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Host Lee Hawkins investigates how a secret nighttime business deal unlocked the gates of a Minnesota suburb for dozens of Black families seeking better housing, schools, and safer neighborhoods. His own family included.TranscriptIntroLEE HAWKINS: This is the house that I grew up in and you know we're standing here on a sidewalk looking over the house but back when I lived here there was no sidewalk, and the house was white everything was white on white. And I mean white, you know, white in the greenest grass.My parents moved my two sisters and me in 1975, when I was just four years old. Maplewood, a suburb of 25,000 people at the time, was more than 90% white.As I rode my bike through the woods and trails. I had questions: How and why did these Black families manage to settle here, surrounded by restrictions designed to keep them out?The answer, began with the couple who lived in the big house behind ours… James and Frances Hughes.You're listening to Unlocking The Gates, Episode 1.My name is Lee Hawkins. I'm a journalist and the author of the book I AM NOBODY'S SLAVE: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free.I investigated 400 years of my Black family's history — how enslavement and Jim Crow apartheid in my father's home state of Alabama, the Great Migration to St. Paul, and our later move to the suburbs shaped us.My producer Kelly and I returned to my childhood neighborhood. When we pulled up to my old house—a colonial-style rambler—we met a middle-aged Black woman. She was visiting her mother who lived in the brick home once owned by our neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Hutton.LEE HAWKINS: How you doing? It hasn't changed that much. People keep it up pretty well, huh?It feels good to be back because it's been more than 30 years since my parents sold this house and moved. Living here wasn't easy. We had to navigate both the opportunities this neighborhood offered and the ways it tried to make us feel we didn't fully belong.My family moved to Maplewood nearly 30 years after the first Black families arrived. And while we had the N-word and mild incidents for those first families, nearly every step forward was met with resistance. Yet they stayed and thrived. And because of them, so did we.LEE HAWKINS: You know, all up and down this street, there were Black families. Most of them — Mr. Riser, Mr. Davis, Mr. White—all of us can trace our property back to Mr. Hughes at the transaction that Mr. Hughes did.I was friends with all of their kids—or their grandkids. And, at the time, I didn't realize that we, were leading and living, in real-time, one of the biggest paradigm shifts in the American economy and culture. We are the post-civil rights generation—what I call The Integration Generation.Mark Haynes was like a big brother to me, a friend who was Five or six years older. When he was a teenager, he took some bass guitar lessons from my dad and even ended up later playing bass for Janet Jackson when she was produced by Minnesota's own Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.Since his family moved to Maplewood several years before mine, I called him to see what he remembered.MARK HAYNES: "It's a pretty tight-knit group of people,"Mark explained how the community came together and socialized, often –MARK HAYNES: "they—every week, I think—they would meet, actually. I was young—maybe five or six.LEE HAWKINS: And what do you remember about it? I asked. What kind of feeling did it give you?MARK HAYNES: It was like family, you know, all of them are like, uh, aunts and uncles to me, cousins. It just felt like they were having a lot of fun. I think there was an investment club too."Herman Lewis was another neighbor, some years older than Mark—an older teenager when I was a kid. But I remember him and his brother, Richard. We all played basketball, and during the off-season, we'd play with my dad and his friends at John Glenn, where I'd eventually attend middle school. Herman talked to me about what it meant to him.HERMAN LEWIS: We had friends of ours and our cousins would come all the way from Saint Paul just to play basketball on a Friday night. It was a way to keep kids off the street, and your dad was very instrumental trying to make sure kids stayed off the street. And on a Friday night, you get in there at five, six o'clock, and you play till 9, 10 o'clock, four hours of basketball. On any kid, all you're going to do is go home, eat whatever was left to eat. And if there's nothing left to eat, you pour yourself a bowl of cereal and you watch TV for about 15 to 25-30, minutes, and you're sleeping there, right in front of the TV, right?LEE HAWKINS: But that was a community within the community,HERMAN LEWIS: Definitely a community within the community. It's so surprising to go from one side of the city to the next, and then all of a sudden there's this abundance of black folks in a predominantly white area.Joe Richburg, another family friend, said he experienced our community within a community as well.LEE HAWKINS: You told me that when you were working for Pillsbury, you worked, you reported to Herman Cain, right? We're already working there, right? Herman Cain, who was once the Republican front runner for President of the United States. He was from who, who was from the south, but lived in