One is a former City Council member and founder of the Youth Crisis Center. The other is a former volunteer test astronaut and Air Force officer who led Civil Rights protests and was attacked on Jacksonville’s bloody Ax Handle Saturday. Together, they’re one of the First Coast’s iconic power couples, and, now, authors of a new shared memoir, Living the Legacy. The couple discusses their life and work ahead of a book signing at St. John’s Cathedral's Juneteenth observance.
Guests:
- Alton Yates, retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col., civil rights activist
- Gwendolyn Yates, former Jacksonville City Council member
Then, historic newspaper ads seeking escaped enslaved people as they fled to freedom are transformed into troubling and uniquely moving portraits. We talk to the New York-based artist behind the project Wanted: The Runaways, part of the Ritz Theatre and Museum’s latest exhibit The Problems With Archives.
Guest: Lillian Young, visual artist and family programs coordinator for the Brooklyn Museum
Finally on Monday's show, a classic tale of forbidden love. We preview the latest local staging of the longest-running musical in the world, the off-Broadway showstopper The Fantasticks.
Guests:
- Raines Carr, artistic director at All Beaches Experimental Theatre
- Josh Sewell and Isabel Dondero, co-directors of The Fantasticks
