dance. I don't know who you are" - "Canyon Hawks, Santa Monica CA" - One-Minute Vacations Ken - "We don't remember anymore" Stars of the Lid - "Don't Bother They're Here" - And Their Refinement Of The Decline - "Winchcombe Last Post, Cotswolds UK" - One-Minute Vacations - "Perfect Storm, Muir Woods, CA" - One-Minute Vacations - "Whisby Nightingales, Lincoln UK" - One-Minute Vacations - "No one knows but the pebbles" - One-Minute Vacations Virgilio Oliveira - "Barcade Alva 1" - One-Minute Vacations Virgilio Oliveira - "Barcade Alva binaural" - One-Minute Vacations Bruce Davison, Kevin Conway, Ursula K. Le Guin - "There is a difference between what you dream and what you do" - The Lathe of Heaven Nicky Hopkins / The Rolling Stones - "She's A Rainbow" John Lennon - "Jealous Guy (guitar only)" Nicky Hopkins / John Lennon - "Jealous Guy (piano only)" Suzan Pitt - "Asparagus" [Brief] Bruce Davison, Kevin Conway, Ursula K. Le Guin - "But not for me! It's the same thing!" - The Lathe of Heaven David Clennon - "We all have fields around us" - thirtySomething Clive Wearing - "Part 2a" - Living Without Memory Peter Oldring - "I'm a radio broadcaster" - This is That Random Rab - "Blast Off" - Release Steven Jesse Bernstein - "The Man Upstairs" Dufus - "Feed the Baby" - Eth The Police - "Every Breath You Take (but every other beat is missing)" Toto - "Africa (but every other beat is missing)" Toto - "Africa (but half of every measure is missing)" Talking Heads - "Once in a Lifetime (but it's a waltz)" Blue Oyster Cult - "Don't Fear the Reaper (but every other beat is missing)" Live phone - "Dial tone" - "Field recordings, Stars of the Lid, Random Rab continue" Ken - "Monologue: Engagement containment entrainment" [Containing intention Intending containment for spaces under which possibility unhappens Containment of enstrange combinatorial Creating unintentional entrainment within which possibility space Creating structure for the container, not for the contents Creating understructure around the container One remembers to forget Touching unknowing impossibility Conscious unconsciousness Creating safety for risk-taking Unafraid of endless depths] Clive Wearing - "Living Without Memory (try and be careful not to place demands on his memory, because he then becomes upset)" - Living Without Memory Ken - "Let go of all your memories today. Be awkward, don't know, you don't have to know" Ken - "Identification" Little May - "Boardwalks" [Loops] Clem Leek - "Mystery Moor" Live phone caller - "Are you letting anything go? (I forgot time, and instead I felt the sun)" [Gravel beneath my feet] Sigur Ros - "Takk" - Takk [Brief] Gavin Bryars - "Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All Strings" Live phone caller - "More than enough (are we allowed to do this?)" Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - "Southern Accents (piano loop)" - Southern Accents [Brief] Ween - "The Mollusk (loop)" - The Mollusk [Brief] Live phone caller - "Anything left to let go of? (I don't know what)" [Live stream echo chamber] The War on Drugs - "In Chains (loops)" - A Deeper Understanding Live phone caller - "I finally see myself" Live stream feedback echo chamber The War on Drugs - "In Chains (loops)" - A Deeper Understanding Ken - "You're bigger than you ever were" Live phone caller - "Drowns out our sounds, all I'm left with" The War on Drugs - "In Chains (loops)" - A Deeper Understanding Kid - "Have you ever had a dream you could do anything?" Morgan Freeman - "Forget about the way it used to be" - Lean On Me movie Fairuza Balk (directed by Walter Murch) - "I'll never forget any of you" - Return to Oz - "It's so easy to forget (in the digital age)" Phone caller (Sequoia) - "There's nothing to prove that history is real" Arturo en el Barco Katie Wood (Sugarlift) - "Site of Maggie Walker's grave at Evergreen Cemetery" [Richmond field recording] Ken - "Someone called in (it's almost over forever) Next time I'll call you" [Testing to see what is sound, finding out by doing, never understanding. Who will find the note?] Orson Welles - "What's wrong with this place is it's another marketplace, always the enemy of the artist" - Interview Paul Spurrier - "The human body has millions of nerve endings" - Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future (pilot movie) [Some particularly slothful subjects simply explode] Anthony Geary - "You know, pal, the constitution wasn't written on an etch a sketch" - My New Car a.k.a. It Takes Two Kid - "I feel, I feel...If you believe in yourself" Richard E. Grant - "Roads represent a fundamental right of man to have access to the good things in life" - How to Get Ahead in Advertising Dennis Hopper - "This used to be a hell of a good country (nature only)" - Easy Rider David Lynch - "The mysteries of darkness and love" - Blue Velvet interview Wallace Shawn - "I get to talk to people who at long last know what's important. The living make such meaningless distinctions" - Critical Care Kid - "I feel happy of myself" Clem Leek - "Mystery Moor" Bruce Davison, Kevin Conway, Ursula K. Le Guin - "George, understand something" - The Lathe of Heaven Live phone caller - "Trying to find a story (slip you a note) A picture of a cow jumping over the moon" [What's the scariest thing you know? (love)] Margarita Levieva - "The genius of a car alarm, you can't talk back to it, it makes you love it, it's safe" - Noise Margarita Levieva - "You love hating the noise, it's your muse" - Noise Ian Brown of Stone Roses - "It takes time to get acquainted, it takes time for people to fall in love with you, but it's inevitable" - Made of Stone documentary Diane Baker - "People lie in the light and make love in the dark" - Mirage Royksopp - "Royksopp Forever (loops)" - Junior Kid - "Just keep practicing! You gonna get the hang of it, I know it!" [If you believe in yourself] Ken - "I will get the hang of it, I know it (a little more trust, a little more fear)" Set: 2021 Lullatone - "Wet Grass" - The Sounds of Spring Ken - "Glad for whatever you were today" https://lastever.org/show/210823

The St. Luke Legacy Center was opened in July 2020 with the mission of providing families with wraparound services that would cater to their needs from birth until death.  The Legacy Center is all about seeing and meeting the needs we of our community.  The Legacy Center is dedicated to creating legacy as those who came before us. Located in the historic St. Luke Building in the Jackson Ward community of Richmond, Va, the building once housed the great Maggie L. Walker. Maggie Walker's impact touched the world as the first African American woman to found a bank.