Minnesota, right? Because he had been recruited here. I know he was at Pillsbury, and he was at godfathers pizza, mm hmm, before. And he actually sang for a time with the sounds of blackness, which a lot of people would realize, which is a famous group here, known all over the world. But what was interesting is you said that Herman Cain was your boss, yeah, when he came to Minnesota, he asked you a question, yeah. What was that question?Joe Richburg: Well, he asked me again, from the south, he asked me, Joe, where can I live? And I didn't really understand the significance of that question, but clearly he had a sense of belonging in that black people had to be in certain geographic, geographies in the south, and I didn't have that. I didn't realize that was where he was coming from.Before Maplewood, my family lived in St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood—a thriving Black community filled with Black-owned businesses and cultural icons like photojournalist Gordon Parks, playwright August Wilson, and journalist Carl T. Rowan.Like so many other Black communities across the country, Rondo was destroyed to make way for a highway. it was a forced removal.Out of that devastation came Black flight. Unlike white flight, which was driven by fear of integration, Black flight was about seeking better opportunities: better funded schools and neighborhoods, and a chance at higher property values.Everything I've learned about James and Frances Hughes comes from newspaper reports and interviews with members of their family.Mr. Hughes, a chemist and printer at Brown and Bigelow, and Frances, a librarian at Gillette Hospital, decided it was time to leave St. Paul. They doubled down on their intentions when they heard a prominent real estate broker associate Blacks with “the ghetto.” According to Frances Hughes, he told the group;FRANCES HUGHES (ACTOR): “You're living in the ghetto, and you will stay there.”She adds:FRANCES HUGHES (ACTOR): “I've been mad ever since. It was such a bigoted thing to say. We weren't about to stand for that—and in the end, we didn't.”The Hughes began searching for land but quickly realized just how difficult it could be. Most white residents in the Gladstone area, just outside St. Paul, had informal agreements not to sell to Black families. Still, James and Frances kept pushing.They found a white farmer, willing to sell them 10 acres of land for $8,000.And according to an interview with Frances, that purchase wasn't just a milestone for the Hughes family—it set the stage for something remarkable. In 1957, James Hughes began advertising the plots in the Twin Cities Black newspapers and gradually started selling lots from the land to other Black families. The Hughes's never refused to sell to whites—but according to an interview with Frances, economic justice was their goal.FRANCES HUGHES (ACTOR): “Housing for Blacks was extremely limited after the freeway went through and took so many homes. We wanted to sell to Blacks only because they had so few opportunities.”By the 1960s, the neighborhood had grown into a thriving Black suburban community. The residents here were deeply involved in civic life. They attended city council meetings, started Maplewood's first human rights commission, and formed a neighborhood club to support one another.And over time, the area became known for its beautiful homes and meticulously kept lawns, earning both admiration and ridicule—with some calling it “The Golden Ghetto.”Frances said:FRANCES HUGHES (ACTOR): “It was lovely. It was a showplace. Even people who resented our being there in the beginning came over to show off this beautiful area in Maplewood.”And as I pieced the story together, I realized it would be meaningful to connect with some of the elders who would remember those early daysANN-MARIE ROGERS: In the 50s, Mr. Hughes decided he was going to let go of the farming. And it coincided with the with 94 going through the RONDO community and displacing, right, you know, those people. So, at that time, I imagine Mr. Hughes had the surveyors come out and, you know, divided up into, you know, individual living blocks.That is Mrs. Ann-Marie Rogers, the mother of Uzziel and Thomas Rogers, who I spent a lot of time with as a kid. I shared what I'd uncovered in the archives, hoping she could help bring those early experiences to life.ANN-MARIE ROGERS: So, everyone played in our yard, the front yard, the yard light that was where they played softball, baseball, because the yard light was the home plate, and the backyard across the back was where they played football.Throughout this project, we found similar stories of strength, including one from Jeson Johnson, a childhood friend with another Minnesota musical connection. His aunt, Cynthia Johnson, was the lead singer of Lipps Inc., whose hit song “Funkytown” became a defining anthem of its time when many of us were just kids. We were proud of her, but I now know the bigger star was his grandmother.JESON JOHNSON: She was actually one of the first black chemists at 3M. So what she told me is that they had told her that, well, you have to have so much money down by tomorrow for you to get this house. It was really, really fast that she had to have the money. But my grandmother was she was really smart, and her father was really smart, so he had her have savings bonds. So what she told him was, if you have it in writing, then I'll do my best to come up with the money. I don't know if I'll be able to. She was able to show up that day with all her savings bonds and everything, and have the money to get it. And they were so mad, yes, that when she had got the house, they were so mad that, but they nothing that they could do legally because she had it on paper, right, right? And then that kind of started out in generation out there. It was the NAACP that kind of helped further that, just because she was chemist, they got her in the 3M, and all their programs started there.Decades later, as my friends and I played, I had no concept of any of the struggles, sacrifices and steps forward made by the pioneers who came before us. I checked in with my friend, Marcel Duke.LEE HAWKINS: did they tell you that mister Hughes was the guy that started, that started it?MARCEL DUKE: It probably never was conveyed that way, right to us kids, right? I'm sure back then, it was looked as an opportunity, yes, to get out of the city. Mm, hmm, and and where people that look like us live. And obviously that's the backstory of Mister Hughes, yeah, ultimately, we went out there because he made it known in the city, inner city, that we could move out there and be a community out there.Marcel is about four years older, I figured he may have clearer memories of Mr. Hughes than I do.MARCEL DUKE: I used to cut mister Hughes grass. I was like, like the little hustler in the neighborhood. I wanted to cut because I wanted money to go to spend on candy.Mr. Hughes' significance transcends the extra cash he put in the pockets of neighborhood kids. His granddaughter, Carolyn Hughes-Smith, told us more his multigenerational vision for Black American wealth building. But before he became a historical figure, he was just...grandpa.CAROLYN HUGHES-SMITH: the things that I really remember about him. He could whistle like I not whistle, but he could sing like a bird, you know, always just chirping. That's how we know he was around. He was more of a, like a farmer.He didn't talk much with his grandchildren about how he and Frances had unlocked the gates for Blacks. But she was aware of some of the difficulty he faced in completing that transaction that forever changed Maplewood.HUGHES-SMITH: I just heard that they did not, you know, want to sell to the blacks. And they, you know, it was not a place for the blacks to be living. And so, what I heard later, of course, was that my grandpa was able to find someone that actually sold the land to him out there and it, you know, and that's where it all started, reallyThat someone was a white man named Frank Taurek. He and his wife, Marie, owned the farm that Mr. Hughes and Frances had set their sights on. But the purchase was anything but straightforward. They had to make the deal through “night dealing.” Frances explains in a 1970s interview.FRANCES HUGHES (ACTOR): "It was just after the war. There was a tremendous shortage of housing, and a great deal of new development was going on to try to fix that. But, my dear, Negroes couldn't even buy a lot in these developments. They didn't need deed restrictions to turn us away. They just refused to sell."She describes the weekend visit she and her husband made to put in an offer on the land. By Monday morning, a St. Paul real estate company had stepped in, offering the Taurek's $1,000 more to keep Blacks out.FRANCES HUGHES (ACTOR): "But he was a man of his word, which gives you faith in human nature. The average white person has no idea of how precarious life in these United States is for anybody Black at any level. So often it was a matter of happenstance that we got any land here. The farmer could have very easily accepted the $1,000 and told us no, and there would have been nothing we could have done."What led Frank Taurek to defy norms and his neighbors, to sell the land to a Black family?DAVIDA TAUREK: I'm already moved to tears again, just hearing about it, [but and] hearing you talk about the impact of my, you know, my lineage there. It seems so powerful.This perspective comes from his great-granddaughter, Davida Taurek, a California-based psychotherapist. When I tracked her down, she was astonished to hear the long-buried story of how her white great grandparents sold their land to a Black family, unwittingly setting into motion a cascade of economic opportunities for generations to come.DAVIDA TAUREK: When I received your email, it was quite shocking and kind of like my reality did a little kind of sense of, wait, what? Like that somehow I, I could be in this weird way part of this amazing story of making a difference. You know, like you said, that there's generational wealth that's now passed down that just didn't really exist.I've seen plenty of data about what happens to property values in predominantly white neighborhoods when a Black family moves in. The perception of a negative impact has fueled housing discrimination in this country for decades, you may have heard the phrase: “There goes the neighborhood.” It's meant to be a sneer—a condemnation of how one Black family might “open the door” for others to follow. In this case, that's exactly what the Taurek's facilitated.As Carolyn Hughes- Smith sees it, the power of that ripple effect had a direct impact on her life, both as a youngster, but later as well.CAROLYN HUGHES-SMITH: We were just fortunate that my grandfather gave us that land. Otherwise, I don't, I don't know if we would have ever been able to move out thereHer parents faced some tough times –CAROLYN HUGHES-SMITH: making house payments, keeping food in the house, and that type. We were low income then, and my dad struggled, and eventually went back to school, became an electrician. And we, you know, were a little better off, but that happened after we moved out to Maplewood, but we were struggling.But they persevered and made it through –CAROLYN HUGHES-SMITH: after I grow got older and teen and that, I mean, I look back and say, Wow, my grandfather did all of this out hereOn the Taurek side of the transaction, the wow factor is even more striking. As I dug deeper into his story, it wasn't clear that he Frank Taurek was driven by any commitment to civil rights.Davida never met her great grandfather but explains what she knows about him.DAVIDA TAUREK: What I had heard about him was through my aunt that, that they were, you know, pretty sweet, but didn't speak English very well so there wasn't much communication but when they were younger being farmers his son my grandfather Richard ran away I think when he was like 14 years old. his dad was not very a good dad you know on a number of levels. There's a little bit of an interesting thing of like where Frank's dedication to his own integrity or what that kind of path was for him to stay true to this deal and make it happen versus what it meant to be a dad and be present and kind to his boy.Carolyn Hughes-Smith still reflects on the courage of her family—for the ripple effect it had on generational progress.CAROLYN HUGHES-SMITH: Would the struggle be the same? Probably not. But what makes me like I said, What makes me happy is our family was a big part of opening up places to live in the white community.LEE HAWKINS: Next time on Unlocking The GatesCAROLYN HUGHES-SMITH: The one thing that I really, really remember, and it stays in my head, is cross burning. It was a cross burning. And I don't remember exactly was it on my grandfather's property?OUTRO THEME MUSIC/CREDITS.You've been listening to Unlocking the Gates: How the North led Housing Discrimination in America. A special series by APM Studios AND Marketplace APM with research support from the Alicia Patterson Foundation and Mapping Prejudice.Hosted and created by me, Lee Hawkins. Produced by Marcel Malekebu and Senior Producer, Meredith Garretson-Morbey. Our Sound Engineer is Gary O'Keefe.Kelly Silvera is Executive Producer.

In his early 20s, this week's guest was working as a builder when he accidentally dropped a pallet of bricks — and vowed to move to San Francisco to pursue a life in the kitchen. And we are lucky he did: Adam McFarland is a born natural (he started cooking when he was a toddler), and his latest venture, John's Food and Wine, which he started alongside longtime co-conspirator Thomas Rogers, is a testament to his creativity and kindness-first approach to hospitality. After Thanksgiving, they're launching a new reservation system and tasting menu that will give diners an intimate and playful dining experience inspired by the seasons. He joins us in the studio this week to walk us through how he designs a menu, tell some stories that influenced his vision for a kinder kitchen, give us the skinny on making a good egg, and so much more. 

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Join us on this special episode of The Black Country Blokes Podcast as we welcome our guests, Michael Harries show writer and director, Mitch Lockitt who plays Thomas Rogers in Trapped, shedding light on mental health struggles through his powerful one-man show 'Trapped,' a part of Birminghamfest 2023. In this emotional and eye-opening discussion, we delve into the life of a troubled man, portrayed by Mitch, who grapples with his mental health due to past traumas. Through his performance, Mitch hopes to convey the message that it's okay to ask for help and that no one has to fight their battles alone. 'Trapped' is the fourth play from the TWOJENS&ME theatre company, penned by the acclaimed international author, Michael Harris, the mind behind award-winning productions like 'A Matter of Law,' 'For Those We Leave Behind,' and 'Four2Jump.'Catch the show on the following dates:Thursday, July 20, 2023, at 7 pmFriday, July 21, 2023, at 7 pmSaturday, July 22, 2023, at 7 pmGet your tickets now! Standard Ticket Price: £10www.blueorangetheatre.co.ukSubscribe for more inspiring conversations about mental health and disability, and don't forget to hit the like button if you find this episode helpful! ​#TheBlackCountryBlokes #Birminghamfest2023 #MentalHealth #ThomasRogers #Trapped #Theatre #TWOJENS&ME #MichaelHarris #MentalHealthSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/bcb. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing nuclear weapons and efforts to abolish them with two activists from the Seattle, Washington, area, Tara Villalba, who organizes with neighbor tenants and workers, and Thomas Rogers who is a former Navy submarine captain now active with the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action. I'll be joining them for a rally in Seattle on September 24 which can be found at https://abolishnuclearweapons.org I hope we can inspire others to do the same in their towns.

