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Latest Episodes:

EP141: A Most Valued Gift… FROM a Homeless Man, Indians, a Jew, and a Hotel Partnership, Her Career is a Tribute to Her Great Uncle, A D-Day Hero and Working with Dad Taught Big Lessons to a Little Boy Dec 15, 2021

Show notes

On this episode of Our American Stories, Larry Crawford shares with us how a homeless friend gave him one of his most valued possessions; Mike Leven tells the story about how he—a Jew—started the Asian American Hotel Owners Association; Heather McPherson, Curator of History at the South Carolina Military Museum, shares the impact that her Uncle had on her career choice; and Dennis Peterson's father was hard but fair, and some of the biggest lessons Dennis learned were on the job site, doing brick work with his father.

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Time Codes:

00:00 - A Most Valued Gift… FROM a Homeless Man

10:00 - Indians, a Jew, and a Hotel Partnership

23:00 - Her Career is a Tribute to Her Great Uncle, A D-Day Hero

35:00 - Working with Dad Taught Big Lessons to a Little Boy

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EP140: The Tale of the Locomotive "Texas" and The Reluctant Memoirist Dec 14, 2021

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Jackson McQuigg of the Atlanta History Center tells the story of the principle pursuit locomotive of the Great Railroad Chase and Leslie Leyland Fields tells the story of how she came to write her memoir.

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Time Codes:

00:00 - The Tale of the Locomotive "Texas"

23:00 - The Reluctant Memoirist

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EP139: Trapped Inside a Tube: The Iron Lung Story and H.P. Rama, The Accidental Hotelier Dec 13, 2021

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Daryn Glassbrook of the Mobile Medical Museum tells the story of the iron lung, a device used to keep people with advanced polio alive in the first half of the 20th century. Indian American hotelier H.P. Rama the story of the ethical dilemma he presented to the then President of Days Inn, Mike Leven.

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Time Codes:

00:00 - Trapped Inside a Tube: The Iron Lung Story

10:00 - H.P. Rama, The Accidental Hotelier

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EP138: The Old Upright Piano, Joy Neal Kidney, I Paid My Own Child Support and The Story of St. Louie Louie: Have Pool Cue, Will Travel Dec 10, 2021

Show notes

On this episode of Our American Stories, Joy Neal Kidney shares the story of her old upright piano that was passed down to her from her mother; Jason Wolfe tells the story of figuring out to be the father he didn't have; and Mark O'Brian tells the story of St. Louie, Louie...one of the best pool players to ever grace the scene.

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Time Codes:

00:00 - The Old Upright Piano, Joy Neal Kidney

10:00 - Jason Wolfe: I Paid My Own Child Support

35:00 - The Story of St. Louie Louie: Have Pool Cue, Will Travel

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EP137: The WWII Tragedy America Chose to Forget, I Lived Through The Depression And Didn’t Even Know It! and The 1st "Disneyland" on Lake Michigan's Shore, and The Man Behind It Dec 09, 2021

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Paul Kengor, PoliSci professor at Grove City College, brings us the details of the devastating nature of an attack the U.S. government chose to keep details hidden about; Donald Sturm tells the story of how his parents did everything they could to suport him and lead him to achieve the American Dream; and Chris Siriano of the House of David Museum in Saint Joe, MI, tells the story of how a band of religious misfits ended up creating an amusement park that even Walt Disney would take inspiration from.

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Time Codes:

00:00 - The WWII Tragedy America Chose to Forget

10:00 - I Lived Through The Depression And Didn’t Even Know It!

23:00 - The 1st "Disneyland" on Lake Michigan's Shore, and The Man Behind It

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EP136: Winston Churchill and the Iron Curtain and The Tone Deaf, Bad Poet Who Wrote The National Anthem Dec 08, 2021

Show notes

On this episode of Our American Stories, Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College and Churchill scholar, tells the story of Winston Churchill being at a low point in his career when he delivered his famous 'Iron Curtain' speech in Fulton, Missouri; Marc Leepson, author of What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A Life, brings us the story of how Francis “Frank” Scott Key wrote our national anthem right after one of America’s great military victories.

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Time Codes:

00:00 - Winston Churchill and the Iron Curtain

23:00 - The Tone Deaf, Bad Poet Who Wrote The National Anthem

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EP135: Magic Side Show Becomes Full-Time Job and How Piggly Wiggly Created the Modern Supermarket Dec 07, 2021

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Steve Thomas, Oxford, Mississippi's local magician and balloon artist, shares his story with us and Clarence Saunders revolutionized the way people shopped by introducing checkouts, clearly priced goods, and itemized receipts.

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Time Codes:

00:00 - Magic Side Show Becomes Full-Time Job

23:00 - How Piggly Wiggly Created the Modern Supermarket

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EP134: Origin of Everyday Sayings, The Woman Introducing STEM Careers to Young Girls and Thomas Edison at Menlo Park Dec 06, 2021

Show notes

On this episode of Our American Stories, Andrew Thompson continues to share another slice from his ultimate guide to understanding these baffling mini mysteries of the English language; Nicole Small, the former CEO of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, shares how she is now inspiring young women to pursue careers in STEM; and Kathleen Carlucci and Russ Gehrum of the Thomas Edison Center at Edison, NJ, tell the story of how Edison perfected light.

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Time Codes:

00:00 - Origin of Everyday Sayings

10:00 - The Woman Introducing STEM Careers to Young Girls

35:00 - Thomas Edison at Menlo Park

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EP133: Tale of the Tapes: Engineer Guy Explains How VHS Beat Betamax, How The Pilsner Arrived, Survived and Thrived in America and John O’Neil On The First B-17 To Bomb Berlin Dec 03, 2021

Show notes

On this episode of Our American Stories, Bill “Engineer Guy” Hammack tells the story of how Betamax was defeated by the VHS tape; Tom Acitelli, author of Pilsner: How The Beer of Kings Changed The World, tells the story of how America's favorite drink came here and stayed here despite a world war and Prohibition; and John O'Neil, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, tells the story of his father, the tail and waist gunner on the B-17.

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Time Codes:

00:00 - Tale of the Tapes: Engineer Guy Explains How VHS Beat Betamax

10:00 - How The Pilsner Arrived, Survived and Thrived in America

35:00 - John O’Neil On The First B-17 To Bomb Berlin

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EP132: The Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions, From Fired High School Dropout... To Owning D.C.'s Best Taco Chain! and Why it Took One Man 7 Years to get his Car Back Dec 02, 2021

Show notes

On this episode of Our American Stories, Andrew Thompson tells us about the origin of phrases in the English language; Osiris Hoil tells the story of when he lost his construction job in 2008, but through his fantastic cooking he started District Taco, D.C.'s best taco chain; and Montey Montgomery tells the story of how Tyson Timbs found out that old habits do indeed die hard when he was arrested and convicted for selling drugs to undercover cops. He also found out what asset forfeiture was when the State of Indiana took his Land Rover and held onto it for 7 years.

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Time Codes:

00:00 - The Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions

08:00 - From Fired High School Dropout... To Owning D.C.'s Best Taco Chain!

27:30 - Why it Took One Man 7 Years to get his Car Back

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