Growing Native- Martin Luther King
Petey reminisces about his confused middle class white kid journey in segregated Kentucky.
Petey Mesquitey is KXCI’s resident storyteller. Every week since the spring of 1992 Petey has delighted KXCI listeners with slide shows and poems, stories and songs about flora, fauna, and family and the glory of living in southern Arizona. Link to buy the Best of Growing Native compilation CDs: https://kxci.org/shop/
Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey airs:
Sundays 5:55 PM
Mondays 2:55 PM
Tuesdays 7:55 PM
Wednesdays 6:55 AM
Fridays 11:55 AM
Saturdays 1:55 PM
Growing Native- Martin Luther King
Western soapberry is Sapindus saponaria var. drummondii and is in the Sapindaceae. In that family there are around twelve species of Sapindus. I say...
Jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and the botanical name of clammy weed is Polanisia dodecandra. They are both in the Cleome family Cleomaceae. Many...
The botanical name for the southwest white pine of this episode is Pinus strobiformis. I read that specific epithet stobiformis comes from the Greek...