Thomas Rogers was born on June 4th, 1890 to a prominent Arikara family on the Fort Berthold Reservation. When the US declared war on Germany in 1917, American Indians volunteered to serve in large numbers. Like many of these sons and grandsons of Warriors from earlier times, Thomas Rogers was raised with the elder’s stories of the Warrior tradition. On April first, 1917, Thomas traveled to Bismarck to enlist. On New Year’s Day, 1918, he arrived in France and served with Company A of the 18th Infantry.

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What is the doctrinal foundation of Anglicanism? Can the Articles of religion really be said to function as the Anglican confession of faith - the English Creed? In this episode, we discuss the theology, development, and the historical role of the 39 Articles, as well as their on-going relevance and benefit today. We also tackle some of the objections which are often made against considering the 39 Articles as a creed or confession of faith. Get in touch! We'd love to hear your comments and questions! - email: reformationalanglican@gmail.com - voice-mail: https://anchor.fm/reformational-anglican/message Books mentioned in the show: "The English Creed: consenting with the true ancient catholic, and apostolic Church in all the points, and articles of religion which every Christian is to know and believe that would be saved" - Thomas Rogers, 1585 "The Creedal Imperative" - Carl Trueman "Our Inheritance of Faith" - Martin Davie "Reformed Foundations, Reforming Future" - Lee Gatiss "Anglican Foundations" - Tim Patrick Opening and closing music: Holy, Holy, Holy, by Stephanie Devlin. Used with kind permission. Find out more at: https://www.stephaniedevlin.com/. Various sound effects from zapsplat.com and freesoundeffect.net.

Old Orchard Beach is a small coastal Maine Town. It was incorporated in 1883 but records of it go as far back as 1653 when it was settled by Thomas Rogers. the name Old Orchard Beach comes from Rogers abandoned apple orchard (The family fled from the property after an attack by Native Americans. Like most towns in the country it’s a place filled with cars. There is one automobile in town that has a bad reputation, a cursed reputation. WikiPedia article about Old Orchard Beach, Mainelaughinggnomehollow.blogspot.com/2012/07/dazzling-razzberry-ii-another.htmljalopnik.com/meet-the-golden-eagle-the-car-claimed-to-have-killed-a-1830037928www.wowamazing.com/trending/horror/1964-dodge-dubbed-golden-eagle/The small town of Foss Oklahoma has a scant population of just 151 people. In its early beginnings, it wasn’t called Foss. Settlers of the nearby Wilson Post Office moved north and settled in the area in the 1890s. They wanted to call the new down Graham but found it already taken. Instead, they chose an anagram for Graham, Maharg. In 1902 a flash flood wiped pretty much all of Maharg so they resettled on higher ground and dubbed the new town Foss. Foss is just a few miles south of Foss Lake Park, home of Foss Lake or the Foss Reservoir. In 2016 two secrets would be drudged up the silt of Foss Lake.www.news9.com/story/27322250/mysteries-at-oklahoma-lake-remain-for-families-despite-discovery-of-loved-onesWikiPedia article about Foss, Oklahomaboredomtherapy.com/bodies-at-the-bottom-of-a-lake/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10324246/Oklahoma-Foss-Lake-deaths-now-a-town-whispers-murder.htmlLocal Headlinesvancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/no-new-sightings-of-james-bay-wolf-in-more-than-12-hours-police-say-1.4783618#_gus&_gucid=&_gup=twitter&_gsc=UQnXM5Wwww.coasttocoastam.com/article/watch-fishermen-film-legendary-lake-monster-in-argentina/www.realtor.com/news/unique-homes/whispers-estate-haunted-indiana-mansion-for-sale/You can follow the show on Twitter or Facebook @stscast, or on Instagram@stscast.gramThis week's featured podcast is Cooking with GriefAnd be sure to check out Big Heads Media for more great pods! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Let's dig into some of the many reasons why you may want to see the world as a family.  These reasons can vary widely depending on what your family wants.  Explore some of the reasons in part one of this two-part episode. Hosted by Susan Whitehead, a wife and mother of 6 children who has spent a substantial amount of time living and traveling overseas.  Her family has lived in Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates.  They have also explored France, England and Spain during a 3-month road trip.   Don't forget to subscribe to this podcast. Show transcript: Let's talk about why you want to travel. I think before you set off on some wild, crazy foreign adventure with your kids, it's important to take a step back and think about the reasons why you have this desire to travel. Some people travel just for travel sake, but I think there's an importance, a value to knowing the why behind your desire to travel.  Usually, that “why’ will have a huge influence on how you travel and where you go once you arrive somewhere. One of the first reasons people want to travel, especially as a family, is to teach their children and themselves a second or third language. It's not a big stretch to say that it's really important to know another language. Some of the most widely spoken languages and, therefore most desirable, are Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic. If you're in North America, there is a huge and growing population of Spanish speaking people.  When you go south of the border, it's pretty much nothing but Spanish with a few exceptions of Brazil and French Guyana.  