Within The Realm

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 [email protected]. 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 documentary can be viewed at:

https://freestatefestival.org/ or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht3KN1Mleeo

Subjects:

Chess Club: https://www.facebook.com/ChessClubBandKs/

Pale Tongue: https://www.facebook.com/paletongueband/

LAAND: https://www.laand.org/booking

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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 are born!

4:00 Bad Business deals

4:55 Alice's Wonderland and California

6:30 Mortimer

8:20 Conclusion

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was a kid, they served as a reminder of our "hillbilly" past and, compared to the new fangled pre-fab homes, they were out of date.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 them. www.withinpodcast.com

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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