Category: Within The Realm

There is a lonely stretch of road in our neck of the woods, the scariest spot in the County, called Beaver Gap. The superstitions of both the Native Americans and the hillbillies of the area fueled the stories of less than friendly spirits out there in the woods. This is the story of me , a station wagon full of classmates and the Big Scare at Beaver Gap. https://withintherealm.libsyn.com/the-big-scare-at-beaver-gap

200 years ago in the wilds of the American frontier, Sequoyah introduced his writing system to members of his tribe who has moved to the Arkansas Ozarks to escape the reach of the encroaching white man. They were skeptical of the new syllabary. Some thought it frivolous at best, sorcery at worst…but Sequoyah was able to prove his system’s usefulness. It was introduced to tribe members in the east and in just a few years it was adopted, giving the Cherokees a greater literacy rate than their white neighbors. Through the years, the syllabary has played it’s part in preserving the language and is a major component of that effort today.

A tale of a lost opportunity at a college education, a one-way train ride and the fate of a planet! Hear the amazing story of the discovery of Planet X/Pluto and the unlikely man who did it! Kansas Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh!

Sometimes we forget how important seemingly ordinary things are to our own story. Hear how one town rallied to save, of all things, a telephone booth and, in so doing, saved a vital piece of communications history for us all

Two Kansas University Journalism students, suffering from a bad case of Senioritis and struggling through  their classes during the pandemic had a final assignment before graduation. After beginning work on their task, a documentary about local music during the quarantine, they were inspired by the subjects of their film. Hear the story of Still Spinning: Lawrence Music Survives a Pandemic.