All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

01:14:46

BBB#032: Philadelphia's Jazz Lodestar - Dennis Sandole

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/05/15

Dennis Sandole was one of the best kept secrets in jazz. Born Dionigi Sandoli in South-Philadelphia-born, his teaching techniques were sought by Art Farmer, James Moody, Benny Golson, Jim Hall, and especially John Coltrane, who became his most famous student. Coltrane spent hours practicing daily to master the material that The Maestro gave him and turn it into his own sound, which eventually became “Sheets of Sound” and then “Coltrane Changes”. Sandole rarely recorded or performed live but he

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16:34

J.B. Lippincott: Lippincott's Magazine

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/05/01

ABC #062 - Part 3 Joshua Ballinger Lippincott was a late comer with his Lippincott’s magazine, but it lasted longer than the others and served as the bedrock for the famed Lippincott Publishing Company which went through several generations of family leadership.

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25:08

Charles Jacob Peterson and Peterson's Magazine

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2024/05/01

ABC #062 - Part 2 Charles Peterson was a lifelong friend of Graham who started his own magazine and was ready to hand it off to his son, Howard, who mysteriously disappeared during a weekend trip down the shore. What his wife did at the time of her death 31 years later will touch your heart.

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28:50

George Rex Graham and Graham's Magazine

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2024/05/01

ABC #062 - Part 1 Of the 19th century magazines out of Philadelphia, Graham’s was the best, even though it only lasted a few years. George Rex Graham would wheedle articles out of Longfellow and Thoreau and published many stories by his co-editor Edgar Allan Poe.

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01:23:36

ABC#062: Three More Philadelphia Magazines -...

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2024/05/01

Philadelphia has always been the magazine-publishing capital of the United States. It reached its pinnacle in the 1840s, 50s, and 60s when three popular magazines – Graham’s, Peterson's, and Lippincott's - all came into existence. Graham’s was the best, even though it only lasted a few years. George Rex Graham would wheedle articles out of Longfellow and Thoreau, and published many stories by his co-editor Edgar Allan Poe. Peterson’s magazine followed shortly and lasted a few years longer.

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53:10

BBB#031: Gladys Hall & Russell Ball - Glamourizing...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/04/14

It wasn’t long after movies became ubiquitous in America that movie fan magazine appeared. Eventually there would be more than 20 of them. Gladys Hall had a stellar reputation as a “safe” interviewer who could be depended on to tell a good story without any scandal. Her interview with Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi is one of the strangest things you could imagine. She was married to glamour photographer Russell Ball, remembered today for his classic portraits of Louise Brooks, Rudolph

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18:03

Pete Childs: No, Not That One

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2024/04/01

ABC #061 - Part 4 Pete Childs (not "Cupid" and definitely not "Pierce") was a fine 2nd baseman who served in that role for the 1902 Phillies. It was while serving as player-manager for an Ohio League team that he pulled the unfathomable feat of throwing one pitch as a reliever and getting three out.

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16:32

Jack McFetridge: Super Amateur, So-So Pro

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2024/04/01

ABC #061 - Part 3 Jack McFetridge was the best amateur pitcher in Philadelphia for years before he went pro. He wasn’t that good.

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17:01

Cub Stricker: A Hot-Tempered Infielder

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2024/04/01

ABC #061 - Part 2 Cub Stricker was a good fielding 2nd baseman with a hot temper who was arrested on the field to avoid fan rioting when he struck a heckler with a thrown ball.

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25:20

Walter "Slick" Schlichter: Pioneer in Black Baseball

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/04/01

ABC #061 - Part 1 Henry Walter “Slick” Schlichter started as a bantamweight and a boxing promoter who became a sportswriter and then partnered with Black baseball pioneer Sol White to organize the best Negro league team in the country at the turn of the 20th century.

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01:29:44

ABC#061: Play Ball!, Part 3 - Four More Baseball...

