It's it. It's 7-0. Whoa, there we go. It's 7-0-7 at WRJ and local news, timeless hits. And we
have two guests in here today, two lovely people in here. We have Joanna Jackson from
the Racine Public Library. And we have Judy Collins, not the singer, Judy Collins.
And Judy can have to move real close to that microphone there. We have Judy Collins,
or a genealogist and historian about Racine. You know, everything about Racine or close to it.
It's much as you could possibly know. Well, let's not stretch it too much.
You know something about Racine. I know a little something. Yeah, everything. It's a little
something, you know, a little bit more than most people. Before we get to Judy,
though, I want to talk to Joanna and that you are in charge of adult services. That's right.
At the Racine. Oh, you're perky this morning. Nice and happy. And look at that. Yeah, you're
good morning. Good morning. Joanna's in charge of adult services at the Racine Public Library.
Adult services, what is that? Absolutely. So the library has a lot of different services
that are available, but we also have services that encompass different age groups. So we do have
the youth services department. And then I'm from the adult services department. And we offer a
lot of different services, including when you go to the library, typically you probably think,
I'm here for books. And so we do have those. We've got fiction, nonfiction, a whole bunch of
those, but we also have different programs. For instance, a couple of the programs that I run,
I run one called craft and chat. And that's where we make different crafts every month.
We've also got, if you've ever heard of tabletop games, there's something that's really popular
right now. Obviously they've been around for some time. But if you've ever heard of Dungeons and Dragons,
or I've never played that. Really? No, I just, you know, it was actually monopoly.
It was actually created in Wisconsin. And with Dungeons and Dragons, it's a really fun game where
you're role-playing and you create a character and then you go on an adventure. And so we have a
program at the library that happens on Wednesdays. I actually think we have one happening that
tomorrow. And you basically got to create a character and go on an adventure with a bunch of
different people that are excited to tell a story together. That's my life. What do you mean a game?
Well, maybe we should see you there. Man, you know, I think my wife and I, the only board games
we play, we play about backgammon. Okay. Backgammon. We play card games. We play Uno.
You ever hear of Uno? I love a good game of Uno. Yeah, Uno, we play. It's a couple of the
card games, but we like backgammon. Because you can lay in bed and play it. It's a little board
then you can play, you know, and it's good and you can beat somebody and, you know, after the
games everything, you're out lose. And that's what she says to me every time I lose. Okay, so
you have board games you have? We also have technology services. Oh, brother. Forget it.
I don't know. Well, see, and that's, and that's perfect because that's what we're here to help with.
So technology services are a great tool if you're not comfortable with technology.
So if you're having trouble with your phone, if you're having trouble with your computer,
we have a team at the library that works in what we house them in our innovation lab,
which is a really cool space. There's a lot of different amenities in there. They do robotics,
they teach classes on basic computer use, basic phone use. They also have this really cool thing
called a 3D printer that makes, you know, I've heard about that for quite a few years now.
I still can't get the concept that you can make something on a printer like a 3D object that
you can hold. Yes. You probably could if you made it in small parts. They're doing it now.
How they're making a house out of a 3D printer? Oh my goodness. I can't wrap my hand around
that stuff. It's something that I feel once you see it, it's like, oh, and that's pretty darn
cool. You know, let's say, well, we got rid of our landline phone. It was true. I didn't want to
get rid of it. And my wife said, in six weeks, if you are still so, you know, you can't get rid of
this and your your heart's palpitating over getting rid of the landline. If you really can't deal
with this, I'll keep it. I'll get it back in again. But, you know, I was able to do it,
but I just didn't get rid of my landline. Now, the phone is still there on the wall. It doesn't
work, but it's still there. It's like these little things here. I'm not going to people can't see
them. These are what we used to run commercials on back in the 1960s. Wow. It's still here in this.
I put it back in the studio. These little carts. It just gives me a little feeling to the past.
Which we're going to talk about with Judy in just a moment ago and going back in the past.
