Gateway Moments: Live from St. Louis
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We’ve all had them—the big, significant, transformations that take your life in a new direction. And even though those gateway moments present new and exciting opportunities, they are almost always by definition uncomfortable. This hour, in partnership with St. Louis Public Radio, To The Best Of Our Knowledge explores various examples of crossing over, to racial understanding, to recovery and to greater unity and love. A City of Gates That Do Not Swing Wide; Adventures on the Woke Spectrum; Shadowball; The Last Game I Make Before I Die; Beatboxing With My Dad; Black At Home, White At Work.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for WPR comes from People's Food Co-op, a community-owned natural food store in LaCross and Rochester, |
| 0:06.8 | offering gift cards towards any purchase in the store or for a membership. |
| 0:11.3 | More at pfc.c.c.c-o-o-op. |
| 0:16.8 | From PRI, Public Radio International, it's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champs. |
| 0:22.6 | And we're coming to you live this week from St. Louis, Missouri. |
| 0:26.6 | The Gateway City with a lot of pride. |
| 0:38.3 | Gateway City, home of the Gateway Arch, the tallest monument in the United States, |
| 0:45.3 | a 630-foot high stainless steel metaphor. |
| 0:51.3 | But think about it, an arch, a gate is an opening, a threshold, an entrance. |
| 1:01.6 | But a gate is also an exit, and a gate can be a barrier. It's one of the oldest and most |
| 1:08.7 | powerful symbols in the world for transformation. |
| 1:11.6 | So what is it like to live in a city with a giant arch, a gate, at its heart? |
| 1:19.6 | Writer Edward MacPherson. |
| 1:22.6 | St. Louis is a city of gates that do not normally swing wide. |
| 1:28.3 | Five years ago, when my wife and I moved to town, we were taken aback. |
| 1:32.3 | Everywhere. Gates. Gates. |
| 1:35.3 | Gates. |
| 1:37.3 | Gates that lock and unlock according to schedules known only to residents. |
| 1:44.8 | Gates with signs. |
| 1:46.8 | Private street. |
| 1:48.8 | No through traffic. |
| 1:51.6 | Private neighborhood. |
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