Lee Habeeb, the founder and host of Our American Stories has been doing weekly interviews with a couple of the WHO-Radio talk show hosts. Yesterday Lee chatted with Simon Conway, London-born talk show host, about Stephen Ambrose’s recordings being part of these great stories and also the origin of basketball. Lee introduces each story and does a wrap-up at the end. During those you can learn all sorts of things, such as Lee Habeeb likes to iron. He said he’ll iron anything! Does anyone iron anymore?
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I still haven’t figured out how my octogenarianism and raspy voice are valuable to them, but Lee did mention that I have an appreciation for the vision of Our American Stories. Yes! Positive American stories for Americans!
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He even called me the poet laureate of Des Moines! Well, maybe of Dexter (my hometown, population 640).
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Here is today’s interview, which begins about 3 1/2 min. in, after ads.
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I’m amazed and humbled at all of this.
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My most recent story on OAS was aired this week, and it’s not part of The Immigrant and the Outlaw, but is is told more thoroughly in What Leora Never Knew: A Granddaughter’s Quest for Answers.
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WW II Airman’s Body Moved Three Times. Montie Montgomery produced this one, as well as most of the rest of the ones I’ve recorded.
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Their stories are also available anywhere you listen to podcasts. Here’s iHeart.