The Summer of '62 | Episode 1
2/24/202637 min
In the series premiere, journalist Kat Singleton arrives at Higher Grounds to speak with the women behind Nashville’s most infamous coffeehouse. Thirty years ago, the coffeehouse made international headlines when child star turned rock icon Elle Harrison was found dead in its parking lot. Six weeks later, mobster Carmine D’Orazio was gunned down in the same spot. Both cases were closed quickly, but questions have lingered for decades.
Now, for the first time, the women who built Higher Grounds are ready to speak.
Told through candid interviews, Higher Grounds traces four women’s lives...
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First 90 secondsKimberly Conway· Host0:00
Yellow Bird Media presents Higher Grounds, a scripted audio drama, written and produced by Kimberly Conway. Higher Grounds contains mature themes and topics that may not be suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised.
Speaker 2· Soundbite0:15
[car driving] The body of Elle Harrison, former child star turned lead singer of the rock band Wilder, was found before dawn this morning outside the Nashville coffee house, Higher Grounds, where authorities say she fell from the building's bell tower sometime in the overnight hours. At this time, officials are not yet commenting on whether foul play was involved. In a brazen shooting outside a Nashville coffee house, notorious mobster Carmine Durazio was killed by a single gunshot wound to the chest. Durazio was found early this morning slumped over the wheel of his Cadillac in the parking lot of Higher Grounds.
Kat Singleton· Host1:03
[instrumental music] It was one of the biggest scandals of the early '90s, Elle Harrison, America's sweetheart gone sour, and Carmine Durazio, Las Vegas mobster, the devil in a Versace suit. They both turned up dead six weeks apart at Higher Grounds, an old church turned coffee house turned international obsession. Elle's