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landscape literacy

“Just as verbal literacy was a cornerstone of the American civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s, landscape literacy is a means for recognizing and redressing injustices. We use the word landscape in its original sense in Old English – the mutual shaping of people and place – to encompass both the population of a place and its physical features. Literacy in landscape enables people to read the stories embedded in their local landscape and gives them a way to express new stories, to transform their neighborhood.” from the West Philadelphia Landscape Project

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The Bob Lassiter Show, WPLP, Pinellas Park, Florida, November 3, 1986.

On the eve of the 1986 midterm elections Bob revels in a presidential gaffe that has caused Ronald Reagan to tell the truth about the Republicans for a change.

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The Bob Lassiter Show, WPLP, Pinellas Park, Florida, late 1986 or early 1987. In this snippet Rocky the so-called (or self-styled?) rock 'n' roll Klansman's autobiographical monologue is upstaged by Bob's bashful acknowledgment of his engagement to Mary Turner. 

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More of Bob Lassiter's interview with Gene "Mr. Marbles" Ray.  I suspect this clip hails from earlier in the broadcast than the one posted on January 22, because in that oneBob asks Ray to give his address, as hosts tend to do only towards the end of a segment.

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The Bob Lassiter Show, WPLP, Pinellas Park, Florida, late 1986 or early 1987. Bob's guest is "ecologist, philosopher, master electrician, and the wisest of all men," Gene Ray, alias Mr. Marbles.  This interview suggests a certain affinity of the Bernhardian Geistesmensch to the old-fashioned American crank.  It was taped over an aircheck of another WPLP show called Not Quite Live Sunday Night followed by a CBS news break.  A few seconds of NQLSN can be heard at the beginning, and almost the entirety of the news break bleeds through at the end. A reference to a September 28, 1986 installment of Meet the Press in the news break allows one to establish that date as a terminus post quem for the Lassiter broadcast.

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David Fowler calls Bob Lassiter "to point out" his "near-pathetic ignorance of American history."

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Fragment of the Bob Lassiter Show on WPLP--Saturday, May 31, 1986. Open phones.  Calls about marriage, Norman Rockwell, and the Bible; and a regrettably truncated monologue about "how I got into the business."