The plant of the week is the Pacific NW native, Camassia! I'm joined by Rod and Maggie Walker from Blue Ridge PRISM. Need something to listen to while playing in your garden? I recommend “Poison Ivy” by The Coasters. 0:00 intro / 2:43 plant of the week / 5:32 interview / 22:00 playlist

Welcome to Twisted Sister History! Everything you THOUGHT you knew about Maggie Walker...is about to get TWISTED! Make sure to download, subscribe and follow us on social media! @twistedsisterhistory!

Good morning, RVA! It’s 45 °F, and, while you can expect highs in the 60s today, you can also expect a whole lot of wind. Later this week we could see lows below freezing, so think hard if you’ve got plans to plant your garden!Water coolerAs of this morning, the Virginia Department of Health reports 1,392 new positive cases of the coronavirus in the Commonwealthand 20 new deaths as a result of the virus. VDH reports 145 new cases in and around Richmond (Chesterfield: 72, Henrico: 31, and Richmond: 42). Since this pandemic began, 1,203 people have died in the Richmond region. While it’s good news on the vaccine side of things, which you’ll see in a moment, the number of new COVID-19 cases in Virginia continues to climb up off of this bumpy plateau. One thing I’m interested in is how having a huge percentage of the state’s seniors vaccinated impacts the number of hospitalizations and deaths. I mean, I’m not interested enough to want case counts to increase, but it looks like that’s happening anyway.As for vaccines, the Richmond region continues to vaccinate more than enough people to meet the governor’s stated goals (which works out to 37,000 vaccines administer per week). For folks still waiting on a vaccination appointment—or waiting to become eligible—“vaccinating more than enough people to meet the goal” does not feel like nearly enough. We’ll get there, though. Here’s this week’s graph of total doses administered locally along with the graph of state allocation of vaccine. And, over the weekend, I put together a new, simple graph of total people in Richmond, Henrico, and Chesterfield with at least one dose. The purple part of this graph represents 75% of the region’s population (679,950) and is what we’re shooting for if we want to reach herd immunity. I don’t really know if you can “reach herd immunity” in a locality or even in a group of localities, but I think it’s something to shoot for (or at least make a graph about).City Council will host its second budget work session today! You can tune in live at 1:00 PM or check out the recording on The Boring Show later this week. The presentation attached to the agenda looks like a general budget overview and has the Mayor and CAO’s names on it, which could be a fun presentation to listen in on. One additional budget update I wanted to mention. Last week I wrote about how the new “Complete Streets” CIP project folded together a bunch of projects from last year’s CIP—including the City’s project for paving. For FY22, all of those projects combined totaled $23,900,000 while the new Complete Streets project only had $8,150,000 budgeted towards it in FY22. The budget for paving in last year’s CIP alone was $20 million, so I was concerned about the missing $15 million and nervous that money previously allocated to sidewalks and bike lanes and traffic calming would get spent on paving. I’ve since learned some things! The key piece of information I lacked was that money from the CVTA (about $17 million) will get moved into a CVTA Special Fund in the City’s operating budget. That solves the mystery of the missing $15 million. I assume (always stupid) that most of this will be spent on road (and sidewalk!) maintenance and paving for the foreseeable future due to years of disinvestment, and that the $8 million allocated for Complete Streets will be used for just that. That might be an overly naive take—given that the new Complete Streets money is more discretionary than listing out specific projects for specific needs like, say, setting aside $X million for sidewalks. It’s something to keep an eye on. Also, nothing says that the money coming from the CVTA forever and always must be used on road maintenance. That’s something to keep an eye on, too.Kenya Hunter at the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that “Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School accepted more Black and Latino students for the upcoming 2021–22 school year than it has in five years. This year, around 8% of Black students who applied were accepted; 11.7% of Latino applicants got in. That’s up from 3% for Black students and down from 20% for Latino students, who applied in significantly greater numbers this year.” What changed? Hunter says the school got rid of in-person admission tests. While school administrators aren’t willing to say that’s what increased applications from Black and Latino students, you can easily see how standardized tests are a barrier to some students.The Partnership for Smarter Growth, Virginia Poverty Law Center, and Richmond For All have put together a proposed affordable housing framework for the Richmond Region. There’s a lot in here, and a lot of it is above and beyond my housing chops. While I really don’t know the path forward on public housing—for example, does the federal support exist to commit to “one-for-one brick-and-mortar replacement of like kind of any public housing units lost in the process of redevelopment”—I do appreciate some of the suggested process improvements for RRHA. I’d like to learn more about Local Rent Supplement Programs, too. Anyway, you can learn more today at a virtual presentation at 12:00 PM. It’s free, but you’ll want to register over on the Eventbrite.I think I’ve linked to each previous phase of VDOT’s commuter survey, so now I am honor-bound to link to the Phase 3 Virginia Commuter Survey. If you commute, or if you no longer commute, take a couple minutes and fill this out—especially if you get to and from work in something other than a personal vehicle! These days, I make most of my commutes in my slippers.This morning’s longreadWhy a ship stuck in Egypt threatens the economy in the United StatesLast night they got the boat slightly less stuck in the Suez Canal. Here’s a piece in the WaPo about why having it stuck there in the first place was a big deal.If you’ve been paying attention to the story, you’ve probably heard this aspect mentioned. This ship, this one gigantic, Empire State Building-sized ship, might potentially cause economic damage to the United States. This may seem inscrutable to a layperson. The ship will do this … how, exactly? To answer this question, I contacted several experts on global logistics. The goal wasn’t to understand the intricacies of the international trade system, but simply to answer that direct question. What’s the butterfly-flapping-its-wings process by which that stuck vessel ripples onto our shores? The short and obvious answer is that, unlike that apocryphal butterfly, there’s a direct and obvious connection between that ship and American consumers.If you’d like your longread to show up here, go chip in a couple bucks on the ol’ Patreon.Picture of the DayA flying squirrel.

Show Notes Girl Scouts of the USA began as an all-white organization in Savannah, Ga., in 1912. But over time, the organization confronted systemic racism in its own ranks and became what Dr. Martin Luther King described as “a force for desegregation.” Listen as Dr. Carol François and her niece Kourtney Square trace the evolution of Girl Scouts and their connection to Maggie Lena Walker, a little known but powerful figure in economic, civic, and social change in America. Citations “Black History Month: Girl Scouts' Legacy of Inclusivity,” gsblog, February 14, 2021. https://blog.girlscouts.org/2017/02/black-history-month-girl-scouts-legacy.html “Black History Month: A Celebration of #BlackGirlMagic,” gsblog, February 2, 2021https://blog.girlscouts.org/2021/02/black-history-month-celebration-of.html “Exposing Maggie Walker's life one page at a time,” Jim Ducibella. September 17, 2013 William and Mary, https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2013/exposing-maggie-walkers-life,-one-page-at-a-time.php “Girl Scouting Was Once Segregated,” Erin Blakemore, SMITHSONIANMAG.COM February 21, 2017. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/girl-scouting-was-once-segregated-180962208/ "Maggie Walker." Norwood, Arlisha, National Women's History Museum. 2017. www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/maggie-walker. “The Girl Scouts used to segregate Black and White girls. Now they have their first Black CEO,” Jazmin Goodwin, CNN Business, August 19, 2020.https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/business/girl-scouts-first-black-ceo/index.html “Walker, Maggie Lena, Encyclopedia Virginia, https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/walker-maggie-lena-1864-1934/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/carol-francois/support

