23:00 But there is information. We've also got some callers that have been holding for a long time. Okay, callers just stay on the line here folks. Yeah we're going to be back with you okay I want to tell you about something okay talk over it yeah this is Bethany Cemetery and it's out off uh...I can't remember the address Mike, what is the address of it? Is it where... okay. He's going to tell us the address in just a minute he's going put that up on the monitor. This is Bethany Cemetery and its been such disrepair there are many many slaves buried there now this is part of our history and part
23:39 culture a part of what made this this oh Here we go. Okay, okay here. We go. Okay? We're going out all right. We're taking a little shot there blue We're over in the parking lot at Sam's school That's where it is it to cross the street from Sims elementary school great elementary school I might add and the well-kept Well, it was just a great little school. Of course it's closed for the summer didn't have any kiddos loose but there we are okay and we're going to go across the street here in a minute and show you this Bethany Cemetery see Sam's School? You got a lot of kids that goes to Sam's School when its in session. See how nice it is
24:20 just a great elementary school. And we, so we're out cruising see and taking in some sights because Austin has many many things Jeff that people don't appreciate they don't know about they don't take the time to go visit you know they're all talking about let's see there's Bethany Cemetery and it was established in the late 1800s when burial space set aside for the African-Americans in Austin's historic Oakwood Cemetery was no longer available. It's the oldest recorded person in there was buried in 18, I think it says 1879? Okay but if you'll just look at your monitor look closely and you are looking
25:01 and you'll see what it says. And it's in such disrepair, we need and Sue Spears has been working... In 1997 this became a Texas historical site and I about had a hysterical sight when I saw it because its in such disrepair! This is over five acres of land folks, It is beautiful! See were out there looking at look at the wildflowers that have grown up here Oh, it is now that's right off the street and it fits I guess se ts. Is that the word? Okay look here 1858 do you understand that this person was probably born into slavery Look at that died in 1908 and I started going through there and looking at Gravestones and it um
25:53 1859 that was before the look at that I just I'm amazed at all these and Treasures their absolute treasure sitting out there this Cemetery needs to be taken care of. I think it needs a better fence around it up Okay, Jeff okay Look at this look at this baby. Oh quit looking at that's for they end okay? Look at this baby Look at this time Child was I think one year old and I just, I was so fascinated with that. I just couldn't break myself away of it Look see how little his little baby We need to get this place fixed It's wonderful! It is the people who endured slavery look at it One stone in there
26:46 It had the woman's name, her name was Mississippi and I was telling that today on the radio. I just think this is a wonderful place it's quite a bit of land and it needs to be maintained now as I say Sue Spears Ron Davis have worked on it, but we need to put some there's this is a rich town I mean City Council wasted enough money to maintain it and that was a really bad remark George But it's true see look how high everything is and I got had a few sober moments there when Mike would Would yell watch out for snakes. Okay? And that would kind of jump around and There's a path running through it kids are riding bikes
27:31 And it's, I don't know. It was just... and look how peaceful it is because there's so much land that's not occupied by residences and of course because it's a cemetery. And you didn't go over to see it but I am so taken with it and I'm so... Where exactly is it at? I'm not... Okay, I am trying to think. Born in 1868 that's right around the time of the Civil War and now this, the Taylor plot here was pretty well maintained. I would think that probably the family comes in and works on this particular part of it
28:09 The I'm trying to think what the name of this the name of the street and I've got it written down right here Springdale Road is that what is its Springdale across from Sam? Springdale and East 12th, and it's a cross from Sims school And you can pull up in there as I say There's not much easement when you I mean once you step outside the the gates. I call them the pillars there and such disrepair. There's just not much easement there, it's like a bicycle line and you're in front of a truck but it is just a treasure and someone needs to do something about it I don't know if its going to be me or you perhaps Jeff
28:53 It was so peaceful because it's a cemetery. It is a big cemetery right in the middle of this city and it's practically downtown that now you know because we just keep, the downtown just keeps growing and growing and growing And uh...it needs to We need to maintain it My switchboard number is up there 495-1300 If you will call me I will put you And can't she's busy I think she has children and keeps house and tries to do every other thing in the community you know one of those kind of ladies, and I'll still keep trying. I'll start again tomorrow and try to find her and see how pretty it is It was just but to thank How long some of those people have been? Been out there Have been buried up there resting and Wonder what their life with me
29:52 Wonder what the what's on the tree? Oh, yeah there were that he was showing that graffiti also Mike and I got we're walking around back in there when a way. I wasn't looking for snakes There was the bicycle. I'm thinking maybe they're stolen merchandise stashed in there My friend tiny had called me and she said when she was growing up her daddy had a dairy out That way she said it used to be a lovers Lane which you probably know about parking in cemeteries Jeff And yeah, he's the back trail see I'm standing in the back trail and got run over by a kid on about coming through there He was cutting through their two little girls walk through that they were going to the swimming pool and Someone had a car today on the air that said That several people had okay. That's 18 born in 1845 so
30:41 So that was probably a person now here's the little bit of on the thing going down the low Going down the trail doing see there it and he came back through if you think I'm coming through here a lot or something He said, I'm trying I had nothing graffiti. Look at the houses that are so close to this fence That was another thing I was I was kind of amazed with that. Now here's the one, the wife Mississippi is her name she was born 1952 but I loved it because i would suspect she had come from Mississippi or she maybe had family oh and while you're out there American Airlines is well and running okay because it was flying over we had to quit three times that was all right because it was like
31:24 It was like the past, back before the Civil War and we're propelled into the age that we are now. There's a bank we found. Does it look like anything you've lost? It's being stashed out there now. The...it was- it's a wonderful, wonderful cemetery and its full, it's loaded with history And today I had a real funny thing happen today on the air. I was talking about this and someone had called in And well, I just remember because Monday is always a slow day. A gentleman named John he had called in and he said that he thought many many things were in disrepair
32:00 Strange things happen to me. He said he'd gone to Washington DC Last year maybe a couple years ago friend that lives up there and they had gone out to the Congressional Cemetery Are you what are you yelling? Okay, we'll talk about that in another word it's 21 minutes after 8 are we supposed to give the time or is that pertinent I Not relevant. Okay, not relevant? How about the traffic? Not relevant okay but it's cool in here that's pretty good. Yeah it is! Did Austin have the first Access Channel? I have no idea What do you mean you have no idea?! You have a show here don't ya know your history what if I'm yelling at him