Gladys Kravitz Was Right

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Yes, I am Uncle Henry here on the Uncle Henry Show,
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And once again here we are together, me and you
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On, what's going on in the world around us.

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We'll try to figure it out together here on the
Uncle Henry Show. Well, what a beautiful day, Another beautiful
day here on the Gulf Coast. Now, what a day
at a Mobile City council meeting. I'm going to tell
you all about that. I was also out this afternoon
at Bellingrath Gardens. They had a big press conference talking
about renovations out there to get ready. They're getting ready
for their one hundredth anniversary of being open to the public.

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So we'll get into we'll get into that later in
the hour. But first Mobile City Council meeting today. Now,
the first thing I want to tell you about this
meeting today, This Mobile City Council meeting lasted two hours
and forty two minutes.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Two hours and forty two minutes is how long.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
The Mobile City Council meeting lasted today. If you're a
citizen that wants to be diligent and responsible and keep
track of how your city is wasting your tax dollar
and throwing it down the civic toilet, they made it
just as hard as they could possibly make it today
by making this meeting last two hours and forty two minutes.

Speaker 5 (02:47):
Now they'll tell you that they had to. They've had
no choice.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
Look, I think that they ought to pass some ordinance
where if the meeting goes over ninety minutes, none of
them gets paid for the meeting.

Speaker 5 (02:58):
Yes, I know they'll never do it. I know they
never will.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
But that's what I think should happen. When that meeting
goes over ninety minutes, then the council should not be
receiving any kind of funding for that meeting. That's how
disgusting it is when they're gone. And there was I
don't want to call anybody by name, but there were
some council members. The boy they just wanted to talk.
They just needed to let it all. They needed to

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let everybody know that they knew.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
More than the average citizen. So just a lot of
hot air.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
If it's too bad we don't have a civic blimp
because we could power it every Tuesday down there. So
the meeting was too long, punishingly long. Shame on the
politicians involved in this. And also, you know, this is
the middle of the day. Let's say you had a
legitimate reason for going down to the meeting.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
This is in the.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Middle of the day on a work day, two hours
and forty two minutes long. Why can't they do like
other cities and have these meetings at night?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Why not?

Speaker 4 (04:02):
Why because it would be inconvenient for the politicians. What
about the people that are actually funding the government. The
meeting should not be during the day. Now I realized
that they'll never change that either, but they should at
least show a sliver of respect for the citizen and

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have the first meeting of every month at night so
that citizens can go to these meetings and not take
off of work to go to the meeting. There's just
little personal opinion thrown in on the Uncle Henry Shaw,
I know you probably just can't stand.

Speaker 6 (04:40):
That personal opinion time, personal opinion time, personal opinion time, but.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
It's personal opinion time.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
The taxpayer should be made as convenient as possible for
the taxpayer, so they should. They should be meeting tonight.
But if they're not going to meet tonight, they at
least once a month, throw us a bone and meet
the make it the first meeting of every month and
do it at nine and then we can watch and
the people that complain about it, they're the ones that
should be driven from government from now and to the

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end of time.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Right now. What happened at the meeting today, well, there.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Was about ninety minutes of the meeting. Meeting was taken
up by talking about a nightclub on Saint Stephen's Road
that they're trying to decide whether or not the city's
going to let this nightclub continue to have a business license.
It is Fat Tuesday Sports Bar, sixteen o eight Saint

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Stephen's Road, Fat spelled pH because I guess that's better
than fat spelled with an F. I don't really I
don't really know, and I've reached an age where my
caring is not really there either on finding out. But
there were people and the police there talking about let's see,
the police said that they had had more than two

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hundred calls about the place, dozens of criminal cases involved,
and the police where they're talking about how there's just
all kinds of stuff. One of the police department folks.
According to lanyap you can read all about this at
lanyampmobile dot com. One of the police officers told the

