Author: Steve Garrett

Here a little change of pace! I appeared on The Messy City with Kevin Klinkenberg, a podcast dedicated to discussing development and design of the places in which we live. It’s a great podcast and always leaves me thinking. Here’s the Messy City episode in which Kevin andI talk about these development and planning concepts and how they interact with regular folks. I hope you enjoy it and check out the other great episodes of the Messy City.

https://kevinklinkenberg.substack.com/p/writing-the-story-for-your-city-or#details

Dr. James Walker was an English professor, complete with a tweed jacket and a love for Mark Twain. But Big Jim Walker, his alter ego, was a guitar playing entertainer with his own transmitter free radio show. I learned many a lesson in the good doctor’s classroom…and a few on the radio show, too!

Some say a beloved entertainer, a star of television in it’s early days, lies buried just north of Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Others say an imposter is at rest beneath the large granite headstone. In this episode of Within The Realm, we investigate the mystery of who is in Ed’s grave.

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On our show, we reach back into history and family stories from the past for a lot of our content. Our goal is not to bask in the things of yesteryear, but rather to find inspiration to move forward toward a distant and unsure horizon. Lately, I’ve noticed a lot of people looking backward, wishing to go back to a particular time and place that they misremember as simple, sound and safe. All forward motion leads to unchartered territory, no different that the unchartered territory we might want to think were the good old days. Knowing our history is important, not a comfortable place to stay, but as a toll to help you find where you are going. withinpodcast.com