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
Phemeranthus aurantiacus, the former Talinum aurantiacum, is now in Talinaceae, the flameflower family, “a family of two genera and 28 species.” There’s more; the...
It’s fun to have favorite plants to look for on excursions into the hills. Looking back at photos and my notes, we have been...
I’ve told the story of the yucca moths and the soaptree yuccas many times. I love to tell it when I give talks and...
