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Stamping Grounds
Mike Graves’s conversation with Georgia Green Stamper, the one I mentioned recording last week, is now posted on WUKY’s tonic and you can listen to it via streaming audio at the link.
The blurb for the segment reads like this:
Join tonic’s Mike Graves, Georgia Green Stamper, and a host of others for a two-part discussion about the author and WUKY commentator’s roots and how they led her to explore the history that shaped them.
That would make Leatha Kendrick and me a “host,” a role we can probably fulfill on odd Tuesdays. We contain multitudes. Leatha most assuredly has power, presence, and spirit enough for several ordinary human beings. Through the power of skillful editing, I sometimes sound a little intelligent myself.
Anyway, better to be “a host” than “and others,” a category where I often wind up in publicity blurbs.
The title, by the way, is a pun on the name of a local town, Stamping Ground, in western Scott County. Many European settlers found their way into Kentucky by way of buffalo traces and Stamping Ground was the site for a confluence of buffalo. But of course a “stamping (or stomping) ground” is also, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, “a customary territory or favorite gathering place.”
Georgia writes mostly about her stomping grounds in her new essay collection <em>You Can Go Anywhere from the Crossroads of the World.
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