Love in America

This week’s Love in History comes with a song in our hearts - from the musical love of Irving and Ellin Berlin. Also in this episode, Lovin America On the Road from the Riverfront in N’awlins with Mona and Don, the lady and the lawman; Lovin the News from the quirky side of South Dakota!

Extended features for Lovin America’s Patrons (www.patreon.com/LovinAmerica): Karma Hound - coonhounds, cancer, and karma; and our narrative shows that anyone can be an Action Hero from Lovin America: The Roads to Happily-Ever-After.

All this and more on this episode of Lovin America.

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Lead in song: Lovity Love by Something Underground

From the Black Hills Pioneer:

Lord, bless these pets

Two plead not guilty in marijuana possession case

Meade County wants assurances Trans-Canada will be good stewards of roads

Post 164 begins season Sunday

YouTube Hoax Video: Big Foot in the Black Hills of SD

A Secret Monster Roams the Black Hills, from radio station Hot1047.com

Full Interview of Mona and Don:

From the YouTube Lovin America Channel: The Lady and the Lawman

Irving & Ellin Berlin:

YouTube Video from Fred I Channel: Fred Astaire Puttin’ on the Ritz

From IrishAmerica.com: A Jazz Age Love Story

From SmithsonianMag.com: Songwriter Irving Berlin’s Interfaith Marriage Caused 1920s Gossip

From the NewYorkTimes.com: Ellin Berlin, 85, a Novelist, Dies; The Songwriter's Wife of 62 Years

From People.com: Nothing but Blue Skies

Biography.com, Irving Berlin Biography

From History.net: Irving Berlin

From Wikipedia: Irving Berlin

YouTube Video from Jimmy Durante - Topic Channel,

South Dakota versus the Whistle Pigs!; On the road with Lovin America, East meets West - Shree and Swati in the City of Brotherly Love; Hear the rest of the story and the lifelong love of Paul and Lynn/Angel Harvey.

Extended features for Lovin America’s Patrons (www.patreon.com/LovinAmerica): Lovin the Dogs shows you how Rocky barks in the face of death to protect the girl he loves; and our narrative is a bittersweet tale of The Cowboy’s Sunset.

All this and more on this episode of Lovin America.

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Lead in song: Lovity Love by Something Underground

Invasion of the Prairie Dogs

From The Rapid City Journal: Critter-killing dispute lands in Fall River Court.

From the LA Times: Standoff in Boulder, Colo.: Prairie dogs hold Buddhist college at bay

Paul and Lynne (Angel) Harvey:

From YouTube:

From Art Vuolu Channel: Paul Harvey Keynote at R&R Radio and Talk Radio Seminar

From Pennsylvania Patriot Channel: Paul Harvey, A Letter from God

From 0316 Stonewell Channel: Paul Harvey, Good Day

From Deseret News: Here's rest of the story: Harvey show's a family act

From Springfield News-Leader: The first ever Paul Harvey museum opens in Branson

From Humane Nation: The Rest of the Story about Paul Harvey

From Wikipedia: Paul Harvey Aurandt

From Wikipedia: Lynne Cooper Harvey

From Amazon.com: Paul Harvey’s: Destiny, by Paul Harvey, Jr.

Paul Harvey’s the Rest of the Story, by Paul Aurandt and Lynne Harvey

Paul Harvey’s: Destiny, by Paul Harvey, Jr.

Lovin America website:

A stage coach approaches Deadwood; Leather, love, and laughter from the Center of the Everything with Belle Fourche’s Kerry and Bernadette; Some lives say a lot about love, even if those who live them say nothing at all - the love story of Harpo and Susan Marx.

Extended features for Lovin America’s Patrons (www.patreon.com/LovinAmerica): Lovin the Dogs is a tale of two hero huskies who saved Nome, Alaska; and our narrative takes you In Search of the Flouncy Puffaloss from Lovin America: The Roads to Happily-Ever-After.

All this and more on this episode of Lovin America.

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Lead in song: Lovity Love by Something Underground

Deadwood Stagecoach may make Main Street runs this summer, from the Black Hills Pioneer

Bernadette and Kerry in Belle Forche, SD

Their funny insights are in many of our montage videos on YouTube!

Harpo Marx and Susan Fleming Marx:

From the Independent: Susan Marx

From Long Reads: Alexander Woollcott and Harpo Marx: A Love Story, by Ned Stuckey-French

From Wikipedia: Susan Fleming

From YouTube, Krystube Channel: Harpo Marx’s Real Voice

From YouTube, MandyPan13 Channel: A Night at the Opera

From Harpo’s Place - The Family: Harpo the Family Man (Including his 10 Family Rules)

Books through Amazon.com:

Harpo Speaks

Son of Harpo Speaks

Lovin America website:

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Lovin America YouTube Channel:

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A coyote tale that really hits “The Spot” in Deadwood; Then, “We’ll get you my pretties!” (with the Hollywood love story of Toto né Terry); finally, how Microsoft Works - at least when it comes to the love story of Bill and Melinda Gates.