Spanish is very widely spoken and, where we live in Florida, it is almost essential to be able to speak at least a little bit of Spanish. Mandarin is another one if you're doing anything in Asia, especially if you or your children have any natural bend towards international business. Obviously, the Chinese are a huge economic force, so mandarin is very valuable to learn. Of course, Arabic is tied to a very powerful region of the world.  Much of the Middle East speaks Arabic and it's a very difficult language to learn. Traveling and living somewhere where Arabic is spoken is probably one of the best ways to learn it. French is also another big language spoken all over the world. If you want your children to learn any of these languages, it's really important to consider where to go. It is easier to pick up a second language if that is what is widely spoken wherever you land.  Another reason to travel, is learning about other cultures. I remember many years ago before Facebook, I was in an old Yahoo Forum.  It was a homeschool group and a mother was asking for input. I think she was a little scared about sending her daughter on a trip to Italy, unaccompanied with a group of peers.  The mother was really asking about the value of going on this trip for her daughter. What was so shocking to me was the number of comments that this mother got about how her daughter could gain just as much value by reading books about Italy and eating at local Italian restaurants as she could by actually going to Italy. Now, I don't remember exactly what I said, but I just tried to emphasize the importance of the experience of the sights and the sounds and the smells and the tastes and the feeling of walking down cobblestone streets in an old Italian village and how they were far superior than anything her daughter could even begin to imagine from the pages of a book. There’s something that just really transcends the written word when it comes to being immersed in a culture that is not your own. You just can't really grasp it until you're there in the streets with locals going about their day all around you. There's nothing that can compare to that. Learning about other cultures is a really, really big “why” in terms of why you would want to travel with your family. One thing we were very fortunate to do on our travels is meet distant family members. That wasn't necessarily a goal that we had when we embarked on our trip to Costa Rica, but it was kind of a backup for us. We knew that my mom had cousins and extended family there and, even though we weren't planning on living in the area where my mom is from, Turrialba, we knew that if there was ever an emergency situation, there was family there that could possibly chip in and help us out. Meeting extended family was a bonus. We got a chance to meet my mom's aunt and her children and got to see that side of the family and get to know them.  We actually became really close with them and it gave us a deeper understanding of my mom and my grandmother because I was able to step into their shoes in their native culture. It was really neat for my kids, too. We got to participate in the “desfile de faroles”, which is part of the Costa Rican independence celebration.  Schoolkids and adults really get into this celebratory parade that they do and make “faroles”, which are luminaries. My Mom's cousin, Lola, helped my children make little luminaries out of little plastic strawberry pint containers. We glue tissue paper around it, tied strings to it and they had to stick so they could carry them with a little light inside. Some people go all out!  We're talking probably months of planning and designing and preparation to participate in this parade. It was really neat because my kids were able to connect with something that my mom did as a child, two generations later. It added a real richness to our experience in Costa Rica by connecting with family members.  It all ties together with learning about other cultures. That parade is a treasured memory for our children. Another reason to travel with your family is to expand your world view. There's a ride at Disney world called It's a Small World. When you start to travel, you realize that it really is a small world, especially with how easy the Internet makes it to communicate with people all over the world in real time.  It's more than just something nice to expose our kids to other worldviews. Of course, I think the best way to do it is through travel. A lot of people look at the emerging and dominant cultures of the world and travel to those areas.  It's really easy to see how the Latino culture has influenced the United States and will continue to do so for quite a while. Being able to give our children some time to appreciate those cultures is becoming extremely beneficial. Being able to speak Spanish as an American is a very valuable asset to companies because they're looking for bilingual employees to help fill the need for their bilingual customers. Also, we have seen a huge rise in the influence of Muslims in the world and it is not as bad as everybody in the media would like you to believe. I feel as parents, it is our duty to expose our children to people who are extremely different than we are and not live in the fear that is perpetuated by propaganda that we see in the media. When we spent six months as a family in the United Arab Emirates, it was a huge thing to dispel myths and misunderstandings in our kids and in me, if I'm being honest. I have heard my children shutdown ridiculous statements made by kids who would speak about Muslims in total and complete ignorance. Even though we were really ready to come back to the states after our time in the UAE, we have a very deep appreciation for Muslims and the Arabic and Emirate culture that we really never ever would have had just by ordering books and especially not from listening to today's media. Another reason to travel is learning about world history. Most Americans know about the pilgrims by learning about it in elementary school.  