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council today that they had answered. Officers had answered more
than one hundred calls to that particular place since since
last October, and that eighty of the one hundred calls
were made between one am and six am. So imagine, imagine,
and there's a neighborhood around it, Imagine living near that,

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Just imagine. I don't even know what the debate is
on shutting it down, but they had they had, Well
you could find out watch it. If you have trouble
going to sleep tonight, start that meeting up, and I
don't think you'll make it the entire two hours and
forty two minutes, you'll be as fast as leave during
probably during the mayor's comments. But just watch the meeting

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yourself on YouTube. Just astonishing that they would not just
automatically after just after all the stuff the police were
telling them. What In fact, the officer talking at one
point talked about troubles spreading out around this establishment like

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a spider web, and that the sports bar was at
the center of the spider's web.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
To use very very.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
Wonderfully imaginative and visual language used by the police officer.
So anyway, that was most of the meeting today, if
you want to, if you want to go watch that.
And there were people and of course people were talking
about how bad the place is. Other people were talkingalking
about how they tend bar there before they go and

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lead Sunday school or something. Just really every end of
the spectrum was represented at this all. Right, now, I
do have some things to share with you from the
meeting that I just thought I thought you might want
to hear. We will get to all of that as
the Uncle Henry Show continues, but first I have to
take a time out for traffic and weather. We do

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have a Marty grosstyle parade happening in downtown Mobile tonight
at six point thirty, so you'll hear the traffic Lady
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in ten minutes. Are traffic Lady has been telling you
that there's a Marty Grass style parade in downtown Mobile tonight.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
I think she said six thirty.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
Now, this is to welcome out of towners that are
in Mobile for the twoenty twenty five National Institute for
Jail Operations a Jail Operations Convention. Now, I would consider

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working in a jail to be psychologically difficult. I've never
done it, and I've never had to spend the night
in jail, Thank the Lord le he's not yet. So
but that's just me guessing. I'm using the concept of
speculatory knowledge.

Speaker 7 (10:06):
I don't know that, but it's a speculation.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
You may, like everybody speculative knowledge.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Yes, I'm using my speculatory knowledge to think that it
would be psychologically difficult to work in a jail or
around them, and so I'm guessing that they have that.
They probably trying to have a good time. They probably
need a parade of some kind just to just to
give them a chance to smile. So that's the National
Institute for Jail Operations going on their convention immobile or

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their meeting or whatever it is. All right, I mentioned
the Mobile City Council meeting. I want to share with
you from that meeting, just to prove I watched it.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
So I thought instead.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
Of all the people talking about the bar, the mayor
had a lot to say today. The mayor Standy Simpson,
who is soon not going to be mayor anymore. Here's
something fun.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
He said.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
He was in Ireland last week with the Mobile Chamber
of Commerce. Let's listen together. Is the mayor tells us
about his time in Ireland.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Got back from Ireland last week. The Channel of Commerce
had a sponsored ship sponsored trip. Every year they sponsored trips.
Typically it's across the United States. We try to go
somewhere with a support city where there's housing opportunities, it
could be workforce development, and so you go to see

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different sites. While you're there. You travel to kind of
gether in a group, so you get to interact with
people that you would not otherwise interact with, and through
those relationships, we can start building on some of these projects,
capturing ideas where somebody's had success in a place where
we're trying to do something that maybe they've already done.

Speaker 4 (11:54):
All right, so when they go on a junket to
other countries, it's for idea exchanges and things like that,
building relationships.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
On a personal note and point of personal privilege, my
wife and I decided that we were going to take
a couple of days after that to celebrate our fiftieth
wedding anniversary, which I appreciated our organizing all that. And
so I was at an event and uh, somebody tapped
me on the shoulder and I turned around and the
moneybody there and then I turned the other way and

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my four children and all their spouses were there standing there.
Huge surprise. The emotions that first off, I was confused
about where was I Yeah, And then you know, I
almost cried. And then they I said how long you're
gonna be there? And they said, we're gonna be here
all week with y'all. And that's when I did cry
because I knew I'd be paying for it, but anyway,

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great memory, lots of.

