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In today's episode, Stan Hackney, the curator of art and audience engagement at the Mobile Museum of Art, returns to discuss Un(Settled) and the inclusion of Alex Harris's photograph Longleaf Pines, Knoll Park, Fairhope. Later, documentary photographer Alex Harris joins series host Drew Baron to explore the art of documentary photography and his work in Mobile, featured in the book Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City, co-written with renowned naturalist E.O. Wilson. (Un)Settled: The Landcape in American Art is now on view at the Mobile Museum of Art: https://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/exhibitions/unsettled/ The (Un)Settled Podcast is a multipart special presentation of the Binder Podcast dedicated to the traveling exhibition (Un)Settled: The Landscape in American Art. Part of a series of American art exhibitions created through a multi-year, multi-institutional exhibition partnership formed by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art as part of the Art Bridges Cohort Program.
Newcomers often wonder where old Charlotte is in our glowing New South city. Much of it is in the minds and memories of those who have lived here for generations. Jack Claiborne and his brother, Slug, fall into that category — and their story is the story of Charlotte.
Guest Kimberly Dellafosse, the Assistant City Manager for the City of Lake Charles, joins hosts Brady and Jillian on Louisiana's Playground to discuss Lake Charles' inclusion on Southern Living's 2024 Best Cities On The Rise list. The trio discusses why the distinction should come as no surprise and what makes Southwest Louisiana such a special place to visit, live, work and play! Find more information on where to eat, things to do, and events happening this weekend at VisitLakeCharles.org. Make a stop at Tia Juanita's for a unique taste of Southwest Louisiana through both Louisiana and Mexican flavors! Keep up with hosts Brady Renard on Twitter, @RenardSports and Jillian Corder on Facebook, @JillianCorderKPLC.
Today on America in the Morning SCOTUS Rules On Texas Immigration Law In a decision that came sooner than many expected, the U-S Supreme Court is allowing a controversial immigration law in Texas to take effect. Correspondent Clayton Neville reports. Tuesday Election Results Despite the presidential primaries being locked up by Donald Trump for the GOP and President Biden for Democrats, six states held elections on Tuesday that could also include congressional implications. It's A Deal The White House and congressional leaders say they've reached a spending deal that would avert a potential government shutdown this weekend, but the vote still needs to be taken in a divided House of Representatives. Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani reports. Navarro Behind Bars Peter Navarro, who served as the White House trade advisor to former President Donald Trump, exhausted all of his appeals and is now in a Federal prison. Pamela Furr explains. NYC Mayor's New Trouble There's new trouble for the leader of America's largest city. Correspondent Jennifer King reports New York Mayor Eric Adams is facing a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse 30 years ago from a time when he was a police officer. Business News It will soon be “and a Pepsi” when you pick up your sandwich at Subway. The fast food restaurant franchise just ratcheted up the cola wars, signing a 10-year deal with PepsiCo that begins in 2025 and will ditch Coca Cola products in favor of Mountain Dew, Gatorade, and Aquafina. Here's CNBC's Jessica Ettinger with Wednesday business. Lawyer Attested Leaving Court An attorney was arrested moments after a hearing in a Federal court ended where she represented a client being sued by Dominion Voting Systems for defamation. As correspondent Haya Panjwani reports, that attorney now faces arrest in Michigan on charges of illegally breaching voting machines during efforts to upend the results of the 2020 election. Prison For The “Rock Doc” He was a nurse practitioner, and now the man who became known as the Tennessee “Rock Doc” will be heading to federal prison. Correspondent Norman Hall reports. Trump's Jewish Comments Democrats and some in the Jewish community are lambasting former President Donald Trump over comments he made about Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats. John Stolnis has more from Washington. Latest In The Middle East The United States insists it's still working to bring aid to Gaza as Israel promises to eliminate Hamas from the Southern City of Rafah. Correspondent Clayton Neville has the latest on the Middle East. Afghanistan Hearing Two top former generals told a Congressional committee that Biden administration planning failures led to the chaotic exit from Afghanistan three years ago. Washington correspondent Sagar Meghan reports. Lawmaker Announces She's Having An Aboriton Arizona does have laws regarding abortion, but one state senator took to the floor of the legislature to announce she has no choice but to have the procedure. Correspondent Norman Hall tells us why. Nebraska Lawmaker Under Fire For What He Read To Colleagues A Nebraska state lawmaker is receiving scorn from both Democrats and Republicans demanding his resignation. Ed Donahue reports. Jail For Mississippi Deputies Two former Mississippi sheriff's deputies have been sentenced for their part in torturing two Black men after a neighbor complained that they were staying in a home with a white woman. Lisa Dwyer reports. Finally There were some pretty intense moments in the interview by former CNN host Don Lemon to Elon Musk. Kevin Carr has the details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Newcomers often wonder where old Charlotte is in our glowing New South city. Much of it is in the minds and memories of those who have lived here for generations. Jack Claiborne and his brother, Slug, fall into that category — and their story is the story of Charlotte.
Is it even possible to protect those civilians in the wake of a full-scale offensive?
Dana In The Morning Highlights 1/30Cruise ship outta Galveston finds/rescues stradned men in kayakMardi Gras Galveston kicks off this Friday at 5PBritish paper gives Houston the titel of 'Most Exciting City in the Southern US' AND WE AGREE!
SAPPHIRE / ALIEN SEED, SOUTHERN CITY, 16min., USA Directed by Emma Colton Performer/Writer Melanie Greene Sapphire is a time-traveling golden goddess moving through nature, pleasure, and mysticism. She snakes between seconds, flirting with the seen and unseen, marrying metallic molecules and alchemist dreams. http://www.methodsofperception.com/ https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/sapphire-review You can sign up for the 7 day free trial at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS). There is a DAILY film festival to watch, plus a selection of award winning films on the platform. Then it's only $3.99 per month. Subscribe to the podcast: https://twitter.com/wildsoundpod https://www.instagram.com/wildsoundpod/ https://www.facebook.com/wildsoundpod
AP correspondent Julie Walker reports on Israel Palestinians
Dr Margaret Harris, Spokesperson for the World Health Organization, discusses the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
United Nations officials said starvation is a possibility in Gaza as they were forced to stop food and aid deliveries due to a lack of fuel. Israel said it will allow two tankers a day to enter for UN operations, about half what they need, just for the most vital operations. This happens as Palestinian officials announced the death toll has surpassed 12,000. Leila Molana-Allen reports. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders
United Nations officials said starvation is a possibility in Gaza as they were forced to stop food and aid deliveries due to a lack of fuel. Israel said it will allow two tankers a day to enter for UN operations, about half what they need, just for the most vital operations. This happens as Palestinian officials announced the death toll has surpassed 12,000. Leila Molana-Allen reports. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders
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Imagine starting college with aspirations of becoming a dentist, only to end up as a Deputy Director for the Department of Innovation Economic Opportunity at the City of Birmingham! That's exactly what happened to our inspiring guest, Coreata Houser, who joins us to share his unique career journey. Not only did he navigate the challenging times of losing his parents before entering college, but he discovered his true purpose and found fulfillment in economic development.Coreata's story starts with his upbringing in Silicon Valley, Alabama, where he found inspiration in his surroundings and pursued college life at Tuskegee University. He shares his experiences from his time as a student, working part-time while juggling a biology major, and the key relationships that helped him maintain balance in his life. As we follow his path, we learn about Koriate's transition from a focus on restorative justice to his Master's program and the valuable lessons he's learned along the way.Now, as the Deputy Director for the Department of Innovation Economic Opportunity at the City of Birmingham, Coreata uses his passion and expertise to improve the quality of life for the city's residents. He works tirelessly to attract businesses, ensure economic growth, and foster a positive environment for the community. Don't miss this compelling conversation, where Coreata shares his fascinating story and inspires us all to embrace the unexpected twists and turns of our own career journeys.Follow Coreata R. Houser;LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreatarhouser/Recommendations:Book: The Road Not Taken by Robert FrostPlease Rate & Review on your listening platform. Follow us on Instagram & LinkedIn @CareerCheatCode035 | Dental Dreams to Economic Development in a Southern City
How much did Nashville banks and startups lose from last week's bank failures? East Bank land right next to the proposed new Titans stadium is being bought. Plus, we examine Nashville's caliber as a city compared to the other hit cities of the south.New YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKjWKXfpjtNL0oL2R6MKSxwToday's Sponsors:Brad Reynoldshttps://thinkbrad.com/Blessed Day Coffeehttps://www.blesseddaycoffee.com/Use Code "XPLR20" for 20% off at checkoutNash NewsReal estate developers bid for East Bank land by proposed new NFL domed Titans stadium - Nashville Business Journalhttps://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2023/03/16/metro-east-bank-rfq-bid-update-stadium-developer.htmlNashville banks lose $1.4 billion in value in wake of Silicon Valley Bank failurehttps://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2023/03/14/find-out-how-much-value-nashville-banks-have-lost.htmlNashville Daily Artist of the Day Playlisthttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/51eNcUWPg7qtj8KECrbuwx?si=nEfxeOgmTv6rFUyhVUJY9AFollow us @ XPLR NASHWebsite - https://nashvilledailypodcast.com/YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/xplrnashInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/xplr.nash/Twitter - https://twitter.com/xplr_nashNASHVILLE & XPLR MERCH - https://www.xplrnash.com/shopMedia and other inquiries please email hello@xplr.life
The This Is Nashville team is closing out 2022 by revisiting our best episodes. We'll be back on the air with a new episode on January 4. Until then, happy listening and happy holidays! This episode originally aired on September 29. When it comes to manners and etiquette, every city has its local quirks. So we explore the question: What is “Nashville Nice”? This is the South, so you're likely to hear a good old fashioned “bless your heart” on a regularly basis. But there's more to unpack. So we explore some of the origins and nuances of Music City's social graces with our panel — as well the potential downsides of keeping up an appearance of niceness. Are you "Nashville Nice"? Take the quiz to find out. But first, WPLN interim news director Chas Sisk and digital editor Rachel Iacavone join host Khalil Ekulona in the studio to recap the station's top stories for 2022. Guests: Freda Player, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools board member representing District 7 Dr. Carole Bucy, Davidson County historian Tracey Hughes Royal, principal of Tracey Royal Communications and CEO business mentor for Pinnacle Global Network Vali Forrister, co-founder and producing artistic director of the Actors Bridge Ensemble Benjamin Houston, senior lecturer at Newcastle University; author of The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City
When it comes to manners and etiquette, every city has its local quirks. So we explore the question: What is “Nashville Nice”? This is the South, so you're likely to hear a good old fashioned “bless your heart” on a regularly basis. But there's more to unpack. So we explore some of the origins and nuances of Music City's social graces with our panel — as well the potential downsides of keeping up an appearance of niceness. But first, it's our weekly @Us segment. Guests: Freda Player, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools Board of Education, District 7 Dr. Carole Bucy, Davidson County historian Tracey Hughes Royal, principal of Tracey Royal Communications and CEO business mentor for Pinnacle Global Network Vali Forrister, co-founder and producing artistic director, Actors Bridge Ensemble Benjamin Houston, senior lecturer at Newcastle University; author of The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City
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Join historian Samantha Rosenthal for a lecture about an LGBTQ community in Roanoke, Virginia, and how queer people today think about the past and how history lives on in the present. Queer history is a living practice. Talk to any group of LGBTQ people today, and they will not agree on what story should be told. In her book Living Queer History, Samantha Rosenthal tells the story of a small city on the edge of Appalachia. Interweaving historical analysis, theory, and memoir, Rosenthal tells the story of their own journey—coming out and transitioning as a transgender woman—in the midst of working on a community-based history project that documented a multigenerational southern LGBTQ community. Based on over forty interviews with LGBTQ elders, Living Queer History explores how queer people today think about the past and how history lives on in the present. Gregory Samantha Rosenthal (she/her or they/them) is associate professor of history and coordinator of the Public History Concentration at Roanoke College. She is co-founder of the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project, a nationally recognized queer public history initiative. Her work has received recognition from the National Council on Public History, the Oral History Association, the Committee on LGBT History, the American Society for Environmental History, and the Working Class Studies Association. Samantha is the author of two books, Beyond Hawaiʻi: Native Labor in the Pacific World (2018) and Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City (2021). The content and opinions expressed in these presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.
