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Front Page AM 5/25/12

WKMS | By Chad Lampe,
Todd Hatton
Published May 25, 2012 at 10:40 AM CDT
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Next week, the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site in Fairview hosts a commemoration of the western Kentuckian who became the first, and only, president of the Confederate States of America on the occasion of his 204th birthday.  We’ll speak with historian William C. Davis (no relation) about the rebel leader’s life and legacy today on Front Page A.M. from WKMS News.

(1.) WILLIAM C. DAVIS ON JEFFERSON DAVIS -- June 3rd marks the 204th birthday of one of the only two native Kentuckians to hold an American presidency.  One is, of course, Abraham Lincoln, and the other is his Civil War counterpart, Confederate President Jefferson Davis.  Davis was born in Fairview, in what was then Christian County, now Todd, in 1808.  Beginning June 1st and running through the 3rd, the Jefferson Davis Birthplace State Historic Site will host a commemoration of the former U.S. Senator and rebel President.  There will be exhibits, activities, and Civil War re-enactors.  But given Davis’ place in American history, the question arises as to whether he is someone to be commemorated.  For some insight into that question, we turn to Virginia Tech history professor and Civil War scholar William C. Davis (no relation) Davis is the author of Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour and Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America. 

(2.) BIG SINGING IN BENTON -- Every spring, Marshall County plays host to one of the longest indigenous singing events in the country.  The annual Big Singing is a tradition that has stayed largely the same since the 1800s. Rose Krzton-Presson explores the history and significance of Marshall County’s Big Singing.

This year’s Big Singing takes place today at the Marshall County Courthouse on Benton’s downtown square.  It’s free and open to the public anytime between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
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Chad Lampe
Chad Lampe, a Poplar Bluff, Missouri native, was raised on radio. He credits his father, a broadcast engineer, for his technical knowledge, and his mother for the gift of gab. At ten years old he broke all bonds of the FCC and built his own one watt pirate radio station. His childhood afternoons were spent playing music and interviewing classmates for all his friends to hear. At fourteen he began working for the local radio stations, until he graduated high school. He earned an undergraduate degree in Psychology at Murray State, and a Masters Degree in Mass Communication. In November, 2011, Chad was named Station Manager in 2016.
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Todd Hatton
Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.
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