You know, I always use technology. If you look at the way we're broadcasting now,
and I first get into radio a lot of years ago, this was unheard of. We played records,
vinyl records. We, I know you know what those are, right? Yes. We have those at the library too.
I mean, technology, just look at what I'm doing here. I mean, this is unbelievable compared to what
it used to be like. So yeah, I go with the flow and small doses. I have to get the battery
replaced in my cell phone and the guy wanted me the battery and I got to go do it. And I'm nervous
about it because what if the phone doesn't work right after you push the battery?
The battery is what am I going to do?
And I remember when I got my cell phone, the smartphone. I had a regular flip phone.
And I said, I'm never going to use anything on this phone other than to make calls. Well,
my entire life is my phone now. I mean, I do my homework and on my homework. My station work
on there. I do everything on my cell phone. But who would have thought of it? You should have
been with my mother. My mother, it aged 92, was still on Twitter. She was on Facebook.
She had to get the latest phone. She got the latest iPad. She had everything at 92. And she used
to sit there all day long. And that's what she did. And one day she switched it to a foreign
language by accident. Hit a wrong button. And she said, can you fix it? I don't speak whatever
language is it? What languages switched it to? So I had to go looking up on Google on my phone.
They were, okay, this word, what language is it? Once I found the language, I was able to do it.
But yeah, you know, people like me are a little nervous about technology.
And that makes sense. And I think sometimes that can also come from being nervous about what you
don't understand. And there's just so much of it. Technology is so vast. But the really nice
thing about the library is that you're going to have someone there who's willing to sit down
with you and work through that process. You have enough patience for me? I bet I do.
No, I bet you don't. I bet she does. I'll tell you why, you know, because right now I'm learning
how to play the piano. Ooh. My wife is teaching me piano. And borderline, this might be a
reason for divorce. If any of you is going to push this over the limit, teaching me the piano
might do it. Because I don't take criticism well when I'm playing. Well, you're playing the
quarter notes wrong with the eighth notes. And you got to do this with your right hand left.
I say, please sit down when I really need her help. And after she gets done helping me,
then I say, you know, I'm glad to help me. Thank you very much. But I get very frustrated because
you're trying to do something with the right hand. You're left there trying to get them coordinated.
It's very difficult to coordinate two hands on it. You play piano with them? I play very
rudimentary piano. But yes, it's definitely a challenge. People think, oh, they see piano players
play with two hands. It is trick. I could do one hand or the other hand. But getting both in
sync is very difficult. Yes, it's very difficult. In terms of like with piano, sometimes you're doing
different, you're doing rhythms in different hands and they're coordinating with each other.
Sometimes you have to cross over your hands. It's it's very complicated. And then you got the black
notes, which are the the sharps in the flats. That's right. Ah. I got the white keys all
said, I got to go to the sharps and the flats. What are you talking about? I do play a few songs.
I was going to ask, what do you play? I play from Oliver. I could play what is love from Oliver.
I could play a couple of basic baby songs, but you know, she taught me last year and I took
off for the holiday season. So I had to start all over again. But I asked the guy at a church
who plays piano. I said, how long did it take you to play both hands? You know, the other,
he said, well, I really do very rudimentary stuff with my right hand, my left hand, rather.
I keep it very simple. It's not easy to play with bonus. So I keep the chords very, very simple.
Like a baseline almost. Yeah. See, you don't have to pay attention to what you're doing.
We're talking to Joanna Jackson, charge of adult services. We'll talk to Judy Collins,
just a moment. She is a genealogist. And you know, a lot about the history. We're seeing not
everything. We said, but you know, not everything just a little just enough to make it interesting.
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720 Local News, Tambles, It's a WRG and my guest,
Sarah, Joanna Jackson, and Charter for the Old Services at the Racine Public Library.
Judy Collins is here, specialist in genealogy. Welcome, Judy.
Not the singer, Judy Collins. We got to tell you this isn't the both sides now, singer.
