The Heat Left Us Cold - Movie Review

We flew to Benzie County to see a movie. You can read our review in the local rag:

http://elberta-alert.org/2013/07/29/the-heat-left-us-cold/

Manistee Power Outage

"The Cooling Center located at Little River Casino and Resort, at 2700 Orchard Highway in Manistee, has NOW become [an] OVERNIGHT shelter where those in need of relief from the heat can stay overnight." -Kevin Bavers of the American Red Cross, Northwest Michigan

The Manistee News Advocate reports that repair work on a faulty transformer may take longer than expected, with power restoration estimated at 11pm tonight.

Final Performances of Peter Pan

Did you miss the broadcast of our Peter Pan stories? Hear Parts 1, 2 & 3 here: https://soundcloud.com/user698900797/sets/behind-the-scenes-of-peter-pan

Three performances left (tonight, Saturday and Sunday) - for more information, visit http://manisteecivicplayers.org/

Fourth of July Radio Schedule

Children of the Enlightenment: The Ideological Origins of Black Agency and Activism

Includes a dramatic reading of an excerpt from Frederick Douglass' speech "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by actor Roger Guenveur Smith. 

Complete Smithsonian program video is here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-igWvjLEYE

Text of Frederick Douglass speech here:  http://edsitement.neh.gov/launchpad-frederick-douglass-what-slave-fourth-july

Repeat schedule late tonight:
Midnight-2am - Stan Freberg's "United States of America"

2am - Gettysburg: a Comedy

Poetry of Samiya Bashir here:  http://samiyabashir.com/