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fb you in the heat of summer at a campground half an hour west of nashville probably the single most diverse group of nashville teenagers gathers male female african american asian caucasian iranian jewish catholic protestant and muslim this is camp in a town sponsored by the national conference for community and justice for one week young people here face their prejudices of race religion gender and physical ability and hopes of leaving with a better understanding of differences and similarities campers are given an agenda for the week so on this particular night they are unaware that they'll be talking about their stereotypes of the police lynda barry is the national conferences regional executive director why is it important because they don't trust the police and ere they need please help in a lot of situations and also they have to take responsibility if they're doing things wrong

in a small meeting room jammed with fifty or so campers and counselors barry stands before a blackboard and asks the teenagers to share their views on the police chris yeah yeah you see it and on it goes for almost twenty minutes until the first positive comment on the police is made you know that immediately after

this one voice of support from across the room comes their pigs seventeen year old brunette dressed smartly and field figure shorts and shirt is adamant about his disdain of the police the court on seven eighteen occasions in ways of weakness the bodies et only once we knew that the eighties that mubarak fannie's family or whether its subway lines that matters to allay those days most we're exactly what you were doing a baby is not a is not all about why now why were roses you'd say you take our own ignorance at the police at this point linda barry tells the

growing teenagers that they're about to hear from two metro police officers they know the two as kiki and more camp counselors that much to their surprise the two now enter the room in their patrol uniforms as the laughter dies down and seven the rim begins corps officer can keep the more the works the lower charlotte joe johnston westin district and officer martin bennett who's stationed at maplewood high school you questions that only a unique environment that people have that speech if you have bad news there is there i'm back here is the thing a group of people

that you have to remember now the officers relate stories of how their lives had been in danger what weapons they wear on their belts about the city's curfew and about why officers sometimes approach teenagers with a wary eye vernon who earlier called officers pigs says he appreciates the work that keith ian martin do that that this is the first time he's ever seen two african american officers and though not every incident is rodney king and they must know that harassment goes on is not also friendly and well i just did that just one industry the lonely austere was true on the day of the us as a marvelous man senegalese jobs and more their harmonies is referring to work trying to teach officers to treat it was in these

wars do not stereotyping is the end and i know it still has that made it on the playoffs that what happened to that stop reports out of it i really do and i'm in the position to help him because that's what they need to do how maybe fall officially began dating a new parents have to file official complaints and make sure they go through the proper channels now exactly let's talk about that because if that officer received a number of complaints because of their attitude toward the public as to how to deal with this on a daily basis

so the more he talks the more passionate more than it gets he understands the pressures officers are under and he believes candidates should be at least twenty six before joining the force instead of the current twenty one they're missing lots of life experiences and that he says affects their street performance as a layla measles literally in tears you just graduated twenty one years though goes to their cabin has been much about you know relatives not have to venture out into other areas of life as far as different cultures different races can a police officer there you go out here first thing you see when us all first line media that american grew up in january or public housing nellie mckay singing it all know it all work or through a different pair ha

ha ha ha ha it was also a lawyer he was shot adp jules treated joe well how african americans upset a rousing treaty ej what about this and all he knows about the amounts of what he's the laws and i haven't had direct contact with you john the teenagers are some dude for a moment and then began to ask more questions relating more incidents with the police after the session ends they swarmed officers and keep peppering them with questions for another forty five minutes or so martin bennett says the hope is that this kind of

interchange will go along way to making these young people are more understanding that the police if you have a bad run into police officer deal with that poll results as a person and not the whole force just like we as people have a bad experience with the flow if a caucasian american couple that knows what after malcolm deal with that individually and don'ts and be on the whole racing vice versa and it goes with all races there's no scientific way of measuring the effects of campaigning tan except to say there's a waiting list for the camp and the students who come here are allowed to apply to be counselors and there's a waiting list for that too for nashville public radio and he did that it's been or says

there's no doubt friend patterson is the world's reigning irish tenor he has recorded more than thirty albums in six languages is sung for popes and presidents and in all the major venues and on one occasion had a papal mass via satellite he sang it to a million people around the world that although he's known since age four that he wanted to be a singer frank paterson had a tough time convincing his family you're not good enough frank they told him and so we dropped out of school at age fourteen to work in the family print shop for seven years he sang while setting type are spreading inc but he knew he was destined for more finally at age twenty one he left tipperary to study in dublin don't forget i was listening to good singers my record collection whoa john mccormack innocent caruso on gtmo the singers and i could hear what they were doing and i knew that even though all it was twenty seven a and i couldn't get some of the titles they were getting i felt that

maybe i could learn how to get there i remember when i went to my first digs until then i started doing my skis one morning my bags are waiting for me afterwards it as a nucleus for the next three years frank patterson studied in dublin and london and in paris absorbing all he could finally he felt he was ready to put himself to the test our next door neighbor witnesses ball into semi detached houses a wall at the back to fighting the two houses a high water recedes seventies that method of communication that in the toast was this little store all of the other person's back door and left them that they wanted a sweeter sort of man he was there and was appalled obviously too long because of my mother's backdoor imams and yes this is all she said mrs quaye he says there's something on the radio frank is asked to do something and open to the main news use nationwide that this frank has and had warned the fish kill the festival and one every award for tenor and seniors

on the german chemical for a german leader the oratorio called when all this kind of stuff it was on the news and that the duty of his or that this was really the singer's average amount of risk is closely affiliated and mrs boulder was telling my mother and what followed was a serious immersion in the classical repertoire and he quickly made a name for himself performing works by pursell handel beethoven bach and mozart however in the late seventies he received a request which would broaden his career even further a request to sing danny boy the well known ballad of a mother's love for her son i'd never sung danny boy because it hadn't really don't specialize in latin it sounds empty inbox and all that really it almost looked only know it's like at some other popular it sounds but let me tell you how i came to see my wife cause if i accomplish as a concert pianist when you're critiqued we were invited to do a fundraising concerts in the north of ireland in ballet castle the parish priest he followed it says frank is wincing all he's use whistles but we'd love to sing danny boy oh sorry says it

doesn't seem to have a little dessert alaska to look at tubby by solomon i did i loved the stage where i realize what a fantastic wasn't all so we went up and i did the concert and it finished molting by singing danny boy in a dozen cases to the east the place nearly one match there was a kind of an electricity and it says afterwards that she knew every scene with such feeling anxious it was really special you know my sense of myself so the priest came up on to the stage actress i want to tell you stories about this when i was studying for the priesthood and this is a man in his eighties in the center a nobody could visitor for the usual there and he said on the very day that he was being our giant all of the young priest lake are waiting for their parents to come in now and he said he was waiting on the steps with the rest of the young men eventually he saw there to tomorrow's minor coming into this is a camel his father joseph brothers and sisters is more than every prism and he said she passed away three weeks ago i would like to tell you because you

didn't want to upset though he said his heart was like a store just couldn't react to it he said you know it isn't like twenty four when this happened he was a man in easiest east mediators and he said i didn't cry for my mother i said what if i pass and that's what anyone means a lot to me because it relates to kill us and celebrated irish tenor fritz henderson who will share much more of their stories this week on the fine print broadcast saturday at noon and again sunday morning at nine for nashville public radio i'm rebecca bain our is the arabian sea change iran already knows i'm

liane aim new move on antique shops and flea markets are just some of the places the paint a keyword because for inspiration she likes to arrange it cheap wines they're like stoneware of cloth and plain boxes for his still life paintings are looking for things that i started singing i crazy one of her most recent piece is called receptive cops prominently features a pair of white ironstone cops the rest of the cloth covered table the five by seven foot dramatic well painting has a dark pewter background and is

