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Before You Go

48 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings

A First-Person Podcast with 100-year-old guests. It's a sit-down with history. The conversation many never get to have...until now. Hosts: Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh. Visit us at BeforeYouGo.TV.

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Before You Go: Join Us for News

January 24, 2023 02:15 - 1 minute - 1.1 MB

We've got exciting news coming up--which may explain why Before You Go will be in Memphis a number of times to set up for Season 4. Sign up for our Before You Go newsletter and find out!! Here's the link: https://forms.gle/VQRAmVRdrefDmFjo7 Thanks, BYG Fam!   

Before You Go: Motor City Charm

October 07, 2022 03:47 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MB

Betty Chavis spent years as a star recruiter for Michigan Technological University.  If young people of color were to find their way far North to Houghton, MI, they needed someone to trust. Michigan Tech turned to Ms. Chavis, a Detroit native who grew up exploring all of her curiosities. An early career in dance led to sharing the stage with the best as in Katherine Dunham. Then Ms. Chavis formed her own company, performed for legends and opened her own charm center for Motown's finest. Detr...

Before You Go: Undying Love Devotion and Respect

September 24, 2022 20:39 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MB

When Ajuma Muhammad was approached with a four-year old Black boy terrorizing the classroom, he relied on his years of practice and observations from his world travels to address  the  client's concerns. As we continue to perpetuate a climate where stress and distress affect the life expectancy of Black men, dedicated professionals like Mr. Muhammad are even more in demand. His loving and familial approach to healing definitely stem from African roots. This author of 101 Proven and Effective...

Before You Go: The Ballot The Bullet The Incarcerated Seniors

September 24, 2022 20:16 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MB

Audiences tune in to Before You Go for first-hand accounts of the lives of our seniors. What about those of a certain age behind bars? Is death-by-incarceration being discussed enough in mainstream conversation? Formerly incarcerated Yusef Jones is currently out on parole after being sentenced to 30 to 60 years in a correctional facility known for its large population of lifers. In discussing the reality of coming into the system as a young man and leaving as a senior, Mr. Jones  shares rare...

Before You Go: The South Bend Stop on The Underground Railroad

August 29, 2022 15:16 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MB

Career educator and Michiana griot Brother Sage and wife Charlotte Pfeifer Gillam, a community advocate, activist and pioneering politician share a loving approach to African American history. Community  is everything to this South Bend, Indiana couple who hail from various locations prior to their current home including Ohio, Michigan and East St. Louis, IL.  In this episode they give an audio tour of the travels of enslaved peoples via the Midwestern Underground Railroad route  and its con...

Before You Go: Fannie Lou Hamer Takes Center Stage

August 22, 2022 05:04 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MB

Diana Solomon-Glover answered the call from her friend and musical collaborator Chandler Carter to pursue a commission by the Santa Fe Opera for new works.  They presented the story of Fannie Lou Hamer as an opera, won the commission and  the upcoming debut is sure to be a theatrical experience like no other. Diana is a longtime friend of Before You Go co-host Nicole Franklin. In this interview, Franklin and Bryant Monteilh learn first-hand how classical  music and African American stories ...

Before You Go: Canada Emancipation Day

August 22, 2022 04:59 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MB

August 1 in Canada is cause for a joyous occasion:  Emancipation Day! Before You Go was honored to hear all about the journey to commemorating the freeing of enslaved people from Rosemary Sadlier OOnt (Order of Ontario), a champion of African Canadian education for Canadian residents. Just like crusader Opal Lee's efforts pushed national holiday status for Juneteenth in the United States, Sadlier spent a lifetime bringing  African Canadian history to national recognition. Unlike the United ...

Before You Go: Five Stars for a Two Star Major General

July 22, 2022 21:48 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MB

When this two star major general shared details of his military and Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)  experience with our show, we knew it would be special. For the hosts there was also a jaw-dropping moment  (or two)  due to Major General Gravett's courage, agility, incredible heart and humility.  Hold onto your seat!  This talented  hero, awarded the Medal of Valor, also  shares crucial information  that addresses the health and wellness of veterans, especially in California where he ...

