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MP3 Link Andrew at the controls for this week's show, with an ace selection of soul, jazz, boogie, funk, jazz, disco, boogie, reworks and much more. Featuring tracks by Webster Lewis, Elton John, Beastie Boys, Toshiyuki Honda, Asha Puthli, Billy Griffin, Mtume, Rare Earth, Kay-Gees and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Marie hosting her regular Sunday morning show, playing a glorious selection of soul, jazz, funk, disco, house and loads more. Featuring tracks by Jazztronics, The Crusaders, Eric Gale, Slave, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Diana Ross and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Dave and John hosting this week's show, with a fabulous selection of soul, funk, jazz, disco, boogie, house, and loads more. Featuring tracks by Bili Thedford, Spectrum,The Blackbyrds, Nytro, Black & Blues, Herbie Goins, The Malka Family and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Dave sitting in for Marie, playing a wonderful selection of soul, jazz, funk, disco, house and loads more. Featuring tracks by Quincy Jones, Sly Stone, Phyllis Hyman, Edna Wright, Louie Vega, Soul City, Foreal People, Chaka Ken & Kenny Summit many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Andrew at the helm for this week's show, with an ace selection of blue eyed soul, funk, jazz, steppers, ballads, disco, boogie, edits and much more. Featuring tracks by Bobby Caldwell, Aretha Franklin, Tyrone Davis, Love Unlimited, Rene & Angela, Phyllis Hyman, Projections, Flora Purim, UBQ Project, Teddy Pendergrass and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Marie hosting her regular Sunday morning show, playing a glorious selection of soul, jazz, funk, disco, house and loads more. Featuring tracks by Earth, Wind & Fire, Jamiroquai, The Jones Girls, Gwen Guthrie, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Jo Paciello, Choices, Kenny Bobien and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud John flying solo for this week's show, with a fabulous selection of soul, funk, jazz, disco, boogie, house, and loads more. Featuring tracks by Michael Wycoff, O'Conner, The Fantastic Aleems, Parliament, Bill Summers, Hubert Laws, Change, Chic and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Marie hosting her regular Sunday morning show, playing an ace selection of soul, jazz, funk, disco, house and loads more. Featuring tracks by Linda Williams, Mood II Swing, Thelma Houston, Breakwater, Starpoint, Loleatta Holloway, the Super-Phonics, and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Andrew hosting this week's show, with an ace selection of disco, boogie, house, funk, soul, jazz, electronica and much more. Featuring tracks by Wayne Shorter, Smokey Robinson, Toshiyuki Honda, Caroline Crawford, Stone Foundation, J Kriv, Chaz Jankel, Brian Jackson, Norman Connors and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Marie in her regular Sunday morning slot, playing an ace selection of soul, jazz, funk, disco, house and loads more. Featuring tracks by A Taste Of Honey, Sheree Brown, Minnie Riperton & Jose Feliciano, Groove Collective, Two Tons O' Fun, Art Of Tones, Nathan Haines, The Crusaders and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Andrew hosting this week's show, with a selection of some of our favourites from 2022. Featuring tracks by The Stylistics, Kokomo, Young Gun Silver Fox, PREP, Dave Lee, Mamas Gun, Skyy, Young Pulse, STR4TA, Norman Connors, Rafael Cameron and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Dave and John hosting this week's show, with an ace selection of soul, funk, jazz, boogie, house, disco, edits and plenty more. Featuring tracks by Debra Laws, The Big Hustle, Black Joyous, The NYC Band, Johnnie Taylor,The Patchouli Brothers, Slave, The Hamilton Affair and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Andrew and Dave hosting the annual ALL REQUEST SHOW, with almost two hours of your selections. Featuring tracks by Ned Doheny, Family Of Swede, Ace, Rockie Robbins, Salt N Pepa, Vernon Burch, Michael Polnareff, Sandy Barber, Bjork and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Dave and John hosting this week's show, with a two-hour special all about the music of Michael Stokes. Featuring racks by Creative Source, Enchantment, The Winners, Morning, Noon & Night, Ronn Matlock, Shirley Caesar, Booker T, Keith Barrow, Nature's Divine, and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Andrew hosting this week's show, with a smoking hot selection of jazz-funk, blue-eyed