Sorry I could not resist the title and today we are joined by Ron Daise. A Gullah Historian to talk about the Gullah Language, Culture and Heritage. I really had a good time with Mr. Ron and I know you will to. We talk about a wide range of topics including the Slave Trade to Traditions to Wives Tales and so much more. We could not possibly cover all that we wanted in the one hour that we had, though we did try. For that reason I have provided you with some links to discover more.
Biography for Ron
N.P.S. site for the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor
Brookgreen Gardens
If you missed our Wednesday show of In the Dirt with American Digger the title was Finding the Cache. We explored the finds that made the day and in some cases the news. You can find the show on Our History Project website.
Don’t forget every Monday Night at 10PM est. you can now call in and talk to Me, Butch and Ian about hunting, history, preserving or anything you would like, its open topic. (678-369-7943) or Skype to wesley.c.anderson.
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Posted in Uncategorized, History, Our History Project, ourhistoryproject.com, Craig Anderson, Cassie Barrow, History Podcast, Canonball House, Fayetteville GA, Gary Williams, Georgia, Hanover Brass Foundry, Macon, Travel on Oct 10th, 2009 No Comments »
An Invitation For You
Welcome to Our History ProjectI want to invite you to the Canonball House Museum in Macon, GA. It is a stop along the trail that you will not forget because it has something for everyone. From the little kids to the big kids they have a piece of history and a love of sharing that will not only embrace you but also immerse you in history. The unique experience in talking to Dorene Buchanan is that she could talk as much about the rest of Historical Macon as she did about the Canonball House, and they want you to explore it all.
The Canonball House is right off I-75 and I-16 in Macon, GA, so the next time you are driving through pull off, stretch your legs and explore some History with them. If your local, what better way to spend the day. They would love to have ya.
Let us know
If you would like your Museum or Historic Site featured let us know. We love doing these and we learn so much about our communities around the country. We do have a growing list now that we are working through by request so get yours in now.
Live Call In Show and Chat
Starting on Monday, October 19 at 10PM we will be hosting a live call in show. This is a new technology that was been provided by 1000Mikes and it will bring another element to Our History Project and we want you to be a part of it. From a landline you can call 678-369-7943 or anywhere in the world by Skype to wesly.c.anderson. We will also be in the chat room at The World Detector Community its free and a lot of fun.
This is brand new for Butch and I so we will be flying by the seat of our pants. We’ll get through it and is guaranteed to be a lot of fun.
New Items In
A very big thank you goes out to Gary Williams and The Hanover Brass Foundry for donating a collection of Reproduction Civil War Belt Buckles. They are the beautiful and I will have them up on the website next week. Christmas is coming so get yours while they last. Best quality anywhere, and through us it is tax deductable too.
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Posted in History, History Project, ourhistoryproject.com, Cassie Barrow, Craig Anderson, Our History Project, Dale Dye, Captain Dale Dye, Capt. Dale Dye, History Podcast, OHP Radio on Sep 26th, 2009 No Comments »
We are joined by Captain Dale Dye (USMC Ret.). If you do not recognize the name I’m sure you will know the movies – Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, Band of Brothers are just to name a few. Dale Dye is an actor, director, advisor and so much more. We credit him with bringing the real story to Hollywood and putting the realism into the movies we see. Capt. Dye is the real deal – 3 Purple Hearts, Bronze Star and several other medals of distinction. If anyone knows what it should be, he is one that can tell you from firsthand experience.
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This week Our History Project pays tribute to all of the fallen Patriots, Soldiers and Private Citizens of our great country who gave their life for our country and for us. Join us this week as we remember our history through a collection of short stories that covers our history from the Revolutionary War to the Current Middle Eastern Conflict.
This second segment (hour 2) covers Korea to the current War on Terror and also includes the American Digger segment of our show.
Each story is from 3 to 10 minutes long and covers a War Story and a Home Front Story from each, so it will be easy to come back to time and time again.