Before You Go: Return To Buffalo

July 18, 2022 18:12 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MB

Before You Go first interviewed Mother Doyle days after the terrorist attack where an 18 year-old white supremacist dressed in tactical gear fatally wounded 10 people in his mission to kill all the Black people he could. Mother Doyle does her usual grocery run on Saturdays at 2pm. She would have been there had she not gone to pick up her dry cleaning that afternoon. Unfortunately her friend and writing colleague Kat Massey was shopping that day and became victim to this horrific tragedy. Mo...

Before You Go: Seniors on Skid Row

July 04, 2022 20:15 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MB

Rev. Andy Bales has  fought to end homelessness in Los Angeles County for more than three decades.  His tales of life on the streets of Skid Row illustrate the emergency situation in which Los Angeles has found itself. An average of 5.5 people die daily in LA County when they are  unhoused. Bales and his team at Union Rescue Mission have provided housing, counseling, job programs and much more. Seniors end up homeless for a variety of reasons. When they do they find themselves in a situation...

Before You Go: Juneteenth With Artist Richard C Press Sr

June 24, 2022 04:43 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MB

When searching Richard Press Online Gallery be prepared to experience a powerful variety of an artist's rendition of humanity on canvas. Mr. Press is a renowned artist located in Hampton, VA. This lifelong painter, muralist and educator is busier than ever with his contributions to community.  Mr. Press' painting "Here Today Gone Tomorrow" is featured in  documentary produced by USA Today. His murals have also captured the attention of the masses. Before You Go hosts Nicole Franklin and Br...

Before You Go: On The Waterfront

June 20, 2022 09:45 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MB

At the time of this recording, the Port of Los Angeles has 45,000 jobs available. Working for the Port means being in the company of a business that pulls in $1.5 billion per day. Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh have an eye-opening chat with Joe Gatlin about the Port and the close-knit community that borders it, San Pedro, CA. Gatlin is a member of the family who sued the Port in the 1970s for equitable hiring. The Port--often referred to as the country's economic engine--is a unio...

Before You Go: A Purple Heart On A Mission

June 18, 2022 14:13 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MB

Robert Branscomb is a veteran, pilot and for a number of years--and still today in his 80's--a generous, experienced financial advisor with a specialty in insurance offerings. How do you make financial planning purposeful and profitable? And how do you avoid embarrassing the family when it comes to end of life decisions? Mr. Branscomb, a Purple Heart veteran, speaks candidly on all with Nicole, Bryant and to audience members in need of advice. And Mr. Branscomb's travels in a very special pi...

Before You Go: Terror Comes To Buffalo

May 25, 2022 04:15 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MB

This episode follows days after a tragic event in the United States--in Buffalo known as the City of Good Neighbors.  Eva M. Doyle writes her column of 44 years "Eye On History" for the nearly 100-year-old Black newspaper The Buffalo Criterion. Ms. Doyle--known as Mother Doyle--happened to change her plans from her routine 2pm Saturday grocery run to Tops Supermarket  and picked up her dry cleaning instead. She avoided death that day. But her colleague, fellow writer Katherine "Kat" Massey, ...

Before You Go: The War The Union And A Good Woman

May 23, 2022 02:58 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MB

Isaac Turner, Jr. was introduced to our program Before You Go by KBLA Talk 1580 host Najah Roberts. This 98-year-old war veteran appears with daughter Julia Hardman and recalls war stories from five invasions. Mr. Turner entered the Navy as a cook under Generals Eisenhower, MacArthur and Nimitz and when under attack, all hands were on deck. During one direct hit to their naval ship, Turner survived, but lost five of his best friends all at once. After the war ended Mr. Turner moved his young...