Authorities have urged residents to stay in air raid shelters. Also reports from Russian state media say that two Britons will stand trial for "mercenary activities," and the ship which Ukraine says is full of stolen grain. Also on the programme; the UN special advisor on Libya condemns the violence after the Libyan parliament in the city of Tobruk is set ablaze by protesters. And Greece's minister of Climate Change tells us about their efforts to combat wildfires before they even take place. (Picture: A man examines pictures over the debris in Mykolaiv Credit: EPA / Ivanchenko)
Queer history is a living practice. Talk to any group of LGBTQ people today, and they will not agree on what story should be told. Many people desire to celebrate the past by erecting plaques and painting rainbow crosswalks, but queer and trans people in the twenty-first century need more than just symbols—they need access to power, justice for marginalized people, spaces of belonging. Approaching the past through a lens of queer and trans survival and world-building transforms history itself into a tool for imagining and realizing a better future. Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City (UNC Press, 2021) tells the story of an LGBTQ community in Roanoke, Virginia, a small city on the edge of Appalachia. Interweaving historical analysis, theory, and memoir, Gregory Samantha Rosenthal tells the story of their own journey—coming out and transitioning as a transgender woman—in the midst of working on a community-based history project that documented a multigenerational southern LGBTQ community. Based on over forty interviews with LGBTQ elders, Living Queer History explores how queer people today think about the past and how history lives on in the present. Gregory Samantha Rosenthal, PhD, is Associate Professor of History and Coordinator of the Public History Concentration at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. She teaches courses in public history, women's and gender studies, and general education. She is interested in environmental studies, working-class studies, LGBTQ, queer, and trans studies, community organizing, and scholar-activism. Her pronouns are she/her or they/them. The Queer Voices of the South podcast encourages listeners to suggest authors they would like to hear us interview. Follow us on Twitter @voices_south or in the public group Queer Voices of the South on Facebook or email us at queervoicesofthesouth@gmail.com Morris Ardoin is the author of Stone Motel – Memoirs of a Cajun Boy (2020, University Press of Mississippi), which was optioned for TV/film development in 2021. A communications leader in health care, immigration and asylum, and higher education, his work has appeared in national and international media. He divides his time between New York City and Cornwallville, New York, where he does most of his writing. His blog, “Parenthetically Speaking,” which focuses on life as a writer, home cook, and Cajun New Yorker, can be found at www.morrisardoin.com. Twitter: @morrisardoin Instagram: morrisardoin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/lgbtq-studies
Queer history is a living practice. Talk to any group of LGBTQ people today, and they will not agree on what story should be told. Many people desire to celebrate the past by erecting plaques and painting rainbow crosswalks, but queer and trans people in the twenty-first century need more than just symbols—they need access to power, justice for marginalized people, spaces of belonging. Approaching the past through a lens of queer and trans survival and world-building transforms history itself into a tool for imagining and realizing a better future. Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City (UNC Press, 2021) tells the story of an LGBTQ community in Roanoke, Virginia, a small city on the edge of Appalachia. Interweaving historical analysis, theory, and memoir, Gregory Samantha Rosenthal tells the story of their own journey—coming out and transitioning as a transgender woman—in the midst of working on a community-based history project that documented a multigenerational southern LGBTQ community. Based on over forty interviews with LGBTQ elders, Living Queer History explores how queer people today think about the past and how history lives on in the present. Gregory Samantha Rosenthal, PhD, is Associate Professor of History and Coordinator of the Public History Concentration at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. She teaches courses in public history, women's and gender studies, and general education. She is interested in environmental studies, working-class studies, LGBTQ, queer, and trans studies, community organizing, and scholar-activism. Her pronouns are she/her or they/them. The Queer Voices of the South podcast encourages listeners to suggest authors they would like to hear us interview. Follow us on Twitter @voices_south or in the public group Queer Voices of the South on Facebook or email us at queervoicesofthesouth@gmail.com Morris Ardoin is the author of Stone Motel – Memoirs of a Cajun Boy (2020, University Press of Mississippi), which was optioned for TV/film development in 2021. A communications leader in health care, immigration and asylum, and higher education, his work has appeared in national and international media. He divides his time between New York City and Cornwallville, New York, where he does most of his writing. His blog, “Parenthetically Speaking,” which focuses on life as a writer, home cook, and Cajun New Yorker, can be found at www.morrisardoin.com. Twitter: @morrisardoin Instagram: morrisardoin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-south
Queer history is a living practice. Talk to any group of LGBTQ people today, and they will not agree on what story should be told. Many people desire to celebrate the past by erecting plaques and painting rainbow crosswalks, but queer and trans people in the twenty-first century need more than just symbols—they need access to power, justice for marginalized people, spaces of belonging. Approaching the past through a lens of queer and trans survival and world-building transforms history itself into a tool for imagining and realizing a better future. Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City (UNC Press, 2021) tells the story of an LGBTQ community in Roanoke, Virginia, a small city on the edge of Appalachia. Interweaving historical analysis, theory, and memoir, Gregory Samantha Rosenthal tells the story of their own journey—coming out and transitioning as a transgender woman—in the midst of working on a community-based history project that documented a multigenerational southern LGBTQ community. Based on over forty interviews with LGBTQ elders, Living Queer History explores how queer people today think about the past and how history lives on in the present. Gregory Samantha Rosenthal, PhD, is Associate Professor of History and Coordinator of the Public History Concentration at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. She teaches courses in public history, women's and gender studies, and general education. She is interested in environmental studies, working-class studies, LGBTQ, queer, and trans studies, community organizing, and scholar-activism. Her pronouns are she/her or they/them. The Queer Voices of the South podcast encourages listeners to suggest authors they would like to hear us interview. Follow us on Twitter @voices_south or in the public group Queer Voices of the South on Facebook or email us at queervoicesofthesouth@gmail.com Morris Ardoin is the author of Stone Motel – Memoirs of a Cajun Boy (2020, University Press of Mississippi), which was optioned for TV/film development in 2021. A communications leader in health care, immigration and asylum, and higher education, his work has appeared in national and international media. He divides his time between New York City and Cornwallville, New York, where he does most of his writing. His blog, “Parenthetically Speaking,” which focuses on life as a writer, home cook, and Cajun New Yorker, can be found at www.morrisardoin.com. Twitter: @morrisardoin Instagram: morrisardoin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history
Queer history is a living practice. Talk to any group of LGBTQ people today, and they will not agree on what story should be told. Many people desire to celebrate the past by erecting plaques and painting rainbow crosswalks, but queer and trans people in the twenty-first century need more than just symbols—they need access to power, justice for marginalized people, spaces of belonging. Approaching the past through a lens of queer and trans survival and world-building transforms history itself into a tool for imagining and realizing a better future. Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City (UNC Press, 2021) tells the story of an LGBTQ community in Roanoke, Virginia, a small city on the edge of Appalachia. Interweaving historical analysis, theory, and memoir, Gregory Samantha Rosenthal tells the story of their own journey—coming out and transitioning as a transgender woman—in the midst of working on a community-based history project that documented a multigenerational southern LGBTQ community. Based on over forty interviews with LGBTQ elders, Living Queer History explores how queer people today think about the past and how history lives on in the present. Gregory Samantha Rosenthal, PhD, is Associate Professor of History and Coordinator of the Public History Concentration at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. She teaches courses in public history, women's and gender studies, and general education. She is interested in environmental studies, working-class studies, LGBTQ, queer, and trans studies, community organizing, and scholar-activism. Her pronouns are she/her or they/them. The Queer Voices of the South podcast encourages listeners to suggest authors they would like to hear us interview. Follow us on Twitter @voices_south or in the public group Queer Voices of the South on Facebook or email us at queervoicesofthesouth@gmail.com Morris Ardoin is the author of Stone Motel – Memoirs of a Cajun Boy (2020, University Press of Mississippi), which was optioned for TV/film development in 2021. A communications leader in health care, immigration and asylum, and higher education, his work has appeared in national and international media. He divides his time between New York City and Cornwallville, New York, where he does most of his writing. His blog, “Parenthetically Speaking,” which focuses on life as a writer, home cook, and Cajun New Yorker, can be found at www.morrisardoin.com. Twitter: @morrisardoin Instagram: morrisardoin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies
Queer history is a living practice. Talk to any group of LGBTQ people today, and they will not agree on what story should be told. Many people desire to celebrate the past by erecting plaques and painting rainbow crosswalks, but queer and trans people in the twenty-first century need more than just symbols—they need access to power, justice for marginalized people, spaces of belonging. Approaching the past through a lens of queer and trans survival and world-building transforms history itself into a tool for imagining and realizing a better future. Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City (UNC Press, 2021) tells the story of an LGBTQ community in Roanoke, Virginia, a small city on the edge of Appalachia. Interweaving historical analysis, theory, and memoir, Gregory Samantha Rosenthal tells the story of their own journey—coming out and transitioning as a transgender woman—in the midst of working on a community-based history project that documented a multigenerational southern LGBTQ community. Based on over forty interviews with LGBTQ elders, Living Queer History explores how queer people today think about the past and how history lives on in the present. Gregory Samantha Rosenthal, PhD, is Associate Professor of History and Coordinator of the Public History Concentration at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. She teaches courses in public history, women's and gender studies, and general education. She is interested in environmental studies, working-class studies, LGBTQ, queer, and trans studies, community organizing, and scholar-activism. Her pronouns are she/her or they/them. The Queer Voices of the South podcast encourages listeners to suggest authors they would like to hear us interview. Follow us on Twitter @voices_south or in the public group Queer Voices of the South on Facebook or email us at queervoicesofthesouth@gmail.com Morris Ardoin is the author of Stone Motel – Memoirs of a Cajun Boy (2020, University Press of Mississippi), which was optioned for TV/film development in 2021. A communications leader in health care, immigration and asylum, and higher education, his work has appeared in national and international media. He divides his time between New York City and Cornwallville, New York, where he does most of his writing. His blog, “Parenthetically Speaking,” which focuses on life as a writer, home cook, and Cajun New Yorker, can be found at www.morrisardoin.com. Twitter: @morrisardoin Instagram: morrisardoin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies
Queer history is a living practice. Talk to any group of LGBTQ people today, and they will not agree on what story should be told. Many people desire to celebrate the past by erecting plaques and painting rainbow crosswalks, but queer and trans people in the twenty-first century need more than just symbols—they need access to power, justice for marginalized people, spaces of belonging. Approaching the past through a lens of queer and trans survival and world-building transforms history itself into a tool for imagining and realizing a better future. Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City (UNC Press, 2021) tells the story of an LGBTQ community in Roanoke, Virginia, a small city on the edge of Appalachia. Interweaving historical analysis, theory, and memoir, Gregory Samantha Rosenthal tells the story of their own journey—coming out and transitioning as a transgender woman—in the midst of working on a community-based history project that documented a multigenerational southern LGBTQ community. Based on over forty interviews with LGBTQ elders, Living Queer History explores how queer people today think about the past and how history lives on in the present. Gregory Samantha Rosenthal, PhD, is Associate Professor of History and Coordinator of the Public History Concentration at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. She teaches courses in public history, women's and gender studies, and general education. She is interested in environmental studies, working-class studies, LGBTQ, queer, and trans studies, community organizing, and scholar-activism. Her pronouns are she/her or they/them. The Queer Voices of the South podcast encourages listeners to suggest authors they would like to hear us interview. Follow us on Twitter @voices_south or in the public group Queer Voices of the South on Facebook or email us at queervoicesofthesouth@gmail.com Morris Ardoin is the author of Stone Motel – Memoirs of a Cajun Boy (2020, University Press of Mississippi), which was optioned for TV/film development in 2021. A communications leader in health care, immigration and asylum, and higher education, his work has appeared in national and international media. He divides his time between New York City and Cornwallville, New York, where he does most of his writing. His blog, “Parenthetically Speaking,” which focuses on life as a writer, home cook, and Cajun New Yorker, can be found at www.morrisardoin.com. Twitter: @morrisardoin Instagram: morrisardoin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
On April 8, 2021, Ryan K. Smith explored the history and recovery of the burial grounds of Richmond, Virginia, through the lens of race. Virginia's capital holds one of the most dramatic landscapes of death in the nation, with graveyards dating from the city's founding through the Civil War, emancipation, and the long road that followed. Yet too often they are treated in isolation. This lecture by historian Ryan Smith will compare these important sites in terms of their initial dynamics as well as in terms of their ongoing states of preservation and commemoration. Ryan K. Smith is a professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author several books, including Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses: Anti-Catholicism and American Church Designs in the Nineteenth Century and Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries. The content and opinions expressed in these presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.
Visit Patagonia in South America ► You have probably heard of Patagonia. No, not the clothing company! I am talking about the region in the southern part of South America, governed by Argentina and Chile. The area covers a section of the Andes mountains, lakes fjords, glaciers, deserts & steppes. It is so rich in landscapes that nature lovers can find almost anything! ===== ► About the guest: Alex is the co-founder of Career Gappers, a blog that inspires and helps people to build travel experiences into their busy working lives. He is passionate about the life-changing benefits of taking long-term travel career breaks and short-term workcations. You can follow @CareerGappers on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. ===== ► Mentions in the Podcast and useful information: Our recommended Patagonia itineraries for 1, 2, 3, and 4 weeks: https://careergappers.com/patagonia-itinerary-travel-guide General Patagonia backpacking guide: https://careergappers.com/backpacking-in-patagonia A guide to hiking the Torres Del Paine W Trek for first-timers: https://careergappers.com/torres-del-paine-w-trek Things to do in Ushuaia: https://careergappers.com/things-to-do-in-ushuaia Things to do in El Calafate: https://careergappers.com/things-to-do-in-el-calafate Things to do in Bariloche: https://careergappers.com/things-to-do-in-bariloche How to get around Patagonia by bus: https://careergappers.com/how-to-get-around-patagonia ╼ ╍ ╾ Let's connect: http://www.curiouspavel.com/links
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The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Episode 3 - Find Out Why Chapter 5 Is Fitzgerald's Favorite Chapter! Hi, I’m Christy Shriver, and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. And I’m Garry Shriver and this is the How to love lit podcast. This is our third episode featuring what some people consider to be THE Great American Novel, and after two weeks of symbolism and irony and politics and layers and layers of imagery and meaning, I am starting to see why people are so fascinated with this book. It’s so dense. There are so many ways to read it, and I guess that’s what’s kind of fun about it. I liked reading it for the story, and I loved the movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, although I know there are so many hard core Robert Redford fans out there that have taken me to task for that. But, as I’ve read it this time, I’ve really enjoyed reading it for the political commentary. I loved the discussion of the values of Thomas Jefferson and all the distortions or really perversions of the American Dream. An idea that we mentioned and will come back to- although like I said, I don’t really like the term- American Dream because it seems to me to imply the notion of possibility or self- improvement on the basis hard work, personal sacrifice and merit as uniquely American, which is most definitely is NOT. Well, I won’t disagree with that. Of course, that’s the dream of all the world. We can look at the life of Paulo Neruda and his hope for Chile for an example we’ve featured on the podcast as well as Julia de Borges although very differently expressed. But from a political standpoint, what Fitzgerald criticizes is less the idea itself, as I told you, he’s a Thomas Jefferson fan as well, but, he challenges this myth that there is a place on earth that is free from the corruption innate in the human heart- that the United States of America is such a place. Regardless of the system of checks and balances inherent in any system, it is an illusion to believe that those who make it to the top of the social, economic and political worlds escape the damaging mercenary temptations inherent in those positions- whether they are born there or whether they build their wealth themselves- and, as I see it, as we read through this book- we see very clearly the lines blurring between right and wrong- legitimate and illegitimate- reality versus illusion and ultimately even good vs evil, if you want to see it in those terms. And he does it so artfully. He uses colors, and cars and geography and symbols of all sorts and throws all of these into a glamorous setting of his day. The original readers saw this book as being modeled after their own modern moment. This story, if it were set today, would include characters modeled after Kanye West, Tom Brady, Beyonce, and Bill DiBlasio, the music would likely be rap music- the technology would likely include tik tok, iphones, and Zoom. In fact, if you really want to make a good comparison, F. Scott Fitzgerald was sort of the Shonda Rhimes of his day. If you don’t know who that is, Shonda Rhimes, may be the most accomplished television producer and author of our day. She is the head writer, creator and executive producer of shows everyone knows: Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, How to Get away with Murder and Scandal. She wrote Crossroads the debut film of Britney Spears , her most recent being Bridgerton. And Fitzgerald was like that. Between 1919 and 1934 he made $400,000 mostly from short stories- think of that like tv episodes. His work was fun, popular and glamorous, like Shonda Rhimes, so when the Great Gatsby came out- it wasn’t taken as the serious work of literature he meant it to me- and if you don’t get the meaning, the story in many ways falls flat. One newspaper called it, ““Fitzgerald’s latest a dud” Ruth Hale of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle said, “Find me one chemical trace of magic, life, irony romance or mysticism in all of The Great Gatsby, and I will bind myself to read one Scott Fitzgerald book a week for the rest of my life.” Ouch, that sounds like one of those Edgar Allen Poe Reviews. Well, it does, and the money speaks for itself. He only made $7000 from the two printings of the book combined. He himself knew it was a masterpiece and believed that all the way til his death. He set out to write, using his own words, ‘something new, something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned.” And he absolutely did every bit of that. In fact that was one of the things the critics didn’t like about it- it was too geometric to be a great novel- in their estimation. What does that mean? How can you be geometric? Well, things in this book are just too tight- there is even one theory that he modeled the entire thing after a vaudeville show (which normally has 9 acts- and he has 9 chapters)- but in each act there’s a theme modeled after what the corresponding Act would be if it were a vaudeville show. Do you think there is any validity to that? For those of you who are unfamiliar with that term- during the early part of the 20th century, America had these variety shows called Vaudveille that were really popular. They basically were little circus like shows- with crazy characters and lots of music. In a way, I can see it. We’ve seen crazy characters for sure as well as lots of music. I really don’t know. Vaudeville was extremely popular at the time, and if you read the literature they make that case, but honestly, I have no idea, but it woldn’t surprise me. Everything in this book is just so deliberate. If you follow the vaudeville pattern- this week we’re going to look at chapters 4-5 which in Vaudeville world should include the act with absurd characters and chapter 4 does fit that bill. Act 5’s by the way are characterizized by near misses and that works too, as we’ll see. But another remarkable thing about the structure of this book is that the moment when