A few people even go to Plymouth, Massachusetts to explore that area and to learn about the colonies. But even fewer will venture across the ocean to Plymouth, England and visit the Mayflower steps, which is the spot where those pilgrims climbed aboard the Mayflower on, what I now see, was an absolutely insane journey across the Atlantic Ocean. I have to insert here that my husband and I were watching a docu-drama on PBS called Jamestown and it's basically a dramatization of what happened when England would send unmarried women to marry the men who had been building up Jamestown.  The men would have to pay for the women’s passage and these women would travel across the ocean.  Many of them would die on the way over just to meet a future spouse in this new world. We were watching the first episode together and I looked over at my husband and said, “Do you think we would've done that? Do you think we would have taken our family and gotten on a boat from Europe, crossed over the Atlantic and come to this new world?” He kind of thought about it for a minute and said, “Yeah, I think we would have.”  Whether I would have survived the trip, I don't know because I get terribly seasick. But it was neat to think about that.  These people, whether you agree with their reasons for coming, it's interesting to think about how similar your path may be compared to people like the pilgrims or even the pioneers who left the safety of the east coast of the United States and went to try to get land in Oklahoma or out west.  (I know that not all of them came for religious reasons.  Many, I'm sure, came over for financial reasons. They had gold in their eyes.) When our family stood on the Mayflower steps and we found the name of Thomas Rogers, who is my 14th great-grandfather who was on the Mayflower, it makes history come alive in ways that are really beyond explanation.  Knowing that our family was going to be going to Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, we watched Band of Brothers.  They had watched movies like Narnia, which was a somewhat gentle way to introduce the kids to World War II. Being at the French American memorial there, we were able to watch actual video footage, listen to recordings, see artifacts and read the stories of those who lost their lives or managed to barely escape with their lives. Then we walked down the cliffs where the Germans were waiting on the shore and where so many young soldiers lost their lives. We then walked down and landed on that beach.  It was a rainy day. It was cloudy. There was hardly anybody else there.  It was a very solemn event for me to realize where I was standing and what had happened on that sand. Then we got to walk through the cemetery.  It was overwhelming to see so many gravestones. All the crosses there for Americans who had died to help liberate Europe from the Nazis.  I don't think anything like that can be said in a book that could compare to that experience that day. My kids will never forget it. Volunteer work or mission work is often an introductory way that a lot of people begin to travel.  Whether you're religious or not, I believe that we are spiritual beings who have this inner desire to help others, to help animals and to help our planet.  There's no shortage of volunteer or mission opportunities through your church that can bring a whole lot of meaning to your travels. We have not gone on official mission trips or done official volunteer work.   That was not the reason we bought our plane tickets, but we've had the chance to teach English to Mexican students. We've had our oldest girls volunteer at a Mexican animal shelter taking care of cats and kittens, and our oldest got a chance to volunteer at a veterinarian's office in Costa Rica. So whether you want to participate in cleaning up beaches in Costa Rica or maybe helping women escape the cycles of poverty by teaching them how to sew in Zambia, you can work towards the greater good as a family.   That is a wonderfully powerful bonding experience.  On our next episode, I will share a few more reasons why you might want to travel as a family, but I want to encourage you to do is to take a few little action steps. Take some time to sit down with your family and listen to this podcast together.  Listen to the next one as well, and look at the different reasons why you want to travel and figure out which reasons really resonate most with your family. It's probably going to be more than just one. So for us, it was learning about other cultures, expanding our world view and learning about history. Also, it included bucket list items, which we'll talk about in the next podcast. Think about those kinds of things. After the next podcast, I'll have another little assignment for you.  It is a way you can bring all of that together as a family and have one solid travel mission statement for your adventure. Until then, think about these things and see if you can come up with a reason why you want to travel.

Risk-taking Discipleship | Thomas Rogers - Audio

Sir John A. Macdonald high school is closing. Its future is uncertain but the schoolboard has said they will not be selling the property to the city. But there are plans to revitalize the entertainment district, and the property could be considered crucial for these plans. Which raises the question, what can and will the city do if they decide that they want the land Sir John A. Macdonald high school currently sits on. Guest: Al Burton, partner with Thomas Rogers in Torotno, specialist in municipal law and former lawyer for the city of Hamilton. - Scott has three strange stories to tell, but which is the best? - Bubba O'Neil joins Scott in the studio for a lively conversation about the coaching methods, the CFL and the most unique names in college football.