Before You Go: Broadcast News The Inside Report

May 13, 2022 05:35 - 41 minutes - 38 MB

When news personalities such as Ted Koppel and Walter Cronkite delivered news from overseas, broadcast audiences probably were not aware of who was manning/woman-ing the foreign desks of network newsrooms at the Big Three:  ABC, CBS and NBC. Eric V. Tait, Jr. and Stephen C. Miller give the inside report on how they made decisions--decisions for which they often had to fight to cover--that brought diverse story coverage into the living rooms during the early years of television news. These tw...

Before You Go: Lessons in the LAUSD

May 05, 2022 00:17 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MB

The LAUSD has been blessed with numerous dedicated educators, one of whom is Caldwell Williams. Mr. Williams was referred to Before You Go hosts Nicole Franklin and  Bryant Monteilh by a listener and fellow veteran friend of his, Farron Dozier, who considers Mr. Williams a mentor. We quickly learn why. This 88-year-old educator and mental health expert is very sharp as he carefully recounts his detailed journey through several teaching assignments as a Black male educator in the public scho...

Before You Go: Adger Cowans Photographing Us

April 28, 2022 04:10 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MB

When Nicole Franklin first met Adger Cowans years ago in New York City she knew other being an extremely talented artist and photographer, he has a welcoming spirit that has put thousands of his subjects through the years at ease. With Adger on the mic, both Bryant and Nicole have a wonderful time recalling his childhood in Columbus, OH, weekend trips to New York to hear jazz greats eventually moving in with his mentor Gordon Parks, and falling out of his seat twice when it was time for a go...

Before You Go: About That Military Life

April 15, 2022 03:05 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MB

Early in life things seem to have come easy to military veteran Frank Coats. When drafted to the front lines of the Korean War, Coats was promoted to sergeant within a year. But he quickly found out racism often puts African Americans in harm's way. Staying employed and living life responsibly had  its difficulties--even grave ones--but Mr. Coats and his never-give-up attitude came through.  Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh are reminded of life's solid principles during this conver...

Before You Go: Carmen de Lavallade From East LA to Broadway

April 05, 2022 18:13 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MB

Carmen de Lavallade grew up in a Mexican neighborhood in East Los Angeles and started dancing as a teenager. It was her time with Lester Horton that inspired her teaching and choreography career.  She was so inspired she invited her junior high school friend Alvin Ailey, to study dance with Horton as well. Both dancers moved to New York to star in an all-star cast of the Broadway show "House of Flowers." On this show she met her husband, Geoffrey Holder who was "always chasing after me." The...

Before You Go: Live in LA Its Our Oscars Show!

April 05, 2022 01:16 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MB

Stanley Nelson appears as a guest on Before You Go during a career milestone:  Oscar nominee. After decades of directing historical documentaries illuminating African American history through compelling interviews and a library of rare footage, Nelson, an award-winning filmmaker, made it to the big stage. Though he, co-director Traci A. Curry and his team with Firelight Media did not take the Oscar this year, he says it was truly "an honor to be nominated" and Before You Go hosts Nicole and ...

Before You Go: A Legacy Close To Home

March 21, 2022 04:12 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MB

In 1970, Black Theatre Troupe founder Helen K. Mason launched the oldest Black theatre organization in the Southwest Region of the United States while in Phoenix, AZ. She was 60 years old at the time and ready for retirement, but the neighborhood children told her performing plays was what they wished to do. The theatre still exists with a thriving season under Executive Director David Hemphill. He joins the show to reflect on her legacy. A treasured archive from Bryant's road trip from San ...

Before You Go: Cheers Tears and that Son of a $*#&! Redd Foxx

March 18, 2022 03:31 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MB

Former Mayor Lelia Foley-Davis made history with her election  to office while a single mother of five on welfare. Her "common sense" degree enabled her leadership skills to help put Taft, OK on the map and made the three Presidents she personally met during her lifetime pay attention. Yet even as a woman in a top position of authority she found she had to fend off corruption and personal attacks--and from an unlikely antagonist, Redd Foxx. Her story of their encounter is filled with twists...

