Category: Within The Realm

Twelfth Street and Vine is the most famous intersection in Kansas City thanks to the song written by Lieber and Stoller, Problem is, it’s not there any more! We talk about the corner’s fame and why it disappeared.

Ed Hicks had seen the telephone demonstrated at the St. Louis Exhibition and in 1885 concocted the plan to connect The Cherokee Capital of Tahlequah with the new bustling City of Muskogee by phone line. Traditional members of the tribe wanted to avoid additional incursions of American business and government in their territory, so they were generally opposed to the idea until they learned the new device spoke in Cherokee.

Check our Show Naotes for pictures of Sa-Giyah and Ed Hicks! https://withinpodcast.com/testimonial/show-notes-it-talks-in-cherokee/

Sometimes we need to re-evaluate a situation so we can really see what’s going on. Jack McLemore was my 9th Grade science teacher, he had also been my older brother’s 9th grade science teacher. Let’s say they had a…special relationship. The older boys had nick-named Mr. McLemore “Happy Jack,” claiming he only smiled while dispensing punishment…and he smiled a lot. Convinced of Happy Jack’s cruelty and sure he had it in for me,,, well, hear the story for yourself.

It was a part of Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase, that area west of the 100th Meridian we now call the Great Plain. Early explorers reported the area could not be farmed and it’s best use was a handy barrier between the U.S. and the Spanish holdings to the south. American writer Washington Irving deemed it “wearysome to the eyes,” for it’s flat, treeless nature. It was labeled the Great American Desert, although you won’t find it listed that way on current maps.

Fayetteville, Arkansas can lay claim to a great American musical heritage with Levon Helm, the legendary singer/drummer for The Band, Rockabilly stalwart Ronnie Hawkins and the Cate Brothers. But there is a name, long forgotten, that lead the way. Ferdinan Zellner was the first to bring music from the sleepy little Ozark town to the rest of the world