Within The Realm

In this encore episode of Within The Realm we revisit the Great American Desert, a place no longer on the map but Central to the development of the United States as we know it today. withinpodcast.com  contact@withinpodcast.com   jandjpoolsafety@gmail.com Music: The Right Direction by Shane Ivers -

Fayetteville, Arkansas has been home to Levon Helm, Ronnie Hawkins and the Cate Brothers. It's a place of inspiration for a young musician. The musical heritage goes way, way back and owes a debt to the World's Greatest Showman. withinpodcast.com   Our sponsor: jandjpoolsafety@gmail.com   Earlier episodes about songs: https://withintherealm.libsyn.com/swing-lowan-unlikely-classic https://withinthe...

This past Easter Sunday was Louise Carson's 90th Birthday. On the occasion of her birthday, we revisit our conversation with her about being my kindergarten teacher and what it took (and still takes) to get the job done in the day. withinpodcast.com jandjpoolsafety@gmail.com https://withintherealm.libsyn.com/mrs-carson-our-mother-of-the-kindergarten  

The location was a quiet schoolhouse on Peacheater Creek in the Old Cherokee Nation, but it became the site of the largest non-military battle in the American West and the deadliest day in the history of the U.S. Marshall Service. The confrontation was caused by a misunderstanding of legal jurisdiction in the murder trial of Zeke Proctor - an issue that reverberates through the hills of Indian Ter...

It's been a long time since I introduced this show to the public and I know that not many heard that first episode (thank goodness!) So, now is just as good a time as any to make a reintroduction into what I'm trying to accomplish with Within The Realm. If you've wondered where I get my take on these things, maybe this will provide a little light. withinpodcast.com https://withintherealm.libsyn.co...

Has your life ever been changed by a chance meeting? Mine has, in a brief encounter with Writer Jerry Ellis over three decades ago. He uttered a few words to me that changed the way I saw the world and myself in it. Jerry and I were able to reconnect and talk about that day so long ago and what has happened since! withinpodcast.com Twitter: @realm_within Facebook: @withintherealm1 Instagram: withi...

Educating a half-wild kid with a poor outlook on the whole affair was the task at hand for Grade School Principal Ellis DeWeese. Dedicated to teaching and to the future of his students, he found a way to redirect at least one kid's ambivalence by employing the old "flag program" trick. I was that kid and I'm glad to have been duped by the King of Stealth education himself. contact@withinpodcast.co...

Sometimes a book has a great impact on us, but how grateful would you be to learn how the story almost never was? Here's the story of such a book and the little known tale about it's scrappy rise to literary classic. Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. #withinpodcast.com jandjpoolsafety@gmail katchakid.com

What do you do when you literally find a skeleton in your closet? Kansas City Artist Jeff Becker tells the story of George, the resident skeleton of the former Odd Fellows Lodge he had purchased. A tale with twists, turns and the question of what you intend to do with your time on earth. withinpodcast.com http://www.belvoirwinery.com/ https://katchakid.com/j-j-pool-safety/

My grandmothers communicated lessons and values through stories, stories that stay with you. From stories from the Bible (King James version only!) to Aesop's Fables, there were plenty of stories to be told. In this episode I share one of those stories and reflect on its lessons that still guide me to this day.  withinpodcast.com jandjpoolsafety@email.com katchakid.com

My Great Aunt proudly displayed an aluminum Christmas Tree in her front window for many years, much to the chagrin of my more traditional relatives. I thought it was great until those shiny trees soon fell out of fashion. Aluminum Christmas Trees are making a comeback, but you might be surprised what killed the fad in the first place! withinpodcast.com

During his lifetime, Will Rogers spoke up for the common man and often, in a good natured way, provided the voice for those unheard to those in the halls of power. He is still keeping an eye on the people in Congress from his vantage point in Statuary Hall. He also grants a bit of good luck to those that are willing to break a few rules. withinpodcast.com

One hundred years ago or so, George W. Carver enlisted college boys from the South to assist him in spreading his message, not just about farming innovations but also about racial reconciliation. Carver called them "his boys." I interview the Author of a new book about the correspondence between the Wizard of Tuskegee and one of his boys, Johnnie Pickle. withinpodcast.com https://www.powells.com/b...

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. withinpodcast.com

200 years ago, in the wilds of the then American frontier, Sequoyah, the Cherokee Cadmus, introduced his writing system to the members of his tribe that had moved west to escape the influence of the white man. Some thought it frivolous, some thought it sorcery...but Sequoyah was able to demonstrate his syllabary's usefulness. In just a few years it would be adopted by the entire tribe with a liter...

A tale with a lost opportunity for a college education, a one-way train ride and the fate of a planet! Hear the amazing story of Kansas Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh and the discovery of Planet X/Pluto! Don't forget to share us with podcast listening friends and leave us a rating and review! Get in touch with us at contact@withinpodcast.com .  www.withinpodcast.com

Sometimes we forget how truly important seemingly ordinary things are to our own story. Hear how one small town rallied to save, of all things, a telephone booth and, in so doing, preserved 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. The do...

Before the mouse, long before the Magic Kingdom, the cradle of the Golden Age of Animation was launched in Kansas City. The Laugh-O-grams studio was home to what would become the biggest names in animation. How was it that Kansas City, if only briefly, was the home of the masterminds of cartooning? www.withinpodcast.com Show Notes 0:00 Introduction 1:15 Newman's Theaters 2:37Laugh-O-gram Studios a...

The Ozark Mountains are dotted with odd-looking houses built during the Great Depression. When I was a kid, they served as a reminder of our "hillbilly" past and, compared to the new fangled pre-fab homes, they were out of date. It wasn't until a handful of them came on the chopping block in my hometown that I learned a valuable lesson about these homes and what they told us about those that built...

A stormy evening that presents a less than ideal recording environment turns into a little chat with the host about the show, where it came from ad hopefully where it's headed. www.withinpodcast.com

There's a lot of talk about vaccines these days, but at one time the effort to end the scourge of polio through Dr. Salk's vaccine was focused on an unlikely, but aptly named place - Protection, Kansas. withinpodcast.com

A childhood interest in how arrowheads were made, blossomed into the mastery of the almost lost art of flint knapping for Vyrl Keeter. His pursuit of the craft led to his designation as a Cherokee National Treasure. In this episode, Vyrl discusses all things knapping and gives a little advice along the way. www.withinpodcast.com

Now that we can see light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, it's time for a review. What's the take away from our experience? We look at the arenas of business, education and family and what three folks in those fields see as things that are here to stay after the end of the pandemic. www.withinpodcast.com

The song is significant enough to make the list of important recording in US history and a blacklist in Nazi Germany, but the road to cherished American classic was a long and unlikely one for the spiritual "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot."  0:00 Introduction 1:21 Jubilee Singers 3:32 Success! 5:31 the story behind the story 8:13 Conclusion 10:02 Credits www.withinpodcast.com