*CREDITS: http://lovin-america.blubrry.net/the-gates-of-love-029/

Extended features for Lovin America’s Patrons (www.patreon.com/LovinAmerica): a story of picking up new friends in our narrative, We All Fall Down from Lovin America: The Roads to Happily-Ever-After.

All this and more on this episode of Lovin America.

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Lead in song: Lovity Love by Something Underground

Tootsie, the Deadwood Singing Coyote

From MentalFloss.com: Tootsie, the Singing Coyote

From the City of Deadwood’s DeadwoodCenturyAwards.com: Fred Borsch III

Bill and Melinda Gates:

From YouTube, Salesforce Channel: The Story of how Melinda met Bill Gates

From YouTube, Francesco BrioWeb Russo Channel: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates together at the D5 Conference 2007

From YouTube, Bill Gates Channel: When your closest colleague is also your husband

From YouTube, Skavlan Channel: Bill Gates gets interviewed and plays chess against Magnus Carlsen

From The Washington Post: Bill and Melinda Gates hear you

From Entrepreneur.com: 24 Weird Things We've Learned About Bill Gates

Lovin America website:

Lovin America Website

Lovin America YouTube Channel:

Lovin America YouTube Channel

Lovin the historic small towns of America, including the largest town of its size, anywhere!; All’s “Faire” in love, with the Bristol Renaissance in Kenosha, Wisconsin; This week’s Love in History: Welcome to our Lovin Nightmare (we hope we don’t scare you) with the story of Alice and Sheryl Cooper.

Extended features for Lovin America’s Patrons (www.patreon.com/LovinAmerica): Sergeant Stubby, a WWI four-legged war hero; and a road tale of Beautiful Ogres.

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Lead in song: Lovity Love by Something Underground

Feed the Pig! SDPB Fundraiser by Darlarna Farms, Vermillion, SD

Dick Termes and the Termesphere Gallery

From the Black Hills Pioneer: Belle Fourche Termesphere dedicated in memory of Bob Helmer

Alice and Sheryl Cooper:

From YouTube:

Meet the Freemans Channel: Relationship Advice With Rock Legend Alice Cooper & Sheryl Cooper

Official Alice Cooper Channel: Ask Alice 21 - How Alice Met Sheryl

KTARNews923 Channel: Sheryl Cooper on Portraits

From AZ Central: Alice Cooper's wife, Sheryl, kids keep the faith

From Brave Words: Alice Cooper’s wife Sheryl “He still pursues me like I’m not already his.”

From People.com: Sheryl Cooper Got Her Husband Alice on the Wagon and Back on the Road Again

Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Foundation website

***A very SPECIAL THANKS to Jocelyn and Aaron Freeman (Meet the Freeman's https://www.meetthefreemans.com/) for the use of comments from their recent interview with the Coopers!***

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Foreplay chardonnay - “Wining” about winter in the South Dakota vineyards; Love and laughter with sage stylist Alesia in Omaha; and Lovin History features Star Trek meets Corinthian leather on Fantasy Island - the love story of Ricardo and Georgiana Montalban.

Extended features for Lovin America’s Patrons (www.patreon.com/LovinAmerica): Lovin the Dogs - if you do, there’s an app for that; and a story about when history reaches out to touch you back in A Great Joy from Lovin America: The Roads to Happily-Ever-After.

All this and more on this episode of Lovin America.

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Lead in song: Lovity Love by Something Underground

From South Dakota Public Broadcasting: Tips on Cows (not cow tipping)

Wine’ing in South Dakota:

Valiant Vineyards

Red Ass Rhubarb from Prairie Berry Winery

The Strawbale Winery

Stone Face Winery

Naked Winery

And all the ones we missed from the American Winery Guide: A list of South Dakota wineries

From iGrow.org: Grapes Varieties for South Dakota

More from Alesia of Omaha:

From Amazon.com: Life Behind the Chair, Journey of a Concrete Rose

Ricardo and Georgiana Montalban:

YouTube: From Spy Kids

YouTube: From Star Trek the Wrath of Khan

YouTube: From Chrysler Commercial

From People Magazine, 1978: Cast Off in Hollywood, Ricardo Montalban Lands Safely on 'Fantasy Island'

From the New York Times: Ricardo Montalbán, Star of ‘Fantasy Island,’ Dies at 88

From Cafe California with Cris Franco, YouTube Video: Ricardo Montalban 2/3

From Cafe California with Cris Franco, YouTube Video: Ricardo Montalban 3/3

YouTube Video: Ricardo Montalban on Late Night with David Letterman, April 14, 1987

From PureHistory.com: Ricardo Montalban

From Wikipedia:

Lovin America website:

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Opportunity knocks on a Purple Door in Deadwood; older than the Rocky Mountains in the Black Hills; wisdom and a quickie from Salem, MA - how to recover from saying precisely the wrong thing; the brilliant love story of George and Marguerite Westinghouse.

Extended features for Lovin America’s Patrons (www.patreon.com/LovinAmerica): politics gone to the good dogs - Mayor Duke in Cormorant, Minnesota; and this week’s narrative - Storms, Palaces, Knights, Fairy Tales… and a Goat, from Lovin America: The Roads to Happily-Ever-After.

All this and more on this episode of Lovin America.

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Lead in song: Lovity Love by Something Underground

Behind the Doors in Deadwood

From Deadwood Magazine: The Girls of the Gulch

YouTube: The longer quickie video from History Alive in Salem, MA

Georgia and Marguerite Westinghouse:

From the Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Vanished Westinghouse estate here yields some secrets

From the Berkshire Eagle: 'George,' Mrs. Westinghouse said...

From YouTube: Great Documentaries: Westinghouse - Chapter 8 - George and Marguerite

From Amazon.com: George Westinghouse: Gentle Genius, by Jr. Quentin R. Skrabec

Lovin America website:

Lovin America Website

Lovin America YouTube Channel:

Lovin America YouTube Channel

Deadwood’s limping cowboy poet - Captain Jack Crawford; Lovin America on the road meets Virginia…in Green Bay; and our Lovin History story is a M*A*S*H up of actor Alan Alda and photographer/writer Arlene Weiss (Alda).

Extended features for Lovin America’s Patrons (www.patreon.com/LovinAmerica) include a tail of the Midnight Circus gone to the dogs; and a tale of The Best Plaid Lanes from Lovin America: The Roads to Happily-Ever-After.

All this and more on this episode of Lovin America.

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Lead in song: Lovity Love by Something Underground

Captain Jack Crawford - Cowboy poet

Arlene and Alan Alda:

From the Today Show: Alan, Arlene Alda: A rum cake date started our love

From the NY Times: Life as a Feminist’s Wife

From YouTube, Mondays with Marlo: The Secret to a Long Lasting Marriage

From YouTube, The University of Chicago: Communicating Science with Alan Alda

From CNN.com: The Truth about Alan Alda

From Amazon.com: Just Kids from the Bronx, by Arlene Alda

Lovin America website:

Lovin America Website

Lovin America YouTube Channel:

Lovin America YouTube Channel

The dark side of Daylight Saving; Learning to crawl on St Patty’s Day in Deadwood; A Republic of Texas romance with Don and Shay; and a Legacy of love - Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross.

Extended features for Lovin America’s Patrons (www.patreon.com/LovinAmerica): a dog that keeps running away from home... to home; and a tale of home in Home Delivery from Lovin America: The Roads to Happily-Ever-After.

All this and more on this episode of Lovin America.

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Lead in song: Lovity Love by Something Underground

St. Patrick’s Day in Deadwood

The Dark Side of Daylight Savings Time, by David Wagner

Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross:

From Country Living: Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross Are One of Hollywood's Most Enduring Couples

From the San Francisco Chronicle: Sam Elliott at 72 still a heartthrob and a hero to wife

From DailyMail.com: 'Cleo wants to kill me': Graduate star Katharine Ross takes out restraining order after daughter 'stabs her with scissors'

From YouTube:

Clip from the Big Lebowski

Where Sam Elliott learned to be a man

Taylor Swift’s Bad Blood as read by Sam Elliott

From Amazon.com: The Hero

Lovin America website:

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Boxers, woodpeckers share hard knocks in Deadwood; Taj sends love from Haight (Ashbury!); the passionate Old West tale of a gentleman dentist and a cultured dance hall girl - Doc Holliday and Kate Elder.

Patron’s (www.patreon.com/LovinAmerica) extended features include: Military Service Dog Dexter CO67, you can call him Dex; a tale from Lovin America travels tells of a well-fitting road: Road Worn.

All this and more on this episode of Lovin America.

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Lead in song: Lovity Love by Something Underground

John Henry (Doc) Holliday and Mary Katharine (Kate Elder) Haroney:

From the Tombstone Times: Katie Elder, Her True Story by Maggie Van Ostrand

From AngelFire.com: Biography, John Henry Holliday

From True West Magazine: Mrs. John Holliday? By Gary L. Roberts

From the Book: Love Untamed, by JoAnn Chartier and Chris Enss

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