I personally have been waiting on this interview for a long time. I was great to sit down with Noonie and talk about Maggie (Martha Raye) and cover her life of service. She was a true inspiration to those who new her and we are glad to be able to highlight not only her career but her selfless service as well. Noonie has a wealth of information on her sites so please check them out www.nooniefortin.com
We did this interview while we had a lot of thunder storms going on from my end during our time together and you can hear it on the audio, we did not hear it at the time but it showed itself during the play back. I limited my side through editing as much as possible so I hope it is not too invasive.
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
In The Dirt Live!
This week was a great one, a tiring one. It was one where everything did not work out as planned on Saturday because for whatever reason the first part of the morning did not record. We missed a great in the dirt segment and some interviews with Mark Hudson, Arthur Cook and Bill Yarborough. The good part is that Butch and was joined by Cassie and we did another one on Sunday, which is what you will here today and I know all of the above mentioned to get their stories again.
It was a great show and I really had a blast. Thanks to all that came out especially Mark and his crew from Southeast Treasure Hunters that came from Alabama. It was a pleasure to meet everyone and we hope to do it again soon.
A special for today – After the “In the Dirt Segment” of Our History Project be sure to listen to the long awaited interview that Butch and I had with the Legendary Jimmy Sierra as we discuss the Whites Brand line of Detectors. For those of you that are looking to upgrade or just get it the hobby of metal detecting, Jimmy does a great job breaking down the product line on which one is best for you. We also talked about the history of Whites Electronics and what the future may hold.
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Friday, August 7, 2009
OHP Radio - Colin Woodard - The Republic of Pirates
This week we are please to introduce you to Colin Woodard. Colin is here to talk about his book “The Republic of Pirates. There are a ton of facts that I bet you did not know on this subject, I didn’t. It is a great show that goes back in time to a swashbuckling high seas adventure. Join us as we explore not only the Pirate culture itself, but those legendary characters that made our visions of pirates today what it is. You will also be surprised at how short of time the golden age of the pirates was that still gives us this vision even today. For a full Biography on Colin Woodard please visit his website http://www.colinwoodard.com/ and his book The Republic of Pirates can be found on Amazon.
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
OHP - 07-25-09 - Eric Hammel - The Road to Big Week
Eric Hammel makes his first appearance on Our History Project. Folks, Eric has over 30 titles to his credit and he writes about it all. A true student of history, Eric has written about World War 2, Korea and Vietnam. Eric is a wealth of knowledge as he has interview literally hundreds of people who were there to learn and write about those experiences. Eric is also a fun loving guy and if you know us, that is what we enjoy the most History and Fun. This week among other things we will talk to Eric about his upcoming book “Road to Big Week” The Struggle for Daylight Air Supremacy over Western Europe. See more about this book from Eric’s website http://www.erichammelbooks.com/news.php .
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Monday, July 13, 2009
ERIC HAMMEL
Eric HammelFrom the Authors Site Eric Hammel's Books :
I was born in 1946, in Salem, Massachusetts, and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I graduated from Central High School of Philadelphia in January 1964 and earned a degree in Journalism from Temple University in 1972.
My road to writing military history began at age 12, when I was stuck in bed for a week with a childhood illness. My father bought me the first paperback book I ever owned, Walter Lord’s Day of Infamy. As I devoured the book, I realized that I wanted to write books exactly like it — what we now call popular narrative history. Lord had pieced together the book from official records illuminated with the recollections of people who were there.
I began to write my first military history book when I was 15. It eventually turned out to be Guadalcanal: Starvation Island. I completed the first draft before I graduated from high school. During my first year of college, I wrote the first draft of Munda Trail, and I got started on 76 Hours when I was a college junior. Then I got married and went to work, which left me no time to pursue my writing except as a journalism student. I quit school at the end of my junior year and went to work in advertising in 1970. I completed my journalism degree in 1972, moved to California in 1975, and finally got back to writing while I operated my own one-man ad agency and started on a family.
76 Hours was published in 1980, and Chosin followed in 1982. At the end of 1983 I was offered enough of an advance to write The Root: The Marines in Beirut to take up writing books full time. The rest, as they say, is history. I eventually published under my own imprint, Pacifica Press, which morphed into Pacifica Military History.
At some point in the late 1990s, I realized I had not written in five years, so I pretty much closed down the publishing operation, and pieced together a string of pictorial combat histories for Zenith Press. I "retired" in 2008 and took up writing as a full-time hobby. And here we are. Now I am publishing several new narratives under the Pacifica Military History imprint, reprinting all of my older books as print-on-demand trade paperbacks, and also converting my body of older works to digital format for sale under Amazon.com's Kindle program and other e-book programs.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Our History Project – “In the Dirt with American Digger” – Getting Started in Metal Detecting: The Beginners Guide
This week we on Our History Project’s “In the Dirt with American Digger” segment we host what you would call the Beginners Guide to the Hobby of Metal Detecting. From the stores, to the machines, to the places to hunt. The contacts, groups, strategies and more, it’s all here.
