This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed human. Liberty has never been just a word to we Americans. It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past 250 years, and now it takes form in a new way. The 2026 Semi-Quincentennial Coin and Metal Program from the United States Mint.
It celebrates the founding ideals that have long shaped our coinage. Available one year only, this historic collection features new coin designs, limited edition releases, and reissues. Shop new official coins at usmint.gov forward slash semi-q. That's usmint.gov/slash S-E-M-I-Q. This July 4th, come celebrate at America's Block Party, hosted by America 250.
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Summer's got a different tempo. Everything's a little looser, brighter. One plan turns into another. You hear something, you stay a little longer.
Next thing you know, you're somewhere you didn't plan to be. It's those in between moments. That's where the ideas hit. conversations stretch out, little memories sneak up on you.
Sometimes it's just about what's in your hand. that color. That chill, the new tropical butterfly refresher from Starbucks. guava and passion fruit flavors with mango pineapple flavored pearls. Yeah.
That feels like summer before you even taste it. Funny how one small stop becomes the best part of the day. Start your summer rhythm with Starbucks. Try the new Tropical Butterfly Refresher from Starbucks. Eczema.
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EPGLIS, Librachizumab, LBKZ, a 250 milligram per 2 milliliter injection, is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older who weigh at least 88 pounds or 40 kilograms with moderate to severe eczema, also called atopic dermatitis that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin or topicals or who cannot use topical therapies. EBGLIS can be used with or without topical corticosteroids. Don't use if you're allergic to EPGLIS. Allergic reactions can occur that can be severe. Eye problems can occur.
Tell your doctor if you have new or worsening eye problems. You should not receive a live vaccine when treated with EBGLIS. Before starting EPGLIS, tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. Ask your doctor about EBGLIS and visit ebglis.lilly.com or call 1-800-LILIRX or 1-800-545-5979. This is Lee Habib and this is Our American Stories.
And we tell stories about everything here on this show, including your stories. Send them to ouramericanstories.com. They're some of our favorites. Speaking of which, up next a story from one of our regular contributors, Joy Neal Kidney, and she listens out of WHO in Des Moines, a powerhouse station, one of the great stations. In this country.
And today, Joy brings us the story of her great-grandmother's. Periwinkle quilt. Here's Joy. With a story. I didn't know about the quilt top until several years after Laura Goff had died.
But my great grandmother and I, the first and last of our family strand of oldest daughters, ended up sewing by hand on this same quilt. Oh. Born shortly after the Civil War in a Guthrie County log cabin. West of Monteith. Laura Jordan was already a fourth-generation Iowan.
but the first born in the State. When she grew up and became a country school teacher, Laura bought a gold watch so she could ring the school bell to call the children to class on time. Back in 1890, when Laura married Milton Sheridan Sherd Goff. She had to retire from teaching. She no longer needed that gold watch.
so she traded it to her father for something she needed more. A cow. Laura bore eleven children in 21 years. Yeah. while Shird moved his family at least thirteen times.
out of state twice. Seeking greener pastures, Laura agreed to move anywhere in the United States. but she wanted to live where her children could be educated. During that time, Five years was the longest they lived in any one place. Yeah.
When three of Laura Gough's sons were drafted during World War I, She knitted socks and mittens for the Red Cross and Guthrie Centre. and helped roll bandages. She assisted with the births of the ten children of her oldest daughter. who had two sets of twins. When the infant twins died of whooping cough in 1929, Laura made their lace and satin burial gowns.
Lorigoff worked hard. Knew how to do without? could make a good meal from almost nothing, And according to her daughter, could get more writing on a postcard than anyone. Probably the first woman in our family to vote. She wrote her daughter on October 19, 1920.
Miss Grizel speaks at the Christian Church at 2.30 tomorrow. and tells the women how to vote. Think I will learn how it's done. Lorigoff was widowed in 1930. When World War II broke out, Two more sons served in the military.
as did six grandsons. Three of those grandsons lost their lives. Right. When great-grandmother Laura died in 1962, I was a freshman in college. The periwinkle quilt top lay folded in a closet in the little house on North Fourth Street in Guthrie Centre.
No one wanted that quilt top of colorful pointy patches set together with ekru octagons. with raw seams underneath.
Well, the angle of the diamond shaped pieces wasn't quite right. the thing would not lie flat. As the quilter in the family, I was offered the curiously lumpy thing. I knew that if I adopted the quilt, It would haunt me until I took the entire thing apart. But for the next four years, it lay folded in a box in West Des Moines.
I finally disassembled it, thread by thread. My tiny stork shaped scissors. pulling out great grandmother's neat little stitches. The fabric of the octagons was really too heavy to quilt through.
So I discarded them. and carefully washed the rest. Not until a year later did I cut out new octagons. and recut the multicolored diamond shapes. Hmm.
Slowly, I re-pieced the whole top by hand. which turned out larger than the original. That meant that the red border which really enhanced the rest of it. was too short. I still had half a dozen remnants of fabric from grandma's closet.
Mercy One was that very piece of bread. There was just barely enough of it. Meant to be, Great Grandma would have said. I stitched by hand through fabrics. my great grandmother had chosen.
Cut out. and sewn. with fingers that had learned how to sew, not that long after the Civil War. Fingers that were already seventy five years old when I was born. There was a lovely feeling of timelessness.
Um Over the next two years, I hand quilted a spider web. in each octagon? and a chorus of singing birds. around that cheerful red border. I presented the periwinkle quilt.
to the third generation in this mother line of oldest daughters. My own mother. We agreed that Great Grandmother Laura would have approved. And a beautiful job by Monty Montgomery on the production, and a special thanks. to join Eel Kidney for that beautiful piece of storytelling.
And you know, a broadcaster who started in Des Moines and on WHO, Ronald Reagan, in his parting address to this country. said the following words, if we forget what we did. We won't know who we are. And Joey Neil Kidney is reminding us that we need to know our family's stories in order to understand our nation's stories. and the fact that she lost two kids to a whooping cough.
and three to a war. and her great-grandma traded a watch for a cow. and was the first woman in the family to vote. that there was a time when women could not vote in this country. And now there's no such thought.
Remarkable story about a beautiful country and a beautiful family story by one of our favorite contributors, Joy Neil Kidney. Her family's story.
Well, it just seems to continue. Here on Our American Stories. Lee Habib here, and I'd like to encourage you to subscribe to Our American Stories on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, Spotify, or wherever you get our podcasts. Any story you missed or want to hear again can be found there daily. Again, Please subscribe to the Our American Stories podcast on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or anywhere you get your podcasts.
It helps us keep these great American stories coming. Liberty has never been just a word to we Americans. It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past 250 years. And now it takes form in a new way. The 2026 Semi-Quincentennial Coin and Metal Program from the United States Mint.
It celebrates the founding ideals that have long shaped our coinage. Available one year only, this historic collection features new coin designs, limited edition releases, and reissues. Shop new official coins at usmint.gov forward slash semi-q. That's usmint.gov slash S-E-M-I-Q. This July 4th, come celebrate at America's Block Party, hosted by America 250.
America's Block Party is a can't-miss 4th of July concert happening at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Experience music performances from major artists, patriotic tributes, and a kickoff to Giving Forth, helping to make July 4th the largest day of giving in American history. It's more than just fireworks. Learn more about this landmark celebration at America250.org. Eczema is unpredictable, but you can flare less with Epglisp.
a once-monthly treatment for moderate to severe eczema. After an initial four-month or longer dosing phase, about four in 10 people taking EBGLIS achieved itch relief and clear or almost clear skin at 16 weeks. And most of those people maintain skin that's still more clear at one year with monthly dosing. EBGLIS, Laricizumap LBKZ, a 250 milligram per 2 milliliter injection, is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older who weigh at least 88 pounds or 40 kilograms with moderate to severe eczema, also called atopic dermatitis that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin or topicals or who cannot use topical therapies. EBGLIS can be used with or without topical corticosteroids.
Don't use if you're allergic to EBGLIS. Allergic reactions can occur that can be severe. Eye problems can occur. Tell your doctor if you have new or worsening eye problems. You should not receive a live vaccine when treated with EBGLIS.
Before starting EBGLIS, tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. Ask your doctor about EBGLIS and visit ebglis.lilly.com or call 1-800-LILIRX or 1-800-545-5979. With my mom and dad living in Orange County, when we bring my five- and seven-year-old to visit, we are sometimes in for a two-hour drive that could feel like 10. As an avid camper, I know all about this. We'll pack up the RV and know this is either going to be the trip of a lifetime or a complete disaster.
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