rendered in high detail you can even see decrease the white tablecloth and the chink in one of the cups reader is in just attracted to material objects though she relishes natural objects for some of the same qualities the iron still possess strength simplicity and a touch of softness for instance an image that repeated that shows up in our work is that an old bird's nest there's one that i've played it repeatedly on the artist yvette warren and it's got my dna so it's heavy it's a i found it on the ground that have fallen out of that magnolia tree that's heavy in the bottom in the new feathery on the inside little soccer and on twitter handles her painting as carefully as she treats the nest that works textured services and minimal palette suddenly call attention to her appreciation of the beauty of simplicity i don't think of it as just painting and i'm set for me it's taking something very humble and simple and totally romanticizing it on the canvas and just taking it as far as i can

take it on looking tongs through it to something inside are finding the essence of a simple object that michael one of the way she finds at objects as sense is through the process of setting up a still life being able to assemble various objects the line to try to become a part of the process haney it's not just the objects themselves but the way we get relates those objects that allows for a variety of interpretations what i'm working on now is a roomy interior with a still life to the tabletop in the foreground with boxes i've assembled with the nation we're sitting on one of the boxes and those are in sort of how it rendered detail the ramming tear itself is very needed to build the surface to achieve the candidate she's looking for pipeline several layers of oil paint i apply the early game strictly with a palette

knife and not allow portions of the candidates to build in places and i'll scratch around on it from there i started working towards the images i usually like any images in a very dr bell flat color and then build on that i use a lot of a reddish under town a row and brewery read under town for flesh it is a tarpaulin i think of it as sculpting bringing the image out of the dark hear her evocative work is about the romance found in common objects when asked about who influences horror who'd you talk about the artist agnes martin best known for her memoirs great pattern pieces more than i love the work i love when her life's work was a man i just love it the older she got the work became less and less that inmate is so contrary to the way most people live their lives which is

more and more accumulation a rather surprising attitude consider readers relentless search for objects to use in her paintings painting she doesn't like to talk about preferring instead to let the viewers raise their own set of questions i think the literalist a look at the work and go well there's the egg in the nest and the symbol list will see it is something else and i love that i think it it leaves a lot of questions about it you know there are a lot of answers when you look at my work and i think the individual has to put it together themselves most readers are presented by cumberland gallery in nashville all the dollar in seven sisko and turner carolyn santa fe new mexico wanna wake up every day and have inspiration and this has happened for national public radio and in

for several causes a nashville native mickey kriner gets a gleam in his eye when he talks about the great bambino and nobody's seen is great big body <unk> to me he was just the greatest and the sole person that will allow in baseball politics it was a sunday april eight nineteen thirty four the last time babe ruth would play at nashville's old soul for dale ballpark back then the major league teams would pack up at the spring training load into railroad cars and go barnstorming across the south kreitner remembers that exhibition game with the hometown nashville balls like it was yesterday alt work well treme is always so the veil and the first job was exhibition game yankees came and the boy so of course everybody looking for babe ruth jubilee hall on about fifteen thousand and then they'll just

unbelievable and college said they were the crowd packed every inch around the park waiting to see one man who was nowhere to be found that that missile again ten the virus within the babe ruth and babe ruth in the failed so i started the knesset and sell a ballpark that way could he be in the clubhouse was it one that someone has an apartment down the street and there was debate femina was itzhak fried worms go film and how leslie delightful the game in baltimore cramer's childhood friends carl shuman who later would be known as the mayor printers halley was also a bad boy on that day and he asked very renowned for his love of kids if you go up and visit the junior league home for cripple children at the corner of my grow and not believe that'll involved in theatre tv talk july just a little dull but

so i was always like a lot of my family all about plot they've begun a site they decide to say the more you think about one but there were some when someone who i gave in sullivan he will so the first lady says seoul city had this is so for the us to believe this is over there ruth played right field that day right field it's all for dale was known as the doubt where steep hill lead up to the outfield fence it was slippery and often dangerous to play the doubt but ruth even though he was nearing the end of his career insisted on playing right field that day he didn't hitting homers just two singles but the crowd less satisfied anyway the ball's one sixty five and unlike his yankee teammates resigned every autograph he could that was the last you're babe ruth or yankees uniform though he brought them their

first world series wins and brought in more than a million fans a season a first for a major league team forcing them to build a yankee stadium in nineteen thirty five the team's owner offered through the contract for one dollar he once commanded more than a hundred thousand maybe he went on to play part time for boston and then became a coach for the brooklyn dodgers and both jobs he thought would lead to managers positions but they were never offered george herman ruth died in nineteen forty eight of throat cancer to day ricky kreitner is still bitter about the way his idol was treated i think he was pretty worse in the bottom of the window to be such a great star then even the terminally <unk> roof is in neighboring guatemala hundred people in a family and that's a lot that it by

water say bye bye kreitner went on to play the game he invade love so much he made it to the big leagues as a catcher for the chicago cubs before coming back to nashville to launch a successful restaurant business so for dale which opened in eighteen eighty five was torn down in nineteen sixty nine is now a state employees parking lot there's a sign on for them in the north just east of the bicentennial mall designating the site of the oak park in the low lying land in the shadow of the state capital union soldiers occupying nashville first played the game little did they know that following in their footsteps years later would be the game's greatest player from nashville public radio thank you

oh not quite as frenzied as world cup fans and readers or the national metro soccer team show plenty of enthusiasm and metros are in a valley that's similar to a triple a team in baseball just one step down from the major leagues since debuting last year the metals have done well finishing second in their division last year and battling for first place and heading into the playoffs the sheer all this despite their makeshift facility off partying place hardly in a really tight lord for fans crowds for their fourteen home games have averaged a little over twelve hundred not by professional standards but players like can convince martinez understand the obstacles he grew up in california playing every sport imaginable martinez found soccer unique for his death on the soccer fields are now using your hands in the snow use your feet in your head different parts of body plus when you're out there you make the decisions on the field it maybe this uniqueness that attracts so many young people to the sport more than

twenty thousand middle two scenes are involved in youth soccer and develop properly the metro's know this group as the foundation for their fan base coach grant petersen there's no question the main target with the sox tickets and again it also says look at the lawman dad's a no penicillin authorize on the sport and that exposes sports through most of them through their children so our main target is the children so during the heart of their season mitchell players spent their daytime hours conducting youth soccer camps for kids ages six to seventeen clear skin showing courage and praise the little tikes racing across the field and little people like six year old angela respond she attacks the bar taking on older bigger kids during a break her father beans a football coach for fifteen years jimmy taylor admits that this is all new to him this is mobility you never been around

soccer and never met anybody you know it's hard to go in and say i've made some of the people in your city that's just what steven parker wants to hear parker is the president and ceo of the metro's he sold his dialysis health care business for a tidy profit and motivated by his son's bridges a patient in soccer he got involved to go to different parts of the city you'll see i'm planning on discussing with an adequate facilities and it's tough to ask a kid to stay interested in the sport promotes case make no mistake while he loves the sport parker's dream is economically inspired the metals complex now is a thick grass plane filled with bleachers surrounded at a cinderblock structure for team changing rooms in concessions in a trailer for offices it's just of harding places south nashville on land leased from their child for a nominal fee what parker for sees is a ten million dollar facility with an indoor

stadium and about ten outside fields there's such a demand for a middle sized more functional so they in camps for your cooperation as a hundred million dollars a year and cheering fans so while we may not be able to compete on a ticket buy a ticket hot dog my hotdog bassist with the oilers are predators parker believes he can be quite profitable with the right facility where does one get ten million dollars these days approaching the city is unlikely given the fact that it's maxed out its credit and it's unlikely the team can turn to its first major supporter columbia hca once a potential partner for such a deal a federal probe of the company for losing any such talk with company executives turning to much more serious matters desperately seeking a major sponsor for his dream facility parker says time is running out if we don't want to dismiss season without a law and into the city and the position i would think they're doing quantitative you know is this going to be a

reality particularly learned from a professional standpoint have minimum standards that we're prospects on a couple of areas and then i'm partial timeline three years if we were none can shorten the time and i think that's enough time when anything we have to say we were unable to something else you said because they're just not places for teen siblings in the meantime the metro's play their last home game of the regular season tomorrow night they'll be trying to claim a share of first place in their division for nashville public radio and a ha during the last culinary changes for bill weld i started documenting them almost as soon as he moved here in nineteen ninety three he shot struggling musicians turn stars the weird and wonderful characters of art people in london looking for love

the hipsters as well as the hard nosed hired hands no one posed for a shot and he rarely used anything that the available light in the bar so that he could be as unobtrusive as possible i don't really use a stroke or are flashing camera because it meant that goes off a dark bar it's like there's the part of various everybody sit up straight and you look your best route it took more than ten thousand shots in the dark smoky bars to get the ones that best exemplified life of laura broad while he focused his efforts on the back rooms of clubs like the wagon burn wound to the music city lounge to the sort of lounge and robert's western world he also took several shots of the streets saying router says he was drawn to nashville for its creative energy he founded in full swing at robert's western world when a few now well known musicians like lucinda williams and regehr an npr five four night were kind of late night jam session because the photo from nineteen ninety four left bank broadway writers and performers are all get together and

the odd things that happened everybody was a sort of working and playing together was the sos nice full period the last very long maybe from the middle of the summer to the end of the year some places would stay open and let it happen and the robbers western world was one of those i think robert moore should be in the country music hall of fame is done more for music in this town than a lot of people robert's western world started as a western wear shop that still typical items like cowboy days after while the band started playing in the beer started following the business changed as the clientele needed that change just a duty a little street and there was a preconceived like in a lot of places are and income off the drawing board the wagoner land was another club that en route is worth just evolved some photographs of the well known bartender ms pat reveal how hard it can be to make a buck he lived in the back of the bar independent grant in france is actually the only place in history the draft beer she's quite a character that photograph shows a person

who's perhaps thinking about better times framed by straight cut bangs and long black hair less pats faces blank as she leaned on the bar's surrounded by tall stacks a plastic beer cups taps and potato chip bags to particular noticeable pictures line the wall behind her one shows a beautiful young as pat a soldier pose for the other really don't think she knew i made that picture and you could just tell by the expression are facing her audacious assault somewhere else the back of her bar had all these photographs most memorabilia you never knew what she would say you might go in there one that ended in tabasco laundry over and four she ran a prepaid shipping though it didn't look like a lot of times you just didn't go deaf woman spent wanted this photograph of the men's toilet at the wagon barnett shows how confronting this packet be in a nasty know talked about the yarnell she wrote in no uncertain terms that the men had better user restaurant properly people observed come see what it suggests like i was going to kill you if you go to one italian say was a great lead in her characters to diapers and she was curious to know of course ms

pat isn't the only strong woman laura broad there's also mom on that is shia or for our men down there are a number of years to take care of this issue they scare things like they're not very much his party can look at to show those upper spine injuries would say yes whatever you say now to get the shot a man on that one night in nineteen ninety five he's serving beer people collecting money going back and forth movement that would be talking on the camel is not even up to now i was sitting on a bar and i just touched by them and richard's truly an image of saying many times i look at her i interface years you'd bare wears mom month money isn't what it's all about but like the bars a large pot shops have to be concerned with it to stay afloat the large rose record shop as it has been down there for a number of years before the brothers should have and they are you know the player's head and they had gotten word that most unbelievable collection of vinyl records are all over upstairs downstairs has boxes and boxes of

things the store itself is this like wild places on on broadway the discount evolved around a captured the shop owners attempted making a customer still welcome but also letting them know who's rules they're applying the sign taped to register read sorry no personal checks know we do not take any charge cards no the site itself is so far this cash rich which has now been replaced with some sort of computerized thing that at this point in time it was the tight with a handle that you would pull down and hit the numbers and i thought that was kind of a revealing of the whole shop because that was sort of the sound to me the money here's your record and that's it any time a man on a rough times when the ryman left the area between skid row and many people really had to learn to take care of this is that they're going to take care of each other to the rough look so are the toughest was part of that they

need to go through some rough times there's a big heart one of his pictures taken last year the music city lounge shows the harsh times endured by struggling artists it's difficult to tell the person's gender in a shot but it's a close up of a woman's rough skin hands she's cradling a bass guitar and coaxing a lit cigarette a small tattoo just above or thumb and four heavy summer rains decorator masculine hands that are tipped with long dirty fingernails two issues is saying they're waiting still be a cigarette and just look right to me and all the pictures is the eyes and lips in the hands of intro into the piano to get the best the most expressive or the music's at lounges seen plenty of happy times too especially earlier this year when mama john that that marriage them as they embraced in the dark art surrounded by dear science they're in the bar were invited to the wedding and those very nice time people are rolling became prince

and it wasn't so i didn't realize i was gonna happen when you start getting to know these people are there are there they're real sweet are some of the really just fine fine people and we have very easy to trust i don't think it could've been recorded in any other way than the way i did it but as for talk of the show street lighting stage my life in the shadows of music is on display the parthenon museum there september for national public radio i'm adrian outlaw lowers the voting states do what congress does this go on says ecologist dr barlow why is that to me we use no

purpose way down all the narrow way in what's the first thing you think of when you hear tennessee the grand ole opry graceland rolling green hills a rocky top obviously there are millions of images which could come to mind given such a huge subject which makes the efforts of the tennessee historical commission be empty issues center for historic preservation the state of tennessee and roll a chill press ii the more noteworthy they have collaborated on a new book titled the tennessee encyclopedia of history and culture and it's twelve hundred pages of very small type it covers everything from abolition to felix is all

cover dr carroll then west was the editor for this project no small task and he knew from the beginning he wanted lots of collaborators i wanted different voices speaking on different topics with different perspectives because when i pull back and think about tennessee and in a sense that's what i say different people with different perspectives but they all have this law for tennessee history and culture so five hundred and sixty officers wrote the more than fifteen hundred entries in this encyclopedia as for the subjects' well many west had a lot of ideas himself but he was always open to other suggestions from as all first i was talking about are scenic up at the university of tennessee and he said yes i would like to help and walk on some injuries on the topics you should jest but what about art what are you doing with thoughts and we talk about what we were doing well what are you doing with prehistoric cave art and i sort of asked what are you getting at he says oh i've seen some of this and would like to write an introduction to

perfect because again artistic expression we want to cover that across the chronological specter i really enjoyed that entry because like many it was something i knew little about then west also was interested and amused to find out that ed football is in tennessee's only big sports interest and one of the things that i had heard about the really been no word was rowing home or walked up on the cumberland plateau it's a game that develop they are amabile game that actually tennessee is nationally known for those into marbles competitions about this very distinctive gaming in fact bobby fulcher with the department of folklore pointed out to us that what we needed also an entry on marbles competitions goes tennessee how some of the most famous marbles competitions in the country at standing stone state park so we have that as well i mean they say in tennessee maybe they think we lost our marbles but now we actually know where they are and we play very well with them the tennessee encyclopedia of history and culture has been in the making for the last three

years a lot of hard work for a lot of people but van west says everyone brought a great deal of enthusiasm to the project i think everyone realized the need for the project that was one thing interesting in talking to writers and kind of fit into their schedules because some of these people have their own very busy writing schedules but they realized tennessee didn't have a new sort of overview of its history and culture in hand had one since nineteen sixty and there'd been so much new scholarship so much new research so many new primary sources that had been discovered that was necessary not only for their own teaching but for their own research i've had several offers already tell me how useful this book has been this has been exactly the type of reference tool that they wanted i'm very pleased to hear that because of course it was again a collaboration they helped to achieve that as editor of this book than west talked to each of the five hundred sixty offers and he read and edited their entries what he didn't do was actually made all of his contributors but he might get the

opportunity to put faces to voices this evening at six o'clock and the skin booksellers and the general reception for the public and for many of the national dairy arthur's just in the natural area alone with the different universities in the size of the region we had two hundred authors from the nashville area several of those odd that before but several of them i haven't signed hope to meet additional riders tonight because again i've said in other forms and will say probably here i really think the strength of the pod jake is its diversity critically admits chronological range in the different things that our approach but critically in its offers the authors are the strength of this book carol van west editor of the tennessee encyclopedia of history and culture incidentally the state of tennessee has seen to it that a copy of the encyclopedia has been sent to every public school across the state for national public radio i'm rebecca bain and danielle

ms bankhead as bibi fb seventy miles southwest of nashville in the gently rolling hills of louis county is one of the largest and longest lasting communities to grow out of the counterculture movement of the sixties and seventies called the farm they began is the brainchild of stephen gaskin a charismatic instructor at san francisco state university there's

monday night classes and freeform philosophy and religion are drawing hundreds sometimes thousands of students each week gascon established a reputation as someone who could explain to middle america the political and social agenda of the hippie movement so he was invited by the american academy of religion to speak at various sites around the country when he announced his departure to the monday night class several hundred of his followers decided to travel their shared experiences on the ground and then an extraordinarily strong bond as gaston explains we discovered that we didn't want to go back to the soviet union what if your family become interesting community one community and so we say well it to places with a really nice to us and were losing local minnesotan woman was done and a school in northern minnesota which international aid continued to be good or as we arrived in nashville they just finished

the opry when complex that prison priest no one had used it begin to us to live in to refund when two of the group pulled their money and i bought a thousand acres of would send largely undeveloped farmland near summer town tennessee which they had to make a livable we were sure we had a camp the spring when the engine on top of the war of the charles but with charles palmer charles we're sure everything we've been through for something else to farm had to develop was a positive relationship with their summer town neighbors farmers for the most part who initially viewed the newcomers with more than a touch of suspicion remember this was nineteen seventy one and not many rural communities would have welcomed a bunch of the long hair hippies with open arms were some of the first things we do let these folks know as a research and business with and so we just it will nobody would ever been in labor and eventually gave her a role in the room left for when we get that true weaknesses me to the house mic region

actually working at the farm continue to attract people throughout the seventies and by nineteen seventy seven there were eleven hundred farmers there were also fourteen thousand visitors that year because the farm was a collective with all monies going into one pot a lot of people's hard work was going to feed a steady stream of strangers and while the far members all took about poverty many families were living below the poverty line the farm was more than a half million dollars in debt people were leaving and those who were staying thought it was time for change so in the early eighties the farm chemical operative with each member responsible for earning his or her own keep those who couldn't hadley the land to continue to be held collectively the foreign residents had to pay dues each month to retire the debt leadership of the farm changed from stephen gaskin to a board of directors it was a turbulent time but the

farm not only survived it paid off its staggering financial burden robert bates is a longtime resident of the farm and he has witnessed firsthand the many ways in which the community is changed still he thinks much of the original philosophy of its founding remains the desire to put back more than one takes out to be compassionate to be non violent to be a vegetarian to be of good planetary system and he thinks that will sustain them in the future most hippie communes most places that came out of the seventies were figuring out there on the last for ten or twenty years to think beyond that and we from the very beginning and that many generations that wouldn't be here for a long time in atlanta farm today and you see i think for fourth generation children born to the children born to land and they're often assisted by the same in what if you're interested in visiting the farm this weekend is a great time to do so they're eighth annual harvest festival begins tonight and

runs through sunday there's lots of music everything from bluegrass to rock and roll to afro beat and there are numerous workshops on vegetarian cooking and alternative medicine and sustainable eco systems and many many other topics proceeds from the harvest festival go to benefit kids to the country and one of the farms most successful outreach programs for national public radio are dead fb he says the half that number are several pieces of investor machinery which

its flight and sprays of sawdust fall into little piles train as a fine woodworker and sculptor waters owns and not equipment to open a small factory made a drop press a band saw a table saw a couple finally he and dozens of hand tools they promoted to reminisce studio which is a converted garage behind his house in southern part was made quite a variety of objects over the years from three dimensional wooden valentines to shake her stuffed furniture from political commentary to come a call radios his love of the bunk structure has remained a constant not just for what it can hold up for what i can say i see the boxes that i make this precious many of them can use for jewels or can be useful the little pieces that use water says the idea of doing the box itself as a precious object has to do with this woman catholic faith and the user the relic wary he made his most recent set of boxes while he was working at the parthenon museum where they're currently on display i found myself getting developed in the history of the ancient history of

greece and previous civilizations that helped develop what we mammals classical greece then many of the images forms or using work those solutions the end point of that environment is literally carved in his work he carefully chiseled a fake raised circle and each learned of his two new works telamon owen hart box one into political aspects of fun work very satisfied incentives to really gets into the paint as opposed to using big cumbersome machine the rain represents the sacred circle or heart pounded the palaces of the minnow and civilization i cannot sense that we're in it was used as a fire where they would carve directly into a former palaces to build fires to he helps rooms are areas of the palaces he made the boxes out of tennessee red oak an alert that of tennessee beach one box rests on a foundation of three

steps to represent an ancient stone stereo bite the other boxes supported above its base by turned legs and deep walnut to represent the style of aid foundation he's careful to pay attention to the cracked of his medium and doesn't mind it if you read his work is purely decorative in fact he's sometimes pushes that idea by making his boxes to function both as sculpture and as object while the brain pays homage to ancient civilization it also indicates the utilitarian nature of the container which doubles as a jury box waters parthenon humidor works on two levels in the same way the minnow and hearth boxes do the piece works as a real human door with its interior lining spanish cedar and specially fitted cigar cradles it can also function on a purely visual level the base of the greek temple consist of three steps a style played the stereotype why have to catch the building from the store opened stereotypes and have supported the building itself on these four door consulates actually floating it's almost as if and deconstructing to her temple

and recently it in a totally different way that would never been used by fostering philip morris uses to create mr finch and so poised and soon the surface the deep brown color of the one and analyze and straps on the human errors led represent the floor plan of the pear clean parthenon the box itself is supported by for walnut columns that are attached to a light red oak wooden basement people see pieces and local the finest the clique pleasing for different reasons they start seeing the grain pattern that maybe they've never seen before that's what i find successful i don't like the idea that i know that you have to read something to enjoy or my pieces i like it to be they enjoy it for what it

is and if you like it that's great if you don't that's ok you can find more of waters boxes and the west gallery the parthenon were there on display through sunday september thirteen for national public radio i'm adrian outlaw fb on december the ninth nineteen ninety six a petite red haired in a dazzling evening gown which looked as if it had been poured over took the stage at carnegie hall it was an evening those attending say they will never forget is yes bernadette peters the woman who proves the

old adage that life is not they are otherwise all women at age fifty would have the face and the figure of a freeway feel like a bombshell not to mention the voice for this man's eyes peters has been wowing audiences and she was three years old when she appeared on tvs juvenile cheer call it a successful stint on that from television the young girl turned to theater and who knows what direction her career might have taken if she hadn't done a serious dramatic role under the stern i have on oprah major sally though he gets to play that i was then the approach when the plane

carrying the president and lifting the fascinating life and yeah from canon danny and i had gone second sentence became a new image only one thing to do it when out again and then to be mean to me im center o'neill's loss was musical theatre's gain for bernadette peters quickly made a name for herself on broadway in nineteen sixty seven at the age of nineteen she joined a jolt gray and johnny know trump to good reviews then the next year her performance as ruby endangered sea made her a star and the rest as they say is history she's a tony award winner a multiple tony nominee a drama desk award winner and the darling of stephen sondheim jerry herman an andrew lloyd webber shielded in rehearsals and

four revival of irving berlin's annie get your gun set to open on broadway in january and although she prefers new musicals to revivals this show has the elements which attract peters to a park the plane had to have a character to begin with the written for them to feed you back every night something wonderful that you wanna go there it really know the project in just letting them will live in the projects enjoying it continue but he did it in every night and the volatility audience do you have a preference for the kind of care if he plays it easier to play a nice person than an evil person i played you the mother and that would allow the fire longtime i think anybody and i think you know an influence she had her own agenda and it really when you're not the great they have a wave of looking at things that they're

not a nice person at any level of the militias will besides broadway bernadette peters has made several movies she's done made for television productions like the odyssey and cinderella and in the last two years she's given a highly successful series of concerts with so many songs in her repertoire how does she decide what to sing i think set yet here and who well the composer subject intend to take a moment it to cover of the feeling that he will kick back in it's this

week oh really la la kings well bernadette peters concert selections range from the beatles to jd salinger much every performance is devoted to the work of one man stephen sondheim she thinks his body of work is

amazing and it it definitely speaks to her new economic thinking matter he really deeply into it it really kind of a lot of territory and makes you think then complaining hillary if you really wonderful and if you think in a good way and made a clever she is and the heat to get one of them become a great character in even though both as us oh yeah at world leaders will always be addicted to sondheim

and the broadway she's been getting rave reviews for her concert dates that she really enjoyed concerts that much and i love that they're going to remember going to see the sun and songs is wrong is space this is bernadette peters will perform with the national symphony orchestra friday

and saturday nights at eight o'clock and he picks jackson hole it's the first concert in their pop series for national public radio i'm rebecca bain it's a head it didn't take priscilla sanders want to figure out what she wanted to be when she grew up yeah when i was three i told a houseguest that i wonder if you're not a noun and i think it it's and i think i'm doing some more than i'm under some melts she's performing her original one woman show called my name is priscilla i'm just waking up in flowing vignettes it tells of her transition to life in the big apple a transition that

included learning early on but she wasn't meant to be a stand up comic he had six miss performing to bring three people they had to have two drinks and paid admission so they're paying twenty bucks to see you for six minutes innocent through god knows what some great some not so great there other comedians in your same park and after what rizzo it earlier for those and so it released animated burma had friends sort of siena see the tapes and not be so enthusiastic and you know you're really funny when you just tell us what's going on with you or when you tell a story as i know so she started writing her one woman show and quickly discovered that her forays into real employment gave her the most fodder in fact she's lost more than one job after the boss down that she was a comic i was a bartender at this place armstrong song on the tenth avenue and york is the first part in german on the train you nearly tummy allow them and this is

isis is the owner of the place was really really large man he's got before pounds and couldn't move couldn't walk very well wind up stairs on vicky left bruises and drinking it all day long and so i guess one is asking what i did or whatever came up and i was a comedian he got this look on his face iraq and put me in the act or you was like oh well back in believe may have found myself getting here in fear of chefs and finally phased out though he would get paranoid and soon to know and possibly with good reason sanders says she consumes and then in the lakes the people she meets on stage people like her father of one year old angel who's sanders confronts while working as a children's party performer which was basically being a clown posse it minnie mouse and i got to the projects you know cause and it is a word for was the cheapest one in town so that they tend to be you know the poor people that would pay for us what's going on in this one story

and i perform is all about this family is not real happy them their hand the minute i so any sign that i'm a little uncomfortable the payments on me and so it's it turns out to be really i think a fun story of william people really enjoy it that there's that there's something there's some lessons i learned that her in the air i am it took me a year to get the courage to perform in public as i just knew was so hot you know i just knew was the sort of can i talk about racism a momentous as white privileged girl you know middle class i don't want for anything and how dare i talk about black people you know who would give me write an effect is this happened it was a true story and my aim is to be as honest as i can possibly be

in and a say you know i'm i'm not perfect and i mean i'm sure i gather on impression and compelling had some feared on on that wasn't founded anything that could all racism that so our society tells us and he desires that her committee's i think you know i learn something more about what's inside of me and i hope that the people can really sanders first performed her show to packed houses embargo jarvis after hours theater in march she returns to middleton this seat for a performance this saturday it to thirty at the dark horse theater and sunday at seven pm in murfreesboro center for the arts she hopes one day to have her one woman show on the college circuit for nashville public radio it's b fb the tennessee or others have

found a unique way to both ingratiate themselves with the community and at the same time the cheerleaders for their games this summer they held a citywide contest in which people can vote for that they were cheerleading squad more than eighty three public and private middle tennessee high schools protests a painted more than six thousand people voted tessa atkins the community relations court later for the tennessee or others announce the winner during halftime of the denver broncos game as candace and yet as a personalized really carefully restored a venerable salem radio network example the quintessential team has set for their school and community show a different side a cheerleading been with dan's normally get from a professional squad and he wouldn't say we're leaving month in the port be heard on a bill that the calculator ad campaign anyway i'm

being when men armed and that they they're carrying more of a damp pile where the height of your lady named marvin sharing power is new orleans because nfl cheerleaders average less than one hundred dollars per game they rely on appearance fees for extra income most teams have thirty to fifty women on their squads while they must be talented dancers they aren't necessarily athletes in the same way that the girls and boys at the hendersonville high team are what teenager laurie anderson realizes people often stereotyped cheerleaders as just a pretty face she refuses to litigate in the way of what she likes to do yard every athlete because it's a lot of hard work into itself and they'll see those kinds of things just kind have to go in there and you know just go on and just not worry about whether people think you know just this is what we like to do rather than a half i'm not yet known about the

trophy or even our panel it's a writer because let's do it and have fun henderson the cheerleaders average gpa is three point eight they don't just work hard on academics they attend a weekly gymnastics class in addition to the regular practices it's not just that a pretty fixed on the sideline the very talented in dance and cheer chant and in gymnastics west as the cheerleading coach for the past twenty four years with that kind of enthusiasm it's no wonder they placed first international cheerleading competition last year probably chiles have become more talented in areas of gymnastics in the astounding ability we are it could actually years to be competent what they do end up to develop personality that or try use their feelings on the young football field it's going to take a lot of confidence to cheer

in front of a live crowd of almost forty two thousand screaming fans and more than a million television viewers and cyrus taylor get that the forty thousand people live they'll never acting that an hour dinner book phillips is the team's captain justin the traditional sixteen pleaded short chilling scared and sleeveless top for dinner team will be cheering from the sidelines of the game police were that i'm seven seven in each corner so everyone get message from wells analysis and have the seventy years and we're really excited that we have it today why the owners plan to hold tryouts for professional cheerleading team next year there plan for using high school teams is working as a great public relations tool especially in a new market they're selling blocks of tickets to the high school's so the person students can all sit together the games were and west points out that football after all is a big business he's the director of the center for service marketing at vanderbilt owen school of management i mean the high school cheerleader says smart thing because it ties into those local communities one the one every week one of those local communities

don't feel like it's their week at the game and once they go once they're known than that will be something that they always remember so i think that's a that's very smart and makes it harder for those communities feel like they are part of yours the contestant runners up or get the opportunity to cheer it to the seven home games for national public radio i'm at now was now your eyes go to her september twenty seven against jacksonville october eighteenth it is it is the box set includes all existing unavailable recordings two hundred fifty

five in total fifty three previously unissued demos and radio performances going as far back as nineteen thirty nine when he was just seventeen the packaging is impressive with dozens of previously unpublished photos and written lyrics in session worksheets the co producer colin escott says the real treasure is that voice he was so skinny there's a part of the initiation really yet he had this incredibly powerful voice that has him to come out of nowhere people who saw and spoke that you know that they couldn't believe such a voice could have it's just a skinny the disheveled looking guy one september fifteen nineteen twenty three hiram hank williams was a skinny kid from southern alabama for ayotte often sickly williams took to making music not long after his mother gave him a guitar he became a popular regional entertainer though he already had a reputation for his drinking at age twenty three he struck a deal in nashville the music publishing company worlds

over lunch two string of hits thanks producer fred rose was trying to get him out of a really ache of song silent god whom other and get any work rose had an eye for diamonds in the rough until recently to demand for his drum stool in his life and whatever but i never gave up on some songs recorded it was this recording session and of course he worked with him hank was a prolific writer coming off road trips with notebooks full of songs rose would call and have hank polish his picks occasionally hank would demand a particular songs be released fred rose said love sick blues was the story of song never heard and on the flipside he could never again hank swartwood be hit as much as

rose empathize with think there was a level on which he couldn't inherit those as a northerner he was older he was schooled in pop music hank was plugged in to the honky tonks down in selma alabama and and he knew something the rose didn't he knew about those people he knew that that honky tonkin and how mind your own business and about his cohort and he knew what to speak to those people because they were his heroes have a lot of common ground to the times when hank is simply knew something that roasted singing blues was hanks first number one they also argued about my buckets got a hole in it that went to number two khalid and scott calls the demo cut of this

to the box sets greatest find hank was in philadelphia tried a teacher back then than a song of those fashion week he like he liked his ass place in washington a demo so much they took it within an ear to a dj other front page who wrote that is in a writing shreveport and thank god bless him home to have these sees you with an issue forty nine suicides in forty nine years we heard about it in and contacted franken didn't we presented franklin standpoint and contractors that if a patient's wife visited and then frankly ski tourism could shove it was still nice to page from the nineteen forties to our contracts so we had to have an opponent to simplify the thirty five page monster and devo franco as sinful nineteen forties style contract that message and give a cliche and his history when one of the insulin most happy

thank you in some ways it was the most riveting because it was really just just the man and his voice and the very very very very rudimentary guitar playing and just focus has all the attention on the voice the voice was mayor and the songwriting was coming along and scott says lane williams' career he had honed his craft well with stars like elijah though in a demo from nineteen fifty two even harry was having a little difficulty it has unusual for hanks and that it started in a minor key to a major key on the bridge there's usually a major key could do it i think you need to go to a little bit please use our series introduced some of the demos and

rare radio performances on the xbox app like desire to downplay it as god says during the show the essence of the show called the foreman jim from jackson mississippi here's ada to hear hank probably isn't god it is you never hear it just turned up with a station in the morning after a show in jackson mississippi and his chest melissa me felt like singing and from a gym and abandon the studio cause this was the year of live radio hank felt like singing his new song was about yet the band didn't know it yeah yeah dr latif i had a lot of influence that or not or what about that or fall with them for the awful lot more people in the

politically outlet life again can you imagine one of today's conscious of taking a chance could have gone so all we're all but it didn't work then just have an attitude about it by going to do it in damn the torpedoes williams had edited and humility he often surprised his hockey talk audience is what the gospel to one writer called it hanks saturday night rush turning into sunday morning get the news shouldn't be drinking a new vision be fooled around with women in usually playing honky tonks and laws but at the same time he knew that in that that is the only option open to him so i think i think in this in the sermons you sense a little bit of the hope that he felt over over his lifestyle and over over his life as much as this other religion was ingrained in him

so was the constant pain he lived with his father once told reporters that hank was born with them not risen up on his back some speculate that he had spinal bifida whatever it was it haunted him throughout his life calls and take the drugs that image to kill him it gets blighted his life in that and that too was intimate in fusion incontinent patients and it's her it's been the back pain got to the point that his second wife called ungodly married he what you can do is just lay on the floor he wrote about death an awful lot to think that influence that absolutely said negated of that i think is impossible to listen to that and not feel that the tank was known stared down you know our girl news

i'm saying the intros it's day at it hank williams' death at age twenty nine in the back seat of his cadillac on the way to a performance only cemented his legend in six years of recording with two lapses of nineteen months including the one you're recording than hank williams tracked sixty six songs at work here is thirty seven became hits mercury records releases the new box set of his life and music next week for national public radio is a war these bbc

and i'm nervous at the natural man yeah we all know what a multimillion dollar works of art look like de vinci's mona lisa monet's water lilies michelangelo's david but what does a multimillion dollar work of art saint this particular violin was made by antonio stradivarius and seven and it is considered one of the finest instruments ever created it was recently by bill and jennifer frost who are loaning it to the national symphony for an indefinite period of time although

definitely until the orchestra plays its carnegie hall concert in april of two thousand the symphony's concert master mary catherine van arsdale is dulcie musician who gets to play this extraordinary milan to say she's thrilled as an understatement it's like winning the lottery without buying a ticket i dreamed about it but never expected it because these violence we have to understand ninety nine percent of all violinists or any musician we can afford something like this and usually a buyer will want their own personnel fame and also they will lend it to a very famous musician so that their name will be all over the paper in the magazine's indelicate for coverage that the first minute that way they did as totally because they wanted something to be given to our orchestra and our national a month ago the first had five world class violins home to nashville for mary catherine to

play a value weight and ranked according to our preferences that was a lot of pressure to put on the concertmaster before i sought out over all know what if i just cannot decide because it's like just having the finest chocolate in your mouth and you can't decide which pieces better by actually win this violence play i knew immediately it was like the next thing they haven't used to so beautiful not the others were great at this as a distinct quality that usually straps do not have and they are known for their soprano voice gary you can play it really hard it doesn't have a one single and that's very important for strings reeds usually find violence can they can be great they're very expensive but they have a certain that there's not one single know i just knew right away good good

jack my purchasing a stradivarius and loaning it to mary catherine van arsdale dylan jennifer francis not only enhanced the sound and the prestige of the nashville symphony they rescued the violin from years of purgatory it had been stored away by a consortium as an investment no one was plague then sad because the more you play the violin the richer it becomes at the wood needs to vibrate the vibrations of the sound warm the sound out so that you get even more overtones than it would have if it's just sitting in the overtones of course make it sounds so alive this violin that i have has changed tremendously just in two weeks because i'm practicing satanist for one thing and it's gained used to being play them what has been the response from the community to the first purchase of the stradivarius everyone wants to see everyone wants to touch it course they can't touch it but they can at least look at it and say they've seen a strad and they've heard a stradivarius and

they are so excited even people on the street since the newspaper article came out people i don't know if he has a violent balance very well thank you the spirit of every person who's played the violin stays them violent and so we still trying to get everything right nashville get to see the stradivarius in action tonight and tomorrow night when the national symphony orchestra performs the first concert in their classical series mary catherine van arsdale and the stradivarius will solo in the scottish fantasy by mark's work for national public radio aaron a new year a fellow

lulu the set that was six one in the steelers life changed in nineteen ninety two his day started out innocently enough he wanted to drive that the mississippi delta but by the time the sun sets his date taken as many turns that country roads huge as driven it was he was amazing it was for those few times where i really felt transformed areas hardest province of like girls especially major work and when he pulled off the road again to visit a little country town called leland he started an old wooden shotgun shack the show commentary terror great degree perhaps better known as the blues musicians and comics walker of song

paris is holding a cigarette three expansions are watching and his guitar but force isn't always ruled the old and the young when he returned a year later in the senate forced labor because that was in the hospital he told me he'd been having trouble it knows a malignant brain tumor he was some really michigan he day that summer the artist at made steeper realize that the people in the culture which gave rise to the mississippi blues was rapidly changing fortunately he had captured thomas' world when he was still in relatively good health not just the people but the culture's changing so much liane i'd say dying out but changing so much to where almost unrecognizable from what we knew in the past that philip has huge responsibility to get a photograph that truly expressive how i feel about this music and what it

means two cultures steve martin's up with a medium format camera and tape recorder to document the knowledge of musicians like five player out the term turner's taught nearly all the fight the drum players north mississippi and altogether these different evolutionary those african american slaves i doubt that the instrument fittings the way they played them the five inch long tradition comes basically from the scotch irish english tradition of a military marching band music in various account to go way back to the same thing under sixteen hundred but when the fight and i was transferred to african american culture what is normal thought it was a very strict time military in the market reflects a more efficacious know if this

is something all of mississippi and in the south in general because because of this incredible musical tradition that he represents steber is admittedly transfixed by turner so much so that other was taken hundreds of photographs of him he's satisfied with scant year he said it's been hard to photograph him because he doesn't often get the chance to sit down and chat like they did just this past year when i talked about that americans use to listen try this they were afraid there were no laws barring he was a swinging up on this is a wagon wheel is still uses his forces to pull sometimes winning and work to do and it was just it was like i wasn't even there he was leaning up against it and was confirmed by the barn behind him you just hold it as far from is hey i'm just her looking ahead such a such a quiet beauty and dignity two and looking back on a nail is a very powerful very

powerful i think even physically for learning when your man but by his his presence specially is a patriarchal community members is m as priest was pretty amazing as tabor grew more serious about explore the mississippi blues culture he found dozens of little juke joints started after the civil war as a way to make some extra cash at home tonight so one whiskey they say arches and five musicians after while people came from all over to dance and listen to music like that of junior kimbrough you know who said that just may have helped dealers photographs capture the sweaty smoky rhythm of the guitar in juke joints jim joyce said well let's see there's nobody knows and those names obama used a legit press but three miles outside of town in marigold mississippi which is along highway sixty one my outsider's uses really constitute a ramshackle little shaken on the inside i mean he's got a you know a disco ball the center's history we're talking about were posters it's this

incredible space inside there and thurston it's just mayhem tell his son may need to join succeed there is one of the few female musicians in the blaze business she carries authority a revolver and thinks of herself as a gangster she's no longer able to perform after her debilitating stroke but his stable attest she still packs a half as you know over the years we've seen a one day after they finished running errands he very gingerly asked her to pose with her going that she keeps in a dresser drawer why doesn't expect just one photograph to do or justice he thinks they shot captures your feisty side it's a close up of just in a holding her gun she's sitting down and wearing a man's wrist watch an old wrinkled cut and how stressed that buttons up the front left hand is on her lap and the sunlight supper other hand holding the gun in addition to the rich delta musical i still kept at the midst of the land and its people were shot at a mass baptismal a girl holding a dead bird a

man holding a skeleton mojo charm and three people who in nineteen ninety eight still this is a very personal statement i have child to the feelings that i have for the music and the ultimate goal is is to show the essence of the music in the essence of the culture you're someone in tripoli where you can hear more about steve his experiences and talkies given this wednesday afternoon at all just a community college in conjunction with this but not for more information on six point five four five to my major in a day event dead after waiting through

thousands of pages of documents released on the internet last week and you know more than four hours of president clinton's videotaped testimony regarding the lewinsky affair many just don't wanna hear about president clinton's life anymore but his presidential scholar or hargrove points out now that the information is out there for everyone to see we must pay attention to it well i think a larger to be satisfied that this issue has been confronted and they put behind us now likely will won't like that because one of the messages go take forever and less power than a shrew a process like this it takes a lot a lot like it to say this is get rid of that one where another you know what i think is important bills are after nearly seven months of denying he had a relationship with a former white house intern plans on his seventeenth grand jury testimony walked his first eight minutes of an inappropriate relationship with lewinsky while just about every nationally as disgusted with one aspect or another over the whole fair opinions range as to how the country should deal with that right now the national

minimum wage to seven every single thing draw meldrum edition cherie stanley things when she paper is part of the i now know more about his sexual life than i ever wanted to know about one dead says is they are a business that this has caused a lot of money and so now he should be maybe he wants for that amount but this man my name is david wilhelm of nastiness and i think there would just be it was wrong morally wrong but i think the country's trying to hold him to a standard that the country was not enough to save my name is sean mcdonald international have really should be gone at any

integrity do what nixon did resign but i don't think he does and so i think they'll stick it out through in the presidency even more hargrove reminds us to cleanse behavior was shocking to read about is not all that unusual the difference is that he got caught and now the whole world knows russell had an affair with a young lady lucy mercer but stayed in his marriage solely in these stories that you try to break down they know thomas jefferson's mistress negro slave insult there's there's not a lot of evidence for the people making allegations in the process of saying may well that's so what's the hell with that what i think is different is different in the sense that he's been caught many years but the question still remains is he guilty of perjury and is a worthy of a formal impeachment inquiry again opinions vary regardless of america's disgust with the entire affair hargrove insists that paying attention to it is necessary the release of such before now confidential information to the mass public is historic and the way the country deals with that will set the record for the future it all

has to be brought out and we have to bring this thing to closure through through discussion process immediately resign now they always be those tarzan charges he was forced out of office by republicans so he should not resign now if there were a democratic congress and these things came up oh would they put it under the rug or are not proceed with impeachment that also would probably not fared very well with all the things were ashamed of we don't tell people about women dressed for forgiveness we may just make it impossible for people to serve and journalists will say oh where over again you must tell me this because the public has a right to know that that's i think something of a cop out the public business earlier it to know about everything and made it one know some of these things so we may have entailed ourselves alone on something that we don't know and the upcoming weeks the house judiciary committee must decide what to do with the additional evidence from

independent counsel kenneth starr whether to begin a formal impeachment anchoring and what to do with this sixteen boxes that have yet to be publicly released a major an outlaw for national public radio it's b tonight tammy why ned considered by many the first lady of country music but wendell the country music entrepreneur extraordinaire and george morgan whose candy kisses country classic was a huge hit all become members of the country music hall of fame they will be joined by this man he's been that's rock

n roll elvis presley who joined the other landmark figures of country music who make puppets khaled fahmy and well he issued well he's spent much of his career rocky he got his start as a country performer and most of his early exposure was on country stations bill monroe himself was so taken with elvis's up tempo version of blue moon of kentucky that he cut the song again at the same fast tempo and sends hank williams jimmy rogers johnny cash and bill monroe are all members of the rock n roll hall of fame as well as the country's power elvis with his ranking as one of the top forty country artist of all time deserves to honor her grown like is the author of the definitive biography of elvis's early years titled last train to memphis his depiction of the dirt poor boy from tupelo with his pompadour hair and his outlandish clothes gives a great deal of insight into the

man who would be king it's so clear that alice invasion something from self that he dreamed of music but more than that that he had ambition that he had a conscience sense it was going somewhere and the sake of the kids from the background is that simply that back when he was different in so many ways in ways i think that he couldn't admit to the other children with whom you grew up and ultimately that he couldn't add to the people who surrounded him because it was a vulnerability and there was an openness in those a sensitive ad which i think he saw as almost a shameful secret but it all that came up that means people signed his award summits it's a legend it was the movie uses her that but if you listen to the first record he made from self my happiness which he paid four dollars for that and the other side when he walked into the sun studio as an eighteen year old you can hear the same thing in that first acetate to the

studio i had been a civilian the signs the sins of the very and i mean there's something the cubs there's a quality that communicates this assumption itself was set up as the figure looms larger than the music itself when elvis made his first records he was an instantaneous hep a few people saw but the wreckage we're not sold simply that people assign people owls work permits to people in east texas or west texas who bought the records and then what while those appearances heard the voice first and then sell it at and both of them excited and honestly that was the voice of controversy as it is although the news is never as elvis himself joked at a press conference before he left for his journey he says

her eyes elvis aaron presley who tonight along with tammy wynette but wendell and george morgan will be inducted into the country music hall of fame the award ceremony will be broadcast on tv channel four for national public radio i'm robert siegel need me hers is the quintessential american success

story her father abandoned the family when she was a baby her mom worked long hours as a clerk typist to keep the three kids clothes been fed mom also was determined that the mean streets of washington dc would not claim her kids so every night was a mandatory family project book reports on monday night cleaning house on tuesday night wednesday night was church night and that man here's and music is where denise graves has made her spectacular mark on the world the entire opera community has declared her the standard by which all other comments will be judged and she's close to attaining that same status with her depiction he's cool one girl raised in a