Can’t sit at a computer that long to listen? Burn a disk and take us on a drive to work, school or vacation. We have made the shows so that they can be downloaded and burned, in most cases to 1 CD. Better yet put it on an I-Pod or MP3 player and take us on a jog or out in the yard to cut grass.
In simple terms, Yes! We travel !!!!
Have a great Week,
Craig
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Posted in Uncategorized, History, History Project, Our History Project, Cassie Barrow, American Digger, Aaron Cadieux, American Digger Magazine, Butch Holcombe, Craig Anderson, DVD, Film, Movie, The First Patriot, ourhistoryproject.com, King Philips War on May 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
This week we hear part 2 of King Philip’s War with guest and Film Maker Aaron Cadieux whose is working on the Documentary “The First Patriots”. Try as we may it is going to go 1 more week and finish with part 3. We will try not to do many of these continuations often, however since more than 95% of Americans know anything of this war we thought it was important to share this story.
A couple of things to note: King Philip was not English nor was he French, he in fact was the chief of the Wampanoag Indians and this war was also referred to as Metacom’s War or Metacom’s Rebellion. In this episode the war begins the atrocities begin as well, so parents you may want to listen first.
This has been a fascinating series and we thank Aaron Cadieux for giving his time and knowledge to us and sharing this piece of history.
On the lighter side Butch Holcombe with American Digger Magazine stopped by for some fun and a couple of stories and Cassie had some news about some legislation being passed and a first ever for our country.
Oh, get those Titles for our segment with American Digger in. Next week we will decide on a name for it. Keep in mind we are wanting a name for the segment only, the Show already has a name “Our History Project.” If your name for the segment is chosen you will get a 1 year subscription to American Digger. Good Luck!
-Craig
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Posted in History, Our History Project, Atlanta, Craig Anderson, Cassie Barrow, Sports, Baseball, Tim Darnell, American Digger, Butch Holcombe on Apr 17th, 2009 No Comments »
First don’t forget to go to our Forum http://ourhistoryproject.lefora.com/forum/ sign up and show us what you have found, tell us what your researching or just reading.
Now!
Spring is here! The flowers the showers, the grass, everything is waking up and starting to green. Songs such as “Me and You and a Dog Named Boo” and “Put me in Coach” bring about an almost festive time or feeling in us of an age to remember. With these memories of Spring that comes flooding back during this time of year comes the “Excitement” that the diamond is open and the bases are lined.
Its Baseball again, Folks!
What better way to start the season than remembering a little of the past. Our guest this week is Tim Darnell. Tim is the author of “The Crackers, Early Days of Atlanta Baseball.” Tim not only tells us stories of the second most winning-est team in all of professional sports, but gives us an insight to the early days of the game including Professional, Minor League and Negro League Ball.
A link to Amazon and Tim Darnell’s book “The Crackers, Early Days of Atlanta Baseball” can be found here.
This is a show you do not want to miss!
Relics, Detecting, Preserving and Enjoying History
We were also treated to an appearance by Butch Holcombe of “American Digger Magazine”. Not only did American Digger become a Sponsor for the show, supporting our vision of preserving the past but Butch has agreed to join us again for a weekly spot to highlight stories of History and those that relate to Metal Detecting and Relic Hunting, what is being found around the country and how you can catch the bug.
The great thing about Butch and American Digger Magazine is that they are true friends to our history’s past and are very much proponents of Preservation and Education. Their main site can be found at http://www.americandigger.com/ and for being a sponsor they also have a logo placement on each of our pages at http://www.ourhistoryproject.com so you can find them anytime. Their Our History Project can be found at http://ourhistoryproject.com/AmericanDiggerMagazine.html.
We can be found on all podcasting sites including, i-tunes, zune and twitter.
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Each year all over the country vacationer’s and history buffs travel the United States. In many of these towns, cities and parishes lies a historical home that prompts visitors to come in, look around and see what life was like in the olden days. Behind the doors of these places we are allowed to go back in time and take a glimpse of who the people were, learn about the families and see what is was like not to have a TV or a computer.