Gatsby and Daisy meet is exactly the smack dab middle of the book. Are we ready to jump into the weeds of chapters 4-5? Absolutely, the beginning of chapter really introduces a long cast of characters, in fact the first two pages are nothing but names. The most interesting to the story is Klipspringer who stayed at Gatsby’s so long he was nicknamed “the boarder”. But the really interesting characters are not the guests or even the gangsters although meeting anyone who’s jewelry is made from human molars would generally draw my attention- but in this case, the mafioso is displaced by the deputant. No doubt, and I know we don’t have time to get into the real colorful men of history who inspired these hilarious descriptions but if anyone is interested, look into the life of Herbert Bayard Swope who’s parties inspired Gatsby’s parties and the bootlegger Max Gerlach who is the model for Gatsby and George Remus who Fitzgerald actually met in Louisville- any Google search is just fun if you enjoy those kinds of things. And Louisville is where we’re landing today- and it is in chapter 4 that we go back in time to meet Daisy Fay of Louisville, Kentucky- a place where you’ve actually visited many times because it was also the location the College Board selected for many years for AP readers to congregate and grade the hundreds of thousands of essays from around the world every year. So true, Louisville, Kentucky the fictional hometown of Daisy Fay, is a Southern City, today famous for the Churchill Downs, Kentucky Derby, and Kentucky bourbon. Louisville is charming, historical and mythological and right in the middle is the Seelbach hotel- The hotel Tom Buchanan descended upon from Chicago with an entourage 400 people on the weekend of his wedding. Fitzgerald, and this is where you’re going to see a LOT of overlap between fiction and non-fiction, like Gatsby, was a soldier during WW1 and stationed, albeit only for a month near Louisville. On the weekends, he, like a lot of soldiers, would escape Camp Zachary Taylor in his impeccable uniform he had tailor made from Brooks Brothers, enter into the Seelbach hotel as the handsomest man in the room and seek to charm and seduce. Zelda, his wife, is not from Louisville, she’s from Alabama, another city, so you can see how he plays around with his past. But she, like Daisy, refuses to marry him because “rich girls don’t marry poor boys.” To quote Tom Buchanan. Fitzgerald was stationed near Louisville in 1918, prohibition didn’t start until 1920 so he made good use of the opulent Seelbach bar so much so that he was thrown out of the Seelbach bar at least three times in the four weeks he was there. Good Lord- well – Fitzgerald in his sober state, sets Jordan Baker’s retelling of Daisy’s past in October of 1917. I want to point out a couple of things here which I find very interesting and things to think about. So far, we’ve talked about Fitzgerald’s criticism of corruption and the American dream, we’ve talked about colors and irony, and dust and existential atheism- and all that is in this book- but now I want to change directions and talk about time and personal history, nostalgia and all those things that are beyond politics. There is a lot of emotional content in this story, this bittersweet feeling of lost opportunity that everyone experiences as they get older in some way or another. This is set up in the first four chapters with a lot that is happy and exciting- happy nostalgia so to speak- it really peaks in the famous fifth chapter, which was Fitzgerald’s personal favorite and the one he rewrote the most- and kind of turns to negative feelings for the rest of the book- I heard it described as a nostalgia hangover one time and that’s a funny but appropriate metaphor. It also becomes extremely evident, if it hasn’t been before, that there is no attempt to be chronological – this chapter is very cinematic as it creates these montages of the past and present- New York and then Louisville. I also want to point out that Fitzgerald, very progressively, changes narrarators and when we hear Daisy’s story, it’s not from the perspective of Nick- a female, Jordan, tells what some would call the female version of the Gatsby story. Garry read how Jordan first meets Gatsby, The largest of the banners and the largest of the lawns belonged to Daisy Fay’s house. She was just 18, two years older than me, and by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville. She dressed in white, and had a little white roadster, and all day long the telephone rang in her house and excited young officers from Camp Taylor demanded the privilege of monopolizing her that night. “Anyways, for an hour!” When I came opposite her house that morning her white roadster was beside the curb, and she was sitting in it with a lieutenant I had never seen before. They were so engrossed in each other that she didn’t see me until I was five feet away. “Hello, Jordan,” she called unexpectedly. “Please come here.” I was flattered that she wanted to speak to me, because of all the other girls I admired her most. She asked me if I was going to the Red Cross and make bandages. I was. Well, then, would I tell them that she couldn’t come that day? The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time, and because it seemed romantic to me I remembered the incident ever since. His name was Jay Gatsby, and I didn’t lay eyes on him again for over four years- even after I’d met him on Long Island I didn’t realize it was the same man.” It’s so easy to reduce Daisy to the materialstic skank that stays with an awful man for the money because Nick looks at her like that by the end of the book, but I want to suggest, Fitzgerald is doing something so much more interesting than that. She has a white childhood- nothing the color- but Daisy is Fitzgerald’s doppelganger. I want to point out something many people have observed- neither Daisy nor Gatsby are every described physically. Gatsby is described by his dress- Daisy is described by her voice- everything else we have to create in our imaginations. They aren’t real- they are both dreams. But while Gatsby goes away and keeps the dream alive for five years- Daisy’s dream of Gatsby dies early. Notice that as she sits in that car, Jordan remembers it becaue of the way Gatsby looks at her- in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time.” What’s more dreamy than that- but the very next paragraph Daisy’s dream is over. Read what Fitzgerald says, “Wild rumors were circulating about her- how her mother had found her packing her bag one winter night to go to New York and say good-by to a soldier who was going overseas. She was effectually prevented, but she wasn’t on speaking terms with her family for several weeks. After that she didn’t play around with soldiers anymore, but only with a few flat-footed short-sighted young men in town, who couldn't get into the army at all. By the next autumn she was gay again, as gay as ever. She had a debut after the Armistice, and in February she was presumably engaged to a man from New Orleans. In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago, with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before. He came down with a hundred people in four private cars, and hired a whole floor of the Seelbach Hotel, and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three-hundred and fifty thousand dollars.” BTW- I looked up how much that would be today- and the estimates started around 4 million. True- but the next part is what I want to highlight. Let me read what Jordan says, “I wa a bridesmaid. I came into her room half an hour before the b ridal dinner, and found her lying on her bad as lovely as the June night in her flowered dress- and as drunk as a monkey. She had a bottle of Sauterne in one hand and a letter in the other. “Gradulate me,” she muttered. “Never had a drink before, but oh how I do enjoy it.” What’s the matter, Daisy” I was scared, I can tell you; I’d never seen a girl like that before. “Here, deares”She groped around in a waste-based she had with her on the bed and pulled out the string of pearls. “Take ‘em down-stairs and give ‘em back to whoever they belong to. Tell ‘em Daisy’s change her mine. Say “Daisy’s change her mind. “ She began to cry- she cried and cried. I rushed out and found her mother’s maid, and we locked the door and got her back into a cold bath. She wouldn’t let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up with a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap-dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow. But she didn’t say another word. We gave her spirits of ammonia and put ice on her forehead and hooked her back into her dress, and half an hour later, when we walked out of the room, the pearls were around her neck and the incident was over. Next at five o’clock she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver, and started off on a three months trip to the South Beach. I saw them in Santa Barbar when they came back, and I thought I’d never seen a girl so mad about her husband. If he left the room for a minute she’d look around uneasily, and say, “Where’s tom gone…….let me skip down to the end of the paragraph…skipping over the part where Daisy spends hours rubbing fingers over his eyes…after I left Santa Barbara Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night and ripped a front wheel off his car. The girl who was with him got into the papers, too, becaue her arm was broken- she was one of the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara Hotel. Wow- well, there are eyes, cars and a lot of the stuff we’ve talked about before. True- but there’s another really important thing to notice- WATER. Water plays a huge role in the book- it’s between the eggs, in chapter 5 we’ll talk about the rain, but what does it mean- well- we’ve talked about this in several books- but water is the most primal of archtypes- it’s important in every religion as a sign of rebirth and renewal- which is what’s going on here. Daisy got baptized the night before her wedding- she went under that icey water and let her letter from Gatsby disintegrate and she came up the ice princess- a woman so devoid of feeling that she exist in a world where she knows she’s nothing both an ornament, a statue or a collector’s item- the golden girl. Gatsy founded his vision on Daisy Fay- the fairy- the girl he described as “gleaming like silver safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor”. We’re going to see in chapter 5 that he literally glows in her presence. But that girl came down to reality well before Gatsby every did. You’re going to see next week that Gatsby has two baptisms himself, and one is in his backyard in the swimming pool. Yikes- well after Fitzgerald destroys Daisy’s dream- he goes after Gatsby- at the end of chapter 4, Fitzgerald gives the narrator role back to Nick. Jordan finishes her story by talking about how Gatsby’s house is across the water from Daisy’s house. “But it wasn’t a coincidence at all. “Why not.” “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.” Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor. “He wants to know , “continued Jordan” if you’ll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over.” The modesty of the demand shook me. He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths- so that he could “come over” some afternoon to a stranger’s garden.” …Jordan ends her chat with Nick telling him he’s supposed to set it up but Daisy isn’t supposed to know about it…then Nick and Jordan make out in the car in quite possibly the most unromantic love scene I’ve ever read, “Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs, and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan, scornful mouth smiled, and so I drew her up again closer, this time to my face. Isn’t there a cliché- if you can’t be with the one you love- love the one you’re with. This is even worse than that- if you can’t find someone to love- be with a disembodied face. Chapter 5 is the big meeting- the middle of the chapter- the chapter Fitzgerald told Max Perkins his editor, he loved the most. It’s also where, from my perspective, this is where we see a lot of the mythical qualities stand out which makes me think Greek- as you know because Shakespeare did a lot with this- Empedocles, the Greek philosopher came up with the famous four-part theory kind of saying everything comes from air, water, earth and fire- and as we see Fitzgerald play around with all the traditional colors, I can’t help but see him play around with the traditional basic elements that the ancients thought created the world. Great point- there everywhere- Daisy floats around, the valley of ashes is the earth, Manhattan is fire hot, and then there is all this emphasis on water- which we’re going to see water play such an important role in the most important parts of the story-.here in chapter 5, after Gatsby tries unsuccessfully to recruit Nick to work for the mob- which was a kind of funny exchange- we arrive at the famous moment where Gatsby and Daisy meet- and it is “POURING RAIN”- and rain means rebirth, regeneration- Gatsby- it’s also blistering hot- there are references t “pink clouds” after Daisy visits the mansion. It’s all there all the elements that make for recreating the world- except as we know- this is all an illusion. It’s all fake. But let’s walk it back and go through this scene- with the archetypes in the back of our mind with the colors and the Greek elements- but they are the supporting details- the real focus of this chapter is on Gatsby’s absolute determination to walk back time. Matthew Bruccoli wasTHE premiere American expert on F. Scott Fitzgerald, he died in 2008, but he wrote the preface which is in the authorized version of the book that most students at least in this country use- it has the blue face with eyes in the middle of the cover and red lipstick with the fire of the city below. Anyway, in his preface, he says that Fitzgerald references time 450 – 87 direct references to the word itself- never mind the constant use of time symbolism. That is really what I want us to focus on for the rest of this discussion because at the end of the day- what Gatsby wants to do is stop time. He wants to walk back time. When he walks in with his white suit and gold tie- he wants to recreate the moment Jordan told us about when he met Daisy this first time- except this time he’s an version of himself that would have been competitive with Tom or whatever image he has made up in his nmind. Daisy with her “clear artificial note” says, “I certainly am awfully glad to see you again.” And what does he do, he leans his head so far back that it rest against the face of a defunct mantlepiece clock. As Gatsby talks the clock tilts dangerously at the pressure of his head and he has to turn and catch it before it crashes and breaks. When Gatsby says, “I’m sorry about the clock.” He IS sorry about the clock. He’s sorry about the lost five years. For Gatsby, his body is in the present but his mind is five years in the past. I don’t really want to get Freudian but this does remind me of a Freud quote, Freud says, ““We call a belief an illusion when a wish-fulfilment is a prominent factor in its motivation” (Freud, 1962, p. 28) Yes, and for Gatsby this is something money can buy- time is something you can create; something you can buy- like everything else that is for sale in this world. If you’re rich enough you can buy everything- even time- even Daisy. The scene where Gatsby takes Daisy over to his house in the movie version with Leonardo DiCaprio is so memorable. And now that you mentioned colors- I tend to notice them. There is a gold odor- whatever that could be- and a lot of purple which is made from blue and red- this scene is about the illusion of love. Yep- now you’re tracking with Fitzgerald. Here’s a good line, they are in Gatsby’s bedroom and he is evaluating everything in his house according to the measure of Daisy’s response to it. Then it says this, “After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence. He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.” Now that is poetic language if you have ever read it!!! The funniest scene to me is the one with the shirts. I know. It’s funny and I think we should keep reading. Recovering himself in a minute he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which help his massed suits and dressing gowns and ties, and his shrits, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high. “I’ve got a man in England who buys me clothes. He sends over a selection of things at the beginning of each seasons, spring and fall.” He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray. While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher- shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange,with monograms of Indian blue. Suddenly with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shrts and began to cry stormily. “They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such- such beautiful shirts before.” Why do you think she cries? I have always found this strange. Well, of course, I don’t know. But it could be a couple of things- you know, like you mentioned about Daisy, the ice queen from the previous chapter- Daisy may be understanding what Gatsby doesn’t- that this is an illusion their relationship isn’t real. It could be that Daisy is regretting marrying Tom and thinking about having a life with Gatsby. But honestly, when I put on- my historical lens, I remember that this is the 1920s, WW1 destroyed for the people, and not just American people, but people in England, Germany, France and Spain- it destroyed for so many the values on which they had created their whole culture and identity. if I look at this book the way you’ve been wanting us to look at it- full of symbolism, mythology and meaning- I land on the idea that for many people up to that point, and even today, we believe that love and materialism are not connected. People won’t love you because of your money, not really, and you can have love even if you don’t have money. I mean, we can subscribe to those ideas- but what we see in Daisy is someone who, in her own words, is cynical- that’s the first thing she told us about herself. This is the woman who literally wants her daughter to be a beautiful fool- and here’s she’s crying. In general, cynical people don’t cry. So why is she crying, one idea is because Daisy, like so many of her generation, finds the shirts and the materialism they represent the substitute for the innocent fulfilling love of her white past- the one she doesn’t believe in anymore- the one that doesn’t exist- it’s a beautiful moment that she shares with Gatsby- but she believes the shirts are safe real thing in the room- and that would make me cry too. Well, it’s certainly possible that this encounter with the real Daisy instead of the one Gatsby had made up in his head is having a similar effect on Gatsby himself. He says this, “If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay.” “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.” Remember Green is the color of growth but also the color of money. Daisy put her arm through his abruptly, but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemd very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one. Daisy calls then to the window just a little while later and we see that the rain is still falling, but the darkness had parted in the west, and there was a pink and golden billow of foamy clouds above the sea. “Look at that” she whispered and then after a moment, “I’d like to just get one of those pink could and put you in it and push you around.” And this chapter which at face value is absolutely as romantic as this book will ever get ends with such cynicism, such irony- it’s very much the nihilism and post modernism so often seen in the 1920s. Klipsinger is playing two songs that were super popular in the 1920s, you can listen to them on youtube. The love nest was a very popular song about a house. It literally says that the love nest is a small house on a farm but filled with warmth and love inside and is better than a palace with a gilded dome- yikes- this house is the gilded one. The second song, the one actually quoted in the text is from a song called “Aint’ we Got Fun”. The lines in the book read this, “One thing’s sure and nothing’s surer the rich get richer and the poor get- children”. Both Daisy had Gatsby pursued love in their youth- but they aren’t those people any more. Daisy is the ice queen, and Gatsby created his own Daisy something he can literally purchase- and that’s not love either, not really. Fitzgerald’s sarcasm is in the song choice. The chapter ends like this, “As I went over to say good-by I saw that the expression of Bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five year! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusions. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. As I watched him he adjust himself a little, visibly. His hand took hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice help him most, with it fluctuating, feverish warmth because it oculdn’t be over-dreamed- that voice was a deathless song. And of course Nick leaves them to go walk in the rain. What do you think? You don’t have the Jane Austen happy ending feeling do you? No. You really don’t.
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The excitement of the America's cup yesterday saw hundreds of boats and thousands of people hit Auckland's harbour front, and you know what a lot of them were doing? Drinking. Hand in hand with celebration - comes alcohol. It was the same thing for students in Dunedin who were reportedly keeping Police busy with their St Patrick's day celebrations. Apparently students were binge drinking from first thing in the morning.. Police said it’s become a day to rival New Years Eve in terms of intoxication. “A siren song for drunkenness in the Southern City”, is how one Senior Sergeant described it.People dressed in green started drinking in the streets from 8am.. the St Paddys day thing is growing in scale Police say, in terms of levels of drunkenness and what time the drinking starts. I mean 8am is early, even for the most hardy student drinker surely? The Police were going to work with students around the parties planned, monitoring drinks in glass – to ensure broken glass didn’t end up everywhere. Which is good because a couple of our kids flew to Dunedin earlier this year to DJ at O-week, and said the streets were just a mass of broken glass by the end of the night as people flung empty bottles into the air. Which is nothing short of dangerous.But young people binge drinking is often what makes the news, despite stats claiming drinking among young people has actually been trending down. In 2001, 34 percent of youth were binge drinking, by 2019, it had dropped to 22 percent. The biggest contributor to this decline was apparently a change in attitude towards alcohol. But although the stats don’t lie, one researcher says we should be careful how we interpret them. She says while it's true young people are drinking less, those who do drink are still likely to be binge drinking. So the proportion of binge drinkers, you could argue, hasn’t really changed.It would be easy to assume that Uni students are the biggest contributors to these stats, given a lot of the time their drinking can accompany larrikin type behaviour which makes the news. But equally a house party of non Uni students is likely to have as many binge drinkers surely. They just may not be doing it in the street dressed in green making a racket.But while a lot of the focus and the news reports are on youth drinking, we probably as a society need to look at what we’re role modelling. If you thought students went a bit nuts for St Patrick's Day in Dunedin, you only need to cast your eye at the spectator boats and those around the viaduct for the America’s Cup final yesterday, those in the pubs and clubs watching the race.There is a love affair with alcohol in this country, often wrapped around celebration. Now I'm no wowser, but while it’s easy for adults to point the finger at students for thrashing the drinks, there is an element here of those in glass houses, maybe not throwing so many stones.