Before You Go: Poetry Praise and Peace

March 12, 2022 14:35 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MB

Raheemah Raheem, possibly the second most famous resident of Turner Station, Maryland next to Henrietta Lacks, shares her poetry and a revealing story about a life-changing choice she had to make as a 17-year-old mother who lived in New York City at the time. Her daughter Trudy Reed joins hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh for a chat about abandonment, forgiveness, and faith. And, for those who remember, how would you rate the selection of "the switch"? This episode first aired on K...

Before You Go: A Rancher An Educator and A Gentleman

March 02, 2022 15:09 - 41 minutes - 38 MB

In this postcard from Oklahoma, we meet Cedric Johnson, the first African American to represent the State of Oklahoma at a Democratic National Convention. Since this was 2016,  Mr. Johnson, who had been a Republican earlier in life, was well into his 80s when he was asked to take on this role. And why not? He had a stellar career as teacher and principal in Muskogee, spending a significant amount of his life as both a student and educator at the historic Manual Training High School.  He has ...

Before You Go: A Rewind In Time with Those Who Walked With King

February 25, 2022 23:30 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MB

Before You Go hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh take A Rewind In Time with more of Bryant's treasured archives--this time while on assignment with WVON in Chicago. At the feet of the 30ft Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial statue on display in Washington DC, Bryant's microphone captured the memories of Andrew Young, Rev Jesse Jackson, Dr Joseph Lowery, Rev. Otis Moss, Jr., educator Erma Williams and other visitors. It is the riveting testimony from the witness, Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles,...

Before You Go: A Rewind In Time with Rev Fred Shuttlesworth

February 14, 2022 22:09 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MB

Host Bryant Monteilh takes listeners for A Rewind In Time with this candid 2004 interview of Southern Christian Leadership co-founder Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth.  In the 1950s and 60s in Birmingham, Alabama, an endorsement from Shuttlesworth's would earn the public's trust when activists came to town to fight for desegregation and voting rights. Shuttlesworth was on the front lines against the Klan and rogue authority figures. He survived two bombings and an incident where he was  fire hos...

Before You Go: A Rewind In Time with Dr Joseph Lowery

February 11, 2022 05:10 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MB

Huntsville Alabama's own Dr. Joseph Lowery sat down with Bryant Monteilh back in 2004 to talk about growing up with a profiling experience that could have tragically changed the course of his life, run ins with the Klan, his encounters with  George Wallace and how Dr. Lowery, a reverend, managed to part "the blue sea." This episode first aired on KBLA Talk 1580.

Before You Go: Music Memories and The Smiths

February 03, 2022 02:22 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MB

Before You Go co-host Nicole Franklin has the honor of inviting her longtime friend  Juanita Smith who shares memories of her composer husband Hale Smith with Bryant Monteilh and the audience. It's a walk through musical history as Hale Smith's work in the genres of classical, jazz and spirituals brought him, Juanita and their family from Cleveland, Ohio to New York City.  Upon arriving in NYC, Juanita quickly found work at the United Nations and Hale was surrounded by a nucleus of talent w...

Before You Go: Spot the Signs Seniors and Mental Wellness

January 27, 2022 23:50 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MB

Staying connected to our seniors and recognizing signs of depression, self-harm, sustained and existing trauma and mental illness is crucial these days, especially while experiencing a global pandemic. Here on Before You Go, we knew it was time to call in an expert. Helena Washington has a Masters of Education, Counseling. She is a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor (Texas & Ohio), Internationally Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselor (ADC) and Master Addiction Counselor (National Certifica...

Before You Go: The LA County Deputy DA Talks Grandma Grandpa Scam

January 21, 2022 05:48 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MB

Renee Rose is the Deputy-in-Charge of the Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse Section of the White Collar Crimes Division of the LA County  District Attorney's Office. Eder Hernandez works as a victims  service representative within the department. This is a busy office due to the number of scams, physical abuse, neglect, and even murder that occur. Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh take listeners into a day in the life of a prosecutor and her team. They often find those who prey on the ...

