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Opinions And Musings By Gregory Humphrey

New Doty Land Podcast: Christmastime In Hancock During Depression Years 1929-1932

A fire that destroys a large portion of Hancock’s Main Street, the career of Stanley Hamilton, the 33-year tailoring job of Gus Lowandowski who builds a house on S. Lake Street, the tragic death of Frank Sigourney, what is playing at the Hancock Theatre, a Booth family wedding, the trial of Elmer Huckins, local sports scores, how a boy in 1929 wants snow for Christmas, along with the comings and goings of village residents makes for a fast paced episode of Doty Land.  The Depression years at Christmastime in Hancock will take listeners back to shopping for gifts with local merchants as former radio broadcaster Gregory Humphrey paints a picture with words. A 38-minute podcast makes it feel as if the latest edition of the Hancock News has been published.

The Great Migration: Alabama Lynching To Electing A Black President – Doty Land

Send a textEloquently spoken Sabrina Harris shares stories from a lynching in Alabama that forces her family to become part of the Great Migration. In this movement, approximately six million African Americans moved from the rural Southern United States to the urban North, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970.  This story strongly echoes the ones from “The Warmth of Other Suns”, the historical study by Isabel Wilkerson. With insight into how some Blacks, at times, feared the means to achieve Civil Rights, Haris speaks of her desire for change as a teenager, and her recollections about the night Barack Obama was elected President of the United States. She speaks about hope for our nation’s future. If there is only one podcast episode you listen to this year, the conversation with Sabrina Harris is the one to hear and learn from.  
  1. The Great Migration: Alabama Lynching To Electing A Black President
  2. Christmastime In Hancock: Depression Years 1929-1932
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Book author, “Walking Up The Ramp”, Podcaster “Doty Land”, Political Blogger “Caffeinated Politics”, Historian, Fmr radio broadcaster, Fmr Admin. Asst. WI State Assembly, Gay American.

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