Last week would have been the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 92nd birthday. Given all that has happened over the last year and the last few weeks, we wanted to highlight one of the most significant and consequential calls for racial equality and social justice in American History - “Letter from Birmingham Jail”On Good Friday, April 12, 1963 - the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and fellow civil rights leaders were arrested in Birmingham, Alabama as they lead a now famous Campaign of non-violent direct action to protest racial segregation and oppression in that Southern City.In the early 1960s, Birmingham was one of the most racially segregated cities in the United States - enforced by both law and culture. Black citizens faced legal and economic oppression, and violent retribution when they attempted to even draw attention to these conditionsThe Birmingham Campaign would become a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. President Kennedy’s Address to the Nation on Civil Rights, the August 1963 March on Washington and many other events were a direct result of this campaign and Dr. King’s now famous letter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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This week we highlight one of the most significant and consequential calls for racial equality and social justice in American History - “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”On Good Friday, April 12, 1963 - the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and fellow civil rights leaders were arrested in Birmingham, Alabama as they lead a now famous Campaign of non-violent direct action to protest racial segregation and oppression in that Southern City.In the early 1960s, Birmingham was one of the most racially segregated cities in the United States - enforced by both law and culture. Black citizens faced legal and economic oppression, and violent retribution when they attempted to even draw attention to these conditionsThe Birmingham Campaign would become a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. President Kennedy’s Address to the Nation on Civil Rights, the August 1963 March on Washington and many other events were a direct result of this campaign and Dr. King’s now famous letter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Good morning, RVA! It’s 66 °F, and Big Rain is on its way. We’ve got a flood watch in effect from 8:00 AM–8:00 PM with a possibility of one to two inches of rain. Basically wind and rain all day today, maybe some tomorrow, and then a pretty nice-looking Saturday.Water coolerAs of this morning, the Virginia Department of Health reports 14,961 positive cases of the coronavirus in the Commonwealth, and 522 people in Virginia have died as a result of the virus. VDH reports 1,670 cases in and around Richmond (Chesterfield: 501, Henrico: 846, and Richmond: 323). Yesterday, the number of reported tests stayed flat at around 2,500, and that continues to bum me out. New hospitalizations and percent-positive went down a tiny bit, theoretically advancing our 14-day Countdown to Recovery to “one.” Although, VPM, paraphrasing the Governor from his press conference yesterday, says that when asked if one bad day would restart the Countdown Clock the Gov said: “No, ‘we’re looking at trends’ - so over 14-days, he’d be looking for an overall decline in positive cases. He says turnaround time and amount of tests will also impact what this looks like.” Sounds like someone (this guy) needs to update his charts to switch everything to a rolling 14-day average. Also yesterday, the Governor allowed his ban on elective medical procedures to expire.The local health district continues to roll out free, walk-up testing events in some of our lower-income neighborhoods. Today they’ll set up at the Gilpin Resource Center. Spread the word! Remember: You must call the COVID-19 hotline to register ahead of time (804.205.3501). While we, of course, need more of these all across our region, I’m stoked that we’ve started in some of our public housing neighborhoods and that these events have not been drive-through testing. Several states have rolled out drive-through testing which instantly and inequitably limits who can participate.GRTC says they’ve had their first bus operator test positive for COVID-19. GRTC’s policy for this sort of thing is that any employee that gets tested, must then go on paid leave until they get negative results back or fully recover. To try and stay ahead of a potential outbreak, GRTC has asked “that all operators and on-site staff schedule a COVID-19 test as soon as possible to stay ahead of any possible spread.” You’d an see how those previous two sentences, when combined, will make for some serious disruptions in bus service: “GRTC requests that customers make alternative arrangements for all essential trips for the remainder of this week. If GRTC does not have enough operations staff on duty to put at least minimal service on most every route, GRTC may need to cancel fixed-route service entirely for Thursday and Friday. If this happens, GRTC will put on-demand service in place for urgent and essential trips to medical facilities that cannot be met due to canceled transit services.” Wow. Without knowing any of the specifics, I wonder if, once GRTC gets through this initial round of tests, a core service plan can be implemented—something similar to what’s been done in San Francisco.City Council met yesterday for a budget amendment session. You can listen to the audio here, and you can look at the, so far, single proposed budget amendment here(PDF). Put forward by Councilmember Lynch, this amendment would take $600,000 from the local health district’s Smoking Cessation and Disease Prevention Program and allocate it toward expanding the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. Whether or not you think we should defund health programs at this particular moment in time in favor of housing, hats off to Councilmember Lynch for doing the work to actually submit a change to the Mayor’s proposed (and updated) budget. Council will meet again today at 4:00 PM for a newly-scheduled amendment session—so newly-scheduled that it’s not even on the City’s legislative website yet. Will anyone else submit amendments? Will Council approve Lynch’s amendment? Will they schedule a few more meetings before the end of May? Tune in and find out.Jack Jacobs, writing for Richmond BizSense, has an interesting update on that loan program the City’s Economic Development Authority announced a million virusweeks ago. So far $410,000 of the $1 million is spoken for and five business have cash in hand.Note for prospective RPS parents and guardians: Preschool and Kindergarten online registration begins today! You’ll need a birth certificate, proof of residence, and, for preschool, proof of income.Rich Griset at the Chesterfield Observer talked to John Moeser about the rerelease of his book on annexation, The Politics of Annexation: Oligarch Power in a Southern City. I’m contractually obligated to link you to anything having to do with annexation in the Richmond region. It’s one of the most defining moments in our City’s modern history. Remember, you can download Moeser’s book for free! Put it in your quaranqueue now!RVAgreen 2050—which is “the City’s equity-centered, integrated mitigation and climate resilience planning initiative to aggressively reduce community greenhouse gas emissions and help the community adapt to Richmond’s climate impacts”—needs Virtual Ambassadors to help learn and spread the word about climate resiliency. Maybe you have some spare time and are willing to dedicate it to a worthy cause? What cause, I ask you, is worthier than THE VERY FATE OF OUR ONLY PLANET?? Anyway, interested folks can learn more and sign up over on the RVAgreen 2050 website.Logistical note! I’m taking tomorrow off from Good Morning, RVA. No real reason other than I want to spend the morning sitting quietly in my living room, drinking coffee, and staring into the middle distance. I’ll probably work on some new coronacharts, too. Until Monday!This morning’s patron longreadEnvironmental Destruction Brought Us COVID-19. What It Brings Next Could Be Far WorseSubmitted by Patron Kathleen. Who wants to be terrified on a Thursday??As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, killing thousands and crushing the global economy, the potential threat of zoonotic spillover — when novel viruses and bacteria jump from animals to people — is becoming increasingly clear. The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 almost certainly originated in bats and is believed to have spilled into humans at a live animal market in Wuhan, China. Readily transmissible and far deadlier than the seasonal flu, COVID-19 is now one of the worst pandemics of animal origin that humans have faced in a century. But it won’t be the last.If you’d like your longread to show up here, go chip in a couple bucks on the ol’ Patreon.
War Brief: In Afghanistan, 3 are wounded in IED blast outside Pakistan consulate in Jalalabad and the Israeli Iron dome air defense system destroys 2 of 3 rockets fired from Gaza, with the third missile crashing into an open area and more
Yemen’s southern secessionist forces appear to have taken effective control of the port city of Aden, seat of the internationally recognized government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi. In this latest conflict, fighters loyal to Southern Transitional Council (STC), which seeks an independent south Yemen, began an offensive against the government forces on August 7. Both sides have been part of a military coalition, dominated by Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE), which intervened in Yemen in March 2015 against the Houthis and their allies after they removed Mr. Hadi from power earlier that year. The separatist fighters involved in the recent showdown are UAE trained while the government forces appear to be backed by the Saudis. What is the significance of this recent confrontation? How will it impact the ongoing war in Yemen? What do we need to know about South Yemen and its history? Who are the secessionist in Yemen today? Does the showdown in Eden signal a schism in the Saudi-UAE coalition? To answer these questions, we turn to Sheila Carapico, a Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Richmond in Virginia. Professor Carapico is the author of Civil Society in Yemen: The Political Economy of Activism in Modern Arabia. More recently, she edited a volume entitled Arabia Incognita: Dispatches from Yemen and the Gulf.