No, that's one of my favorite songs about Judy. Both sides now?
Yeah. And she's a little older than I am.
Well, now, yeah, she was a hit singer in the 60s, so yeah.
I'm a little behind her not that far, a little bit behind her.
But, Joanna, you never heard of Judy? Have you ever heard of your songs?
And I know both sides now.
Oh, no, I'll send in the clowns.
Send in the clowns.
Say it from a little night music, the Broadway music, oh yeah.
It's so good.
Okay, so my mother was big on genealogy. Are you big on personal genealogy?
Like yours and everybody else's. Do you do genealogy studies for people?
Do you go back for them?
So I'm going to go back further than that.
Being an original individual from Racine, I have always had a love for history.
And that comes from having great teachers in the RUSD system,
go racing, unified school district.
So I was fortunate to be exposed to all sorts of history at home and in the classroom.
So that's really the beginning of a love for family and a love for history.
So then we're going to progress and go a little forward.
As an adult, I began to become very curious about my own family's background.
Because the information was limited, I began to do research in the late
1990s. And then I became obsessed with the combination of genealogy and history.
And then it morphed into teaching the area of African-American genealogy and strategies,
which can be challenging because of the historical context of researching African-Americans'
background in their history. And then it morphed into doing presentations, public speaking.
And so I'm now here doing a special project with the Racine Public Library as a volunteer
for Black History Month.
Good. That's great. Now, how are you going back in Black History Month? You're going back
in the history of it and we're seeing?
So what I'm doing is a program on the 22nd of this month, which is on Saturday.
From 12 to 3 at the Racine Public Library at 7, 74 to 75, 7th Street.
So it's going to be a massive and very interesting program.
The history of we're seeing in terms of the African-American community.
And for those of you who may be familiar in terms of the history of, I'm just going to get very,
I just get very natural. I say a black folk in this city,
there were three predominant areas in which black folks could live.
And that was what we call the Valley, which is the Herrick Avenue area, which has been morphed
into itself by the end. And now it's known as Memorial Drive, South Memorial Drive.
And then there was the North Side and then there was the South Side. The North Side and the
South Side both had trailer camps back in the mid-1940s. So there was this progression of people
of color, black folk moving to Racine for employment. So the leaving Jim Curl the South,
they're moving to the North for work, and then what do you have? You have to find some place to live.
However, if there's limitations in doing so, you tend to migrate and to assimilate in living
in particular neighborhoods where you feel comfortable and where you can actually rent, probably
couldn't buy very often in that time frame in this city, but you could rent and you would board
with family members and friends. So that's sort of with the program. The program is going to focus
on the actual richness of the African-American community back in the day because many of us,
I won't say my age because I'm young and heart, we remember the songs, we remember the restaurants,
we remember the clubs going to the club, we remember the church and the closeness of the community
and how it was very close knit and a loving community. So I thought it would be a good idea to
bring back those memories and not just talk about it and to recreate the atmosphere.
Well, that's good. This Saturday. This Saturday, folks.
And the time is so it's late. You'll be up by then.
What's that? 12 noon. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, it won't be up.
Two, three, two, three, three, two, three o'clock. And because it's the racing public library,
which I've always adored my libraries, thank you very much, Mr. Carnegie. It's free.
Dale Carnegie. Oh, before Dale. You're talking about Dale V.
So which Carnegie was it? Okay, this is the infamous Mr. Carnegie who was the baron of
monies helped. Right. The Carnegie Hall guy. Right, the Carnegie Hall guy.
Well, this sounds interesting. I love history. My brother and I just love talking history.
There were a lot of Facebook pages that go back and recene history.
Oh, there. And I'm not from here, but just to see the pictures of Main Street as a dirt road.
It's hard to believe. You see it today and you don't know what you can't believe it.
Racine has always had a rich historical context of its buildings. I'm really into actually
residential, also residential, genealogy. So I studied buildings and owners and architects and
who built it and why was it built? And if it's still standing and unfortunately many of the
buildings have been demolished. No, no, no, no, no. For businesses that no longer exist.
But there is a movement here to preserve the history of this city, which is really,
really interesting. Hold it there. Joanna Jackson is here, adult services at the
Racine Public Library. Judy Collins loves history. She doesn't know all of it. But she loves
history and knows a lot of it. Is my right? Is that the best way to start that state?
Well, we have a nice discussion here while the microphones were off. I want to talk about some
of this now. My guests are Joanna Jackson in charge of adult services at the Racine Public Library.
Judy Collins is here, a specialist in genealogy. We were talking off the air about DNA.
And how they can really, they could take you back to the pilgrims coming to this country.
If they wanted to, based on DNA, they could tell you everything about your family,
things you might want to know and things you might not want to know. And you say that it's very
dangerous when you start dealing with DNA, move closer to the microphone. I want to hear what you
have to say. You said it's kind of dangerous and you start dealing with DNA and giving it up
freely because on these public sites, anybody can get your DNA information. It's a public.
Yeah. Yes, I think, I think when you begin to, when the public begins to have the interest
of locating their origins and their background, I just always say that be mindful of
who wants the information besides you. And where are you pulling the information from?
And who is going to have ownership of the information that you are providing?
So when you see those little green leaves flicking and floating around, I'm just going to say
green leaves. And most of you know what you know what that means. Keep in mind, why? Is that
an ancestry doc, huh? I didn't say that. I just said green leaves. I try to figure it out,
right? Because I'm not that bright. And if I can figure it out, everybody can figure it out.
So make sure you read the little fine print. Make sure you do some research when you go on
these public sites. Make sure you understand that once you make a commitment, that commitment is
infinity. They don't, your information, me including the data, the collections of the information,
your photographs, all that becomes ownership to the individual companies that allow you to have
this magnificent service for 24, 99 a month, whatever you pay.
Well, and it says right on these public sites, police may use this information. It says
it right on there's a disclaimer because it's public. Anybody can use it. But no one's paying
attention to that. They're more interested in finding how can I find that group? I want to find
my great great grandmother was. I want to know where do they live? What do they do? And then that's
going to make it easier for me to understand who I am. And then of course, to pass it on to your
family, to your children, your grandchildren. So the average person is not concerned about
the deep thought process of, you know, this might put me in the spot at some time or it might put
my descendants in the spot. So I like clarity in life. I don't complication. And people may say,
well, I'm not a murderer. It doesn't mean somebody else in your family didn't do something down
the line. And they use your DNA to find them. It's a whole I saw this special and parodont,
parodont, it was a paradigm, paradigm, paradigm. I think it's going throughout in California. And
they do a lot of legwork. You have to go to libraries. So look up stuff. You've got to go to a
public record. It's not just going online. You've got to do some legwork. But you can find out
everything about your family by just one person having the DNA in those public public sites.
But the flip side of that is you can also, you just mentioned the libraries and then there's
the archives. There's the county courthouses. I mean, documentation in terms of what I call
primary source records and secondary are really essential to really finding what I say
gets to the core of what research is when you actually are able to know the steps, know the
process to locate your life. It also means that once you do that, you come away a very different
person. At least that's been my experience. And those folks that I have worked with over the
years. So it has its benefits. Now you said there's things you might not want to know. And you
have clients, you know, you want to do your genealogist study. Maybe you don't want to know you're
related to Al Capone or something. I, you know, I think one of the best ways is and I did this a
lot. I talked to my grandparents before they passed away because though there were wealth of
information and they could take me back to the beginning of 1900 because my grandfather was born
in the year 1900. And I found out as when he was a driver of a curse for years in New York City,
he he buried three fingers brown. That name you might not know, but he was the head of the
Lucaisie crime family, Tommy Lucaisie. And I said, you had Tommy Lucaisie's body in the back of
your purse, he goes, yeah, from the funeral, thousands of mourners in the in front of the funeral
home for the head of the Lucaisie crime family. And my grandfather drove three fingers brown Tommy
Lucaisie. And I said, whoa, that was a 1967. I said, whoa, that's big news. That's 67. Yeah, 67.