From Valentine’s Day to BHM, A1 and Gia offer suggestions and facts. Video of the week: Run DMC “Hard Times” https://youtu.be/qO2cakSiqDQ Carter G. Woodson https://www.naacp.org/naacp-history-carter-g-woodson/ Maggie Walker https://www.nps.gov/people/maggie-l-walker.htm Virginia Randolph https://henrico.us/history/ourhistory/virginia-e-randolph/

When Stacey Abrams has something to say, she doesn't want for approval to do what needs to be done. Maggie Walker made sure to offer opportunities within her black community after seeing the differences from the surrounding white communities. Follow us on Instagram @The_Boss_Ass_Bitch_Awards, and our Patreon @TheBossAssBitchAwards. Email us, thebabawards@gmail.com, a story about someone who inspires you, a public figure, past or present or someone in your personal life. 

Episode Notes The second greatest leader since Booker T. Washington. The wealthiest African-American woman in the whole country. A supporter of educational and social work. Newspapers glowingly described all of Maggie Lena Walker's many accomplishments after her death in December 1934. But the story of her rise to a position of public esteem reads like fiction.

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Upfront Mind, Body & Soul Podcast Host: Lynn Nicole Episode #6 - Black Women Entrepreneurs: Past, Present, and Future Despite all the challenges that are inherently stacked against us, the state of entrepreneurship amongst black women has never been more promising. In fact, according to the Center of American Progress, African American women operate more than 1.3 million businesses in the US, which generate over $45 billion in yearly revenue. In this very special episode, I’m turning back time to learn more about the phenomenal black women who have paved the way for all black business owners. Each of them demonstrates ingenuity, fierce determination, and a resolve to succeed even when the odds are stacked against them. Along the way, I also reveal exactly why there has never been a better time to be a black female entrepreneur and why our future is looking 100% bright. I’m so proud to share their history with you and I hope you feel inspired to blaze your own trail. Rate and Review If you found this episode of JMMBOB valuable and encouraging, I would be so grateful if you left a rating and review. I love getting to know the people in my community and it helps other black business owners discover the podcast as well. Memorable Moments: The tale of Clara Brown [3:23] The tale of Maggie Walker [5:16] The tale of Sheila Johnson [7:29] The tale of Sandra Caldwell [9:07] The tale of Renee Bluitt [14:32] Produced by Elite Conversations Podcast https://www.eliteconversations.com/mypodcast.html

A Richmond judge dismissed a lawsuit filed to prevent the removal of the Robert E. Lee monument, but one filed by residents of Monument Avenue remains; Richmond City Council votes to permanently remove the monuments already taken down in the city; Petersburg is offering grants to small businesses affected by the pandemic; Virginia Department of Health is rolling out a voluntary contact tracing app for COVID-19; the closure of the John Marshall Courthouse has been extended; Former Speaker of the House Kirk Cox is considering a run for Governor; and vandals defaced Maggie Walker's grave in Evergreen Cemetery.

Re-joining me this episode is Diallo Brooks. A social justice advocate based in Washington, DC who works for People For the American Way. You will remember him from the COVID-19 episode. Sitting with us is Dave; and we will go by his first name only, to protect him. Dave joins us as a Black cop based on the East Coast who shares the flaws he sees daily within the police department, the reason why he joined the force and his thoughts being an officer, while Black, in America.Diallo Brooks and Dave the Cop on…(07:30) - What inspired Diallo to get into social justice. Fact: his great-great grandmother, Maggie Walker, was the first woman and first black woman to found a bank. A statue has been erected in Richmond, VA in her honor (07:30).(09:17) - What it looks like to champion social justice.(13:17) - How they would feel if their kids decided to become police officers.(17:33) - On policing being a way of fighting for social justice.(18:45) - Officers that stand by and watch their colleagues kill black civilians.(21:00) - Being on the side of the protestors.(22:25) - What inspired Dave to become a police officer.(23:17) - What he wish he knew before becoming a police officer.(25:36) - Whether Dave identifies more as being a black man or being a police officer in America; and how it affects how he does his job.(29:40) - How Dave, as a Black man, feels seeing and hearing about the senseless murders of Black civilians.(31:58) - What “the talk” sounds like in both their households.(42:00) - Racial biases within the police department.(44:17) - The quota system - productivity goals within the police department.(52:44) - Historical context of how policing came about as a formalized structure during slavery.(54:38) - Police reform. Understanding the core needs of the community will dictate what level of policing is required.(66:20) - Respecting due process & timelines for the investigation and indictment of wrongful police officers.(71:00) - Police violence stats according to https://mappingpoliceviolence.org.72:00 - Defining qualified immunity.(75:00) - Accountability around police misconduct in the Black community.(79:00) - What their actions would have been had they seen George Floyd being murdered firsthand.(93:45) - Whether this is a movement or a moment.

After roughly four centuries, the Spanish Inquisition was disbanded on this day in 1834. / On this day in 1864, Maggie Walker was born. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

A year ago last week the Manchester Council and the surround councils declared a climate emergency. This was seen by many as the first step forward in Manchester becoming the green city it needs to be to tackle climate breakdown. Little did many of us know how deeply intrenched the city is with industries that are hurtling the planet towards a Mad Max future (sans the cool bikes). The Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) is the largest fund in the local government pension scheme and the 11th biggest benefit pension fund in the U.K. at a staggering 23.8 Billion pounds. Is all of that capital supporting the climate emergency? On this weeks show we are joined by Maggie Walker & Ali Abbas from Fossil Free Greater Manchester (@FossilFreeGM) to discuss the ongoing campaign to make the GMPF divest from fossil fuels. LinksFossil Free Greater Manchesterhttp://fossilfreegm.org.uk/Green Investments providing 178% returns- Forbeshttps://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2020/05/28/just-how-good-an-investment-is-renewable-energy-new-study-reveals-all/#3aeff104d278Latest Greater Manchester Pension Fund reporthttps://www.gmpf.org.uk/getmedia/b3f609a9-b078-4808-a3e5-5cc61d74e669/Annual_report_and_accounts_2019.pdfShout OutsUniversity of Manchester Fossil Fuel Divestment campaign@PeopleUomBetter Buses GM@BetterBusesGMTop fan Lucas Clay!@LTMClayIf you like the show tell your comrades!Find us on all the socials Twitter:@MCRGND_PODInsta: ManchestergndpodFB:MCRGNDPOD