MIchelle and Christy took the show on the road and headed to Nashville Tennessee to sponsor and record live at The Modern Love Event. We met brides, grooms, friends, parents and lots of amazing top wedding vendors in the Southern City that never sleeps. This episode is the ‘show' we did in the loft of The Cordelle, the host venue of the Modern Love Event. We chatted with attendees, answered questions, addressed concerns and dished out a lot of free advice. It's free, so don't blame us! It's like a live YAWA. We had so much fun. And we touched on SO MANY TOPICS. “Fun fact: Nashville is actually now the #1 US destination for weddings, and it's a really exciting time for this lively city.” - from the 100 Layer Cake Feature (link below) Click HERE to become a premium subscriber and unlock all of the amazingness: Ad-free, full length episodes The TBWPP Wedding Planning Resource Center with Access to 6 mini courses of The Big Wedding Planning Master Class Wedding Planning Templates and Tools Big Takeaways We talk budget and (once again) encourage a nice, organized wedding budget. If your partner is co-planning the wedding, then you can both draft out a list of priorities. Then you share and mesh that list into one and start to estimate dollar amounts for each element/vendor. Remember - you don't have to decide everything at once. Generally, you do save a little money with a BYO situation for the bar. It's great to hear how you are all feeling as you #planthatwedding. Getting to ask more questions and give more specific advice catered to the specific couple in front of us was a real kick. We heard about the expenses, the pros and cons you are weighing, the decisions you are struggling with… Guest lists! Heard of a butt artist? They exist. And they're super fun to have at a wedding, btw. Favors. We reiterate that we aren't huge fans of the throw-away favors. But food favors? Great! A mother-of-the-bride asks how she is supposed to get hair and makeup and we have never addressed this on the podcast before! Our advice is generally to be in touch with the chosen stylists and to communicate ahead of time. Send pics. Plan your own trial run if you're local. And if you have the means...find your own stylist and arrange something for earlier in the day. We have two brides on to interview - one is doing a glamping wedding and one is getting married at Reba McEntire's former estate. What fun! Links we referenced The Modern Love Event: http://modernloveevent.com Modern Love Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/modernloveevent/ Modern Love Feature: http://www.100layercake.com/events/the-modern-love-event-takes-on-nashville/ Butt Artist: https://www.buttsketch.com/contact WED - event we are EMCEEing! https://www.experiencewed.com Get In Touch: The Big Wedding Planning Podcast is… Hosted and produced by Michelle Martinez Music by Steph Altman of Mophonics On Instagram @thebigweddingplanningpodcast and be sure to use #planthatwedding when posting, so you can get our attention! Easy to get in touch with. Email us at hello@thebigweddingplanningpodcast.com or Call and leave a message at 415-723-1625 and you might hear your voice on an episode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
MIchelle and Christy took the show on the road and headed to Nashville Tennessee to sponsor and record live at The Modern Love Event. We met brides, grooms, friends, parents and lots of amazing top wedding vendors in the Southern City that never sleeps. This episode is the ‘show' we did in the loft of The Cordelle, the host venue of the Modern Love Event. We chatted with attendees, answered questions, addressed concerns and dished out a lot of free advice. It's free, so don't blame us! It's like a live YAWA. We had so much fun. And we touched on SO MANY TOPICS. “Fun fact: Nashville is actually now the #1 US destination for weddings, and it's a really exciting time for this lively city.” - from the 100 Layer Cake Feature (link below) Big Takeaways We talk budget and (once again) encourage a nice, organized wedding budget. If your partner is co-planning the wedding, then you can both draft out a list of priorities. Then you share and mesh that list into one and start to estimate dollar amounts for each element/vendor. Remember - you don't have to decide everything at once. The venue decision will dictate the date, and potentially, the biggest bulk of your budget. And also the style, decor, rentals etc. So decide on that and then send out Save The Dates, and then CHILL for a while. It's ok if you don't know anything else for a while. Even if people are asking you lots of questions about your wedding...you don't have to know the answers. Generally, you do save a little money with a BYO situation for the bar. You definitely need to look into this before you book a venue. And we highly suggest you get professional event bartenders with insurance and licenses. This can come from the caterer, in most cases. It's a little more work to do a BYO bar, but if you're ok with that, it's worth it. It's great to hear how you are all feeling as you #planthatwedding. Getting to ask more questions and give more specific advice catered to the specific couple in front of us was a real kick. We heard about the expenses, the pros and cons you are weighing, the decisions you are struggling with… Guest lists! We believe in the A list, B list equation if you are going to have to whittle things down. Even add a C if your budget is very up in the air. Michelle breaks it down in this episode and Christy repeats herself with the tried and true opinion: sending out a few more invitations is the best reason to go over budget. Heard of a butt artist? They exist. And they're super fun to have at a wedding, btw. Favors. We reiterate that we aren't huge fans of the throw-away favors. But food favors? Great! A mother-of-the-bride asks how she is supposed to get hair and makeup and we have never addressed this on the podcast before! Our advice is generally to be in touch with the chosen stylists and to communicate ahead of time. Send pics. Plan your own trial run if you're local. And if you have the means...find your own stylist and arrange something for earlier in the day. We have two brides on to interview - one is doing a glamping wedding and one is getting married at Reba McEntire's former estate. What fun! Links we referenced The Modern Love Event: http://modernloveevent.com Modern Love Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/modernloveevent/ Modern Love Feature: http://www.100layercake.com/events/the-modern-love-event-takes-on-nashville/ Butt Artist: https://www.buttsketch.com/contact WED - event we are EMCEEing! https://www.experiencewed.com Quotes “Our style is very bohemian meets modern with a splash of elegance.” - Groom we interviewed. “This is very specific and impressive! I love it. You've got a good one, girl.” - Michelle “Don't let yourself get all spun out with wedding planning. Because wedding planning is NOTHING compared to life planning. With a partner...Marriage is harder.” - Christy, if she had a nickel for everytime she said this... “So what was the thing so far that surprised you...like you found out how much it was going to cost and you were like, holy shit?!” - Michelle “I think it's the venue.” - The groom, on what's included, how it all looks, which vendors you have to use, etc “A destination wedding may end up being more expensive, but the money is distributed differently.” - Christy “You're not going to cook! Don't let him do that! It's your wedding day, you can't cook.” - Michelle to chef groom. Boom. “My priority is good logistics. Having everyone know what to do and when things are going to happen. ...Cause we've been to weddings before where we get there and we're just standing around and next thing we know we hear people shouting in the back and then we find out that we missed the send off, or the cake cutting.” - Groom “It's a very good thing that you have a planner.” - Christy, preach “In my family, if we get a save-the-date, we just assume that cousin is pregnant. We're short term planners!” - Christy Get In Touch EMAIL: thebigweddingplanningpodcast@gmail.com FACEBOOK: @TBWPpodcast INSTAGRAM: @thebigweddingplanningpodcast BE SURE TO USE THE HASHTAG: #planthatwedding TWITTER: @TBWPpodcast PHONE: (415) 723-1625 Leave us a message and you might hear your voice on the show! PATREON: www.patreon.com/thebigweddingplanningpodcast
Violent protests by white supremacists, a school bombing, and courage in the face of racial hatred all helped define 1957, the year Nashville's public schools began desegregation. Host Allen Forkum (editor of The Nashville Retrospect newspaper) talks to Dr. Bobby Lovett about the significance of the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and its effect on the civil rights movement in Nashville. Lajuanda Street Harley, a Glenn School student who was one of the first black first-graders to be integrated, recalls the tumultuous times, along with her 90-year-old mother, Sorena Street. The two also discuss downtown shopping, white vs. black schools, and dealing with racism. Debie Oeser Cox, a first-grader in 1958, recalls her time at Glenn School, as well as race relations and life in North East Nashville. Former police officer Joe Casey and former news reporter Larry Brinton remember events relating to pro-segregationist protesters and the Hattie Cotton School bombing. Also hear audio excerpts from the January 1957 hearings before the Tennessee State Legislature on the merits of Governor Frank Clement’s “moderate” segregation plan. (All of the above is part of one segment, which begins at 03:50) Lajuanda Street (back turned) and Jackie Griffith (right) meet white fellow students on registration day at Glenn School, on Aug. 28, 1957. It was the first day blacks were allowed to register for white schools in Nashville. (Image: Nashville Public Library, Nashville Room, photo by Bob Ray) Original caption from the Sept. 10, 1957, Nashville Banner: “A large rock is hurled at the windshield of a car carrying two Negroes during an unruly demonstration Monday night against desegregation at Fehr School. Arrows show the rock and a soft drink bottle, cocked in the hand of a young boy and ready to be tossed at the vehicle. Five hundred adults, as well as youngsters, many not yet in their teens, tossed debris at passing cars which contained Negroes. Police finally broke up the crowd. No injuries were reported.” (Image: Nashville Public Library, Nashville Room, photo by Dale Ernsberger) On Sept. 9, 1957, large groups of jeering whites gathered outside of Glenn School and other elementary schools to protest black first-graders being integrated into the previously all-white schools. At the far right, Harold Street escorts his daughter Lajuanda (not seen), who thought the crowd was part of a first-day-of-school parade. In front of him, Mary Griffith holds the hands of her daughter, Jacquelyn Faye, and son, Stevie; Mary Griffith had been fired from her job at Pet Milk Company for participating in integration. (Image: Nashville Public Library, Nashville Room) Segregationist and white supremacist John Kasper, of Camden, N.J., speaks to protesters at Glenn School. The Nashville Tennessean reported he called upon his supporters "to boycott the schools, warning