Tommy Lucaisie was, he died in natural death. He didn't die gangster death. But he was the head of
the Lucaisie crime family, one of the big crime families in New York. Wow. Isn't that interesting?
And lately, I've been thinking in my quiet time, which is not a lot, but I've been thinking,
you know, what starts to happen is that regular people are the ones who really make and create
history. It's not just these folks that are put on the spot in the limelight. It's regular people
in their regular lives and their families and their children who actually create not just American
history, but history on the globe. And then when you factor that and you put it all together,
you realize that is what creates this magnificent arena of history, which continues to try to teach
us that it just keeps repeating itself. It's not very different. Nothing really new happens.
I always say it's just a new act being played with an old hand.
History repeats itself. There's a lot of truth in that repeats itself. So pay attention to it
because sometimes you don't want to repeat itself. Now, my wife and I were driving where I was
seen this years ago. And we came across the artwork on the side of buildings, the ads,
the painted ads on the bricks of the side of buildings. And we started noticing them all and
downtown Milwaukee, a downtown like downtown Racine on one of the buildings they recreated it.
It's right there downtown on the side of the building where the white tower restaurant is.
They recreated the papstead. They traced it and they did the ad and fresh paint. And it looks great.
So if you go around town, you'll see on the side of buildings, most of them are faded,
but you can see the old ads from years and years and years ago, still there on the side of the
buildings. They should they should recreate them. That would be nice just to trace them.
I think I just saw that tour. I just read that about the the white tower restaurant. And then there's
a few what we used to call uptown, which was Washington Avenue that looped around by the other famous
uptown library, which is no longer in service. And then across the street, there was the A&P
across the street. And then if you went down Washington Avenue uptown, there was Doves Drug
Store, Case Dress Shop, the dime store, Johnson's Music, Dr. Saven, Autometrist, Johnson's Music Store,
old timers, liquor, that whole stretch. And then you got the junction Avenue. So right before you
got to is it 14th Street to 16th Street, then you went straight down. There was the one of the
original Paps taverns. Is that still? Oh, you're just talking to the wrong guy. Oh, yeah.
I never had a beer in my entire life. No, so basic. Never had a beer. Never had one in my life.
Okay. Well, when you get to tavern territory, on the wrong guy, it's big too. But Racine had a
well, historically, it was in Dustro town. Oh, you actually had a lot of bars. So you had a lot
of bars that when you got off for a second, third shift, and they were open in the morning,
which used to amaze me. And they still are imagined for those who are still working for a second,
third shifts. You just go to the local tavern and get your slits or get your Paps. And you know,
and drink and get a sandwich. And you go home, you go to bed. So hopefully it's a Friday night,
where you don't have to get up the next morning. Oh, no, it could be a Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday. Well, I have bars right down the block. May have three of them right within walking
distance in my house. I live on Main Street. And there were three of them within walking
dishes. I see the wheels of turning in your head while I'm talking to you. Okay. I'll tell you
off the air with the three of them. I can walk all three of them. One of them actually has a
bowling alley inside a Tulane bowling alley. You know what I'm talking about? I think I am because
I just found that out recently. There is a bowling alley in that location right there on the corner
of high in North Megan. It's I forget the name of the bar. That's further out. Right. That one.
That one. Yeah. It's got a bowling alley. Yeah. Right. Right. A small one. But yeah. Yeah.
That's a real well. Yeah. They, you know, it's not automatic pinsteaders. I think they have
that people set the pins for. Yeah. But I invite everyone in the audience to, you know,
just slow down for a minute and and review your your local history. I'm going a historical tour.
Read about some of the old homes. Read about the connections between the industrialists,
the business persons and then some of the lovely homes that were built with their money and
and there's always connections. Every town in this country has the same sort of structure.
