Sis Kaplan is a broadcasting pioneer. Her father signed WBBM Radio in Chicago on the air (from her grandmother’s ROOF)! She and her husband Stan brought Rock N Roll Radio to Charlotte, NC in the form of “Big WAYS Radio”. Now almost 90 years old, she’s living history. Meeting her was a revelation.

Sis Kaplan is a broadcasting pioneer. Her father signed WBBM Radio in Chicago on the air (from her grandmother’s ROOF)! She and her husband Stan brought Rock N Roll Radio to Charlotte, NC in the form of “Big WAYS Radio”. Now almost 90 years old, she’s living history. Meeting her was a revelation.

One man commits to really listen to women - one at a time. IN HER WORDS features the life stories of strong women who bounce back. IN HER WORDS - because everyone deserves to be heard. Find us on Instagram and Facebook @InHerWords and @ManListening Hosted by Stuart Watson. Produced by Balto Creative Media in cooperation with the Queen City Podcast Network.

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Sis Kaplan on the birth of WBBM and Big WAYS Radio

As Fate (God? The Universe? Blind Luck?) would have it, I was destined to meet Lynn Murray Chavarria who just happened to hitch a ride with her old friend Mike Waterman when he picked me up at the Sanford/Orlando Airport on Saturday. 
Turns out she has quite the stories of her dad Bill Murray and how he developed an entire Christmas Tree Industry in the Deep South. 
So I hit the red RECORD button on my iPhone and YOU dear listener are the beneficiary of all the generations of lore from this amazing person! 

As Fate (God? The Universe? Blind Luck?) would have it, I was destined to meet Lynn Murray Chavarria who just happened to hitch a ride with her old friend Mike Waterman when he picked me up at the Sanford/Orlando Airport on Saturday.  Turns out she has quite the stories of her dad Bill Murray and how he developed an entire Christmas Tree Industry in the Deep South.  So I hit the red RECORD button on my iPhone and YOU dear listener are the beneficiary of all the generations of lore from this amazing person!

Lynn Murray Chavarria Grows Christmas Trees (and Hunts the Occasional Wild Boar)

My friends Nancy Haynes and Ramona Holloway have each forgotten more about media than I will ever know.

Especially radio (like podcasting with less latitude).

So we present for your listening pleasure a couple of free wheeling unedited conversations! Enjoy!

My friends Nancy Haynes and Ramona Holloway have each forgotten more about media than I will ever know. Especially radio (like podcasting with less latitude). So we present for your listening pleasure a couple of free wheeling unedited conversations! Enjoy!

Nancy Haynes & Ramona Holloway

Ethel Smith wrote her hero, back when lovers of Language put pen to paper and did such things. To this day whole generations appreciate a hand written note. Maybe it’s more real, a tactile demonstration of a love for the written word. Wonder of wonders, her hero wrote back! 

Changed her life. Just listen. (Recorded in Birmingham, Alabama in December of 2020 in the midst of COVID) 

RERUN OF EP. 50 NOW 180 EPISODES LATER

Ethel Smith wrote her hero, back when lovers of Language put pen to paper and did such things. To this day whole generations appreciate a hand written note. Maybe it’s more real, a tactile demonstration of a love for the written word. Wonder of wonders, her hero wrote back! Changed her life. Just listen. (Recorded in Birmingham, Alabama in December of 2020 in the midst of COVID) RERUN OF EP. 50 NOW 180 EPISODES LATER

Sis Kaplan on the birth of WBBM and Big WAYS Radio

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