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All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

Brief biographies of permanent residents of Laurel Hill East in Philadelphia and Laurel Hill West in Bala Cywnyd, Pennsylvania. Often educational, always entertaining.

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47:42

BBB #013: Every Brilliant Thing: Ice Cream and Laurel...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/10/06

This 13th episode of Biographical Bytes from Bala is for mid-October 2022 - and a little early on purpose. Who doesn’t love ice cream? Philadelphia has made huge contributions to the history of this delectable warm weather treat. If you’re from the area, you grew up with Bassetts and Breyers; maybe you got some nonpareils or sprinkles on your soft serve; or you looked forward to going into a center city drug store so you could sit at the counter and have an ice cream float. All of these have a

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24:03

Henry Seybert: Let Freedom Ring - The Clock in the Tower

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2022/10/05

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #043: Henry & Thomas Voigt, Isaiah Lukens & Henry Seybert – Tick Tock, Clocks and Watches, part 1, section 4 Henry Seybert took the money left him by his father Adam and had a clock and a bell built for Independence Hall for the 1876 Centennial Celebration. Almost 150 years later, they still stand.

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13:03

Isaiah Lukens: His Work Is at The Athenaeum

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2022/10/04

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #043: Henry & Thomas Voigt, Isaiah Lukens & Henry Seybert – Tick Tock, Clocks and Watches, part 1, section 3 Isaiah Lukens not only built clocks that can still be seen at The Athenaeum and the Germantown City Hall, but he also built an air gun that may have been used by Lewis & Clark during their expedition.

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20:22

Henry & Thomas Voigt: Thomas Jefferson's Favorite...

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2022/10/03

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #043: Henry & Thomas Voigt, Isaiah Lukens & Henry Seybert – Tick Tock, Clocks and Watches, part 1, section 2 Henry Voigt built a special clock for Thomas Jefferson that he used for his astronomical experiments until the day he died. You can see clocks made by Voigt both at Monticello and in the US Senate.

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19:51

Introduction to Horology: How Did We Tell Time?

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2022/10/02

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #043: Henry & Thomas Voigt, Isaiah Lukens & Henry Seybert – Tick Tock, Clocks and Watches, part 1, section 1 I talk about timekeeping in Philadelphia, from sundials and hourglasses to the clock on Independence Hall. Philadelphia has had skilled clock and watchmakers since colonial times.

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01:34:59

ABC #043: Tick Tock: Clocks, Watches, and Laurel...

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2022/09/22

Philadelphia has had skilled clock and watchmakers since colonial times. Henry Voigt helped David Rittenhouse build his legendary orrery and supplied surveying instruments to the Lewis & Clark Expedition. His son Thomas built a special clock for Thomas Jefferson that he used for his astronomical experiments. You can see his clocks both at Monticello and in the US Senate. Isaiah Lukens not only built clocks that can still be seen at The Athenaeum and the Germantown City Hall, but he also built an

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51:26

BBB #012: Turbaned Warrior for Justice - C. DeLores...

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2022/09/08

Cynthia DeLores Tucker was a Philadelphia born and raised champion of Civil Rights in the 1960s and 1970s and worked closely with such icons as Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Shirley Chisholm, and Cecil B. Moore. She chose to spend the last years of her life fighting what she saw as the pornography of gangsta rap. She was vilified by the music community, which spared no words in trying to show how sad and out-of-date her thinking was. She now lies in an unmarked grave at Laurel Hill West in

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20:14

Augustus Goodyear Heaton: Numismatist, Painter, Poet,...

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2022/09/05

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #042: Robert Patterson, James Snowden & Augustus Goodyear Heaton – Mint Condition: Laurel Hill’s Coinage Connections, part 4 Augustus Goodyear Heaton was a coin collector who wrote doggerel poetry about his collection. He was also an accomplished painter, as one of his works hangs in the U.S. Senate

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30:31

James Ross Snowden: An Entrepreneurial Director

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2022/09/04

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #042: Robert Patterson, James Snowden & Augustus Goodyear Heaton – Mint Condition: Laurel Hill’s Coinage Connections, part 3 James Ross Snowden oversaw the minting of commemorative coins which were sold to help support the expenses of running the mint. His nephew Archibald took over where he left off.

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25:15

Robert Patterson: An Early Innovative Director

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2022/09/03

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #042: Robert Patterson, James Snowden & Augustus Goodyear Heaton – Mint Condition: Laurel Hill’s Coinage Connections, part 2 Robert Patterson and his son Robert Maskell Patterson were two of the innovative early mint directors that kept it from failing.