British gas shippers are wrangling over proposals to amend a key component of transport charges. The changes could radically redefine users’ costs, affecting export routes and LNG send-out. ICIS experts Katya Zapletnyuk and Thomas Rogers discuss the changes and their potential implications.

We really enjoyed speaking to Thomas Rogers this week. Tom is a Head of History, classroom teacher of 10 years, columnist for the TES and course curator for Udemy. He teaches in an International School in Northern Spain and was first encouraged to go into teaching by his experiences working for Cam America. He has ended … Continue reading Tom Rogers on Sun, Sea and History – PP185 →

[paypal-donation] Many of you are probably familiar with the story of Helmuth Hübener.  He was the young German teenager that was executed by Adolf Hitler for treason.  It's a wonderful story and BYU actually turned it into a play in the 1970s.  However, Church leaders were upset by the play and decided to suppress it.  Why was that?  Dr. David Conley Nelson details, as Paul Harvey would say, “the rest of the story.”  This is the story about Hübener you probably haven't heard. Elder Monson arrives and he takes in the play and he just doesn't seem to be as happy according to other witnesses as the rest of them.  Word comes down two days later through Dallin Oaks, there will be no more productions of “Huebener Against the Reich.”  In fact, Thomas Rogers is prohibited from releasing—it's his intellectual property, but he is prohibited from giving permission for anybody else to use that play. GT: Wow. David:  Furthermore, Alan Keele and Douglas Tobler are “asked” to put a hold on their research and not publish anything.  A couple of things have happened.  First off the German-American community got to Thomas Monson.  They don't like it, they don't like it at all because Hübener should not be considered a hero, he should be considered in some of their eyes an example of how not to behave. What does Dr. Nelson believe? The fact is, and this is my professional opinion, that Thomas Monson got it wrong because he didn't know enough about German culture.  He was a real great knowledgeable guy about German-American Mormons, but he did not realize that it was in the church's best interest.  If he thought it was the church's best interest to suppress Hübener, he was just diametrically wrong.  It would have been in the church's best interest to promote Hübener. Find out what else Nelson said, and don't forget to listen to our episodes on Jewish Genealogy and J. Reuben Clark!  Check out our conversation! https://youtu.be/Yod6VoT4arg [paypal-donation] Since it's the end of the year I wanted to ask a special favor.  We're going to do a year-end review of all the fun interviews we've done here at Gospel Tangents, and I'd like to hear what was your most favorite interview, as well as what were the most surprising things you learned over this past year on Gospel Tangents?  You can email me at Gospel Tangents at gmail dot com or you can also check out this link https://kwiksurveys.com/s/zK1fouUh that I've got for a special survey.  I would like to include any comments you have in our year-end special.  It will be coming next week.  Please include that as soon as you can either by email or you can fill out the survey!  Thanks a lot.  I'd really appreciate it. Take part in our online Survey on the Best of 2017 at Gospel Tangents

Pete (@mr_van_w) and John (@jfcatto) love The Rock and facial hair. Finally, John probes into the disconnect between education research and classroom practitioners and perhaps the need for education communicators.  Then, Pete talks about how new teachers should be built and supported rather judged and weeded out.     John: Why don't teachers use education research in teaching? - Paul Maclellan https://eic.rsc.org/analysis/why-dont-teachers-use-education-research-in-teaching/2010170.article    BTW: Flipped Learning is pretty much a waste of time https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/exclusive-flipped-learning-leads-small-progress   Pete: Why Jessica quit teaching: She'd given her heart and soul to those kids but the SLT didn't think it was enough - Thomas Rogers https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/why-jessica-quit-teaching-shed-given-her-heart-and-soul-those-kids 

Pete (@mr_van_w) and John (@jfcatto) love The Rock and facial hair. Finally, John probes into the disconnect between education research and classroom practitioners and perhaps the need for education communicators.  Then, Pete talks about how new teachers should be built and supported rather judged and weeded out.     John: Why don't teachers use education research in teaching? - Paul Maclellan https://eic.rsc.org/analysis/why-dont-teachers-use-education-research-in-teaching/2010170.article    BTW: Flipped Learning is pretty much a waste of time https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/exclusive-flipped-learning-leads-small-progress   Pete: Why Jessica quit teaching: She'd given her heart and soul to those kids but the SLT didn't think it was enough - Thomas Rogers https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/why-jessica-quit-teaching-shed-given-her-heart-and-soul-those-kids