soul, disco, boogie, funk, reworks and plenty more. Featuring tracks by Stanley Turrentine, Pointer Sisters, The Ebonys, Barrett Strong, STR4TA, Incognito, Dave Lee, Joe Bataan, Hudson People and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Dave and John hosting this week's show, with a two-hour special focusing on Japanese jazz, funk, soul and more. Featuring tracks by Kimiko Kasai, Ryo Kawasaki, Yasuko Agawa, Hiroshi Fukumura, Masanori Sasaji, the Eastern Gang, Its, the ABs, and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Andrew in the chair for this week's show, with a killer selection of boogie, disco, funk, soul, jazz, edits, reworks and plenty more. Featuring tracks by Don Blackman, Rhapsody, Steely Dan, Bar Kays, The Jones Girls, Logg, Candido, Lucy Hawkins, Pleasure, Ripple and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Dave and John at the helm for this week's show with a fabulous selection of soul, funk, jazz, disco, house, boogie, and loads more. Featuring tracks by Gene Harris, High Inergy, Sweet Talks, DJ Rogers, Marvin Gaye, Minnie Riperton, Willie Hutch, Patsy Gallant, Heikki Sarmanto, Milton Wright and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Andrew hosting this week's show, with an ace selection of disco, funk, boogie, jazz, soul, edits, reworks and plenty more. Featuring tracks by Mamas Gun, Diana Ross, Tavares, Leroy Burgess & Saving Coco, BLT, Stone Foundation, Grey & Hanks, Al McCall, Tower Of Power, Made In USA and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Dave and John hosting this week's show with a fabulous selection of soul, jazz, funk, disco, boogie, house, edits and loads more. Featuring tracks by Faze-O, Banks & Hampton, Sticky Fingers, Andre Solomko, Vernon Burch, Andy Ash, Bob James, Nu Tropic, Chaka Khan, Hot Stuff and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Andrew in the chair for this week's show, with almost two hours of back-to-back disco. Featuring tracks by Chic, Harvey Scales, Mary Wilson, New Birth, Melba Moore, Eastbound Expressway, Loleatta Holloway, First Choice, Michael White, Dazzle and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Dave and John presenting this week's show with a beautiful selection of jazz, funk, soul disco, boogie, house, reworks and loads more. Featuring tracks by The Jeff Lorber Fusion, Lee Willhite, DJ Pierre, Inkswell, Skyy, DJ Hoshino, Arnold From Mumbai, The Paul Simpson Connection, Chew Fu, Chaka Khan and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Dave and John at the helm for this week's show with a scorching hot selection of funk, soul jazz, disco, boogie, house, edits and loads more. Featuring tracks by Syreeta & Stevie Wonder, George Duke, Bernard Wright, Goody Goody, Brijean, Fred Everything, Musique, Agora, Paolo Mele, Asha Puthli and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Andrew at the helm for this week's show, with a killer selection of disco, boogie, funk, jazz, electronica, reworks and loads more. Featuring tracks by Ramsey Lewis, STR4TA, John Martyn, Leslie Smith, Massive Attack, James Mason, Mac & Harris, Rena Scott, Janice McClain and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Dave and John hosting this week's show with a smorgasbord of musical delights - jazz, disco, boogie, funk, house, and loads more. Featuring tracks by Roy Ayers & Wayne Henderson, STR4TA, Peter Jacques Band, Emma Jean Thackray, Lonnie Smith, Johnny Guitar Watson, Mandre, The Brothers Johnson, Machine, Olympic Runners and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Andrew hosting this week's show, with a wonderful selection of AOR, soul, disco, boogie, house, funk, jazz, reworks and more. Featuring tracks by Guy Maxwell, Odyssey, Greg Phillinganes, Peter Brown, The Supremes, Elkie Brooks, Sandy Barber, The Invisible Man's Band, Herbie Hancock, Kokomo and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Dave and John at the helm for this week's show with a killer selection of funk, soul, jazz, disco, boogie, house, and loads more. Featuring tracks by Sven Van Hees, Caldera, Craig Bratley, Jeremy Steig, the Ananda Project, Lady Blackbird, Stimela, Ryo Kawasaki, Accatone, Lay-Far, Venus Dodson and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Andrew returns from his holidays for this week's show, with a smoking selection of soul, disco, boogie, house, jazz, AOR, edits and more. Featuring tracks by Silk, Marcia Maria, Brian Jackson, The Lighthouse Family, Babe Ruth, Dave Lee, COEO, Patrice Rushen, Brand New Heavies, Dajae, Carrie Lucas