Arc Stories: April 2017 Edition

Michael Krall | April 27, 2017

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Storyteller Susan Smith

Arc Stories

Four stories, each recorded throughout Birmingham at different Arc Stories events. A boy does battle with the rooster on his family’s farm; a teen learns a secret about her mother; a woman remembers the connection she had with her father around beekeeping, and a boy gets an intimate request from his grandmother.

(Originally aired April 27, 2017 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.)

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Pentagon website removes, then restores, page honoring Black Medal of Honor recipient

Charles C. Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Richard Nixon in 1970. But a profile of the Vietnam War veteran was caught in an "auto removal process," the Defense Department says.

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