Beautiful homes. You're on Main Street. I mean, that used to be the beginning of the homes
being built in the 18 as early as the 1860s, 1870s with Jerome increased case and then you've not
the Walker family. The the base of of this country, I always say is very, very interesting in the
base. I mean by the base foundation of our history and it connects, it just connects us to where
we are and who we are. So which means if you have the moment and the time on Saturday, you might
want to come get that in again. I got to get that in again because I really feel that from my,
you know, the depths of my heart that people do long for yesterday and they want to sometimes
create it. And many times they're not given the opportunity to be with with folk who understand
the need to do that and to introduce it to young people who need to be made aware that life just
didn't exist and become important with the cell phone and Instagram and Twitter and all the others
that there was life before and that if it weren't for the sweat and effort of those, their grandparents,
their great grandparents and how they all came to be, that you lose something and you're not able
to continue through. I always say sometimes the storms that life can can greet you with as you
age as you grow older. So I take it, you know, I take it seriously. We're talking to Joanna
Jackson adult services at the Racine Public Library. We're going to talk about taxes. Yeah,
because that's coming up. It's going to rear its ugly head real soon. From the Racine Public Library,
Judy Collins, who is a specialist in genealogy, history of Racine.
Boy, having a good time this morning. We've got Judy Collins, a specialist in genealogy here.
Dishon the dirt too during the break here. And we have joined a Jackson adult services to the library.
Tax time, it's coming up and you know, it's not going away. Can't hide your head in the hole.
Tax time is coming at April 15th. The only people who have until October
to do your taxes if you were involved in the fires out in California, because these people
lost everything. Their records, tax record, they can give them an extra six months to figure it out.
And so, but for the rest of us, April 15th. That's right. So what are we doing at the library to
help people stay at a prison? Absolutely. That's how they got alcohol. They didn't get them on
murder. They got them on tax evasion. Yeah, please don't evade your taxes. Don't do that.
And we can help you with that at the library. With we have tax forms available for free.
So if you are looking for your federal or your state tax forms, we have those basic forms available
as well as homestead. We also are able, we are very fortunate to house United Ways Vita program,
which offers free tax assistance for filing. So we don't set those appointments
ourselves. You'll either have to visit their website or give them a call and they will set up
an appointment for you. We do appointments at the library with Vita on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
They'll set up all that with you. So we don't handle the appointment setting, but they'll help you
get all set for that. And it's a great service. The Vita team is awesome. And then, you know,
if you're in the library, you might as well take a little brow, see some of the other things we've
got going on like the innovation lab. Like I mentioned earlier or check out a book. We can always
help you get a library card. If you're interested in getting a library card, all you're going to
need is an ID with your most recent address. If you don't have that recent address on there,
we can also take something else like an official document that's going to confirm that.
And then you're with a library card, they're free and you are able to use all of our services.
So whether that's checking out books or checking out vinyls or checking out some of the cool
things like record albums. Record albums. Record albums. We also have CDs. No cassettes unfortunately,
but we've got a really extensive collection that we'd love to share with you. So please feel
free to come down. You might see me. I'm Joanna. I'm really happy for. I have. I have pictures of
Paul Harvey in front of the WRJ and microphone. And you came over. So many struggling technology on
the checker. And you helped me find them. And I just I just showed you on my phone. I still have
the pictures. Still got it for me. Yeah. I'm glad I could be a phone. And you did it with a smile
and everything is, you know, that's nice. I like that. Now with taxes, my tax, ladies,
been doing my taxes since 1972. Same lady. Wow. I only met her once. I met her once. I ran into her
by accident, but it's all by phone. And I just called her the other day because that kind of
makes sure she's still alive. And so I called her the other day. She's still alive. She says,
Donald send me your taxes, Donald. I'll figure it out. And she gives me the bumps. We're
rushing on the phone. I ask her questions about my taxes. I say, well, I saw this. Don't worry
about the form. Just sign it, Donald. And you'll be fine. Just send it in. We're good.