and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Dave and John hosting this week's show with an ace selection of soul, jazz, disco, boogie, house, funk, edits and loads more. Featuring tracks by Masanori Sasaji, I-Gemin, Brian Jackson, Alina Bzhezhinska, G.C. Cameron, Zulema, Anoraak, Donald Byrd, Hyena, Lukas Greenberg, T Connection and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Marie hosting this week's show, sitting in for Andrew, delivering a killer selection of soul, jazz, disco, house, funk, boogie and more. Featuring tracks by Pleasure, The Manhattan Transfer, Blaze, Mr President, Stephanie Mills, Kerri Chandler, The Pointer Sisters, Doug Wills, Robert Strauss and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

Camila Pulgar Guzmán, a researcher and licensed therapist based in Winston-Salem, has been wondering for a long time about the mental health resources available for the Spanish-speaking community. EILEEN RODRIGUEZ/WFDD Finding a mental health provider can be a fairly complicated process. The pandemic has exacerbated the need for many. Yet some people may not have the means or information available to them in their native language to access this information. For this episode of Carolina Curious, we answer this question from listener Camila Pulgar Guzmán: What does the landscape for mental health aid look like for bilingual Spanish-speaking immigrants in North Carolina?  "I'm an immigrant from Chile. I was born and raised in Chile, but I lived in North Carolina for about 15 years," explains Pulgar Guzmán.  Pulgar Guzmán is not a disinterested party regarding the issue. She's a licensed therapist based in Winston-Salem who works closely with the Latino community. In the field, she often sees a lack of bilingual providers for the rapidly growing community in the state, which she says is worrisome. "Our community also doesn't know where to look for them, or they're not accessible to them in way," she says. "Because our community is so isolated, as you probably know, especially here in Winston-Salem, they're very isolated. So it's hard for them sometimes to know where to ask for help." Various resources for the Latino community show different data on exactly how many Spanish-speaking therapists are in an area. For example, the website Latinx Therapy shows in North Carolina there are 11 therapists who speak Spanish. None of those listed are in Winston-Salem. Pulgar Guzmán created a list on her own website Salud Mental Health, where she lists 14 Spanish-speaking therapists and mental health resources in the city, some in churches. In terms of statewide resources, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has Hope4NC, a 24/7 hotline that can help Spanish speakers who might be experiencing emotional distress. It also partnered with local organizations, and there are general wellness resources in Spanish available as well on its website.   Deputy Secretary and Chief Health Equity Officer for North Carolina's Department of Health and Human and Services Debra Farrington says there's still a lot to be done, especially for young people.  "In the cases of the Latino community, we have a number of organizations who provide these community health workers who are responsible for connecting people to medical care and to social support," Farrington explains. "88% of Latino youth have unmet mental health needs. And that compares to 76% of white youth and 77% of Black youth. So we're seeing a higher percentage of Latino youth who have unmet mental health needs." Milton Cepeda is the only bilingual school psychologist in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools system. He says that there's an overall lack of mental health providers in the state, and this also includes schools. The National Association of School Psychologists recommends one psychologist per every 500 students, but the reality is that many are without that resource.  "I service three schools during the week, and then the other two days I provide district-wide support to other schools," says Cepeda.  Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools does have multiple language team support and they use interpreters to help with assessments when necessary. The most recent data from the state shows that suicide rates among youth in 2020 were the highest they've been in a decade, and according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Latinos have shown high rates of anxiety and depression symptoms.  "We don't only have a shortage of bilingual psychologists, we have a shortage of psychologists in general," says Cepeda. "So bilingual psychology is even more rare in this particular field. And there's a difference between someone who is certified as a bilingual psychologist and just someone who is a psychologist that happens to speak Spanish."  In North Carolina, without insurance, a private practice therapy session can cost usually between $150 to $250. There's also the option of doing a sliding scale, which can lower the cost for patients in need to around $50-$75. El Futuro, a non-profit organization that provides support for the Latino community in Durham, is an example of one group that does provide low-cost therapy for, primarily, the Spanish-speaking population in the state.  El Futuro's Communications Manager Mary Hondermann says the organization pays for the patient's therapy thanks to monetary help from counties. "We don't ask about immigration status to provide services," Hondermann says. "Depending on that person's county, we go there, check the funds, and we cover the cost of that person's treatment." El Futuro might be able to provide lower-cost mental health treatments, yet as Camila Pulgar Guzmán — our question-asker explains — not every provider is able to lower their costs. "So that is, you know, a tricky balance because all of our bilingual providers are very passionate about mental health and about talking about these issues," says Pulgar Guzmán. "But we also have to pay our bills and we have to eat." But there are various organizations that are working to provide even more resources.  Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools has partnered with a firm to recruit school psychologists, El Futuro is now providing group therapy, which helped decrease the number of people on their waitlist. The new suicide lifeline, 988, also has Spanish-speaking operators and resources available on its website.  This story was produced by a partnership between WFDD and La Noticia. You can read this story in Spanish at La Noticia. Eileen Rodriguez is a reporter for both WFDD and La Noticia through Report for America, where she covers COVID-19's impact in the Latino Communities. Periodista de La Noticia y 88.5 WFDD, Eileen Rodríguez reporta el impacto de COVID-19 en la comunidad Latina en Carolina del Norte. Rodríguez es miembro del cuerpo de periodistas de Report for America 2021-2022   Editor's note: This story has been updated to include Camila Pulgar Guzmán's full name. 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MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Dave flying solo for this week's show with an ace selection of downtempo soul, jazz, disco, boogie, house, funk and loads more. Featuring tracks by The Quiet Boys, Minnie Riperton, Steely Dan, Escort, Serge Ponsar, Frank Booker, Shaka Loves You, Sartorial and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Andrew joined by Dave for this week's show, with an ace selection of balearic goodness, AOR killers, boogie, disco, electronica and more. Featuring tracks by Norman Connors, Bocca Juniors, Talking Heads, Renee Geyer, Tullio De Piscopo, Rickie Lee Jones, Len, Cultural Vibe, Jungle, Dubtribe Sound System and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

The letter on this chimney on Carver School Road matches the original homeowner's initial. KERI BROWN/WFDD For the latest in WFDD's series Carolina Curious, we head to the Carver School Road community in East Winston-Salem. Listener Kayla Forrest moved to the area a couple years ago and something in the neighborhood caught her eye. “I noticed that when I was walking my dog that there are a number of houses that have letters on them, on the chimneys in particular it seems, so I was just wondering what those letters represent or what they are for,” says Forrest. WFDD's Keri Brown takes us back in time to find out. A tour of the neighborhood On a warm and humid summer morning, Kayla Forrest is excited about showing me around the area. There's a new community center that recently opened and it's hard to miss the large bright yellow and blue rock that sits in front of Carver High School. A home in the Carver School Road community in Winston-Salem. KERI BROWN/WFDD "I really have enjoyed living in this community, and you know the high school has a rich history to it too," says Forrest. "I'm just interested in learning more about the history of the neighborhood itself." As we walk along the roadway, Forrest stops to point out the brick masonry on a nearby chimney. “So see over here there's this house that has an 'H' on the chimney. You can see the 'H' there.” A few houses down a large "C" adorns another brick