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
The scientific name for our gopher snake (or gophersnake. I’ve seen it written both ways) is Pituophis catenifer. The genus looks like a combination...
It was the American botanist Soreno Watson, who was on the receiving end of the Lemmon’s collections, that named the onion collected in the...
This show could also be called Typha latifolia and Grus canadensis, which has a nice scientific ring to it. Cattails are “plants of marshes...