Speaker 5 (12:50):
The mayor delivered a good punchline, and he deserved some applause.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Lots of fund and so.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
Hey, and the new mayor Spiro trying to throw in
some punchlines every now and again. These meetings are brutal,
and we need some levity added to these meetings. And
it's and we don't want to always have the fun
of somebody getting thrown out every meeting, So from time
to time just have a one liner or something like that.
You heard, the crowd received it warmly. They even applauded

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it right now. The Mayor also talked about some big
stuff that was going on on Mobile yesterday. One of
those things was a big ceremony to mark the deepening
of the ship channel and the expansion of the port
that all of our elected officials and a lot of
our industry leaders are saying are going to mean big,

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big things for Mobile and the state of Alabama. So oh,
you might want to hear this, especially because I know
you enjoy the just the raw charisma of Mayor Stimpson.
Here he is talking about the significance of the deepening
and expansion of the Port of Mobile field.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
There was a big day in the city of Mobile
for those that saw information on the news having to
do with the deepening and widening of the channel, which
is now fifty feet deep. There were probably more dignitaries
from around the state of Alabama at that one event
than in any event that been at in the last

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twelve years, simply because the Portomobile impacts their entire state
of Alabama, and people in Tuscaloos, of Birmingham, Huntsville, they
all recognize that now and so they have a keen
interest of what's going on. We are now the deepest
port along the Gulf Coast. We continue to save from
a promotional standpoint that Mobile will be the gateway to

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America on the Gulf Coast. It will be the first
port call for the big container ships where else unload
some of their cargo here before they moved to other ports. Huge,
huge game changer from an economic development stand point. The
visionary for that was Senator Richard Shelby who realized when

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he was on a trip to Singapore that they were
deepening their channel, and they thought, why should why can't
we do that in Mobile? And it was with that
seed being planned and recognizing what it would mean to
mean to the entire state of Alabama, he started the
wheels in motion to secure part of the funding. At
some point it came incumbent upon the state to match

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some of those funds. That's about the time when Governor
Ivy proposed the Rebuild Alabama gas tax, so that gas
tax increase, some of that money goes for a matching
fund for the federal funds to pay for the deepening
of the channel.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
By the way, that is something a lot of people
probably didn't realize, but when they went up on your
taxes for gasoline a few years ago, not all of it,
but a bunch of it did go to the deepening
of the ship channel.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Again, a huge game changes, so many people involved. But
yes to a big celebration for that.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
All right, So very very good.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
I'm glad that we have this port and hope that
everything they say will happen will happen and we get
all that additional business and we all benefit from that.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
So glad that they were able to.

Speaker 4 (16:17):
If we're going to have industry down at the water
instead of recreation, then it better be is the best
industry we can possibly get.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Down there.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
So it sounds like they are trying to maximize the
amount of economic impact from the port as much as
they can. So glad of that. Glad to hear that.
And he said, you noticed, he said Richard Shelby got
the idea by visiting Did he say Singapore or Indonesia?
He said he was on a foreign trip and got

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the idea, just like he was talking about the trip
to Ireland. Getting ideas from other places. It reminds me
of when former Mobile County Commissioner Mike in went to
Paris and came back with the idea. He came back
and said that he had discovered traffic circles. Do you

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remember this?

Speaker 5 (17:11):
He had discovered roundabouts by.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Going to France.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
And and then I don't think anybody had the heart
to tell him that we had already had We already
had roundabouts in Mobile County at the time, but he
discovered one out in Paris.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Wonderful politicians could.

Speaker 4 (17:33):
Get great ideas just by looking at travel brochures instead
of actually going on the trips. There's more show to
come after the news break, it says the Uncle Henry

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Speaker 1 (18:30):
I'll be looking at.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
The phone lines to see if you call two five
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more brief thing from today's Mobile City council meeting.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Again. If you want full.

Speaker 4 (18:41):
Coverage, you can read what Lambyak has written at lambyakmobile
dot com, or you can go to the YouTube channel
of the City of Mobile and try to endure the
ridiculously long meeting that they had today that was stretched
two hours and forty two minutes.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
One thing I did want.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
To share with you very briefly from the city council
meeting today. They were having people they had a hearing
or hearings for different properties that they're gonna fence off
or secure. I don't I don't even remember, but there
was a there was a place on Government Street that
they are looking to fence off and secure, and a

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lady that lives near there came to the meeting and
she she said this, She described herself as.

Speaker 6 (19:26):
This, I lived there, and I'm glad as kravits at
the neighborhood, and I've never seen anybody inside at once
they owned it.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
So she said, I'm the GLADDYT. Cravits of the neighborhood.

Speaker 6 (19:40):
I lived there, and I'm glad As Kravits at the neighborhood,
and right whoever.

Speaker 4 (19:45):
That lady is, thank you, lady, thank you for that,
Thank you for being the gladyst Cravits of the neighbor
Every neighborhood does need a Gladys Crabbits.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Now.

Speaker 4 (19:55):
She was made the butt of jokes on almost every
episode of bee Witched. Almost every episode of Bewitched, they
made fun of Gladys Krabits. But the reality, the reality
was that she was the only person in the neighborhood
that knew that there was a demonic witch creature living there,

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practicing full blown witchcraft with covens of witches and all
kinds of demonic stuff going on. Gladys Kravitz knew the truth,
and she was mocked for it. She was a punchline
that made so much fun of her, that tried to
make her. They to use a modern term, they would
gas light her to make her think, No, she didn't

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really meet Benjamin Franklin or who whatever, The weird thing
was they did that week with their demonic witchcraft. They
just made fun of her.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
But she was right.

Speaker 4 (20:48):
I want you to remember that, those of you that
are old enough to remember that she was right. Gladys
Kravitz was right, and instead of being the butt of
Joe folks, you should try to be. You don't want
to be the uh, the Elizabeth Montgomery character. You don't

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want to be in Dora. You don't want to be
Uncle Arthur or doctor Bombay in life. You don't want
to be the demonic. You want to be the Gladys
Kravitz that sees the truth and tells the truth. Now,
she showed you that telling the truth in this world
can really it can hurt. You can be mocked, you
can be you could be turned into a pariah and

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just cast out of society. But it's we need truth
tellers like the Gladys Cravitzes. So, lady, whoever you are.

Speaker 6 (21:39):
I live there and I'm Gladys Kravitz at the neighborhood.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
Thank God for you, Thank God for you. Two five
one four seven nine two seven two three. The telephone
number that's two five to one four seven nine two
seven two three email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Now,
let's see, let me uh, let me go to some
voicemail messages that have come into the Uncle Henry Show
over the past few days.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
We have.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
A few voicemail messages on a variety of topics. Let's see.
Got a call from sixty eight year old Chris of Westlock. Say,
I think this came in about an hour ago or so.

Speaker 7 (22:21):
O Ty, Uncle just noticed on the ESPN football schedule,
got three or four games on the night, and one
amongst them, the South Alabama Jaggs are playing hosts to
Arkansas State. Good Jaggs.

Speaker 4 (22:40):
Chris, thank you, thank you for mentioning the Jags, and
I'm with you on that Go Jags. Wish for them
a victory. Now, let's see. Also got a call from Buford.
It was last week. I guess we heard that Paul
Fine baumb was thinking about running for the Senate out
of the state of Alabama. And I expressed to you

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my shock when he did this interview and said that
he had voted for Donald Trump and wanted to run
as a Republican, possibly because I'd always made an assumption
I know, I'm not supposed to draw conclusions.