chimney, and there's also one with the letters "H-O-P." The masonry on each house is unique, and all of the letters were on older homes. Learning more I started researching and making calls to historical societies, the Forsyth County Public Library and the city's planning department. Unfortunately, no one had a clear answer. But local historian Heather Fearnbach gave some historical context. She says embellishment on masonry chimneys — decorative patterns, motifs, or letters — was very common during the mid-20th century. The difficult thing is that most of the masons who would have been working during this time period are no longer living. After a few phone calls however, I was able to connect with 81-year-old Hugh Smith of Winston-Salem. A family connection “My family was involved in home construction,” says Smith. His grandfather was a carpenter and helped build houses in the community in the 1940s and 50s. Smith says at that time, there weren't a lot of homes in this predominantly Black neighborhood in East Winston. KERI BROWN/WFDD Smith thinks the chimney letters stand for the American dream: “After World War II, a lot of, a number of GIs came home or back to the area and they were able to build homes and in building their homes they wanted to put a mark or a symbol on their home that that was their home," says Smith. "So what they had the brick mason to do was build a place in the brickwork on the chimney — the first initial of their last name.” A trip back to 1946 To find out more about Smith's insight, I headed to the hub for public records: the Forsyth County Register of Deeds. That's where I met Timothy Williams, who manages the real estate and indexing division. When asked whether he's ever encountered this question: “In 27 years, no ma'am, I have not come across the question. This is a first,” says Williams. We begin with an online search using the address of the home with the "H" on the chimney. “So, you can see each individual owner. There was a book and page number for each owner for the deed that was recorded for that particular property, which was great, so you can connect all of the previous owners without flaw and without question," says Williams. "It's just, it's a clear title. You can see it all unfold all right out in front of you.” Our online search only took us to 1986 and without a letter match. But that was just the beginning. Williams points out the block and lot number for that parcel of land and we head over to the microfilm machine. We went all the way back to 1946. Harry Truman was president. It was a year of labor strikes, and those born then were the first of the baby-boom generation. And then we find what we are looking for. “There's an 'H' on the chimney and in 1946 we did find that Huntley is the owner, was the owner at that particular time," says Williams. "So Huntley purchased the property in 1941, but he purchased it, just the land, in 1941 and then he built the home in 1946." It's a match! We kept going and plugged in a different address a few houses down, and…found the same result — the letters represented the original homeowners' initial. They prove that history and the stories of our neighborhoods are all around us and can sometimes be found in unexpected places. Follow WFDD's Keri Brown on Twitter @kerib_news   Story does not include AP content #carver school road #winston-salem #brick chimney #letters #initials #brick masonry #east winston #homeownership #carolina curious Housing Human Interest Normal Tweet

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Dave and John in the chair for this week's show with an ace selection of soul, funk, jazz, disco, boogie, house, balearica and loads more. Featuring tracks by Hannah Williams, Man Friday, Lorca, Frank & Tony, Lex, Mark Capanni, Lighthouse Family, Magnum Force, Leon 'Ndugu' Chancler, and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Andrew at the controls for this week's show, with an ace selection of downtempo vibes, boogie, disco house, jazz, electronica, reworks and more. Featuring tracks by Allen Toussaint, The Sunburst Band, Will Powers, Bah Samba, Detroit Experiment, The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Dave Lee, Sofia Kourtesis, Airto and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Dave and John hosting this week's show with a fantastic selection of funk, soul, jazz, disco, boogie, house, reworks, edits and loads more. Featuring tracks by Boeing, Das Complex, Gino Soccio, Harvey Mason, Crackazat, Charo, Ari Bald, Love Symphony Orchestra, Angelo Ferrari, and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Andrew