All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

20:43

Herb Lusk: The Praying Tailback

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/01/18

BBB040, part 3Herb Lusk was a running back who developed the habit of dropping to a knee and uttering a brief prayer after he scored a touchdown. He brought this habit with him to the pros and then quit after three seasons to become a very successful Baptist preacher. He was awarded a Super Bowl ring 39 years after he retired.

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18:39

Nate Ramsey: #24 for the Eagles

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/01/17

BBB070, part 2 Nate Ramsey played nine years with some pretty mediocre Eagle teams but was voted by fans as the best Eagle to ever wear uniform #24. The problem was his legal difficulties, which plagued him before, after, and during his career.

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27:21

M. Roy "Slab" Jackson: Football, Dogs, Horses, and a...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/01/16

BBB070-part 1 Mac Roy "Slab" Jackson played college ball on one of the best Penn teams ever, then joined a professional league in Western Pennsylvania where he led a local team to a national championship. He is best remembered today for his skills in dog breeding and horsemanship.

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01:15:57

Hut!Hut! Hut!: Three Professional Football Players

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/01/15

Biographical Bytes from Bala #040 Mac Roy Jackson played college ball on one of the best Penn teams ever, then joined a professional league in Western Pennsylvania where he led a local team to a national championship. He may be better remembered as a master of the hounds and a judge of horse flesh. Nate Ramsey played nine years with some pretty mediocre Eagle teams but was voted by fans as their favorite Eagle to ever wear uniform #24. The problem was his legal difficulties, which plagued him

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30:39

COL Richard Henry Rush: From West Point to Lancers

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2025/01/14

ABC 2025 bonus episode Happy 200th birthday Richard H. Rush, born February 12, 1825. Richard’s grandfathers Benjamin Rush and Richard Stockton both signed the Declaration of Independence. Richard’s father served as a cabinet member under three presidents and unsuccessfully ran for Vice President in 1828. Richard attended the US Military Academy at West Point. When the Civil War started, Richard mustered and led from his Germantown neighbors the 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, better known as “Rush’s

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15:28

Henry Charles Lea: He Expected the Spanish Inquisition

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2025/01/06

ABC#070, part Henry Charles Lea was a publisher, researcher, and author, who wrote the definitive history of the Spanish Inquisition. His grave marker was sculpted by Alexander Stirling Calder and is one of the most photographed monuments on the property. This is a partial rerun of #ABC018 - The Calder Connection

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22:07

John Roh: Death by Inferno

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2025/01/05

ABC070, part 5 John Roh was an inpatient at the Blockley Almshouse in 1885 when a fire raced through his wing and killed more than a score of male psychiatric patients who were locked in their cells. John Roh was one of the victims of that tragedy, and we’re pretty sure he is interred in the family plot at Laurel Hill East.

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24:42

Laura Matilda Towne: Teaching the Least Fortunate

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2025/01/04

ABC070, part 3 Laura Matilda Towne was an abolitionist who studied homeopathic medicine and became an instructor for recently freed enslaved Africans on the islands off South Carolina. It turned into her life’s work for the next 30+ years.

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20:44

Edwin Fitler: The Emperor of Rope

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2025/01/03

ABC070, part 2 Edwin Henry Fitler made his fortune in rope at a time when Philadelphia had one of the busiest shipyards in the country. He was the first Philadelphia mayor to establish his office at City Hall in the years it was being completed. Fitler is namesake for Fitler Square and his obelisk is the tallest at Laurel Hill East.

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27:04

Thomas Craycroft: For Love of His Fellow Man

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2025/01/02

ABC070, part 1 Thomas Craycroft was a medical student who volunteered to help in the 1855 Yellow Fever epidemic in Norfolk, Virginia. He was one of 15 Philadelphians who died during that mission of mercy but whose remains are now interred under the Yellow Fever monument at Laurel Hill East.

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02:14:29

Happy 200th Birthdays!

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2025/01/01

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #070 - Happy 200th Birthdays! Thomas Craycroft was a medical student who volunteered to help in the1855 Yellow Fever epidemic in Norfolk, Virginia. He was one of 15 Philadelphians who died during that mission of mercy but whose remains are now interred under the Yellow Fever monument at Laurel Hill East. Edwin Henry Fitler made his fortune in rope at a time when Philadelphia had one of the busiest shipyards in the country. He was the first Philadelphia

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01:05:44

Rev. Henry Winter Syle - Deaf Scholar, Preacher,...

