EP170: Taking The Time To Talk To Strangers, Snowflake Bentley, First Photograph of a Snowflake and The Government Wouldn't Let Paula Smith Sell Her House For Over A Decade
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, Paul Kotz from the Twin Cities shares about some of his interactions with strangers. Dr. Jerry Bergman tells the story of a teenage boy who on January 15, 1885, at 20-years of age, became the first person in the world to photograph a snowflake. Craig Richardson, Matthew Bryant and Paula Smith tells us about the story of Winston-Salem, North Carolina's unconstitutional MAP Act.
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00:00 - Taking The Time To Talk To Strangers
10:00 - Snowflake Bentley, First Photograph of a Snowflake
23:00 - The Government Wouldn't Let Paula Smith Sell Her House For Over A Decade
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| 0:00.0 | This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, and we tell stories about everything |
| 0:14.8 | here on this show, including your stories. Send them to our American Stories.com. They're some of our |
| 0:20.2 | favorites. And now we have a story from one of our listeners, Paul Cots, who's from the Twin Cities, |
| 0:25.6 | where we broadcast on WCCO AM 830. |
| 0:29.6 | Paul is a professor at St. Mary's University of Minnesota. |
| 0:32.6 | Here he is to share this story. |
| 0:35.6 | Yesterday, I went to fill up my tank at Speedway. he is to share this story. |
| 0:43.8 | Yesterday, I went to fill up my tank at Speedway, went inside to purchase some food items, and the friendly clerk said, do you have your card? |
| 0:48.7 | I flashed my barcode on my keychain, exchanged an excited comment about getting a free donut, collected my bag |
| 0:57.1 | of items, and exited. |
| 1:00.1 | Back at the car, I discovered that I could not find my keys. |
| 1:04.3 | Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded. |
| 1:08.2 | I checked my front pockets frantically. Maybe I left them in the car. No luck. Life is now officially |
| 1:17.8 | unfair, I'm thinking to myself. I went back in to check with the clerk and people were waiting in line. |
| 1:25.2 | Did anyone see some keys on the counter? Someone remarked, he lost his keys. |
| 1:31.6 | No luck again. I just had them, but I felt a heightened sense of panic. And I'm thinking, |
| 1:38.5 | if all is not lost, where are my keys? I went back outside and as I checked my front pockets one more time, |
| 1:47.0 | I tried my back pocket and they magically appeared. |
| 1:51.0 | What? I never put my keys there. |
| 1:54.0 | Relief settled in. |
| 1:57.0 | Soon I will be able to hide my own Easter eggs. You know, but life has so many twists and turns. |
| 2:03.6 | In the morning, I've been trying to work out at a fitness center in our area. |
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