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Thanks For Giving A Damn

Episode 102: Stringbean’s Last Song

Thanks For Giving A Damn

Otis Gibbs

Society & Culture, Arts, Music, Performing Arts, Personal Journals

5757 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2014

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Peter Cooper tells the story of Stringbean and Estelle Akeman’s tragic deaths.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I played a gig in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

0:14.0

I was contacted a few years ago by these folks who put on these gigs in a train depot.

0:20.0

It's really nice people. And we talked about having me come and

0:22.9

play for a few years now and I was really happy to finally get to do it. Really good time, really nice

0:28.7

people and they put me up in a hotel down on the beach. I woke up the next morning, walked out and put

0:35.3

my toes in the ocean and started to drive home.

0:39.1

It was just a great time and I really appreciate them having me out there.

0:43.0

I don't make it to South Carolina that often, so I was happy to get to check out some roadside attractions on the way there and on the way back.

0:50.9

I visited this spot in Mars Bluff, South Carolina, but back in 1958, the Air Force accidentally

0:57.9

dropped an atomic bomb in South Carolina. Luckily, it did not go off, but it left a huge crater,

1:05.4

and I hiked back through the woods from the road and got to see the crater. I heard about it all my

1:10.7

life, and it was nice to finally get to see the spot where it the road and got to see the crater. I heard about it all my life and

1:11.2

it was nice to finally get to see the spot where it landed. I got to visit Dalton Stevens

1:16.0

Museum at his home in Bishopville, South Carolina. And Dalton suffers from insomnia, so he started

1:22.6

making art out of buttons to pass the time. He has this hearse that's covered in over 600,000 buttons.

1:30.2

He made these decorative designs.

1:31.6

It's just beautiful, beautiful folk art.

1:34.4

And he covered a coffin in buttons, thousands of buttons that he plans on one day being

1:40.1

buried in.

1:41.5

It was great to get to visit his home and get to see all his artwork. He had a piano that he covered in buttons. It's difficult to describe it, but it's just beautiful

1:50.0

artwork that he's made out of these buttons. And I encourage you guys looking it up.

1:54.0

Because I have visited the UFO Welcome Center in Bowman, South Carolina.

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