So if you have ever had the question asked of you your asked just to yourself – “What do you find with that thing?” Or better yet –“How do I get me one?” Then this show is for them - or you.
Our History Project is Nonprofit and open sourced, we promote Preservation and Education of our history, and as I have always said – “That starts with you!” – and in this show we will tell you how.
If you would like this show hosted by a player on your site or your business site send me an email and I will supply the code, it’s free. It will put a player on your page just like we have on ours (nothing to install and nothing goes on your server). If you would like I can even take off the opening comments (just let me know). The main goal of this episode is to promote our hobby in a positive light and give a basic foundation on which to grow. Bringing new blood into our world of research, history and preserving artifacts can only increase our understanding of the past.
Pass this show around folks!
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So if you have ever had the question asked of you your asked just to yourself – “What do you find with that thing?” Or better yet –“How do I get me one?” Then this show is for them - or you.
Our History Project is Nonprofit and open sourced, we promote Preservation and Education of our history, and as I have always said – “That starts with you!” – and in this show we will tell you how.
If you would like this show hosted by a player on your site or your business site send me an email and I will supply the code, it’s free. It will put a player on your page just like we have on ours (nothing to install and nothing goes on your server). If you would like I can even take off the opening comments (just let me know). The main goal of this episode is to promote our hobby in a positive light and give a basic foundation on which to grow. Bringing new blood into our world of research, history and preserving artifacts can only increase our understanding of the past.
Pass this show around folks!
Lenght: 49 Min
Size: 19MB
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Monday, June 8, 2009
James Everett Kibler
Our review of "The Education of Chauncey Doolittle" can be found on the Our History Project Book Review Blog. Link
From the Publisher:
“Kibler has developed a theme that has long defined both Southern history and literature: the deep, metaphysical connection between the Southern character and temperament and the natural world . . . a graceful articulation of the agrarian vision.” ––Walter Sullivan
“In James Everett Kibler we find a member of a quickly diminishing breed: the man of letters.” ––Southern Partisan
James Everett Kibler is a novelist, poet, and professor of English at the University of Georgia, where he teaches popular courses in Southern literature, examining such figures as William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Wendell Berry, and Larry Brown. Born and raised in upcountry South Carolina, Kibler spends much of his spare time tending to the renovation of an 1804 plantation home and the reforestation of the surrounding acreage. This home served as the subject of his first book, Our Fathers’ Fields: A Southern Story, for which he was awarded the prestigious Fellowship of Southern Writers Award for Nonfiction in 1999 and the Southern Heritage Society’s Award for Literary Achievement.
Kibler received his doctorate from the University of South Carolina, and his poetry has been honored by the Poetry Society of South Carolina and has appeared in publications throughout the country. In October 2004, the League of the South bestowed on him the Jefferson Davis Lifetime Achievement Award.
Kibler enjoys gardening, organic farming, and research into Southern history and culture. An avid preservationist, he prescribes to Allen Tate’s comment that “the task of the civilized intelligence is perpetual salvage.” He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Southern Garden History Society, the League of the South, and the William Gilmore Simms Society. He is listed in Contemporary Writers’, “Who’s Who in America,” and “Who’s Who in the World.” He divides his time between Whitmire, South Carolina, and Athens, Georgia.
Other books by James Kibler:
The Education of Chauncey Doolittle
Memory’s Keep
Walking Toward Home
Child to the Waters
Our Fathers’ Fields: A Southern Story
Awards and Top Reviews
James Everett Kibler
“In James Everett Kibler we find a member of a quickly diminishing breed: the man of letters.” ––Southern Partisan
AWARDS AND HONORS
2004 Recipient of the Jefferson Davis Lifetime Achievement Award
1999 Recipient of the Fellowship of Southern Writers Award for Nonfiction
1999 Recipient of the Southern Heritage Society’s Award for Literary Achievement
Founding editor of The Simms Review
Kibler’s work has been published in the Mississippi Quarterly, Southern Literary Journal, and Early American Literature among other scholarly journals and publications.
MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
The Agrarian Foundation Board of Advisors
Phi Beta Kappa
The Southern Garden History Society
League of the South
Poetry Society of South Carolina
William Gilmore Simms Society
Our Fathers’ Fields: A Southern Story
“Part epic, part history, part memoir, this narrative history spans six generations of a Southern family in search of the agrarian ideal.” ––The New York Review of Books
Also reviewed by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Southern Living, the Journal of American History, the South Carolina Review, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, Wendell Berry, and Shelby Foote.