In 1855, an outbreak of yellow fever devastated the port city of Norfolk, VA. Annette Finley-Croswhite (Old Dominion University) says the similarities with the handling of the coronavirus pandemic are chilling. And: Marie Antoinette had wacky hairdos and threw lavish parties. She was also smart and never said,“Let them eat cake.” Ron Schechter (William & Mary) has uncovered her secret library of banned books, which he says reveals a depth to her character not previously recognized. Later in the show: Maggie Walker was an African American teacher and businesswoman and the first woman of any race to charter a bank in the United States. Colita Fairfax (Norfolk State University) says Walker was also a powerful civil rights leader in the former capital of the Confederacy during the repressive Jim Crow era. Plus: A town’s historical markers tell visitors the story of a place. But what do they leave out? We take a walking tour of Fredericksburg, Virginia’s historic markers and monuments with geographer Stephen Hanna (University of Mary Washington) to understand its untold stories.

Despite all the challenges that are inherently stacked against us, the state of entrepreneurship amongst black women has never been more promising.  In fact, according to the Center of American Progress, African American women operate more than 1.3 million businesses in the US, which generate over $45 billion in yearly revenue.  In this very special episode, I’m turning back time to learn more about the phenomenal black women who have paved the way for all black business owners. Each of them demonstrates ingenuity, fierce determination, and a resolve to succeed even when the odds are stacked against them.  Along the way, I also reveal exactly why there has never been a better time to be a black female entrepreneur and why our future is looking 100% bright. I’m so proud to share their history with you and I hope you feel inspired to blaze your own trail.  Rate and Review  If you found this episode of JMMBOB valuable and encouraging, I would be so grateful if you left a rating and review. I love getting to know the people in my community and it helps other black business owners discover the podcast as well.   https://apple.co/33JHMJx - link to Apple Podcasts  Memorable Moments: The tale of Clara Brown [3:23] The tale of Maggie Walker [5:16] The tale of Sheila Johnson [7:29]  The tale of Sandra Caldwell [9:07]  The tale of Renee Bluitt [14:32] Something Extra: If you’re a public speaker that struggles to get booked for speaking engagements, or you’re  looking for an elevator pitch to gain media attention, look no further than Precious Williams’ latest book, ‘Bad Bitches and Power Pitches.’ (https://perfectpitchesbyprecious.com/product/bad-bitches-power-pitches-book/) It’s designed to help women entrepreneurs get all the attention and interest they need right now. 

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Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Container Entrainment (intentional possibility understructure)" - Show #619, new! Thomas Park - One Minute Vacations Ambrose Pottie - "Petting Zoo" - One-Minute Vacations Stars of the Lid - "Articulate Silences" - And Their Refinement Of The Decline Aaron Ximm - "Tradewinds in Palm" - One-Minute Vacations Simon Hampson - "Walking near Poh's House" - One-Minute Vacations - "Creek Frogs, Panoche Valley CA" - One-Minute Vacations Ken - "I think you have your headphones on (you're taking slow, deep breaths)" - "Maine Shorebreak" - One-Minute Vacations Ken - "You don't do anything anymore (you're not trying, not anymore)" - "Granada Park" - One-Minute Vacations Vlissingen - "Wind Organ" - One-Minute Vacations Ken - "This is our last dance. I don't know who you are" - "Canyon Hawks, Santa Monica CA" - One-Minute Vacations Ken - "We don't remember anymore" Stars of the Lid - "Don't Bother They're Here" - And Their Refinement Of The Decline - "Winchcombe Last Post, Cotswolds UK" - One-Minute Vacations - "Perfect Storm, Muir Woods, CA" - One-Minute Vacations - "Whisby Nightingales, Lincoln UK" - One-Minute Vacations - "No one knows but the pebbles" - One-Minute Vacations Virgilio Oliveira - "Barcade Alva 1" - One-Minute Vacations Virgilio Oliveira - "Barcade Alva binaural" - One-Minute Vacations Bruce Davison, Kevin Conway, Ursula K. Le Guin - "There is a difference between what you dream and what you do" - The Lathe of Heaven Nicky Hopkins / The Rolling Stones - "She's A Rainbow" John Lennon - "Jealous Guy (guitar only)" Nicky Hopkins / John Lennon - "Jealous Guy (piano only)" Suzan Pitt - "Asparagus" [Brief] Bruce Davison, Kevin Conway, Ursula K. Le Guin - "But not for me! It's the same thing!" - The Lathe of Heaven David Clennon - "We all have fields around us" Clive Wearing - "Part 2a" - Living Without Memory Peter Oldring - "I'm a radio broadcaster" - This is That Random Rab - "Blast Off" Steven Jesse Bernstein - "The Man Upstairs" Dufus - "Feed the Baby" - Eth The Police - "Every Breath You Take (but every other beat is missing)" Toto - "Africa (but every other beat is missing)" Toto - "Africa (but half of every measure is missing)" Talking Heads - "Once in a Lifetime (but it's a waltz)" Blue Oyster Cult - "Don't Fear the Reaper (but every other beat is missing)" Live phone - "Dial tone" - "Field recordings, Stars of the Lid, Random Rab continue" Ken - "Monologue: Engagement containment entrainment" [Containing intention Intending containment for spaces under which possibility unhappens Containment of enstrange combinatorial Creating unintentional entrainment within which possibility space Creating structure for the container, not for the contents Creating understructure around the container One remembers to forget Touching unknowing impossibility Conscious unconsciousness Creating safety for risk-taking Unafraid of endless depths] Clive Wearing - "Living Without Memory (try and be careful not to place demands on his memory, because he then becomes upset)" - Living Without Memory Ken - "Let go of all your memories today. Be awkward, don't know, you don't have to know" Ken - "Identification" Little May - "Boardwalks" [Loops] Clem Leek - "Mystery Moor" Live phone caller - "Are you letting anything go? (I forgot time, and instead I felt the sun)" [Gravel beneath my feet] Sigur Ros - "Takk" [Brief] Gavin Bryars - "Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All Strings" Live phone caller - "More than enough (are we allowed to do this?)" Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - "Southern Accents (piano loop)" [Brief] Ween - "The Mollusk (loop)" [Brief] Live phone caller - "Anything left to let go of? (I don't know what)" [Live stream echo chamber] The War On Drugs - "In Chains (loops)" - A Deeper Understanding Live phone caller - "I finally see myself" Live stream feedback echo chamber The War On Drugs - "In Chains (loops)" - A Deeper Understanding Ken - "You're bigger than you ever were" Live phone caller - "Drowns out our sounds, all I'm left with" The War On Drugs - "In Chains (loops)" - A Deeper Understanding Kid - "Have you ever had a dream you could do anything?" Morgan Freeman - "Forget about the way it used to be" Fairuza Balk (directed by Walter Murch) - "I'll never forget any of you" - Return to Oz - "It's so easy to forget (in the digital age)" Phone caller (Sequoia) - "There's nothing to prove that history is real" Arturo en el Barco Katie Wood (Sugarlift) - "Site of Maggie Walker's grave at Evergreen Cemetery" [Richmond field recording] Ken - "Someone called in (it's almost over forever) Next time I'll call you" [Testing to see what is sound, finding out by doing, never understanding. Who will find the note?] Orson Welles - "What's wrong with this place is it's another marketplace, always the enemy of the artist" - Interview Paul Spurrier - "The human body has millions of nerve endings" - Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future (pilot movie) [Some particularly slothful subjects simply explode] - "You know, pal, the constitution wasn't written on an etch a sketch" - My new Car Kid - "I feel, I feel...If you believe in yourself" Richard E. Grant - "Roads represent a fundamental right of man to have access to the good things in life" - How to Get Ahead in Advertising - "This used to be a hell of a good country (nature only)" - Easy Rider David Lynch - "The mysteries of darkness and love" - Blue Velvet interview Wallace Shawn - "I get to talk to people who at long last know what's important. The living make such meaningless distinctions" - Critical Care Kid - "I feel happy of myself" Clem Leek - "Mystery Moor" Bruce Davison, Kevin Conway, Ursula K. Le Guin - "George, understand something" - The Lathe of Heaven Live phone caller - "Trying to find a story (slip you a note) A picture of a cow jumping over the moon" [What's the scariest thing you know? (love)] Margarita Levieva - "The genius of a car alarm, you can't talk back to it, it makes you love it, it's safe" - Noise Margarita Levieva - "You love hating the noise, it's your muse" - Noise Ian Brown of Stone Roses - "It takes time to get acquainted, it takes time for people to fall in love with you, but it's inevitable" - Made of Stone Diane Baker - "People lie in the light and make love in the dark" Royksopp - "Royksopp Forever (loops)" Kid - "Just keep practicing! You gonna get the hang of it, I know it!" [If you believe in yourself] Ken - "I will get the hang of it, I know it (a little more trust, a little more fear)" Hal Hartley - "Trust (loop)" - from Ken's Last Ever: I Want to Step Across http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/82014