Speaker 6 (23:15):
Don't draw conclusions because if you do, you're going to
be wrong. You can draw them if you want and
just be wrong.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
Well, I just I assume that Paul Finebaum was a
liberal because he worked in media. Most of the media
people I've met, or left wingers. He worked for a newspaper,
most of the newspaper people I've met, or left wingers.
I just I think he has a law degree, doesn't
he most of the lawyers that I've met, or left

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wingers in a very rough way. And so I made
the assumption. I drew the conclusion that he was a leftist.
But apparently I guess I'm wrong. I don't know, but
Beuford heard.

Speaker 8 (23:57):
This, Henry in response to you, Paul Finebaum running for Sennafon.
Let me tell you this, Henry. I think you made
a comment that since he is running as a Republican,
you thought he was a liberal. Henry, he most likely
is a liberal. In the straight of Alabama, they know

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that they're not gonna be able to run to win
very easily as a Democrat.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
True, and yes, that's why we have a lot of
very squashy Republicans, which is.

Speaker 8 (24:30):
Why Alabama is absolutely infested, infested with Ryano Republicans. Yes,
and I tell you what, Henry Rhino was way more
dangerous than an open Democrat. But Henry to sale fine
bamb truly is a Republican or not. I don't believe

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he's a conservative, But yet to see if he's voted
for any Democrat president nominee since Bill Clinton voted for
Bill Clinton and other Democrats onward, he's a dagon Democrat.
I don't care if he voted for Trump this last
go around or not. That man is a Democrat.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
And now wait, now, come on, Buford. Are people not
allowed to grow? Even people the age of Finebaum can
grow as a person. Are you discounting the possibility of
personal growth?

Speaker 8 (25:25):
Run through? If he voted for Bill Clinton and any
other Democrat presidential candidate after Bill Clinton. Cause if you
were still a voting Democrat after Bill Clinton, you a
dag on communist Democrat. Ain't nowhere around it. There ain't
none of this. I voted for Obama, but now I

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vote for Trump and I'm a conservative Republican. Note no,
I don't bite Henry. I don't bite. I don't buy
red slimp on the side of the roof anyway, you.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
Have a good day, Beefford. Thank you for sharing your
thoughts on this. Two five one two one six, nineteen
seventy six. The number to leave a message two five
one two one six, nineteen seventy six. So, Beaufford, you
don't believe that people, adults can grow out out of
one politics into another. You don't think that. You don't
think so, Beeuford. It may be that he was voting

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with his emotions for Democrat candidates and then he saw
the results. Maybe the results affected his pocketbook quite heftily,
or or he could take a look around and see
things are not better that they were worse.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
You don't think, You.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
Don't think people are possibly can't people possibly grow?

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Understand you're trying to be careful with who you vote for.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
But still it would be worth talking to him about if,
in fact, if he does run, and I'm not sure
that he will, but if he does run, people are
going to be asking him about that constantly. So there's
probably more to the story. But Vieford, thanks again for
the voicemail. All right there, Yes, there is more to

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come of the Uncle Henry show here on news Radio
seven ten WNTM. Now I was out at Bellingrath Gardens
this afternoon for a big press conference, and I'll share
with you a little bit about what they got going
on out there next that and other things coming up

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next as the Uncle Henry Show continues here on news
radio seven to ten WNTM. The Uncle Hemberrer Show proceeding forward.

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It's five point fifty. We have new sadlines coming up
in ten minutes. Now, I mentioned too you I went
to a press conference at Bellingrath this afternoon. Beautiful day,
beautiful time of year, by the way to visit Bellingrath. Now,

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they had a press conference to unveil a centennial master
plan for Bellingrath Gardens. They're a few years away from
their centennial, the one hundred year anniversary of when the
garden was first opened to the public, and so they
want to they want to have something big for the
one hundred years, and they have a new plan to

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make improvements out there. So here's a brief conversation I
had with the executive director of Bellngrafh Gardens, doctor Todd Lesang.
So let's listen together to my chat with doctor Todd
Lessang at Bellingrath right after the press conference.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
What was your message today at the press conference?