them of violence if desegregation continues, urging them to attend his rally last night on the steps of War Memorial auditorium.” At that rally, Kasper would urge the picketing of Hattie Cotton School, which was bombed later that same night. (Image: Nashville Public Library, Nashville Room) Lajuanda Street (left) begins her first day of school at Glenn with an unidentified fellow student. Lajuanda Street Harley’s recollections of that day are featured in this podcast. (Image: Nashville Public Library, Nashville Room) Original caption from the Sept. 10, 1957, Nashville Banner: “East wall of Hattie Cotton School is left in shambles from an early morning dynamite blast. The school, located at 1010 West Greenwood Ave., enrolled one Negro student Monday.” (Image: Nashville Public Library, Nashville Room, photo by Rob Ray) And finally, Allen Forkum briefly reviews some of the contents of the September 2018 issue of The Nashville Retrospect, including: the 1978 robbery of the Country Music Hall of Fame; the 1941 fire at Woolworth downtown; 1868 articles about Market Street drunkenness and velocipedes; and a 1970 advertisement for the famous Nashville stripper Heaven Lee. (Segment begins at 01:25) SHOW NOTES A list of articles relating to this episode contained in back issues of The Nashville Retrospect (back issue can be ordered by clicking here): • “18 Negroes Play On City [Golf] Courses,” Nashville Tennessean, Feb. 14, 1956 (The Nashville Retrospect, February 2010) • “Parents Corner Supt. Bass At Glenn School As Negro, White Pupils Talk,” Nashville Banner, Aug. 28, 1957 (The Nashville Retrospect, August 2009) • Photo of pro-segregationist protesters at Jones Elementary School with a United States flag, a Confederate battle flag, and a KKK sign, Nashville Banner, Sept 10, 1957 (The Nashville Retrospect, September 2014) • See the September 2018 issue of The Nashville Retrospect for other stories referenced on this episode, including: “Blast Wrecks School,” Nashville Tennessean, Sept. 10, 1958; and “School Attendance Off by 25–30 Pct.” Nashville Tennessean, Sept. 10, 1958. Other related articles: • “School Bills Clear 1st Hurdle,” Nashville Tennessean, Jan. 16, 1957 • “School Plan Start Upheld,” Nashville Tennessean, Jan. 22, 1957 • “Clement Signs 5 School Bills,” Nashville Tennessean, Jan. 26, 1957 • “Law Held Antagonistic to U.S. Supreme Court Ruling,” Nashville Tennessean, Sept. 7, 1957 • “West–Lawlessness Elements Must Go; Five Quizzed In School Explosion,” Nashville Banner, Sept. 10, 1957 • “Mayor West, Oliver Request U.S. Action Against Agitators Here,” Nashville Banner, Sept. 11, 1957 • “Kasper Undaunted By Two Contempt Convictions,” Nashville Banner, Sept. 11, 1957 • “Police Shift To Tough Policy,” Nashville Tennessean, Sept. 11, 1957 Links relating to this episode: “Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville,” by John Egerton Dr. Bobby Lovett The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History, by Dr. Bobby Lovett The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780–1930: Elites and Dilemmas, by Dr. Bobby Lovett The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City, by Dr. Bobby Lovett “Nashville History” blog by Debie Oeser Cox Civil Rights Room at the Nashville Public Library Audio: Excerpts from segregation hearings of January 1957, an audio recording by the Tennessee State Library and Archives Music: “Near You” by Francis Craig and His Orchestra (Bullet, 1947); “Quiet Outro” by ROZKOL (2018); “The Apotheosis of All Deserts” by ROZKOL (2017); “Covered Wagon Days” by Ted Weems and His Orchestra; and “The Buffalo Rag” by Vess L. Ossman
How do dogs figure into economic development? It's no joke. Ask the analysts who take economic vitals from man's best friend. Ask the industries that profit majorly from pet ownership. Or ask the Town of Benson, which em-barked on a dog-focused project to fetch economic bone-efits. Quartz piece connecting dogs and economic development - Dog elected mayor - Another dog elected mayor - Benson profile, Southern City magazine - https://www.nclm.org/resourcelibrary/Shared%20Documents/Southern%20City/JanFeb2017.pdf
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) looks into the ailments of a particular community, it’s safe to assume the concern is infection or some similar local threat to human bodily health. So when the CDC started investigating the youth violence plaguing Wilmington, Del. -- a first-of-its-kind study -- it was different. But not inconsistent. Increasingly, communities and their governments are reframing their approaches to crime, by considering it a treatable public health issue before one of criminal justice. On this episode we delve in with several voices from the conversation. A portion of it comes from a session of the National League of Cities' annual conference held late last year in Charlotte. CDC report on Wilmington, Del., firearm violence and prevention - Southern City magazine, "Crime as a public health issue" - CitiesSpeak, "Leaving mass incarceration behind: How cities are turning to a public health approach to violence" - Daniel Latorre -
It's a nationwide issue weighing on police departments of all sizes: the lack of good, qualified applicants when police chiefs seek to hire officers. Salary concerns, public scrutiny, the inherent dangers, long hours and the need for wholehearted commitment are just a few factors stressing the profession. And there's more. To get a handle on it, we talk with an expert and visit with police officials who recently changed their own agency's hiring approach expressly to turn things around. Did it work? (Oh, and after the serious talk, we have a few more names to add to our ongoing list of Best Fictional Mayors.) Show notes: ADDED 12/4/17, crazy New Zealand police recruitment video - https://youtu.be/f9psILoYmCc Hartford Courant, "Lack of Qualified Applicants Forced Delay in Adding Cops to City Force" - http://www.courant.com/community/hartford/hc-hartford-police-classes-20170127-story.html Washington Post (2006), "Police Finding it Hard to Fill Jobs" - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/26/AR2006032600995.html The Forecaster, "Call for help: Southern Maine police department jobs going vacant" - http://www.theforecaster.net/call-for-help-police-department-jobs-going-vacant/ The Balance, "Why Police Departments are Facing Recruitment Problems" - https://www.thebalance.com/why-police-departments-are-facing-recruitment-problems-974771 Governing, "WANTED: Police for Hire, Minorities Encouraged" - http://www.governing.com/columns/smart-mgmt/gov-police-hiring-recruitment-minorities.html The Pantagraph, "Challenge remains in hiring minority, female police officers" - http://www.pantagraph.com/news/challenge-remains-in-hiring-minority-female-police-officers/article_36979ced-346a-53a9-9ede-c8c2e37872a0.html Burlington, NC recruitment video - http://burlingtonnc.gov/1126/Employment-Opportunities Police Foundation, "Recruiting, Selecting, and Retaining Law Enforcement Officers" - https://www.policefoundation.org/recruiting-selecting-and-retaining-law-enforcement-officers/ Southern City (2016), "Rebuilding Trust: Law Enforcement Leaders, Legislators Talk Modern Issues with Police and Public" - https://www.nclm.org/programs-services/publications/southern-city/2016/2016-09/Pages/RebuildingTrust.aspx#.WhxThSNzKUl Mayor Lenny - http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Mayor_Lenny
There are so many cities and towns right now on amazing rebounds in the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship. But what's missing? As innovation economies grow, we keep hearing more and more about the need for "inclusive innovation" in cities. But are we clear on what that entails? On this episode, we head out to Durham, N.C. -- an innovation-heavy city surging with activity -- to meet up with an authority on the subject. Christopher Gergen, an entrepreneurial leader and head of inclusive innovation collaborative Forward Cities, says the stakes are nothing to ignore. Listen and hear why. Show notes: Christopher Gergen, Forward Cities - http://www.forwardcities.org/convenings/2015/durham/forward-cities-staff/Christopher-Gergen.aspx Forward Cities main page - http://www.forwardcities.org @forwardcities - https://twitter.com/ForwardCities TechCrunch, "As tech startups surge in cities, inclusive economic growth must be a priority" - https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/10/as-tech-startups-surge-in-cities-inclusive-economic-growth-must-be-a-priority/ Pittsburgh's Roadmap for Inclusive Innovation - http://pittsburghpa.gov/innovation-performance/innovationroadmap/index.html Gergen's previous appearance on Municipal Equation, "The Five Levers of the Local Innovation Ecosystem" - https://soundcloud.com/municipalequation/ep-03 InnovateNC - http://innovatenc.org 2016 Southern City article, "How to Drive Innovation in any Community " - https://www.nclm.org/programs-services/publications/southern-city/2016/2016-07/Pages/HowtoDriveInnovationinanyCommunity.aspx#.WSNK4u1tmUk
Savannah, Georgia, is famous for its romantic, Southern charm. But it's also home to a massive St. Patrick's Day party that kicks off weeks before culminating on March 17. We talk to two Savannah residents about Savannah's long Irish history.
When we think of the word "brand" in an advertising sense, surely we first picture the Nike Swoosh, or the Coca-Cola can, or the Ford medallion, or, who knows, maybe the Quaker Oats guy. And for good reason. Their owners put forth gargantuan levels of money and strategy to make you think of them before their competitors. But what about when branding is the project of a local government? It's been happening a lot over the past decade, as cities and towns across the country seek to freshen or sharpen their images, most often to win new businesses, residents and economic growth. Just like with the private sector, town branding or rebranding is a delicate process that requires steady navigation to stay out of the ditch. What are the best practices? What's the secret? What happens when a town branding goes right? Or wrong? On this episode we talk with a town that's embarking on a branding project, another town that recently completed one, and a researcher who's written a lot on the subject. If your town is thinking about branding or rebranding, you might want to give this one a listen. Show notes: Southern City article, "Being a Brand Apart"- http://www.nclm.org/programs-services/publications/southern-city/2016/2016-05/Pages/BeingaBrandApart.aspx Town of Morrisville, "Live Connected. Live Well." - http://www.townofmorrisville.org/index.aspx?NID=794 City of Newton branding initiative - http://newtonnc.gov/brand/ Town of Fuquay-Varina, "A Dash More" - http://www.fuquay-varina.org/416/Fuquay-Varina---A-Dash-More Staci Zavattaro - https://www.cohpa.ucf.edu/directory/staci-zavattaro/ Zavattaro on Twitter, with links to books - https://twitter.com/staciwithaz
From a retreat given in an historic Southern City featuring song snips from Johnny Rivers, William Warfield, and Paul Simon (just to name a few).
From a retreat given in an historic Southern City featuring song snips from Johnny Rivers, William Warfield, and Paul Simon (just to name a few).
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