Davis Dunavin

1 week ago | wshu.org | Davis Dunavin

In 1885, a multimillionaire playboy called a bunch of his wealthiest friends, with names like Astor and Vanderbilt. He had a proposition: How'd you like to buy a property in an exclusive retreat in the Ramapo Mountains? (Oh yeah, and his mistress's husband was there. Awkward.)

2 weeks ago | wshu.org | Davis Dunavin

The state of Connecticut made a joint resolution in 2013 to celebrate the nation’s first powered flight, and it wasn’t by the Wright Brothers. Connecticut is the only state that recognizes a German immigrant as the first to fly. And one man built a replica to prove it.

2 weeks ago | wshu.org | Davis Dunavin

Everyone knows the story of the first manned airplane flight, right? The Ohio-based Wright Brothers flew a biplane more than 850 feet across North Carolina’s Outer Banks in December of 1903. That historical event is featured on the license plates and on the state quarters of Ohio and North Carolina. But some people say someone else deserves the credit: a German immigrant named Gustave Whitehead. He supposedly flew his flying machine two years before the Wright Brothers in Fairfield, Connecticut.

3 weeks ago | wshu.org | Davis Dunavin

Most of us were taught in middle school that the Wright Brothers flew the first plane in 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. But some people say someone else deserves the credit: a German immigrant named Gustave Whitehead. He allegedly flew his flying machine in Fairfield, Connecticut two years before the Wright Brothers

3 weeks ago | wshu.org | Davis Dunavin

‘Birds of New York’ is about an estranged daughter who goes back home with her young son to reconnect with her dying father. It’s a family drama told with songs that demonstrate her rich lyrical storytelling -- like this song, ‘Missing.’DD: “So tell me about the story. I don’t know too much.”SBH: “It's a mother, two daughters and a son of one of the daughters. And I think that's it, actually. And so the drama is very intense.