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16:41

Developing the U.S. Mint

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2022/09/02

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #042: Robert Patterson, James Snowden & Augustus Goodyear Heaton – Mint Condition: Laurel Hill’s Coinage Connections, part 1 If you live in Philadelphia, you know about the Philadelphia mint at 5th and Arch. This is our 4th mint in Philadelphia. The first opened in 1792 just a few hundred feet away from the current one. Literally billions of coins have been pressed in its highly efficient, highly secure building. Thousands of Philadelphians have

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01:44:19

ABC #042: Mint Condition: Some Laurel Hill Coinage...

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2022/08/26

The United States Mint has been in Philadelphia since 1792. It has produced billions of coins, from half-pennies to 20-dollar gold double eagles. Many of the early officers were Philadelphians. In this podcast, you will hear about doubloons and trimes, Peter the eagle, the California gold rush and Colorado's Comstock lode, greenbacks, Gresham's law, and more. And you will hear some bad poetry. Think of this podcast as a four-parter. 1) Development of the Mint 2) Mint Directors Robert

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44:23

BBB #011: The Red Rose Girls and Henrietta Cozens

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2022/08/11

This is a story about mutual love and respect among four women at the turn of the 20th century. All students of art know of the Red Rose Girls - illustrators Jessie Willcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green and muralist Violet Oakley. They became masters of their craft because of a fourth woman, Henrietta Cozens, who served as their mother, wife, nurse, gardener, cook, and muse. She is interred at Laurel Hill West. Without her, it is unlikely the Red Rose Girls would have existed.

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Catherine "Kitty" Drinker: Writing History & Playing...

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2022/08/04

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #041: Harry, Cecil & Kitty – Three Remarkable Drinkers, part 3 Catherine "Kitty" Drinker Bowen made a career writing award-winning history books and biographies, despite a lack of training in history or in literature. She was also a superb violinist.

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27:20

Dr. Cecil Kent Drinker, MD, & The Radium Girls

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2022/08/03

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #041: Harry, Cecil & Kitty – Three Remarkable Drinkers, part 2 Cecil Kent Drinker, MD, was founder of the Harvard School of Public Health and with his wife Dr. Katherine Rotan Drinker became primary investigator of the "Radium Girls".

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01:41:47

ABC #041: Three More Drinker Siblings to Know -...

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2022/07/24

Henry Sandwith "Harry" Drinker was a brilliant Philadelphia lawyer and a famed musicologist who befriended the von Trapp family when they arrived at Ellis Island. His wife Sophie Hutchinson Drinker was one of the founders of women's musicological and gender studies. Cecil Drinker, MD, was a gifted physiologist who published more than 250 papers and did the original studies on The Radium Girls. His wife Katherine Rotan Drinker, MD, was his lifelong partner in research and publications. Catherine

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36:57

BBB #010: Lincoln’s Railroad Man - Herman Haupt

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2022/07/08

In the mid-19th century, Philadelphia-born Herman Haupt was probably the top railroad engineer in the country - and he knew it. During the Civil War, his mastery of the rails provided the Union Army with thousands of tons of supplies, saved hundreds of lives, and may have preserved the Union’s victory at Gettysburg. Except to railroad buffs, he is little remembered today.

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01:40:25

ABC #040: Friends of Thomas Jefferson, Part 1 - I’m...

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2022/06/24

William Short was the first appointment to public office conferred under the Constitution of the United States. Thomas Jefferson thought so much of him that he happily called him "my adoptive son." William Duane was the radical publisher of the "Philadelphia Aurora" who helped get Jefferson elected President against Federalist John Adams in 1800. And Colonel William Drayton was a veteran of the War of 1812 and a Unionist from South Carolina whose father had exchanged dozens of letters with

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44:42

BBB #009: A Forgotten Pioneer in Gender Studies -...

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2022/06/09

Helen Bradford Thompson turned the understanding of gender roles on its head. Her groundbreaking work at the turn of the 20th century, summarized in her PhD thesis "The Mental Traits of Sex," exploded on the psychology scene like nothing that had come before it. And yet the name Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley was little remembered for decades, only recently being rediscovered because of the blossoming of feminist studies. She is interred at Laurel Hill West. Join our email list to get the

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41:19

WALKING TOUR: West Laurel Hill from Barmouth to Pencoyd

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2022/05/27

If you have walked or ridden your bike through West Laurel Hill Cemetery from the entrance just off the Cynwyd Trail all the way to the Pencoyd exit on Righter’s Ferry Road, you have probably passed dozens of mausoleums and gravesites that you had questions about. Now there’s an audio narration to help you quench your curiosity. It is done by Joe Lex, the same person who researches and narrates Laurel Hill’s twice-monthly podcasts “All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories” and “Biographical Bytes

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