Before You Go: Right Place Right Time Right Stuff

January 14, 2022 07:43 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MB

Our Season 2 premiere episode features hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh as they visit with stage and screen star Terry Carter. Fans of Battlestar Gallactica know him as Colonel Tigh. PBS viewers know his award-winning documentary, A Duke Named Ellington. Terry shares numerous stories from a lengthy career which includes roles on Broadway and even a history-making turn in the newsroom as the first African American news anchor when he was hired at WBZ-TV Boston. Co-starring roles alo...

Before You Go: A Friendly Call with Film Critic Kathleen Carroll

January 14, 2022 05:11 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MB

For our Season 1 finale, we honor the words that often end our show: "Might be time to pick up the phone. There's no time like the present! What a gift."  Before You Go co-hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh introduce this episode with the delightful and colorful reviews of Kathleen Carroll as remembered in her book My Life in the Dark. Kathleen is a retired film critic from the New York Daily News who made so many industry friends and connections she decided to bring Hollywood to her...

Before You Go: A Visit with James Meredith in Mississippi

December 22, 2021 05:45 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MB

The Before You Go conversation with James Meredith sets the record straight.  Mr. Meredith, an iconic warrior, made history during the Jim Crow era in the United States.  He integrated the University of Mississippi--a fight he won with the aid of then attorney and future judge Constance Baker Motley from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Though he won the case, federal troops were called up by President Kennedy to see that Mr. Meredith made it safely to campus. This is just the beginning of the ...

Before You Go: Heart to Heart

December 15, 2021 20:23 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MB

Busy casting director Mellicent Dyane had a 30-year career before deciding it was time to direct her first film. The subject was a pressing one--her mother had suffered a heart attack and no one in her family recognized the signs. Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh bring listeners a first-hand account from survivor Paula McLaughlin and her filmmaker daughter. Hear how the family rallied when triple bypass surgery for an 80+ year old was the only option and how a healthy lifestyle--caf...

Before You Go: The Champ Is Here!

December 08, 2021 21:02 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MB

Bronx, NY native Dorothy Swanston, born in 1945, is 10 years into her post-retirement career as a champion pool player. She's a three-time MVP and she and son Wayne visit with Before You Go co-host Nicole Franklin to explain the tricks of the trade--even what to look for in dirty pool!  Shout out and RIP to Cue Lounge in the Bronx where Ms. Swanston got her start. Ms. Swanston and her teammates, who play in Yonkers, NY recently returned from a national competition in Las Vegas, NV. Hear how...

Before You Go: Family Detective

November 24, 2021 03:42 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MB

In this episode of Before You Go, hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh take listeners of their now weekly Los Angeles radio program on KBLA Talk 1580 to a quick visit with Aunt Pearlene and Menyoune in Chicago once more, then down the many roads traveled with Nicole's cousin, W. Jacarl Melton, from Nicole's maternal side of the family. Nicole calls Jacarl their "family detective." Jacarl tells vivid stories of the family ancestors all uncovered through research which he pursues to valid...

Before You Go: Sweet Home Chicago

November 17, 2021 20:19 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MB

Visiting relatives during the end of the calendar year is tradition for millions of families. In this episode of Before You Go, hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh take listeners of their now weekly Los Angeles radio program on KBLA Talk 1580 to the South Side of Chicago. Aunt Pearlene and her daughter Menyoune always have entertaining catch-ups when Nicole calls. Why not have listeners tune in and grab some very important neighborhood history recorded from these first-person accounts?...

Before You Go: The Revolution Was Televised

November 08, 2021 03:55 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MB

Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh introduce audiences to Nicole's longtime friend and colleague Rafee Kamaal, a groundbreaking television producer on the team responsible for the first syndicated talk show (strictly talk), hosted by Black Women. For You Black Woman aired out of New York City and was produced by Fred and Felicidad Dukes, with Kamaal in the role of associate producer. He went on to be a consulting producer as the show was rebranded as Today's Black Woman, hosted by ent...