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Container Entrainment (intentional possibility understructure)" - Show #619, new! Thomas Park - One Minute Vacations Ambrose Pottie - "Petting Zoo" - One-Minute Vacations Stars of the Lid - "Articulate Silences" - And Their Refinement Of The Decline Aaron Ximm - "Tradewinds in Palm" - One-Minute Vacations Simon Hampson - "Walking near Poh's House" - One-Minute Vacations - "Creek Frogs, Panoche Valley CA" - One-Minute Vacations Ken - "I think you have your headphones on (you're taking slow, deep breaths)" - "Maine Shorebreak" - One-Minute Vacations Ken - "You don't do anything anymore (you're not trying, not anymore)" - "Granada Park" - One-Minute Vacations Vlissingen - "Wind Organ" - One-Minute Vacations Ken - "This is our last dance. I don't know who you are" - "Canyon Hawks, Santa Monica CA" - One-Minute Vacations Ken - "We don't remember anymore" Stars of the Lid - "Don't Bother They're Here" - And Their Refinement Of The Decline - "Winchcombe Last Post, Cotswolds UK" - One-Minute Vacations - "Perfect Storm, Muir Woods, CA" - One-Minute Vacations - "Whisby Nightingales, Lincoln UK" - One-Minute Vacations - "No one knows but the pebbles" - One-Minute Vacations Virgilio Oliveira - "Barcade Alva 1" - One-Minute Vacations Virgilio Oliveira - "Barcade Alva binaural" - One-Minute Vacations Bruce Davison, Kevin Conway, Ursula K. Le Guin - "There is a difference between what you dream and what you do" - The Lathe of Heaven Nicky Hopkins / The Rolling Stones - "She's A Rainbow" John Lennon - "Jealous Guy (guitar only)" Nicky Hopkins / John Lennon - "Jealous Guy (piano only)" Suzan Pitt - "Asparagus" [Brief] Bruce Davison, Kevin Conway, Ursula K. Le Guin - "But not for me! It's the same thing!" - The Lathe of Heaven David Clennon - "We all have fields around us" Clive Wearing - "Part 2a" - Living Without Memory Peter Oldring - "I'm a radio broadcaster" - This is That Random Rab - "Blast Off" Steven Jesse Bernstein - "The Man Upstairs" Dufus - "Feed the Baby" - Eth The Police - "Every Breath You Take (but every other beat is missing)" Toto - "Africa (but every other beat is missing)" Toto - "Africa (but half of every measure is missing)" Talking Heads - "Once in a Lifetime (but it's a waltz)" Blue Oyster Cult - "Don't Fear the Reaper (but every other beat is missing)" Live phone - "Dial tone" - "Field recordings, Stars of the Lid, Random Rab continue" Ken - "Monologue: Engagement containment entrainment" [Containing intention Intending containment for spaces under which possibility unhappens Containment of enstrange combinatorial Creating unintentional entrainment within which possibility space Creating structure for the container, not for the contents Creating understructure around the container One remembers to forget Touching unknowing impossibility Conscious unconsciousness Creating safety for risk-taking Unafraid of endless depths] Clive Wearing - "Living Without Memory (try and be careful not to place demands on his memory, because he then becomes upset)" - Living Without Memory Ken - "Let go of all your memories today. Be awkward, don't know, you don't have to know" Ken - "Identification" Little May - "Boardwalks" [Loops] Clem Leek - "Mystery Moor" Live phone caller - "Are you letting anything go? (I forgot time, and instead I felt the sun)" [Gravel beneath my feet] Sigur Ros - "Takk" [Brief] Gavin Bryars - "Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All Strings" Live phone caller - "More than enough (are we allowed to do this?)" Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - "Southern Accents (piano loop)" [Brief] Ween - "The Mollusk (loop)" [Brief] Live phone caller - "Anything left to let go of? (I don't know what)" [Live stream echo chamber] The War On Drugs - "In Chains (loops)" - A Deeper Understanding Live phone caller - "I finally see myself" Live stream feedback echo chamber The War On Drugs - "In Chains (loops)" - A Deeper Understanding Ken - "You're bigger than you ever were" Live phone caller - "Drowns out our sounds, all I'm left with" The War On Drugs - "In Chains (loops)" - A Deeper Understanding Kid - "Have you ever had a dream you could do anything?" Morgan Freeman - "Forget about the way it used to be" Fairuza Balk (directed by Walter Murch) - "I'll never forget any of you" - Return to Oz - "It's so easy to forget (in the digital age)" Phone caller (Sequoia) - "There's nothing to prove that history is real" Arturo en el Barco Katie Wood (Sugarlift) - "Site of Maggie Walker's grave at Evergreen Cemetery" [Richmond field recording] Ken - "Someone called in (it's almost over forever) Next time I'll call you" [Testing to see what is sound, finding out by doing, never understanding. Who will find the note?] Orson Welles - "What's wrong with this place is it's another marketplace, always the enemy of the artist" - Interview Paul Spurrier - "The human body has millions of nerve endings" - Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future (pilot movie) [Some particularly slothful subjects simply explode] - "You know, pal, the constitution wasn't written on an etch a sketch" - My new Car Kid - "I feel, I feel...If you believe in yourself" Richard E. Grant - "Roads represent a fundamental right of man to have access to the good things in life" - How to Get Ahead in Advertising - "This used to be a hell of a good country (nature only)" - Easy Rider David Lynch - "The mysteries of darkness and love" - Blue Velvet interview Wallace Shawn - "I get to talk to people who at long last know what's important. The living make such meaningless distinctions" - Critical Care Kid - "I feel happy of myself" Clem Leek - "Mystery Moor" Bruce Davison, Kevin Conway, Ursula K. Le Guin - "George, understand something" - The Lathe of Heaven Live phone caller - "Trying to find a story (slip you a note) A picture of a cow jumping over the moon" [What's the scariest thing you know? (love)] Margarita Levieva - "The genius of a car alarm, you can't talk back to it, it makes you love it, it's safe" - Noise Margarita Levieva - "You love hating the noise, it's your muse" - Noise Ian Brown of Stone Roses - "It takes time to get acquainted, it takes time for people to fall in love with you, but it's inevitable" - Made of Stone Diane Baker - "People lie in the light and make love in the dark" Royksopp - "Royksopp Forever (loops)" Kid - "Just keep practicing! You gonna get the hang of it, I know it!" [If you believe in yourself] Ken - "I will get the hang of it, I know it (a little more trust, a little more fear)" Hal Hartley - "Trust (loop)" - from Ken's Last Ever: I Want to Step Across https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/82014