Speaker 9 (29:09):
Our message is that we have a new exciting vision
for the next twenty years and beyond to get us
to our one hundred year anniversary. And we think people
are going to be so thrilled to see Bellingrath being
rejuvenated and some new spaces like a future children's garden
being developed.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
All right, doctor Lissang, tell me first about what's the
first step, the first thing we're going to see happen
or change at Bellingrad.

Speaker 9 (29:30):
So the first thing is you're going to see us
working around the historic, most historic parts of the gardens,
the home, the porcelain gallery, mirror, Lake Fowl River. We've
got to rejuvenate some of those spaces because they are
one hundred years old. We also have a summer house
which is on the west side of the lake being
done right now, and you believe me when.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
You see it, it's awesome.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
Now this renovation, you're getting ready for the centennial of
the public opening of the gardens.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
So that's how many years from now?

Speaker 9 (29:56):
Six and a half years, So I got to get busy.

Speaker 4 (29:59):
So this first, the first part of your centennial renovation
here that you just described.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
How long will that take? Do you think?

Speaker 9 (30:08):
So we're starting planning tomorrow. We think the plans will
be done in about a year, and then we're going
to be raising the money for the construction, whether it's
you know, an individual found river storing or whatever, and
those are going to come about over a period of time,
depending upon how our fundraising goes.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
Now, I also heard during your press conference discussion of
a children's area.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Explain that and when are we going to see that?

Speaker 9 (30:32):
So I have some news to come in a near
term from a major donor who wants to help us
make that garden happen, but I can't talk about it today.
But the perspective of it is that this is an
environment where children can play and learn in a safe place,
and with the garden and fun features designed to accommodate that.
So it's not a park, but it's not an adult garden,

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if you will either. It's kind of a hybrid, so.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Not adult garden. So this means maybe kids can run around, yes,
and run around.

Speaker 9 (31:00):
We'll make sure not to have any thorny plants.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
Okay, Now, now you said there's going to be a
donor that's going to come in and help with this.
Is this something that's going to be finished sooner than
the other renovation.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
It could be.

Speaker 9 (31:12):
We haven't started planning on it, and you know planning
takes a good year or so. But we have a
donor who's interested in this garden in a very significant way.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
Now, during the press conference, you talked about the success
of Bellingrath in the last few years. Can you tell
my listeners how is Bellingrath doing these days?

Speaker 9 (31:31):
Bellingrath's doing great. We've had some We just had a
record year of attendance one hundred and eighty thousand visitors.
We've had a success at Christmas like we've never seen before.
We started a new Chinese Lantern festival and people came
out of the woodwork to come see us. We are
financially strong, so operating wise, we're great. But it will
take some help to do all these major projects. But
we feel comfortable that we'll get the right people to

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help us.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Now, how many years have you been here? I've been
here five years. Exciting time to be here after you've
been here for five years.

Speaker 9 (31:59):
I think it's an exciting time for bellingrad Just like
it's such an exciting time for mobile. I'm thrilled to
be here.

Speaker 4 (32:05):
So again we're going to start seeing changes and it's
going to be you're hoping everything is complete in seven
years in time for the centennial.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
We're going to do our best. Doctor, Thank you so
much for your time.

Speaker 9 (32:16):
Thank you, Uncle Henry.

Speaker 4 (32:17):
All right, doctor Toddless saying of Bellingrath. So glad to
hear that Bellingrath is doing very good in terms of attendance.
And I'm going to share some of their press conference
i think on tomorrow, maybe after six pm tomorrow, just
so you can hear a little bit more about what
they've got planned. But they're doing they're doing very good.

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And the Chinese lantern thing that they started for the
first time this year, I think he gave a figure
during the press conference of something like forty over forty
thousand people attended that. So things going well for Bellingrad
Gardens and I'm glad to hear that and looking forward
to see what they come up with for the one

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hundred year anniversary of being open to the public for
one hundred years. Again, more on that tomorrow on the
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