Child to the Waters
“Scholar and critic James Everett Kibler is clearly one of our finest fiction writers.” ––George Garrett
Also reviewed by the South Carolina Review, MultiCultural Review, and Southern Partisan.
Walking Toward Home
“Kibler is a writer of humor and tradition, fun and folklore, and his stories unfold at the point where the present and the timeless intersect.” ––Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek and Brave Enemies
Also reviewed by Lake Murray Magazine, The Mississippi Press, and Southern Partisan.
Memory’s Keep
“Even amid great changes, there are those who remember traditions and keep memories alive. Kibler’s novel serves as a reminder of the importance of balance in worldly progress.” ––The Bloomsbury Review
Also reviewed by Booklist, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, Athens Magazine, Southern Partisan, James Cantrell, Fred Chappell, and Robert Morgan.
From the Publisher:
“Kibler has developed a theme that has long defined both Southern history and literature: the deep, metaphysical connection between the Southern character and temperament and the natural world . . . a graceful articulation of the agrarian vision.” ––Walter Sullivan
“In James Everett Kibler we find a member of a quickly diminishing breed: the man of letters.” ––Southern Partisan
James Everett Kibler is a novelist, poet, and professor of English at the University of Georgia, where he teaches popular courses in Southern literature, examining such figures as William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Wendell Berry, and Larry Brown. Born and raised in upcountry South Carolina, Kibler spends much of his spare time tending to the renovation of an 1804 plantation home and the reforestation of the surrounding acreage. This home served as the subject of his first book, Our Fathers’ Fields: A Southern Story, for which he was awarded the prestigious Fellowship of Southern Writers Award for Nonfiction in 1999 and the Southern Heritage Society’s Award for Literary Achievement.Kibler received his doctorate from the University of South Carolina, and his poetry has been honored by the Poetry Society of South Carolina and has appeared in publications throughout the country. In October 2004, the League of the South bestowed on him the Jefferson Davis Lifetime Achievement Award.
Kibler enjoys gardening, organic farming, and research into Southern history and culture. An avid preservationist, he prescribes to Allen Tate’s comment that “the task of the civilized intelligence is perpetual salvage.” He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Southern Garden History Society, the League of the South, and the William Gilmore Simms Society. He is listed in Contemporary Writers’, “Who’s Who in America,” and “Who’s Who in the World.” He divides his time between Whitmire, South Carolina, and Athens, Georgia.
Other books by James Kibler:
The Education of Chauncey Doolittle
Memory’s Keep
Walking Toward Home
Child to the Waters
Our Fathers’ Fields: A Southern Story
Awards and Top Reviews
James Everett Kibler
“In James Everett Kibler we find a member of a quickly diminishing breed: the man of letters.” ––Southern Partisan
AWARDS AND HONORS
2004 Recipient of the Jefferson Davis Lifetime Achievement Award
1999 Recipient of the Fellowship of Southern Writers Award for Nonfiction
1999 Recipient of the Southern Heritage Society’s Award for Literary Achievement
Founding editor of The Simms Review
Kibler’s work has been published in the Mississippi Quarterly, Southern Literary Journal, and Early American Literature among other scholarly journals and publications.
MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
The Agrarian Foundation Board of Advisors
Phi Beta Kappa
The Southern Garden History Society
League of the South
Poetry Society of South Carolina
William Gilmore Simms Society
Our Fathers’ Fields: A Southern Story
“Part epic, part history, part memoir, this narrative history spans six generations of a Southern family in search of the agrarian ideal.” ––The New York Review of Books
Also reviewed by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Southern Living, the Journal of American History, the South Carolina Review, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, Wendell Berry, and Shelby Foote.
Child to the Waters
“Scholar and critic James Everett Kibler is clearly one of our finest fiction writers.” ––George Garrett
Also reviewed by the South Carolina Review, MultiCultural Review, and Southern Partisan.
Walking Toward Home
“Kibler is a writer of humor and tradition, fun and folklore, and his stories unfold at the point where the present and the timeless intersect.” ––Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek and Brave Enemies
Also reviewed by Lake Murray Magazine, The Mississippi Press, and Southern Partisan.
Memory’s Keep
“Even amid great changes, there are those who remember traditions and keep memories alive. Kibler’s novel serves as a reminder of the importance of balance in worldly progress.” ––The Bloomsbury Review
Also reviewed by Booklist, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, Athens Magazine, Southern Partisan, James Cantrell, Fred Chappell, and Robert Morgan.
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