Hope & Heart & Home On The Range - HHHR #6 -- 1) Carnegie Libraries: Pittsburgh & Beyond -- 2) Cinnamon Toast Topped with A Tool, A Neighbor & An Artist -- 3) NFL Protest: Black Lives Matter & The Thin Blue Line

HHHR #6 -- 1) Carnegie Libraries: Pittsburgh & Beyond -- 2) Cinnamon Toast Topped with A Tool, A Neighbor & An Artist -- 3) NFL Protest: Black Lives Matter & The Thin Blue Line

01/30/20 • 27 min

In Part 1 of Program #6, we probe two simple questions: If Carnegie Libraries are so much a part of public library history in the United States, why was Williston's original library called the James Memorial? And who was Andrew Carnegie, and why do so many libraries bear his name?
Part 2 tells us about Carl's Saturday morning visit with Ole & Lena. In the kitchen he discovers the glories of cinnamon toast, and in the garage he discovers the neatest tool ever. He also discovers the needs of Ole's next door neighbor. Ole discovers a talented artist in a most unexpected place.
Part 3 questions some of the claims of the Black Lives Matter movement, and notes how accusations of police racism have an unintended negative impact on the black community.

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undefined - HHHR #5 -- 1) Washington & Jefferson: The Pope's Birthday Surprise -- 2) Lena's Book Club Ladies And The Bats -- 3) NFL Protest: Black & White Evils Aren't Always Blacks & Whites

HHHR #5 -- 1) Washington & Jefferson: The Pope's Birthday Surprise -- 2) Lena's Book Club Ladies And The Bats -- 3) NFL Protest: Black & White Evils Aren't Always Blacks & Whites

Part 1 of Episode 5 discusses an important fact: George Washington's and Thomas Jefferson's birthdays changed between the day they were born and the day they died. The birthdays we remember weren't the birthdays their mothers remember. Why is that? The change in the date of their birth reaches back into history, and has something to do with Julius Caesar and with...the Pope!
In Part 2, we meet the ladies in Lena's book club: June, Evelyn, Lavinia, Mary Christine, and Gladys. We'll find out what book they're reading this month, and observe Gladys' simple show of humility. We'll also hear about Gladys' (kinda, sorta) unwelcome visitors.
Part 3 addresses the inferences about American slavery made by Colin Kaepernick in his July 4 tweet, and note the fact that while the slavery may be a black and white evil, this history of slavery is much more than a Blacks and Whites issue.