60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday: Celebrating Martin Luther King Day. How America the Dream Came to Be With Award-Winning Recording Artist and Composer Steve Schuch, Part 1

<p>Hello to you listening in <a href="https://www.travellens.co/best-things-to-do-in-weare-nh/" target="_blank">Weare, New Hampshire</a>!</p><p>Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and quite a bit more because we’re celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day) and your host, Diane Wyzga.</p><p>Today we have a special bonus episode because the boys are back in town. My guest <a href="https://www.nightheron.com" target="_blank">Steve Schuch</a> is joining us from Hancock, New Hampshire. Steve is a former Peace Corps volunteer, Audubon naturalist, award-winning recording artist and author, composer, musician, and the recipient of the Parent’s Choice Gold Award for his CD Trees of Life. You’ve heard his music on NPR, PBS, and 2 compositions right here on this podcast. But mostly I’ve known Steve as my delightfully droll brother-in-law. Barry in the 3rd grade wrote:"<i>I really likt your songs and storeys. What do you do for a liveing</i>?" I’ve invited Steve to share with us a most wonderful story about how his musing on <a href="https://thekingcenter.org/about-tkc/martin-luther-king-jr/" target="_blank">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a> and <a href="https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/america-beautiful-1893" target="_blank">America the Beautiful</a> traveled all its musical way to becoming a new <a href="https://www.americathedream.org" target="_blank">America the Dream</a> composition. What makes this such a neat story? Let’s listen to learn how musing became musical notes.</p><p>Click this <a href="https://stories-from-women-who-walk.simplecast.com/episodes/how-america-the-dream-came-to-be-with-award-winning-recording-artist-and-composer-steve-schuch-part-1-olmY76sv" target="_blank">LINK</a> to access Part 1, links, resources, America the Dream website, downloadable music, and get in touch with Steve and Night Heron Music!</p><p><strong>Easy-to-access resources</strong>: </p><p><a href="https://www.americathedream.org" target="