Maggie Walker was an African American teacher and businesswoman and the first woman of any race to charter a bank in the United States. There's now a statue of her in the former capital of the Confederacy. Plus: A town’s historical markers tell visitors the story of a place. But what do they leave out?

Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "Every Path is the Right Path (give up without giving in)" - Show #515, from 1/14/17 Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "We Continue to Approach" - Show #486 from 11/20/2013 [Excerpts] Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "Ramu Misses You (is it just me)" - Show from 7/12/17 [Excerpts] Jeff Daniels, Guy Sanville - "Can't Sleep excerpt" - Chasing Sleep movie [Always two steps behind] GPaul - "You can organize your life around compassion and solidarity" [You don't have to wait for the rest of the world to do it] The Sedona Method - "Letting Go" Brad Fiedel - "Dream Window" - Fright Night s.t. Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "Hang onto a dream (America)" - Show #469 Brad Fiedel - "Come to Me" - Fright Night s.t. Neil Diamond - "America" [Ominous loops] Ken - "You have to say no to an infinite number of things" [Don't be rushing around (choices)] Neil Diamond - "America" [Ominous loops] John Carpenter - "Being lulled to sleep by TV" - They Live Tom Anthony, composer; Al Dana, Hank Martin, Tish Rabe, Ruth Sherman, singers; Liz Moses, actor; Kathy Mendoza, executive producer - "Show excerpt, about the production of the 3-2-1 Contact theme song" - 3-2-1 Contact Season 1, Episode 1 ("Noisy/Quiet: Production & Processing of Sound") (Jan. 14, 1980) [Children's Television Workshop (CTW)] Tom Anthony, composer; Al Dana, Hank Martin, Tish Rabe, Ruth Sherman, singers; Liz Moses, actor; Kathy Mendoza, executive producer - "The show is about people, ideas, and things all coming into contact" - 3-2-1 Contact Season 1, Episode 1 ("Noisy/Quiet: Production & Processing of Sound") (Jan. 14, 1980) Timothy "Speed" Levitch - "Let's blow up the grid plan" - The Cruise Lemon Jelly - "Page One" St Claire - "Georgia" [Loops] Maureen O'Sullivan (actor); Francis Ford Coppola (director); Jerry Leichtling, Arlene Sarner (writers) - "Being young is just as confusing as being old" - Peggy Sue Got Married movie [Right now, you're just browsing through time. Choose the things that last.] Air Supply - "Making Love out of Nothing At All" [Loops] Elton John - "Tiny Dancer" [Loops] Wild Man Fischer - "I'm not shy anymore" John Lennon - "The dream is over" - Jam Wennder interview The Sedona Method - "Emotions" Jared Leto - "Every path is the right path" - Mr. Nobody [Excerpts] Don Henley - "Boys of Summer" [Loops] Katie Wood (Sugarlift) - "Site of Maggie Walker's grave at Evergreen Cemetery" - 60 Minute Cities: RIchmond [Field recording] Dire Straits - "On Every Street" - On Every Street [Loops] - "Programming is terrible" Belle and Sebastian - "Storytelling" [Loops] Neutral Milk Hotel - "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Neutral Milk Hotel - "King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1" - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Dan Bodah - "3 Train" - Dronecast Various - "Field recordings" - Quiet American One Minute Vacations [See original playlist for details] Def Leppard - "Promises" [Loops] Various - "Field recordings" - Quiet American One Minute Vacations [See original playlist for details] Ken - "How can we love each other without pain?" [What do you have when you are abandoned?] Bob Dylan - "Series of Dreams" [Loops] Derek and the Dominoes - "Layla" [Loops] Steve Paxton - "If thinking is too slow, is an open state of mind useful?" - Chute [Seems to be] Louise Hay - "Creating your own life" [Every thought we think and every word we speak is creating our future.] Jeff Bridges (voice), Rafael Yglesias (writer), Peter Weir (director) - "Let it go. I can let it go." - Fearless movie ? - "You're going to die" [Includes Tristar logo theme] Pat Morita, Ralph Macchio - "Balance lesson for whole life" - Karate Kid David Cronenberg - "Television signals, projecting fantasies" - Directors: The Films of David Cronenberg show [Forbidden images coming to you from a distant place] David Lynch - "I get ideas" [It's a disturbing thing, because it's a trip beneath a beautiful surface to a fairly uneasy interior of a small town] Alan Watts - "Don't cling to memories" - Transcending Duality [Don't be attached, live in the moment] David Lynch - "Ideas swim from unseen" - Interview 9/13/14 [There's a lot of things swimming in every human being] Ken - "Wind down" - "Field recordings, with David Lynch and Derek and the Dominoes" [See original playlist for details] Andre Gregory - "Mysteries going on all the time" - Some Girls [Every moment, right under our noses] Charlie Kaufman - "If you've got something to say, do it, find your voice, do your stuff in the world" Martin Donovan, Hal Hartley - "My biggest fear is this" - Surviving Desire [nothing more than the building of a wall between me and life] Daft Punk - "Digital Love" [Loops] Edith Frost - "Cars and Parties" [Loops] Malcolm X - "If you're black, you were born in jail" Malcolm X - "I live like a man who has died already, I have no fear of anyone or anything whatsoever" French Films - "Juveniles" - White Orchid Fridge - "Five Combs" [Loops (with Def Leppard)] Ken - "We stumble around, we make mistakes" [Everything keeps getting easier (with Fridge)] Jon Brion - "Theme" - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [Loops] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "We Continue to Approach" - Show #486 from 11/20/2013 [Ending] Ken - "Various live monologues throughout" Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Long and gentle (How many mistakes?)" - Show #443, from Oct. 25, 2012 [The last 18 minutes. Full show and playlist] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/76244

Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "Every Path is the Right Path (give up without giving in)" - Show #515, from 1/14/17 Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "We Continue to Approach" - Show #486 from 11/20/2013 [Excerpts] Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "Ramu Misses You (is it just me)" - Show from 7/12/17 [Excerpts] Jeff Daniels, Guy Sanville - "Can't Sleep excerpt" - Chasing Sleep movie [Always two steps behind] GPaul - "You can organize your life around compassion and solidarity" [You don't have to wait for the rest of the world to do it] The Sedona Method - "Letting Go" Brad Fiedel - "Dream Window" - Fright Night s.t. Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "Hang onto a dream (America)" - Show #469 Brad Fiedel - "Come to Me" - Fright Night s.t. Neil Diamond - "America" [Ominous loops] Ken - "You have to say no to an infinite number of things" [Don't be rushing around (choices)] Neil Diamond - "America" [Ominous loops] John Carpenter - "Being lulled to sleep by TV" - They Live Tom Anthony, composer; Al Dana, Hank Martin, Tish Rabe, Ruth Sherman, singers; Liz Moses, actor; Kathy Mendoza, executive producer - "Show excerpt, about the production of the 3-2-1 Contact theme song" - 3-2-1 Contact Season 1, Episode 1 ("Noisy/Quiet: Production & Processing of Sound") (Jan. 14, 1980) [Children's Television Workshop (CTW)] Tom Anthony, composer; Al Dana, Hank Martin, Tish Rabe, Ruth Sherman, singers; Liz Moses, actor; Kathy Mendoza, executive producer - "The show is about people, ideas, and things all coming into contact" - 3-2-1 Contact Season 1, Episode 1 ("Noisy/Quiet: Production & Processing of Sound") (Jan. 14, 1980) Timothy "Speed" Levitch - "Let's blow up the grid plan" - The Cruise Lemon Jelly - "Page One" St Claire - "Georgia" [Loops] Maureen O'Sullivan (actor); Francis Ford Coppola (director); Jerry Leichtling, Arlene Sarner (writers) - "Being young is just as confusing as being old" - Peggy Sue Got Married movie [Right now, you're just browsing through time. Choose the things that last.] Air Supply - "Making Love out of Nothing At All" [Loops] Elton John - "Tiny Dancer" [Loops] Wild Man Fischer - "I'm not shy anymore" John Lennon - "The dream is over" - Jam Wennder interview The Sedona Method - "Emotions" Jared Leto - "Every path is the right path" - Mr. Nobody [Excerpts] Don Henley - "Boys of Summer" [Loops] Katie Wood (Sugarlift) - "Site of Maggie Walker's grave at Evergreen Cemetery" - 60 Minute Cities: RIchmond [Field recording] Dire Straits - "On Every Street" - On Every Street [Loops] - "Programming is terrible" Belle and Sebastian - "Storytelling" [Loops] Neutral Milk Hotel - "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Neutral Milk Hotel - "King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1" - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Dan Bodah - "3 Train" - Dronecast Various - "Field recordings" - Quiet American One Minute Vacations [See original playlist for details] Def Leppard - "Promises" [Loops] Various - "Field recordings" - Quiet American One Minute Vacations [See original playlist for details] Ken - "How can we love each other without pain?" [What do you have when you are abandoned?] Bob Dylan - "Series of Dreams" [Loops] Derek and the Dominoes - "Layla" [Loops] Steve Paxton - "If thinking is too slow, is an open state of mind useful?" - Chute [Seems to be] Louise Hay - "Creating your own life" [Every thought we think and every word we speak is creating our future.] Jeff Bridges (voice), Rafael Yglesias (writer), Peter Weir (director) - "Let it go. I can let it go." - Fearless movie ? - "You're going to die" [Includes Tristar logo theme] Pat Morita, Ralph Macchio - "Balance lesson for whole life" - Karate Kid David Cronenberg - "Television signals, projecting fantasies" - Directors: The Films of David Cronenberg show [Forbidden images coming to you from a distant place] David Lynch - "I get ideas" [It's a disturbing thing, because it's a trip beneath a beautiful surface to a fairly uneasy interior of a small town] Alan Watts - "Don't cling to memories" - Transcending Duality [Don't be attached, live in the moment] David Lynch - "Ideas swim from unseen" - Interview 9/13/14 [There's a lot of things swimming in every human being] Ken - "Wind down" - "Field recordings, with David Lynch and Derek and the Dominoes" [See original playlist for details] Andre Gregory - "Mysteries going on all the time" - Some Girls [Every moment, right under our noses] Charlie Kaufman - "If you've got something to say, do it, find your voice, do your stuff in the world" Martin Donovan, Hal Hartley - "My biggest fear is this" - Surviving Desire [nothing more than the building of a wall between me and life] Daft Punk - "Digital Love" [Loops] Edith Frost - "Cars and Parties" [Loops] Malcolm X - "If you're black, you were born in jail" Malcolm X - "I live like a man who has died already, I have no fear of anyone or anything whatsoever" French Films - "Juveniles" - White Orchid Fridge - "Five Combs" [Loops (with Def Leppard)] Ken - "We stumble around, we make mistakes" [Everything keeps getting easier (with Fridge)] Jon Brion - "Theme" - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [Loops] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "We Continue to Approach" - Show #486 from 11/20/2013 [Ending] Ken - "Various live monologues throughout" Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Long and gentle (How many mistakes?)" - Show #443, from Oct. 25, 2012 [The last 18 minutes. Full show and playlist] http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/76244

