Normal (Season 1, Episode 4)

Show note: At the end, I mention my guest blog post about differences between charter and public schools for Alma at the Voices podcast. This is focused toward music teachers, but it applies to other educators, too. Read it on Alma’s blog here.

“Before 2005 when I worked a night desk job at Wilson Hall…
And long before it was renovated and converted from an old women’s dorm…
Decades before my mom learned to skateboard just a few feet from there on a wide sidewalk they then called Broadway, beside the largest maple tree on campus…
Before James Michener saw the library that would bear his name, and before he taught here, and before he was a student here…

Read the full transcript here.

Sources:

http://www.weldcounty150.org/EducationinWeldCounty/UniversityofNorthernColorado.html

http://www.unco.edu/pres/sh.htm

http://mje.mcgill.ca/index.php/MJE/article/viewFile/7991/5919

https://www3.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/normal.html

http://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_Views_of_UCLA.html

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/names2000s.html

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