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2 unusual facts about Whit


Canal Dreams

Hisako is Banks' first female lead character (he uses others in Whit and The Business).

Erster Theil etlicher Choräle

The chorale Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, associated variously with Epiphany (holiday), Whit, Annunciation, and Sundays after Trinity, is set by Pachelbel as a three-voice prelude with the chorale in the bass voice.


1 West India Quay

In the film Run Fatboy Run, the character Whit owns an apartment in 1 West India Quay.

Goo-goos

In John Steinbeck's novella, Of Mice and Men, the worker Whit approves of a whore house that doesn't "let no goo-goos in neither."

Horace Finch

On Whit Sunday 1927 he became the first English pianist to perform Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue from memory.

Music of Saint Kitts and Nevis

There is Inner City Fest in February in Molineaux Green Valley Festival usually around Whit Monday in village of Cayon, Easterama around Easter (April) in village of Sandy Point, Fest-Tab, around July-August in the village of Tabernacle, and La festival de Capisterre, around Independence Day in Saint Kitts and Nevis (19 September), in the Capisterre region.

Nippert Stadium

On December 18, 2012, President Santa J. Ono and Athletic Director Whit Babcock unveiled long-anticipated plans to update and expand Nippert Stadium.

Walter Baldwin

He played Whit in the first Broadway production of Of Mice and Men, and also appeared in the original Grand Hotel in a small role, as well as serving as the production's stage manager.

WRSO

During this phase, "The Mancow Experience," "The Ed Tyll Show", "The Shannon Burke Show", "The Doc Show" with former WXXL morning host Doc Holliday; "Alex Jones, "The Todd Schnitt Show, "The Free Radicals" with hosts Whit Kincaid and John Kurtz; "The Train Wreck with Tim Vestite"; "The Nick and Artie Laing Show" and "The Phil Hendrie Show" all aired on the station at one time or another.


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