The recent discussions, protests, and removal of confederate monuments following the events in Charlottesville have helped revive the conversation around who we are as a country, who we were, and who we want to be — as memorialized in our public space. Mariah’s recent story in Next City discusses a hopeful shift in the installation of a new statue — that of a black woman, Maggie Walker — in Richmond, Virginia. In contrast to this, however, she also found herself asked to leave during a celebratory gathering of black women on a separate occasion because of a lack of a permit.  What does public space mean if it’s not for everyone? How does our civic space and our regulations reflect what — or who — we value? What can we do to improve the urban environment to not only allow for, but encourage, expressions of black joy? Join us as we continue our series of conversations around Next City content and unpack what the urban planning field needs to be more inclusive and community-oriented.  If you like these conversations and advocating for human-scale cities, you can donate to our efforts on our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/thirdwaveurbanism. Thank you to our supporters, and thank you all for listening, sharing, and doing what you do! As always, you can keep up with our thoughts and send us your comments on Twitter or Instagram:  Katrina can be found at @think_katrina Kristen can be found at @blackurbanist --- Articles referenced in this episode: Main article from Next City — Cities Should Celebrate, Not Suppress, Black Joy in Public Space — by Mariah Williams: https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/celebrate-black-joy-public-spaces Mariah’s organization, Black Girls Meet Up: https://www.blackgirlsmeetup.org/ Mansplaining the City — Alissa Walker’s article in Curbed that interviews Katrina + Kristen about Third Wave Urbanism and Women Led Cities: https://www.curbed.com/2017/8/16/16151000/mansplain-gentrification-define-richard-florida-saskia-sassen Monument Lab in Philadelphia — a new way to co-create our monuments? http://monumentlab.muralarts.org/ --- Intro and closing music is “Urban Life” by Gustavs Strazdin used under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode

It is time for us to decide as a people : what do we want for this city as it undergoes a transformation? In today’s episode you are going to hear what the highest leadership at the city and state levels want. You will hear an in-depth interview with Seattle Mayor Ed Murray. You will also hear an in-depth interview with a member of Governor Jay Inslee’s executive cabinet, Brian Bonlender. You will also hear appearances by Maggie Walker, Friends of Waterfront Seattle Greg Smith, CEO of Urban Visions; Jane Richlovsky, partner in Good Arts Building; Benjamin Zuercher, founder of StuffMapper; Ali Ghambari, owner of Cherry Street Coffee; Tasha Meyer, student; Bojie Mageo, cofounder of Swurveys; Mikaela Kiner, CEO of uniquely HR; Ty Sanders

Listen to the first ever taping of Seattle Growth Podcast before a live audience at the Impact Hub in Seattle. University of Washington's Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship organized the event on October 17th, 2016. Host Jeff Shulman moderated a panel of three individuals who have made immeasurable contributions to Seattle and will play a major role in its future: Maggie Walker, John Connors, and John Creighton. Maggie Walker is well known in Seattle as a philanthropist and civic leader. Walker was a founding member of Social Venture Partners and of the Washington Women's Foundation. She is Chair and Board President of Global Partnerships. She is Vice Chair of the National Audobon Society Board of Directors. She is a member of the UW Foundation Board of Directors and the Seattle Art Museum Board of Trustees where she previously served as President. She is a board member of Friends of Waterfront Seattle. She is an advisory board member for the University of Washington's College of the Environment, the Evans School of Public Policy, and the College of Arts & Sciences. Walker previously served as chair of The Bullitt Foundation's Board of Trustees, co-chair of the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) Board of Trustees, chair of the Washington Women's Foundation (founding member and first Chair) and was the first vice-chair of The Seattle Foundation Board of Trustees. John Connors is a managing partner at Ignition Partners, an early stage, business software venture capital firm. Connors was named to the 2013 Forbes Midas List, a ranking of the world's top venture capital investors, and to Business Insider's 2013 list of top enterprise technology VCs. Connors joined Ignition in 2005 after a distinguished career as a software-industry executive. Connors spent sixteen years at Microsoft in several high-level, strategic roles. From January 2000 to April 2005 he was senior vice president of finance and administration, as well as the company's chief financial officer. Connors is a member of the board of directors of Nike (NKE), Splunk (SPLK), FiREapps, DataSphere, Motif Investing, Chef, Azuqua, Tempered Networks, and Icertis. John Creighton has served on the Port of Seattle Commission since 2006. He came to the commission with broad experience as a lawyer specializing on complex international transactions in the port cities of Singapore, Helsinki and Istanbul prior to returning home to Seattle. Creighton currently has a solo practice focused on business law and public policy. As a commissioner, Creighton has focused on keeping the Port strong as a jobs creation engine while increasing the agency's commitment to the environment and making it a more accountable, socially responsible public agency. Creighton grew up on the Eastside and graduated from Interlake High School in Bellevue. He earned a B.A. and M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, a J.D. from Columbia University and a Certificate of Administration from the University of Washington Foster School of Business.

Noah Kim is a senior at Maggie Walker. Weeks from graduation, he reflects on his high school experience: his first day of school, a teacher who changed his life, a time he failed, the importance of resiliency. Noah also plays "What's That 90s Thing?" which is exactly what it sounds like.

On this Episode of History Replays Today, Ajena Cason Rogers, The Supervisory Park Ranger at the Maggie L Walker National Historic Site discusses the life of Maggie Walker. Walker is best know as the first black woman to charter a … Continue reading →

Tonight learn about Maggie L Walker~ the first African-American woman to found a bank and serve as its president. In 1899.Maggie Walker  was the Secretary Treasurer of the Independent Order of St. Luke (IOSL) a self help, benevolent society.   The bank, St. Luke Penny Savings was home to the benevolent society (self-Help org.) under Maggie Walker's leadership. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. Since obtaining this position, Walker focused on using economic empowerment to defy Jim Crow Laws.  She did this by establishing a bank, newspaper, and store.   Walker was the first African-American woman to found a bank and serve as its president.  Maggie Walker's leadership, entrepreneurship, and magnanimous personality significantly helped African-Americans across the country gain equality and empowerment. ------- Tonight Join The Gist of Freedom as learn more about the social activist Maven Maggie L. Walker with Ben Anderson! Mr. Anderson is a tour guide ranger at the National Park Service Maggie L  Walker Historic Site. Walker was the first African-American woman to found a bank and serve as its president.   Watch http://youtu.be/urXaceI0Vj4