Friday, October 15, 2010

Baseball greats and music legends team up to celebrate an extraordinary Mississippi citizen

Posted by: emodel // Category: Uncategorized // 4:30 pm

Columbus, Mississippi is honoring Sam Hairston. Sam was the first African American signed by the Chicago White Sox,the first African American to have a son play major league baseball,and a member of the largest three generational family in the history of major league baseball. He spent 47 years with the Sox as a player, coach, and scout and a total of 53 years in professional baseball.

Glenn Lautzenhiser of Columbus, Mississippi speaks with us about the Hairston family and how an event to honor them involves so much more as well – from lessons to schoolchildren from former Negro League greats to a once-in a-lifetime Blues concert.

 
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Friday, October 15, 2010

Journey into Hockey: The Man They Called Mr. Goalie

Posted by: emodel // Category: Uncategorized // 6:26 am
With 11 All-Star team selections, three Vezina trophies, a Conn Smythe trophy, a Calder Memorial trophy and the invention of the butterfly style of goaltending to hsi name, Glenn Hall is among the premier contenders as best goaltender in National Hockey League history.
 
Hockey coach, and writer Tom Adrahatas has made a case that Glenn Hall is, in fact, the number one goaltender of all time.
 
He did so in a 2002 book “Glenn Hall – The Man They Call Mr. Goalie” Greystone Books). He is also did so with us in this “Journey into Hockey” conversation.From Detroit to Chicago to St. Louis, Glenn Hall made a difference where he played. He established a remarkable and still unbroken record of 502 consecutive games played. And that’s just for starters.
 
Tom Adrahatas is coached for some three decades – including teams that went to the U.S. National Championships at teh Bantam AAA, Midget AAA, and Junior A levels. A longtime fan of the Chicago Black Hawks and Glenn Hall, he lives in Chicago.
 
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Friday, October 15, 2010

Journey into Hockey: The Trail Less Traveled – The Yukon’s Dawson City to Ottawa Stanley Cup Re-enactment

Posted by: emodel // Category: Uncategorized // 6:23 am
On December 18, 1904 the upstart Dawson City Klondikers began their 4000-mile trek to wrest the Stanley Cup from the Ottawa Silver Seven. Twenty-four days later, after trudging 350 miles behind their dog teams, lurching and rolling down the inside passage, and whiling away endless days on the CPR, the rubber-legged, travel-worn players staggered into Ottawa’s Union Station. In less than thirty-six hours they would meet their fate against the greatest hockey team ever assembled, creating the most enduring legend in hockey history.
 
Ninety-two years later a team of oldtimer hockey players from Dawson City re-created that epic journey, inviting Don Reddick, American author of Dawson City Seven, to accompany them. As the team wends its way once again through the Yukon wilderness, down Alaska’s panhandle, and across the vast Canadian shield to face the Ottawa Senators Alumni, Reddick weaves his way through the history of the original games, the backdrop of the Klondike gold rush, and the characters of today’s Yukon.
 
Author Den Reddick tells the story of his trip as part of the re-enactment.
 
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

An American Original: The Back Cow Root Beer Float

Posted by: emodel // Category: Uncategorized // 11:58 am
On August 18, 1893 Frank J. Wisner, owner of Cripple Creek Brewing, served the first root beer float in Cripple Creek, CO. Inspired by the moonlit view of snowcapped Cow Mountain, he added a scoop of ice cream to his Myers Avenue root beer and began serving it as “Black Cow Mountain”. Kids loved it; the name was shortened to “Black Cow”. Cripple Creek still sells beverages based on its original formulas.
In August, 2010 we speak with Mike Lynn of Cripple Creek Brewing of Naperville, Illinois about the Black Cow, its origins, its staying power, and its presence today this many years later.
 
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

The Town Where Friday the 13th is a Special

Posted by: emodel // Category: Uncategorized // 11:52 am

In Port Dover, Ontario Friday the 13ths are special.

It seems that this community on the shore of Lake Erie has become a meeting place for motorcylists – thousands. But it happens only on a Friday the 13th.

So, whenever the 13th falls on a Friday, whether it’s April or December, motorcycles of every type, make, and model will make their way to the welcoming streets of the bustling town.

In this Journey into Canada, we chat with Barbara  Tanner-Billings of  Port Dover about how this all came to be – and just what you might expect to see and experience if you should come to town on a Friday the 13th.

 
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Old Fiddler’s Convention @ 75

Posted by: emodel // Category: Uncategorized // 11:36 am

The Old Fiddler’s Convention, one of the most prominent traditional music contests in the United States, has been held annually in Galax, Virginia since 1935. It has long attracted the best up-and-coming musicians in the bluegrass firmament.

We speak with TomJones about the event and just what it means to musicians, music lovers and the community.

 
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

A World’s Fair of Money

Posted by: emodel // Category: Uncategorized // 11:31 am

The American Numismatic Association’s “World’s Fair of Money”  gives visitors the chance to see some of the world’s most beautiful and valuable coins, interact with top numismatists.

Jay Beeton talks with us about this most unique world’s fair.

 
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