This week we focus on the historical part of travel and invite you to come along with us. We traveled to Historic Washington, Georgia in Wilkes County to tour a very grand old home/museum and see a great collection of artifacts from a day gone by, among them there are 21 hand painted movie posters that were on display at the famous Lowes Grand Theater.
We had a great tour and learned a lot from the first county in Georgia, but we invite you to explore all of our small communities though out the U.S., the stories there are real and the artifacts are real. What better way to learn our heritage than to hold a little of the past in your hands?
To learn more about the Washington-Wilkes Historical Foundation please visit them at :
http://www.historyofwilkes.org or http://www.washingtonwilkes.org
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This week show focuses on the Korean War and namely Charles Barrow a Navy Medic. The Korean War is also referred as the lost war and it is sad that it is not focused on, hardly at all in our own history. There are a number of sites on the web that tells the story and I have given a few quality sites here that you can visit.
Korean War Project: a little hard to navigate but packed with information of all kinds - http://www.koreanwar.org/index.html
PBS Kids Synopsis of the war with maps - http://www.koreanwar.org/index.html
KoreanWar.com – A lot of great Links and some in depth articles and categories -http://www.koreanwar.com/index.html
The 1950’s in America was a turning point for us where we went from a black and white world to one that was filtered with shades of grey. TV was hitting it’s hay day and reports started to filter in on the world scene, not always pleasant. We went from the Andy Taylors, Honeymooners and edited news reels of the war to a reality of having the war brought home to us nightly. It was nothing comaired to what we have today, but for that time it was remarkable.
Men and women who had suffered through the Second Great War was focusing on families, business and retirement. I was not around then so these are speculations at best, but some I have talked to relate not watching the news because of the images and casualty totals.
It kind of makes you think of – What if CNN was around during any other conflict? The War Between the States where the casualty rate was to a staggering number that in equaled most all other wars together since the beginning of our country. Would the people allow this if it was seen and reported on every night? What about D-Day alone?
This war was in the mist of the Cold War where just the utterance of the word communist would put you at risk. It was the first war that did not have a figure head in person but rather an ideal.
Please go to the forums and let us know your thoughts: http://ourhistoryproject.lefora.com/forum/
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Posted in History, History Project, Our History Project, ourhistoryproject.com, Atlanta, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center, Craig Anderson, Cassie Barrow, Archeology Report on Mar 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Hello and welcome to Our History Project where history comes to life and history becomes his story.
In this segment we will focus on U.S. archeology in the news. We are digging up, if you will, the news on what is happening around the country.
This will be a feature segment of our show and we will be hosting these points either by its own stand alone broadcast or contained within the Our History Project regularly scheduled show. Either way we will scan the country at least twice a month to give you a report from local newspapers of what is going on.
In saying that, if you have a story on archeology, in any part of the U.S. send it in. That will make sure we know about it and pass it on to our listeners.
Don’t forget the first Our History project will be released on March 28th. We will be interviewing Sue VerHoef of the Kenan Research Library at the Atlanta History Center. We will be talking to Sue and discover what the Kenan Research Library has to offer, not only to the city of Atlanta but also for the rest of the country.
Let me take this opportunity to thank you for tuning in. I hope you will find this show is not only educational but also entertaining and interactive. That’s right, we do want you to get involved we have our forum set and it is ready for you to come on in and join us for some historical conversation.
You say, “You’re not a history buff?” That’s ok too. Drop in and let us know what you think. I think I can speak for all historians and researchers on this one. We love teaching and sharing. That my friend is what history is all about, passing it along.
Our History Projects’ website is up and running and we want you there. Go to www.ourhistoryproject.com now, become a member and help us support our vision and preserve our history. It most definitely tax deductable and it will go to a great cause. Tell your friends and family as well, we have a spot for everyone.
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