Arts and Culture

On This Day – 3 May

Posted on: Wed 3 May 2017

On 3 May 1837, award winning author Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for her classic novel, ‘Gone with the Wind’ and Dolly Parton opened her own theme park, ‘Dollywood‘ in 1986.

Breakfast producer Kvitka Becker joined us this morning to get us up to date with what happened on this day in history.

Produced by Kvitka Becker

Image sourced from Flickr

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