Source: www.spreaker.c... It's the birthday of writer, historian, and radioman Studs Terkel (1912), whose career was built out of in-depth personal interviews.
Really, thanks, Garrison, for each of these, pretty much. And I can picture you listening to Studs on the radio while driving a second-hand sedan through the woods of Lake Wobegon.
One of the people Studs interviewed was Sarah Louise Dean, a 17-year-old student at New College In Sarasota, Florida, who was arrested on the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in 1965. Two years later she was at the Newport Folk Festival when the press was asking Joan Baez if she was really ready to go to jail for refusing to pay the percentage of her taxes estimated to go to funding the war in Vietnam. Miss Baez wasn’t to do any time in stir till that October, so Miss Dean advised her, “Just always carry a toothbrush.”
I have 'Hard Times' next to my bed. Randomly flipping through Stud's interviews always reframes the day. Hope you find your copy of 'Working'. So glad for The Writer's Almanac shares the good ideas in bad times.
Mr Turkel would have lasted longer on the radio if he had created shows about a private eye, cowboys, the mother of a broken down writer, a reference librarian, a pretty good grocery store and a Lutheran minister who lived in a town by a lake. He could have had Waylon Jennings but theWhaling Jennies would have been a better choice. What a show that would be
Wow a brilliant woman in the lat 1700s whom men thought had a good brain. How did that all get high jacked? Oh I know religion... hahaha great almanac. Ty ty ty
What lovely opening, as you well know, when I hear that old piano, I look around for you. Thanks for the memories.
Thanks for today's Writer's Almanac recognizing Studs Terkel, Maria Gaetana Agnesi & Rozel Hunt
Happy 80th Birthday 🎈... keep on ...you're doing a great job of keeping me cheerful..
Thank you for this edition of "The Writer's Almanac."
Thank you Mr. Keillor for this edition of The Writer's Almanac.
Thank you.
Thank you, again!!!
Thank you for today’s edition of “The Writer’s Almanac.” Studs Terkel! ✌️
Really, thanks, Garrison, for each of these, pretty much. And I can picture you listening to Studs on the radio while driving a second-hand sedan through the woods of Lake Wobegon.
Absolutely love Studs Terkel and did much with kids in my time in the States inspired by him...the oral tradition written down...
Let us improve today before we replaced
Good morning. Thanks
One of the people Studs interviewed was Sarah Louise Dean, a 17-year-old student at New College In Sarasota, Florida, who was arrested on the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in 1965. Two years later she was at the Newport Folk Festival when the press was asking Joan Baez if she was really ready to go to jail for refusing to pay the percentage of her taxes estimated to go to funding the war in Vietnam. Miss Baez wasn’t to do any time in stir till that October, so Miss Dean advised her, “Just always carry a toothbrush.”
Happy birthday
Thank you. Interesting ☺️
I have Studs Terkel "Working" around here somewhere, not sure if I actually finished it, I was a teenager when I picked it up. My dad recommended it.
I have 'Hard Times' next to my bed. Randomly flipping through Stud's interviews always reframes the day. Hope you find your copy of 'Working'. So glad for The Writer's Almanac shares the good ideas in bad times.
Mr Turkel would have lasted longer on the radio if he had created shows about a private eye, cowboys, the mother of a broken down writer, a reference librarian, a pretty good grocery store and a Lutheran minister who lived in a town by a lake. He could have had Waylon Jennings but theWhaling Jennies would have been a better choice. What a show that would be
Studs closed his WFMT program with the exhortation :"Take it easy...but take it."
Wishing all, A Peaceful Day.
Swaying their great udders as they march to the barn
Before we are replaced
Before we are replaced
Before we are replaced
Yikes, is that possible?
Or before the HR person cheerfully walks you to the door of the office suite, see ya. And that's a yikes from me.
I'd like to think they subsequently realized they couldn't replace me, but they never called back.
A good reason to choose self employment. Create your own job. Like GK!
You could have re-stated the mathematician's name again at the end of your description of her.. just sayin'
Wow a brilliant woman in the lat 1700s whom men thought had a good brain. How did that all get high jacked? Oh I know religion... hahaha great almanac. Ty ty ty