Waco History Podcast

Dr. Slaon talks with Rev. Dr. Malcolm Foley about the barbarism of lynching and Jesse Washington in Waco Texas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

This is Living Stories, featuring voices from the collections of the Baylor University Institute for Oral History. I'm Louis Mazé. Everyone loves a good ghost story, especially when it involves their neck of the woods. Around the summer of 1915, South Waco found itself with a resident ghost.  Mary Kemendo Sendón , who was in high school at the time, recalls when her aunt first spotted the other-wo...

This is Living Stories, featuring voices from the collections of the Baylor University Institute for Oral History. I'm Kim Patterson. For more than a century, the majority of American women were denied the right to vote. Scores of determined suffragettes who wanted to reverse this injustice spoke out through publications, lectures, rallies, and appearances before legislators. Finally, these effort...

This is Living Stories, featuring voices from the collections of the Baylor University Institute for Oral History. I'm Louis Mazé. At one time, the approach of cold weather signaled for many rural Americans in the South the time to begin planning for the annual hog-killing. It wasn't pretty but provided food for the coming winter months. Louise Murphy, who grew up in Falls County in the twenties a...

Dr. Sloan talks with Dr. Bracy Hill about Waco Hunting History Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

This is Living Stories, featuring voices from the collections of the Baylor University Institute for Oral History. I'm Kim Patterson. Pirate radio stations in the U.S. were born when President Taft initiated federal regulation of the airwaves in 1912. Navy ships had been complaining that unlicensed broadcasters were interfering with their transmissions. Even with the new laws in place, pirate stat...

This is Living Stories, featuring voices from the collections of the Baylor University Institute for Oral History. I'm Louis Mazé. The origins of Americans riding the rails in search of work trace back to shortly after the Civil War, when ex-soldiers and others sought work on the frontier. Their numbers rose sharply during the Great Depression, when jobs and money were scarce. These hobos became c...

This is Living Stories, featuring voices from the collections of the Baylor University Institute for Oral History. I'm Kim Patterson. White lightning, hooch, mountain dew, firewater—all names for moonshine, or distilled spirits made in an unlicensed still. Although moonshine is most often associated with Prohibition in the U.S., the practice as we know it began shortly after the formation of the c...

Prior to the days of refrigeration, people the world over relied on ice to keep perishables fresh as long as possible. The ice business was certainly alive and well in the American South, especially in summer months. Waco native  Helen Geltemeyer  recalls the trips she and her sister would take in the twenties and thirties to keep their house outfitted with the frozen substance: "What Allene and I...

This is Living Stories, featuring voices from the collections of the Baylor University Institute for Oral History. I'm Louis Maze. When KWTX-TV first went on the air in 1955, it was without a network affiliation, a situation no one in the industry envied. But being an independent station was in some ways a blessing in disguise, as it forced KWTX to focus on local creative talent for programming. O...

Dr. Sloan talks with Dr. Jim SoRelle about the infamous novel Sironia by Madison Cooper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

This is Living Stories, featuring voices from the collections of the Baylor University Institute for Oral History. I'm Louis Mazé. Many memories from our youth are intertwined with those of school, the place where we were making friends and developing interests. Waco native  Helen Geltemeyer  shares a treasured memory from her schooldays: "My earliest memories of Bell's Hill is going to school, wa...

Dr. Sloan talks to Jimmy Dorrell about Waco, the Church Under the Bridge, Jubilee, and all his other philanthropic deeds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

This is Living Stories, featuring voices from the collections of the Baylor University Institute for Oral History. During the summer months in Waco before air-conditioning, getting comfortable enough at night to go to sleep could be a challenge. Charles Armstrong  recalls an alteration made to the house his family moved into in the early 1920s: “We didn't live there long till Daddy and my brothers...

Dr. Sloan talks with Calvin Smith and Paul Barron about The Waco Mammoth site in Waco Texas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

On this episode we hear from Ashley and learn more about Waco's deep rich history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dr. Sloan talks with James “Derek” Ross, a longtime missionary in the Philippines who moved to Waco last year about The Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, and their history in Waco Texas and the surrounding areas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info...

Dr. Sloan talks with C. Cullen Smith, an experienced and well-known Waco attorney, about the Freedom Fountain and its history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dr. Sloan talks to Rick Tullis, president of Capstone Mechanical here in Waco, about the history of Air Conditioning in Waco and the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dr. Sloan talks to Robert Fairbanks Former Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington about Urban Development in Waco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dr. Sloan talks to Cherry Boggess live at the Dr. Pepper Museum as part of the Sit Down to Take a Stand exhibit. Mrs. Boggess was part of the lunch-counter sit-ins in Waco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

In the third part of this series, Dr. Sloan talks to former park ranger Larry Simms about Cameron Park. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dr. Sloan talks to welcomes back Dr. Kenna Lang Archer to talk about the Brazos River Development. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dr. Sloan talks with Mark Firmin the author of William Cameron Park: A Centennial History, about Cameron Park in Waco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dr. Sloan talks to Dr. Michael Parrish about Baylor University's Commission on Historic Campus Representations and the history of slavery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .