In this month's Voices from the Archive, the stories are in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Listen to stories about how his assassination affected people's lives. Guerry McConnell has lived all over the South, and seeing the TV bulletin announcement as a kid had a profound impact on her. Keith Bridwell has lived in Jonesborough, TN all his life, and he tells about his meaningful friendship with Ernest McKinney, who was the first African American Alderman in Jonesborough, Tennessee. Voices from the Archive is a monthly segment of StoryTown Radio. It shares stories from people living here, just how they told them. You might think of it as a news report that tells you about all sorts of things. From ghost stories to apple butter, you could learn just about anything from the people living here in East Tennessee. Listen in as they tell the stories of their lives here in Appalachia. StoryTown Radio is a production of the McKinney Center's Story Initiative. Grounded in the belief that stories connect people to each other, the Story Initiative sets out to collect, archive, and share the stories from the region. Broadcast from Jonesborough, Tennessee, the Storytelling Capital of the World, StoryTown Radio is one way these stories are shared with people, nearby and all around.
In this month's Voices from the Archive, the stories are in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Listen to stories about how his assassination affected people's lives. Guerry McConnell has lived all over the South, and seeing the TV bulletin announcement as a kid had a profound impact on her. Keith Bridwell has lived in Jonesborough, TN all his life, and he tells about his meaningful friendship with Ernest McKinney, who was the first African American Alderman in Jonesborough, Tennessee.
Voices from the Archive is a monthly segment of StoryTown Radio. It shares stories from people living here, just how they told them. You might think of it as a news report that tells you about all sorts of things. From ghost stories to apple butter, you could learn just about anything from the people living here in East Tennessee. Listen in as they tell the stories of their lives here in Appalachia.
StoryTown Radio is a production of the McKinney Center's Story Initiative. Grounded in the belief that stories connect people to each other, the Story Initiative sets out to collect, archive, and share the stories from the region. Broadcast from Jonesborough, Tennessee, the Storytelling Capital of the World, StoryTown Radio is one way these stories are shared with people, nearby and all around.
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Facebook: StoryTown Radio Show
Storytellers: Guerry McConnell and Keith Bridwell
Story Collectors: Jules Corriere and Nancy Kavanaugh
Editors: Isaac Wood, Skye McFarland, Anne G'Fellers-Mason
Narrator: Isaac Wood
Music by audionautix.com
Titles: Rocky Top (trad.), Autumn Sunset, Thingamajig
Sponsors:
Tennessee Arts Commission (https://tnartscommission.org/)
Town of Jonesborough (https://www.jonesboroughtn.org/)
Gary and Sandy Degner
First Horizon Bank
The Wild Women of Jonesborough
McKinney Center (mckinneycenter.com)
The Story Initiative