Before You Go: A Journey through Black Appalachia

October 31, 2021 06:45 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MB

Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh introduce audiences to author Mary Othella Burnette. Ms. Burnette self-published her book Lige of the Black Walnut Tree: Growing Up Black in Southern Appalachia. This adventure story covers the history of her community--a number of which are her extended family members. This poignant visit back in time beautifully describes the life of Black Mountaineers from a daughter descended from quite a colorful history. Mary Othella Burnette recalls her grandm...

Before You Go: When the Philly Strike Struck Out

October 24, 2021 04:41 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MB

Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh bring audiences a voice from the aftermath of the 1944 Philadelphia transit strike that shut down the city and disrupted the war effort at the time. White workers  were determined that Black workers would not be promoted from the back rooms to train and trolley conductors. At 100 years old Merrill Pittman Cooper shares his very candid view as an African American driver hired just one year later during very tumultuous times. He eventually meets his wi...

Before You Go: A Final Case for Reparations by the Late Rep. John Conyers, Jr.

August 29, 2021 05:07 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MB

Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh take listeners back to an August 2018 interview Nicole conducted with Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-Michigan) and his career crusade to establish the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. During the Congressman's lifetime, which the Congressman spent nearly three decades on a relentless campaign, the H.R. 40 Bill never made it out of Committee.  In one of his final interviews, Rep. Conyers reflects on what repara...

Before You Go: He Skipped the Negro Leagues for NASA

February 08, 2021 02:23 - 1 hour - 56.3 MB

Who would give up a dream of playing professional baseball alongside Negro League greats Dizzie Dean, Hank Thompson, Elston Howard, Willard Brown, Larry Doby and so many others? Semi-pro outfielder Nate Crump of St. Louis, Missouri asked a friend what life on the road really meant for Black baseball players and chose a life in science instead. He was so talented that a career at McDonnell Douglass (formerly McDonnell Aircraft) led to even greater heights and recognition from NASA. Hosts Nico...

Before You Go: South Dakota Special

January 24, 2021 00:29 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MB

As hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh often say, "Stories like these are just a phone call away." Nicole picks up the phone and dials Doris Carey Graeber. We invite listeners to grab a good rocking chair and some lemonade to hear about the simple life in "God's country." Award-winning filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris joins the conversation to tell us why we need to take our letters, photos and family heirlooms out of storage. 

Before You Go: From Sumner High School to Homer G. Phillips

January 07, 2021 04:26 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MB

We meet retired nurse Glyndorah Hubbard of St. Louis, MO who was born in 1916. At 15 years old, Ms. Hubbard graduated from famed Sumner High School in St. Louis. Upon graduating college, she began her life as a nurse while working at the only hospital where Black residents of the city could get medical care at the time, Homer G. Phillips. As Ms. Hubbard shares fascinating and heartbreaking family stories--including the grandmother she knew who was enslaved and the other who was not--hosts Ni...

Before You Go: The Piano Lesson (Part 2)

December 23, 2020 20:34 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MB

The life of Maud Carroll takes a positive turn, but only after meeting the love of her life, saying good-bye to her mother at her mother's deathbed and overcoming racism as the church organist. The music of Ms. Carroll's favorite composers carry her through. She shares her love for both the music and how her life turned out in this episode.

Before You Go: The Piano Lesson (Part 1)

December 09, 2020 22:29 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MB

In this Before You Go episode we listen to the harrowing childhood story of a very special piano teacher. Maud Carroll immigrated to the United States nearly 100 years ago. Unfortunately she ended up in an abusive situation. With her life in danger, and nowhere to turn, the piano was her only friend. This is the first of two episodes with Ms. Carroll.

Introducing: Before You Go

December 09, 2020 20:09 - 4 minutes - 4.14 MB

Welcome to our podcast, Before You Go. Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh introduce audiences to guests who are 100 years old, "or just getting up there." We love our seniors. Join us at BeforeYouGo.TV. What we hope you take from our podcast is the importance of these conversations. It's a chance to discover history and there's no time like the present. What a gift!