Constitution Day 2021 presentation at South Georgia State College:

Constitution Day 2021

This podcast is South Georgia State College’s contribution to the commemoration of Constitution Day in 2021. In deference to the pandemic there will be no face to face presentation, but this (socially) “distanced learning” opportunity will take its place.

      Here, Dr. Rick Reiman looks at the career and contributions to our Constitutional understandings of Congresswoman Barbara Jordan (1936-1996) of Texas. Jordan was a passionate eloquent defender of the Constitution. In 1974, she served on the House Judiciary Committee that voted to recommend articles of impeachment against President Nixon.  It seems fitting that in this year in which an impeachment trial took place (the second in consecutive years),  we look back at Barbara Jordan’s view of impeachment and her prophetic views of the responsibilities of citizenship in a divided America.

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Actor in the News: Amanda Mehl

Interviews

Amanda Mehl, actor and co-founder of the Public Citizen Theater (PCT) in Portland, Oregon, is our special guest today on AudiblySpeaking.  She has acted in several productions for the PCT since 2016, including “The Maids,” by Jean Genet (directed by Aaron Filyaw).

 

In our conversation Amanda talks about the challenges of acting in the time of Covid, the ways in which citizens expand on the theater opportunities available to them, and the innovative moves she has made to build a voiceover repertoire with Librivox.org 

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Music Guest: Rebecca DuMaine

Music Reviews

On this special episode of the podcast, I speak with Rebecca DuMaine, an exciting jazz singer with the Dave Miller Trio, based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

We talk about the musical genre in which she and the Trio specialize, and how it speaks to us in good times and in Covid time, as well as her journey toward her musical life.

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“The Crooked Man,” A Sherlock Holmes Tale

Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Crooked Man” appeared in 1893 and subsequently in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It was one of the 19 most popular stories in Doyle’s catalog of favorite Holmes tales. See my audio review of this book on AudiblySpeaking either before or following your listening to this story. And now, experience the story of “The Crooked Man–” if you dare.

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Coming Soon: “The Adventures of the Crooked Man”

Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote “The Adventures of the Crooked Man” in 1892. It turned out to rank 15th on his list of 19 favorite short stories. My audio narration of the story will appear soon here on AudiblySpeaking. In this introduction, I analyze and critique the structure of the story and its qualities in terms of the expectations inherent in the mystery genre of storytelling.

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FDR Fireside Chat, December 9, 1941

FDR

In this classic Fireside Chat, FDR rallies the Nation two days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. One of his finest Fireside Chats, Roosevelt cleverly ties the mission to retaliate against Japan with the effort, not yet widely shared by Americans, to halt the march of fascism in Europe, represented by Hitler and Mussolini. The next day, December 10, Hitler would clear the way for FDR to accomplish this goal by suicidally declaring war on the United States.

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