at the controls for this week's show, with a tribute to the great Patrick Adams who sadly passed away a few days earlier. Featuring tracks by Rainbow Brown, Donna McGhee, Universal Robot Band, Inner Life, Phreek, Black Ivory, Skipworth & Turner, Dazzle, Cloud One and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Dave and John at the helm for this week's show with a fabulous selection of soul, jazz, house, disco, boogie, edits and loads more. Featuring tracks by Michael Wycoff, Attitudes, Expression, Louie Vega, Busta Jones, Ago, Moonee, Tony Rallo & The Midnite Band, Djoko and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Andrew at the controls for this week's show, with a boss selection of disco, boogie, jazz-funk, electronica, blue-eyed soul and plenty more. Featuring tracks by Checkpoint, Lambchop, Boz Scaggs, Johnnie Taylor, Eric Tagg, Ava Cherry, Crue-L Grand Orchestra, Cedar Walton, Mark Soskin, Dinosaur L, Incognito and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Dave and John hosting this week's show with a fabulous selection of funk, soul, jazz, house, disco, boogie, edits, reworks and loads more. Featuring tracks by Seawind, Vesta Vision, Papa Tony, Triem, Pleasure, Telephone Man, Lex, Emmaculate, The Trammps, Debra Laws and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

PAUL GARBER/WFDD There are three Union Cross communities in the Triad area, one each in Forsyth, Yadkin and Surry counties. Listener Robert Myers of Kernersville had a question for Carolina Curious about the origins of the one in southeastern Forsyth County:  I have lived near Union Cross for many years, and I always wondered, where did the community get its name? I've asked many people in the community, but no one seems to know the answer. The North Carolina Gazetteer — an index of the state's geographic features — has a history for the name of only one of those three communities. Yadkin County's Union Cross was apparently named for a Quaker Friends Meeting back in the 1880s. So could Forsyth's name also come from a Friends Meeting place? Not likely, according to Quaker history authorities. The Friends didn't start using the term Union Cross until the time the Yadkin community was named, decades after Forsyth's community was founded.  Michelle DeLapp is chairwoman of the board for the Wachovia Historical Society. Using Moravian archives, she found references to Union Cross in records dating to the early 1860s, well before the Quakers used the term. The timing would also seem to rule out any connection to the Union Army in the Civil War. Forsyth County's Union Cross appears to date back to the days of a plank road in the mid-1800s that ran from Fayetteville, through High Point, and up to the Moravian community of Bethania. DeLapp says the name may simply be a reference to an important convergence of roads during the middle of the 19th Century.   “I believe it had something to do with the location of the road,” she says. “It was an intersection between High Point Road and what is known as Union Cross Road now — it was kind of an intersection.  And it was kind of a main road.”  Today, Union Cross is the site of an elementary school and a county park. Union Cross wasn't the only prominent use of the term “Union” in Forsyth County. The Union Republican newspaper used it during its run from the 1870s to the 1940s, and Winston-Salem's train stop was called Union Station when it was built almost 100 years ago. Story does not include AP content #carolina curious #union cross #moravians #quakers #forsyth county #history Human Interest Normal Tweet

MP3 Link Andrew returns for this week's show, with a smoking hot selection of street soul, boogie, disco, funk, jazz, remixes and plenty more. Featuring tracks by Mystic Merlin, Enlightment, Bernard Wright, Jamaica Boys, STR4TA, Jeff Lorber, Bill Brandon, Jungle, Dazzle, Loleatta Holloway, Project and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Dave and John hosting this week's show with a fabulous selection of funk, soul, jazz, house, disco, boogie, edits, reworks and loads more. Featuring tracks by Perry & Sanlin, Mary Queenie Lyons, Bootsy Collins, John Gazoo, Harvey Sutherland, Dee Dee Bridgewater Eli Escobar, South Shore Commission and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Marie hosting this week's show, covering for Andrew, and a killer selection of disco, house, funk, jazz, blue-eyed soul and plenty more. Featuring tracks by Hummingbird, The Chris Rhodes Band, Samuel Purdey, Roy Ayers, Spyro Gyra, Natasha Kitty Katt, Blaze, Portia Monique, Right To Life, Mike Lindup and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Dave and John hosting this week's show with an ace selection of funk, soul, jazz, house, disco, boogie, edits, reworks and loads more. Featuring tracks by the Siya Makuzeni Sextet, The Deirdre Wilson Tabac, Michael White, Incognito, Carl Craig, Sharon Bailey, France Joli, Crown Heights Affair and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