Is everything okay with your family? I see you. But I have this one question. Don't worry about
that. Everything's taken care of. Just the forms are there. Just sign it. I'll email it in and
send it electronically. Just we'll take it. She doesn't want to answer my questions because
so since 1972, she knows everything about me. And so she's got to be near 90. I don't know.
I don't ask her. Her name is Dolores. And I she's losing the same house since 1972,
with her husband. And she's a CPA, but she does corporations. But I'm one of her last clients,
which she did individual taxes. She didn't do individuals anymore. She does corporations.
Right. And so she helped me all these years. Wow. So think about that. It's 1972, the same
lady. And when she goes, I'm going to have to do, I can't pay taxes after she goes. I'm just
going to have to say, come get it. I'm going to have to come to the library. No, I wouldn't.
I wouldn't know what to do. I just send her an envelope full of everything and I get back
and she keeps me out of prison. Well, thank you Dolores. And she's in her 90s. That is excellent.
I don't know. She said, I know that I will cheat, but she's got to be older than me.
So anyway, one day I get a call from the IRS and they have a question. And immediately,
I'm going to have an I'm like, we're off crammed and I'm going to have an I don't know what to say.
You know, we're off crammed in this. Do you join? I don't think it was the honeymooners. Yeah.
You've been trying to catch me all morning. And you did. We're off crammed from the honeymooners.
Every time you get in trouble, how am I going to? How am I going to?
Yeah, alright. So you're right. With that. Um, and I said, why are you back?
So I called Dolores. She goes, what's their phone number? And she called me back about 20 minutes
later, everything's fine. She says, they can intimidate you. They won't intimidate me because I
used to work for the IRS. Oh, so I know everything. People get scared. I just answered their question
and they said. Find them. It's checking up on something. And, you know, again,
that's how they got Al Capone. I want to be in the same cell and you know,
that Al Capone was in. Isn't it funny? How they, they get a lot of people, a lot of gangsters.
They can't get them on murder. They can't get them on order. They get them on tax evasion
because there's no way, you know, some of these people, I don't know about John Gotti,
but some of these months, they say, well, I'm a plumber. There's no way you made millions of
dollars as a plumber. So tell us where the income came from. And that's how they get them.
But we want to keep you out of prison. So go to the public library. We're seeing public library,
protect services. And they'll make you they'll try to make sure you don't go to prison.
We're back to, well, that's great. I got to have both of you back again. I got to find out more,
but I love history. Okay, I really haven't enjoyed myself. It's been fun. Yeah, it's good.
A lot of people think they're coming in from like a 60 minutes interview,
we're at the end. I got you. Well, this has been great. And again, on the Saturday from
new to three, we have Judy Collins going to be at the Racine Public Library. We're in the
library. Is that going to be it's going to be in the community room? Okay. In the library. And
which is on the second floor. Second level. That's right. There will be greeters there to greet
you with a smile to help and assist you. Okay. To the exact location. And there are refreshments.
We need to add. Now we're talking. There's going to be food afterwards. There is going to be singing
and in the library. Oh, there's going to be singing and there's going to be a good conversation.
In the library. We had a whisper in the library. So our library is actually a mixed library.
So we have certain areas where you have to be quiet. And you have certain areas where you can have
white levels of conversation. Yeah, a library. That's it. Everybody thinks of the library.
That's right. So the library is this multifaceted. It's just you make it what you want it to be on.
It's your, we had a jingle here from the 1960s. It's the latest. It's the greatest. It's the
library. Oh, you remember that song? It's slightly, but I'll play it for you in a second.
Okay. I'll dig it up for you. All right. Thank you, ladies, for coming in today.
Joanna Jackson from adult services at the Racine Public Library, Judy Collins, who is a history
buff. I want to say you know everything, but you know a lot about the history of Racine.
Add a specialist in genealogy. Thank you, ladies, for coming in. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. It's eight o'clock on the noggin at WRJN. Stay right where you are.
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