Author Archives: Steve Mays

Icy hill 2024

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Regular readers know we live at the top of a pretty steep hill, at the end of a gravel road. This week’s weather left our hill slipperier than I’ve ever seen it. Nobody was getting up or down. The truck above belongs to a man who delivers part-time for Amazon and he was trying to bring a package to us. Dude, we can wait.

Four or five years ago our neighbor braved the hill trying to get to church. It was not god’s will. And way back in 2008 I recorded one of my more popular videos: Icy Road of Death. I wouldn’t live anywhere else.

John Robison

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My friend John has also reached the age where a little digital enhancement is called for, so I fired up the Prisma app again.

Edited in Prisma app with Thota Vaikuntam

Edited in Prisma app with Dallas

Edited in Prisma app with Daryl Feril

Edited in Prisma app with Mosaic

Public-access Television

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“From about 1920 to 1945, radio developed into the first electronic mass medium, monopolizing “the airwaves” and defining, along with newspapers, magazines, and motion pictures, an entire generation of mass culture. About 1945 the appearance of television began to transform radio’s content and role.” (Britannica.com)

Someone would be considered special (cool?) if they even knew someone who had been “on television.” Today anyone with a mobile device can share video (live or recorded) with the world. Everyone is “on TV” or in a “movie.” But back around 1970 we had something called Public-access Television.

“Public-access television (sometimes called community-access television) is traditionally a form of non-commercial mass media where the general public can create content television programming which is narrowcast through cable television specialty channels.” (Wikipedia)

Not long after cable TV came to the little town where I grew up, a local church invested in some recording equipment and began producing local programming.

I was a “radio announcer” (that was the job title back then) so I made a few –very embarrassing— appearances on Time for Talk.