MP3 Link Andrew at the controls for this week's show, with a boss selection of disco, boogie, funk, jazz, soul, house, reworks and plenty more. Featuring tracks by George Duke, Bridge, Ed Motta, Bob James, Aquarian Dream, Salsoul Orchestra, Damon Harris, Jill Scott, Montana, Bruni Pagan, Michael Wycoff and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

Pigeons take flight in the morning fog. FILE: (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) Rock pigeons — originally known as rock doves — are native to Europe, introduced to this country by colonists in the early 17th century, and due to their ability to adapt, they've thrived in both urban and natural settings ever since. Domesticated some 5,000 years ago, the birds have been used as messengers, in racing clubs, and their refined homing abilities lend the species to research to this day, helping scientists better understand how birds navigate. But it's the feral animals that we see in the Triad — including Greensboro, says North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission bird conservation biologist Scott Anderson. “If they were declining, I would be very surprised,” says Anderson. “The standard story of declining birds is that they rely on more natural habitat — like wood thrushes, for example. There are sort of forests around — and as we convert those forests to other habitat types, whether they're more urban or suburban, then those birds are losing their habitat. But rock pigeons are kind of the opposite ... they do really well in urban environments.” While recent estimates show a net loss of nearly 3 billion birds in North America since 1970, Anderson says pigeons are not on the list of threatened species. He adds there's little way of confirming if there's been a population decline specifically in Greensboro until the completion of the North Carolina Bird Atlas, where bird enthusiasts monitor and report populations among the roughly 470 species in the state. The five-year project wraps up in 2026, and it's open to the public.   Story does not include AP content #pigeons #rock pigeons #threatened #bird atlas #north carolina wildlife resources commission Environment Normal Tweet

MP3 Link Play via Mixcloud Dave and John at the helm for this week's show with a killer selection of soul, jazz, disco, boogie, house, funk, edits and loads more. Featuring tracks by Kimiko Kasai, Bizio Cool, Herbie Mann, Roy Ayers, Steely Dan, Bernado Mota, Sounds Of Blackness, T Connection, Theo Parish, The Gap Band and many, many more. Enjoy. RSS Feed: 6MS Sessions

Salem Lake in Winston-Salem, N.C. Image courtesy of Cooper Sullivan. Cooper Sullivan/WFDD Since early September, Salem Lake's water levels have been about 10 feet lower than normal as construction crews are working on the boat ramp and retaining walls. For people, this just means a few months without water activities. But Kernersville native and frequent Salem Lake visitor Elizabeth White wants to know how the construction will impact the surrounding nature life. "I want to know if the draining of Salem Lake, and also the flooding of Salem Creek is having any effect on the biodiversity of the plants and the animals that live in that area. And also what does that mean for our drinking water, since we get our drinking water from Salem Lake as well?" In the 2018 election, Winston-Salem voters approved a bond referendum that allotted $3.7 million toward Salem Lake improvements. And in August 2021, Phase II of these improvements began. The projects planned include renovations of the shoreline bulkhead, rebuilding the boat ramp, adding additional kayak storage, creating boat slips and building a picnic shelter near the playground.  Bobby Hege, the lakes program supervisor for the City of Winston-Salem Recreation and Parks, is overseeing the construction. He said that the construction crews slowly allowed water to flow from the lake through an open valve on the dam into Salem Creek. This process prevented flooding along the creek and drastic changes in the lake. “It hasn't really had a negative effect on the animal life. The water being drawn down does compile and make all the fish closer together, which for the big fish they get real happy. Some of the smaller baitfish, maybe not so much,” says Hege. Hege also mentioned that the lower water levels have attracted more freshwater birds, like egrets and herons to the area.  