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Rooted Turns One And We Brought a Gift · Rooted in the Plains

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  SPEAKER_00: Hey everyone, just popping in for a quick little note today.
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  SPEAKER_00: One year ago, I hit publish for the first time.
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  SPEAKER_00: To listeners across the country and around the globe, this means a lot to the girl who grew up in a small town of just a few hundred people.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to thank you all for joining me to learn about the region I call home.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today, Rooted in the Plains has a home.
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  SPEAKER_00: RootedInThePlains.com is live.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most of us were taught history in neat little chapters with tidy endings.
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  SPEAKER_00: Turn the page and the new topic began.
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  SPEAKER_00: But as I dug more into the stories, the dates started to overlap.
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  SPEAKER_00: The dots were connecting.
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  SPEAKER_00: History has a butterfly effect.
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  SPEAKER_00: Things happening at the same time, hundreds of miles apart, reshaping each other without anyone realizing it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or as you may have heard in the off the record episode, when I completely geeked out about all of the connections between some of the previous shows, or as I called it, Six Degrees of the Great Plains.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 1893, new inventions were being celebrated in Chicago at the World's Fair.
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  SPEAKER_00: Six hundred miles away, Oklahoma went from being open prairie to having new towns of thousands overnight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Indigenous people were being forced off of the land they had called home for generations.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of this occurring in the same year.
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  SPEAKER_00: Very different worlds, but you can still find connections between them.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why I created the timeline page.
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  SPEAKER_00: The site has a page for every episode with photos, and there's a link to the Instagram page for even more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every episode you might have missed, ways to connect with me, and there's more to come.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for being here for year one.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't wait to see what year two brings.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you have enjoyed what you've heard so far, all I ask is that you share it with a friend, a teacher, a parent, a grandparent.
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  SPEAKER_00: You never know who might be ready to dig a little deeper.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go explore.
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  SPEAKER_00: The dots are waiting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks.