Tell Me What Happened

Ed Dziedzic taught history in the Chicago Public Schools and worked on the trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. He is a great believer in the power of music and serendipity to change lives. In this childhood memory, Ed recalls discovering the blues through old record albums and two blues harmonicas that his older brother left behind when he moved out of the family house. Ed takes us through his teenage days visiting Chicago's infamous Maxwell Street open street market. He explains how the music he heard at that outdoor trading post impacted his life in ways he could not have imagined. In the end, Ed's story is a personal love story told with one of Chicago's most famous historic neighborhoods as a backdrop.

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Michelle Gunderson, an early childhood educator and expert in the field, recalls having had a place to play when she was young and the importance of having such a place is for all children. Linking her own childhood to her teaching, Michelle reminds parents and educators not to suffer from "Childhood Amnesia." Ms. Gunderson notes that on her tombstone, she'd like it to read, "She Let Them Play."

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Kathy Kelly is a peace activist whose efforts at times led her into war zones and prisons. She now coordinates the "Ban Killer Drones Campaign." Hers is a love story, of first meeting Bobby Alberts when she was in first grade, only to reject his romantic advances in fourth grade. Fast forward fifty years of peace activism and Kathy finds herself looking out a prison window only to see Bobby Alberts has come to visit. The rest is herstory.

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Encouraged by his mother, 15 year old Randy Williams (the future R DUB!) hesitantly and reluctantly applies for a local DJ job in Tucson, AZ. Feeling totally unqualified and fully convinced he has little chance of being hired, young R DUB! interviews for the job, earns it, and learns a lifelong lesson. Thirty years later, and the rest is history. By combining his love of talking and listening to music, R DUB! has lived a life he never could have imagined.

R Dub! is the creator, producer and host of the internationally syndicated radio show, Sunday Night Slow Jams, currently heard on over 200 radio stations in 14 countries. He started the show when he was just 16 years old.

His second passion is travel: he’s currently on a mission to see all 193 countries on the planet. At the time of this entry, R Dub! has been to 147 countries. He helps bring clean water to African villages that don’t have safe water sources.

R Dub! lives and works in San Diego, California where he broadcasts Sunday Night Slow Jams from his home studio. During the day he manages two top-rated San Diego radio stations and hosts a live afternoon drive show.

He is the self-appointed Grand Leader and Sultan of The People’s Republic of Slowjamastan – an 11-acre sovereign nation created for people who love Slow Jams.

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As a fifteen year old, young Duane Davis interviews for a business internship though the Inroads Program. It is from that experience that he determines he will become an English major in college.

Duane recalls wearing a clean shirt and pants and an earring to the first interview after filling out the Inroads application and including both "business" and "English" as he current fields of interest. At the conclusion of Duane's successful first interview the interviewers offer him three critiques: 1) wear a suit to the next interview, 2) remove "English" as one of his interests on his application, and only list "business." 3) lose the earring..

In subsequent interviews, young Duane "loses" the earring, but can't get the suit and he won't let go of his interest in English.

Ultimately, the process helps young Duane choose a life path that leads him to encouraging young people to be open to the wonder of possibilities and to be comfortable not necessarily knowing what they want to do with their lives.

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Kenzo Shibata, currently studying to be a social worker, recalls repeated attempts to recruit him into the "pee wee" version of the Latin Kings when an older member asks him to steal a bike. Fearful, young Kenzo declines the invitation, unlike other classmates, one of whom is killed before graduating from high school. Kenzo reflects on his younger days, and has used his experiences to empathize with many of the young people he teaches today, some of whom are in gangs or members of crews.

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Zaya Odish tells the story of his first days in the United States at the age of nine after having been born in Iraq and having lived in a Syrian refugee camp. Zaya recalls his first days in Chicago and his first bus ride to school with his younger sister. Unable to speak English, Zaya is helped by his teacher and school mate and, over time, learns to become resilient to life's hardships.

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Timothy Troy, a filmmaker (Crazy Little Monsters Productions) who lives and works in Chicago (working on the crew side for an NCS TV show and directing his own short films) tells the story of trying out for his high school baseball team although he had never played organized baseball before. After training with the team for a season, he is cut during the tryouts but is brought back in by the coach as the manager for the team. Timothy discusses the valuable lessons he learned from the initial experience of "failing" to make the team.

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Eli Boyer, a strong family man, discusses the night he was physically removed from his house by two "large men" and taken to a therapeutic wilderness camp in remote Minnesota. The young Eli initially has a great deal of anger about his family's drastic actions, but ultimately concludes that the courageous action taken by his parents has helped him in his adult life.

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