fundamentalist church well her talents as a singer game during the season duke ellington school of the performing arts eventually that led her opera we need oh really seeing an opera was just the first step toward her professional career as a celebrated mezzo soprano listening to operate again and again and peter given me a recording of non become a record oh my god we need to meet lee over and

over and over after high school denise graves study did both oberlin conservatory and the new england conservatory of music she cleaned dorms wash dishes and made tacos to support herself and eventually she won a chance to audition for the metropolitan opera's young artist programme but without warning her voice failed her and demoralize she quit singing four year working instead as a secretary she saw all of them doctors before someone recognized her problem as a tradable thyroid condition i'll tell you you know are you in i mean actually all the great great great thing the pop people as well the country people and

all the trainers you know i walk in the door i knew i would forget it and again her voice restored denise graves got a phone call which put her singing career back on track she was asked to sing with the houston opera company and that brought her to the attention of placido domingo and became her champion and her mentor she began singing all over the world to great acclaim but of course it's every opera singers dream to perform at the metropolitan opera in new york and a nice graze got her chance in nineteen ninety five singing the title role fran do with a strip from washington there were two hundred and fifty people full of my friend you will fit in with that experience and so were the comments of the critics denise graves had our arrived and the world was her oyster she has some now at every major opera house in the world and everybody thinks she will be one of the superstars of the twenty first century

so what makes denise graves so special well heard a knockout looks don't hurt nor does her extraordinary stage presence but she also puts everything she has gone through and her voice and secondly denise graves of be performing as part of vanderbilt's great performances series the saturday evening at eight and langford auditorium the recital is co sponsored by national opera ticketmaster has tickets for national public radio i'm rebecca bain it doesn't take a visitor long in the country music

hall of fame to realize things are cramped richard manning traveled to nashville from across the atlantic took one look around and immediately concluded what museum officials i've known for years or it all cause the national trauma still a lot of players most country music all things collection at five percent it isn't on display it's housed in every nook and cranny downstairs in the research centre john knowles directs the museum's education department uses to tell the story of the industry they've collected more than two hundred thousand items about the music and about the business of making the music with our ability to collect it and then create things around we've just outgrown the space i think every staff member here has a box of something underfoot some interview tapes of photos that we still need to review an upgrade in the collection treasures know says establishing the hall of fame at the gateway to music row was a visionary move in nineteen sixty seven it made sense to build a barn like

structure where the history was being written every day but now noe says music row he's changed music row and if there's a neighborhood where some businesses begin to really and now it's more like almost like an officer an industrial park where the music is manufactured marketed and so in some ways it by republican here is awkward now compared to where it was the boss is no need for a faith with much fanfare at a lavish event at the grand ole opry in april honorary chairman gerritsen keillor launched a fifteen million dollar fund raising campaign for a new thirty seven million dollar hall of fame downtown even with a million dollars already raised social

questioning the most what about the congestion downtown in the future the twersky shops leading up to music row in march before his confirmation is chairman of the national endowment for the arts and bill ivey director the country music foundation which runs the hall of fame he's since the community still needed convincing jamie is going to be a marvelous community asset much more important than probably naturally in snow at this point maybe once this deal starts to come up and the city starts to get a feeling for the scope of what war taking on citizens will begin to sense that this is really going to be an important center pays for community life in downtown nashville it didn't take this deal going up rather it was a summer of dismal tourist numbers folks switch from asking why me downtown to win with a new hall of fame opened with audrey when theme park close to resume dropped approximately fifteen percent in terms of bodies which spirit and rex nashville's convention and visitors bureau says that decline in the six figure range

bigger the museum currently attracts three hundred thousand visitors a year it estimates visitation will increase to five hundred thousand downtown and at least locally this is as besieged by request from the oilers predators nashville is in dozens of other capital campaigns might not been overly eager to underwrite the hall of fame but given the summer's numbers it's a more attractive proposition kyle young now directs the country music foundation positioning has changed but yeah i mean i think it has so maybe help to subvert young is almost giddy he's just learned about half million dollar pledge and that coupled with the soon to be announced million dollar pledge will push their total to ten million raised two thirds of the goal the majority of his money has come from the music industry as a feasibility study said it should but now the foundation is turning its tied to businesses local regional and national and after the summer they might find doors here opening a little wider

we have a lot of power lance within a country music hall of fame and the designs for the exhibits are complete only the audio visual portions need to be produced it will take two years to build and install the city block size facility and mondrian which is across from the arena parking lot it is to open sometime in the year two thousand for national public radio i mean about fb dr no more than ten minutes in any direction in nashville and you'll most likely see a street lined with letter what's been a crime to letter in tennessee for the past several years a new father became effective on july

first mandates a two hundred dollars fine and at least fourteen hours of community service for the first conviction and also offers a hundred dollar reward to the person whose evidence leads to the conviction was given people an incentive to be better letter watchdogs to collect the reward they must appear before the district attorney with detailed information about the lettering incident the da ms then determine if there's sufficient evidence to convict the accused person before issuing a warrant and a license plate number is not enough evidence for that the person may have to identify the letter n kort me with the da before the trial and appear at each court date ready to testify in open court about the crime the court only awards the hundred dollars upon conviction and painted over two hundred dollar fine state senator tommy berkes sponsored the bill because he says he got tired of seeing tennessee roads turned into trash dumps hughley of an amish you don't know that they're frozen up like that forget gas a letter week we live and smut that we don't leave vacant by about

anymore nashville's most active litter watchdog deborah brownlow takes trash very seriously but doesn't think the law is going to help matters there's no way that they can take the time to do this and that accord for three or four hours and the lucky that has carried through and then maybe the present as the funny fellow instead chooses to use davidson counties metro beautifully patient letter writing campaign to report letters it's an alternative for people who want to turn in a letter without having to go through the lengthy court procedure when fellow spot someone throwing trash out their window she records the license plate number and a place and time of the crime and send the information to the metal beat a vacation office on a prepaid postcard people are i don't want to be in your car with you behind me because they also realize somebody is watching the office then sends a letter a letter and a trash bag to let them know that people are watching director of the division and chapman has a special number dedicated to calling in letters information

age six to eighty four hundred and head on somebody coming get one day this week and i think they have to worry within a period of about fifteen minutes while the program makes it easy to report letters it's been around for more than a decade and the amount of letter has just kept rising the new law is effective and that it has brought media attention to the problem with new public service campaigns such as the re introduction of the crying indian you've seen them on tv is the saddest comeback of all the crying indian stop the team's stop or whether he tennessee beautiful edith heller state court made it with a clean tennessee program defines letter as man made man used misplaced solid waste it can be as small as a piece of gum or cigarette by and as big as a junk car last year at the tennessee department of transportation picked up more than fifty six thousand tons of it that's more than double what tennessee and throughout the car windows the year before according to heller's office the worst letter offenders are white man between the ages of sixteen and thirty four misplaced trash cost

taxpayers money when it locks up storm drainage systems and also cost the state money the tracks terrorism or business development in addition to reporting letters well i was part of a team of volunteers that show corporations what nashville has to offer we had about thirty five except from firm years corporations across the united states and from overseas in the interstate ramp was littered with trash and i was so embarrassed frustrated and thinking here are these executives going to hear another city littler law is working and that the state liquor patrol division now tracks the number of citations that issue one hundred seventy six during july and august alone senator birch want convictions though and hopes that with a new trend of using cellular phones or video cameras to report crimes that is law may work to get people to put their trash where it belongs you know so

far there've been no convictions but as burke points out the law has only been in effect for three months while davidson county is one of the few which uses the litter grand fines for letter writing campaign every county in tennessee has a litter grant program with funding for similar letter education program content to local shares division for more information about how to set up one in your county for national public radio i'm adrian our law it's been is fb