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2024/12/08

Biographical Bytes from Bala: Laurel Hill West Stories #039 for mid-December 2024 - released early for the Holiday seasonHenry Winter Syle went deaf as a child and soon abandoned speech. He used American Sign Language and the written word to share his ideas with the deaf world, many of whom had been excluded from religious ceremonies for centuries because it was thought they could not enter heaven. Although Syle's career was cut short by an early death, he is recognized as a saint of the

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15:34

Charlotte Drake Cardeza: The Best Suite on the Ship...

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2024/12/06

ABC #069, segment 5 (by Lora Lewis)Charlotte Cardeza may be the model for every privileged, self-indulgent rich woman on the Titanic, what with her steamer trunks full of designer gowns, exotic furs, and precious jewelry. She hired the biggest suite on the ship and made certain that her son and maid were in the lifeboat with her. Her inventory of lost items ran to 20 pages. Her mausoleum at Laurel Hill West is unforgettable.

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15:15

Gretchen Longley: The Prettiest Girl on the Ship

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2024/12/05

ABC #069, segment 4 Gretchen Longley was orphaned while young and raised by two aunts, who accompanied her to Europe in the Spring of 1912 to help her choose her bridal trousseau. Their return trip on the RMS Titanic gave Gretchen stories she would tell for the rest of her life.

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12:20

Lily & Olive Potter: Mother-Daughter Survivors (by...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/12/04

ABC #069, segment 3 (by Savanna Fisher) Lily Potter was trying to forget her grief since the death of her husband. Her daughter Olive was in a troubled marriage and soon to be divorced. They decided to relax and forget their cares while taking an ocean voyage on the RMS Titanic. Their plans did not turn out as they anticipated.

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24:21

Eleanor Widener Rice: She Lost Her Husband and Son...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/12/03

ABC #069, segment 2 Eleanor Elkins Widener was one of the wealthiest people on the Titanic. She watched helplessly from a lifeboat as the mighty ocean liner went down, taking her husband George and son Harry with it. Her second marriage was to an Amazonian explorer whom she met at the dedication of a Harvard library named for her son.

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28:31

Introduction to The Deep Blue

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/12/02

ABC #069, segment 1 The great tragedies of the sea are innumerable - literally millions of wrecks litter the floors of oceans, lakes, seas, and rivers, and innumerable victims have ended up in Davey Jones' Locker. Laurel Hill East has a cenotaph for three victims - a mother and two daughters - from the Austria disaster in 1858, which saw a loss of 448 passengers and crew. Laurel Hill West has a cenotaph for a brother and sister lost on the SS La Bourgogne in 1898, amid-Atlantic collision that saw

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01:51:16

Six Women of the R.M.S. Titanic

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2024/12/01

When the R.M.S. Titanic struck an iceberg in April of 1912, about 250 of the 1300 passengers were from the United States. While people with well-known names like Strauss, Guggenheim, Astor, and Widener were aboard the ship, it was primarily the women and children who were saved. Six men and six women of Laurel Hill were among the passengers. All of the women survived. It is their stories we tell of in this episode of All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories. I will tell of other oceanic

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55:44

Waldo E. "Bill" Nelson & The Green Bible of Pediatrics

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2024/11/15

Biographical Bytes from Bala: Laurel Hill West Stories #038 Waldo E. Nelson preferred to be called Bill. After he studied under pediatrics pioneer Graeme Mitchell at Cincinnati, he was recruited to Temple University School of Medicine in 1940 to begin a pediatrics department. The next year, he took over editorship of Mitchell’s textbook, which became the ubiquitous Nelson’s Pediatrics, now in its 21st edition. You will learn more about Dr. Nelson and the development and growth of Pediatric

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22:06

Thomas Leiper: Entrepreneur, Soldier, Inventor,...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/11/04

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #068, Part 2, Section 3 Thomas Leiper was a Scottish immigrant who built the first permanent railroad in the United States and made his fortune in snuff. As a founding member of First City Troop, he served as personal bodyguard for General George Washington, and led his troops to rescue Congressman James Wilson during the so-called "Crisis at Fort Wilson". Thomas Jefferson rented a room from Leiper while he was serving as Secretary of State, and the two

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