Trevor Hughes
speaker
512 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 14 Aug
Trevor Hughes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And, you know, there was a wide informal network that we we call the Underground Railroad.
And one of the things that was really fascinating to me is that there has been a bit of revisionist history.
And a lot of white Americans in particular talk about how their families played a key role in the Underground Railroad.
But the reality is it was mostly Black Americans freeing themselves.
Yeah, I also wrote a story about Lewis and Clark.
The Lewis and Clark expedition explored the Louisiana Purchase.
It also led to the devastation of Native American tribes.
And I interviewed a canoe guide who has adventured all over the world.
And he guides people on the Missouri River, on the Mississippi River.
They actually float down to the Gateway Arch in St.
Louis.
And he and I were talking about this idea that
wilderness still exists in America, that there are still unexplored places, there are still things to learn about our country.
And I was really struck by that idea that we don't know everything about our past.
And we certainly don't know much about our future.
But that all of the people I talked to were really interested in knowing where we've come from and where we're going next.
Happy 4th of July.
That's enough for a rebel.
First down.
Here across the West, we had an unusually dry and warm winter.
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