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Our American Stories

To Mow or Not to Mow: History and Lawn Care

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, the idea of a lawn is very old, but it took a key technology to make lawns very common. Here’s “The History Guy” with the story of lawn care. 

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0:00.0

Black History Month is here and we're excited to kick off season faux.

0:05.4

If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.

0:07.5

This season, we're shining a spotlight on revolutionary women who redefined excellence.

0:12.8

Give Grace Wisher her flowers.

0:15.0

Next time you see the American flag, you just remember a 16-year-old black woman helped to make it happen.

0:20.1

Listen to I didn't know.

0:21.4

Maybe you didn't either.

0:22.4

From the Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast,

0:26.6

or simply wherever you get your podcast.

0:32.0

Hey, it's Alec Baldwin.

0:34.2

This season on my podcast, Here's the Thing.

0:37.4

I speak with musician, photographer,

0:39.8

and philanthropist, Julian Lennon. One of the really important things that happened to me with photography

0:45.6

was I would have people write to me, people that couldn't financially afford to travel the world.

0:51.7

And what they had all said to me is that you bring these stories to us.

0:56.0

You bring the truth. You bring cultures that we would never necessarily know anything about.

1:01.0

Listen to the new season of Here's the Thing on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:09.0

I'm Mary Kay McBrayer, host of the podcast The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told,

1:14.2

where I dig into crimes where a woman is not just a victim.

1:17.4

She might be the detective, the lawyer, the witness, the coroner, the criminal,

1:21.2

or some mix at those roles.

1:23.0

Because these are the stories we need to know

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