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2024/04/01

Henry Walter “Slick” Schlichter started as a bantamweight and a boxing promoter who became a sportswriter and then partnered with Black baseball pioneer Sol White to organize the best Negro league team in the country at the turn of the 20th century. Cub Stricker was a good fielding 2nd baseman with a hot temper who was arrested on the field to avoid fan rioting when he struck a heckler with a thrown ball. Jack McFetridge was the best amateur pitcher in Philadelphia for years; when he finally

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42:51

BBB#030: Grayce Nottage Nicholas - Black Is Beautiful

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2024/03/14

Grayce Nottage-Nicholas was an older sister of Civil Rights activist C. Delores Tucker, but she made a name for herself as a teacher, parole officer, police detective, and beauty queen at a time when women of color were not welcomed to traditional beauty pageants. In this episode I tell you about the evolution of beauty pageants, how pigmentocracy and straight hair defined beauty from a white perspective, how African American women created their own standards of beauty and started their own

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02:06:12

ABC#060: Three More Women Who Changed Philadelphia

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2024/03/01

Woman have played a major but underrecognized role in our Nation’s history since its inception. *London-born Esther DeBerdt Reed married a man who became George Washington’s right-hand man and switched her Tory allegiance to become a radial patriot; the organization she founded to provide some relief to the soldiers fighting for her freedom didn’t quite go the way that she had planned. *Elizabeth Duane Gillespie came from a politically active family; she was the chief fundraiser and organizer

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01:20:15

BBB#029: MOVE and Laurel Hill

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/02/16

In 1985, the City of Philadelphia did something unheard of in the United States – it dropped a bomb on one of its neighborhoods. The resulting fire killed 6 adult and 5 child members of a radical primitivist environmental anarchic group called MOVE. The fire spread along Osage Avenue, destroyed more than 60 homes, and left 250 men, women, and children homeless. Former MOVE members are interred in Nature’s Sanctuary, the green natural burial section at Laurel Hill West. Louise Leaphart James and

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36:08

Samuel L Evans: The Godfather of Black Philadelphia...

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2024/02/01

ABC #059 - Part 3 Samuel L. Evans saw five lynchings before he was 10 years old. Through machinations that people are still pondering, he managed to make himself the “Godfather of Black Philadelphia” despite never being elected to public office. His wake was in City Hall.

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15:05

Winifred "Winnie" Harris: A Perfect Next-Door Neighbor

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2024/02/01

ABC #059 - Part 2 Winifred Harris was the woman you wanted as your next-door neighbor. She rescued abandoned properties in West Philadelphia and converted them into vegetable gardens for the neighborhood, while planting more than 1000 trees for the city. Her shocking death at the hands of a home intruder was mourned by all who knew her.

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20:42

Sarah A Anderson: Quietly Making Changes

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/02/01

ABC #059 - Part 1 Sarah A. Anderson served 17 years in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and quietly changed life for the better for thousands of Pennsylvanians, Black and white.

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01:25:54

ABC#059: Three More Black Pioneers

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2024/02/01

The Black population of Philadelphia dates to Colonial times but expanded tremendously during the so-called Great Migration that started around 1910.Sarah A. Anderson came from an educated family – her father was the first Black dentist in Florida and her husband was a politically active podiatrist. Sarah served 17 years in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and quietly changed life for the better for thousands of Pennsylvanians, Black and white. Samuel L. Evans was also from Florida and

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01:09:00

BBB#028: The Philadelphia Orchestra & Laurel Hill West

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2024/01/15

The Philadelphia Orchestra has been one of America’s “Big Five” philharmonics for more than a century. As it was being assembled in the late 1890s, it looked like the job of “first conductor” would go to local concertmaster and second generation Irish-American Harry Gordon Thunder, but instead the position went to Johann Friedrich Ludwig “Fritz” Scheel, a German immigrant with seemingly unlimited energies and innovations, but the job probably shortened his life. In contemporary times, the first

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23:30

Robert McNeil: Making Tylenol a Household Name

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2024/01/01

ABC #058 - Part 5 McNeil Laboratories introduced Tylenol Elixir for Children in 1955, then watched it become one of the best-selling over-the-counter meds of all time.

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