Wake Forest University professor of biology Miles Silman echoed Hege and said that many Piedmont area lake ecosystems are very resilient when it comes to disturbances because Salem Lake is manmade. “If you think about the amount of flooding that comes down a river due to a hurricane, or a very large rainstorm event, those create tremendous volumes of water. I suspect similar to the kinds of water volumes that were put out by releasing the water to draw down the lake, if not more. The organisms that live in that water are used to having those kinds of disturbances, particularly when you get to larger streams,” Silman says. And in terms of the water releasing into Salem Creek, Silman says it is doing more good than harm. “One of the bad things that happens when you put a bunch of dams in the system is that you eliminate the flood pulses. And what happens then is that vegetation can grow into areas where they normally wouldn't be able to live. It can change the entire way the stream looks, what they call the morphology of the stream,” Silman added. Urbanization can also affect the morphology of streams, and this is evident in the case of Salem Creek. If you were to look at old mapping records of Winston-Salem dating back to when the Moravians settled across Forsyth County, you would see that the streams of today look much different from the 18th century. This is what Wake Forest assistant professor of engineering Lauren Lowman and student Sam Matterazzo saw for themselves.  “The reason why they chose this area was because it had a lot of natural springs and it had a lot of underground stream networks to provide these natural springs. They came here because we are so rich in water. And as time went on and we moved towards industrialization and building this urban center, those streams got in the way. So we built over them,” Lowman says. “Now we have a lot of asphalt and concrete and building groups. Those are all impermeable surfaces, which means that the water can't get absorbed into the soils, so instead it runs off into our streams. So a lot of these streams, like Salem Creek, like some parts of Muddy Creek, you'll see quite a bit of stream bank erosion. So when it rains, the water only has so many places it can go,” Lowman continued. Lowman is talking about the Salem Creek Greenway, where portions of the pathway are subject to constant flooding. Matarazzo, a senior Wake Forest student who has been working with Lowman since his freshman year, says there are ways to mitigate flooding.  “You select a section of stream, usually a couple miles at a time, and you basically redig the channel back to the most natural possible way," Matterazo says. "You're going to use native plants, obviously, like they grow here for a reason. You're going to want to use those as a way to just act as a natural sponge, just to absorb. The Salem Creek Greenway is built almost right along the creek. But ideally, you'd have a riparian area where you have all that vegetation between the creek and the greenway so that it gives a huge natural buffer for it to flood.” This process is called rewilding. But the chances of this happening at Salem Creek are slim as those natural buffer zones have already been built over. This would require extensive construction in a narrow area. However, this does mean that the current Salem Lake construction and draining is not having an impact on the flooding habits of Salem Creek. The construction is also having no effect on the city of Winston-Salem's water supply. Bill Brewer, water treatment superintendent for Winston-Salem, says that no water from Salem Lake is being taken to treatment facilities while the construction is ongoing. “Our system is very resilient in the respect that we have three water plants. And we also have ample capacity in the Yadkin River that we can draw from just in this type of scenario,” Brewer says. So to answer Elizabeth's question, the impacts on biodiversity are minimal and the drinking water supply is still safe. And while the water levels returning to normal depends entirely on the amount of rain this area will get, the lake will hopefully bounce back by the end of the year. There is no reason to worry. Unless you are a small baitfish. Story does not include AP content #salem lake #winston salem #biodiversity #wildlife Environment Normal Tweet