Here is a recording of the fourth in our lunchtime book club series called Brown Bag, Green Book. Dr. Dana Christensen, Associate Laboratory Director of the
Energy and Engineering Sciences Directorate of the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (ORNL) led our discussion of Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Coal and Oil. Listen and then discuss this episode using the comment form at the bottom of this page.
This podcast episode tells the strange and sad story of how an elephant came to be executed in Erwin, TN in 1916 for killing her handler. The reading is an abridgment of an article entitled “The hanging of Mary, a circus elephant,” by Thomas Burton published in Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin, volume
37, number 1, March 1971. The full article is available at the McClung Collection.
Here is a recording of the second in our lunchtime book club series called Brown Bag, Green Book. Elizabeth Eason, a Knoxville architect accredited with the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED system, led a community discussion of the book Cradle to cradle: Remaking the way we make things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. Listen and then discuss this episode using the comment form at the bottom of this page.
Kid Curry was one of the most wanted criminals of the Wild West, a cohort of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. After participating in the Great Northern Train Robbery, he hid out in Knoxville until one evening he got into fisticuffs in a Bowery pool hall. Police arrived on the scene, and in the exchange of gunfire the bandit, whose real name was Harvey Logan, escaped from the police he wounded. Logan’s own wounds led to his identification and capture two days later.
