This is the biggest week so far this year for new music releases. They always seem to pick up this time of year.
Record Store Day normally would have been this Saturday, but it is not coming until June and July this year. So the labels seem to be emphasizing new music to make up for the delay. All of the albums mentioned here will be released Friday, April 16.
n First up is Tom Pettyâs âFinding Wildflowers.â This single CD or two-LP set on gold vinyl is made up of 16 tracks taken from studio outtakes from the original âWildflowersâ recording sessions from 1992â1994.
Poindexter Village was one of the first public housing projects in the United States. Author: Angela Reighard Updated: 5:33 PM EST February 3, 2021
As new people and places move into Columbus Near East Side, two historic buildings remain, marking the future site of the Poindexter Village Museum and Cultural Center.
Ohio History Connection and James Preston Poindexter Foundation partnered to preserve the legacy of the village that was one of the first public housing projects in the United States.
The History
Poindexter Village got its name from Columbus abolitionist, activist, and politician Rev. James Preston Poindexter. A barber by trade, Rev. Poindexter was the first African American elected to the city council and the school board. To many at the time, he symbolized hope.
Send Stephen Owen Stephens, whose fluid baritone made him a broadcast hall of famer and Arkansas version of Dick Clark with his 1950s dance program Steve s Show on KTHV, actually had to work hard on that fabled voice, he said in 2018.
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Credit Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Steve Stephens, a golden-throated voice talent who made the transition from radio to TV in the 1950’s, has passed away at the age of 90. Stephens was a pioneer in early television in Arkansas and later became an influential public relations professional working for himself and later Stephens Inc.
He was a decorated Marine for his service in Korea and attained the rank of sergeant.
Stephens grew up in Newport, Arkansas and got his career start at a local radio station. His timing was impeccable as his broadcasting opportunities coincided with the new medium of television and the rise of rock-and-roll. According to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Stephens got his break when he traveled to Little Rock with a popular band led by Sonny Burgess. The introductions made during that visit in 1957 led station KTHV to offer Stephens a job hosting an afternoon “dance party” show where local teenagers would come dance to the music that was sweeping the natio