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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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01:27:00

ABC #039: In Heaven There Is No Beer- Brewers of...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/05/26

Beer has a long history in our country, and Philadelphia has played a surprisingly strong role in its development. There's even a neighborhood called Brewerytown, and hundreds of Philadelphians live in apartments that used to be breweries. This episode talks about beer from different perspectives. How did breweries start in our green country town? Where were they located? Who drank it? How did one brewery stay in one family for ten generations? What happened at the Centennial Exposition to

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58:56

BBB #008: Every Writer’s Writer, Every Human’s Human...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/05/12

Loren Eiseley grew up in a troubled family on the plains of Nebraska and drifted across the American West on trains during the Great Depression. Yet during his life he earned 36 honorary degrees and was one of the most respected researchers, educators, and writers in the country. He was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History of Science, and the curator of the Early Man section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Like Henry David Thoreau, his writings on man and nature are

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01:39:38

ABC #038: Through the Looking Glass: Lewis Carroll...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/04/21

Industrialist Eldridge Reeves Johnson used money from the millions he earned in developing the Victor Talking Machine Company and purchased the original copy of “Alice’s Adventures Underground,” lettered and drawn by the author himself. Bibliophile Morris Longstreth Parrish purchased as many of Carroll’s works as he could, all in the best possible condition, so that Parrish's name became synonymous with “mint condition.” Lithographer and artist Arthur Burdett Frost impressed Carroll enough

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56:03

BBB #007: Altering History - Francis, Clara, and...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/04/08

Francis Xavier Dercum grew up in Philadelphia and trained as a neurologist. When President Woodrow Wilson had his massive stroke in 1919, Dercum was called in as consultant. Years later when Wilson's widow Edith wrote her memoirs, she insisted that it was Dr. Dercum who had encouraged her to run things while he recovered. Francis's sister Clara also became a physician and spent much of her career giving charity care to the poor in Philadelphia, while working tirelessly for women's rights. Their

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01:47:40

ABC #037: Boies Will Be Boys - Senator Penrose and...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/03/24

Tucked away in Laurel Hill South near the border with Fairmount Park is a family plot that – foot for foot – may have more interesting people than anyplace else in the cemetery. Boies Penrose was the second smartest man in his class at Harvard, became a representative from Philadelphia to Harrisburg and speaker of the house before moving to Washington D.C. as State Senator where he spent the rest of his life. His brother Charles Penrose was the only person with better grades in their Harvard

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38:33

BBB #006: A Life for Peace - Hannah Clothier Hull

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/03/11

Hannah Clothier Hull, daughter of a department store magnate, was a suffragette and a leader in the Women’s Peace Movement for more than 50 years. She was the wife of one of the great Quaker historians and peace activists William Isaac Hull. They both lived a Life for Peace. Join our email list to get the latest on episode releases, special events, and more: http://eepurl.com/idNN1X

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01:21:31

ABC #036: The Three Remarkable Wister Sisters

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/02/24

Three Victorian Philadelphia sisters helped make Philadelphia what it is today. The oldest Mary Channing Wister petitioned for music in the public schools, more public parks for all, and placement of the Broad Street line underground. Frances Anne Wister was a founder of the Philadelphia Orchestra and became the city’s patron saint of preservation; without her there would likely be no Old City or Society Hill. The youngest sister Ella Wister Haines got a late start on her career but became the

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38:47

BBB #005: Philadelphia’s First Black ”Power Couple” -...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/02/11

Raymond Pace Alexander was born in Philadelphia to former enslaved people, but graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and became the go-to civil rights lawyer in Philadelphia. In 1959, he became the first black judge to sit on the Court of Common Pleas. His wife Sadie Tanner Mossell came from a pioneering middle-class family and was the first Black women to earn an economics degree in the US, but then also became a lawyer. Together they spent their lives battling racism in

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01:26:02

ABC #035: Four Black Trailblazers

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/01/28

Ira de Augustine Reid was one of the top sociologists in the country in the late 1940s, but because of his scholarship, he got swept up in the “Red Scare” of the mid-20th century. Dennie Hoggard, Jr., of West Philadelphia was a tight end at Penn State who helped to integrate the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on New Year’s Day of 1948. Marion Stokes had an obsession – to videotape every cable news program on television, and she did so for almost 35 years, amassing a treasure-trove of history. And Joseph

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BBB #004: The Music Man - Theodore Presser

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2022/01/14

Theodore Presser got a late start in his career, but he ended up making millions of dollars from publishing a magazine for music teachers around the world, and then by selling them sheet music. And then he gave away much of his money in his lifetime and the endowments he left continue to aid music students across the country. His story is inspiring and his legacy is huge.

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01:36:04

ABC #034: Tennis, Anyone? - Clarence Clark, Frederick...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/12/24

Tennis came to the United States in the 1870s and was quickly taken up by the East Coast upper crust, the nouveau riche of the Gilded Age. Germantown’s Clarence Clark became one of its primary organizers, and his good friend and neighbor Frederick Winslow Taylor joined him as a doubles partner. William Clothier was the son of department store magnate Isaac Clothier and played his way into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Howard Head found that he was not a very good tennis player, so he

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29:57

BBB #003: Becoming ”Commando Mary” - Aimee Ernesta...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/12/10

This is the story of a woman who was so beautiful that she turned down more than 50 marriage proposals before she wed a newspaperman who became the United States’ first ambassador to the Soviet Union, and who then had an affair with one of the most famous illustrators of the 20th century, and who married a second time to a famed opera composer, and who then spent World War II as a radio propagandist pushing for the rights of women, and then spent years in New York City running one of the most

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01:24:33

ABC #033: Smile for the Birdie! Philadelphia‘s...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/11/25

Photography in its infancy made its way to Philadelphia in 1839, literally weeks after Louis Daguerre invented the technique that carries his name. Lampmaker Robert Cornelius was interested and took what is now recognized as the first “selfie.” Frederick Gutekunst opened a studio where people flocked to have their picture taken. Mathew Carey Lea helped photography make giant strides forward through his knowledge of photochemistry and then invented an entirely new branch of chemistry almost

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20:40

BBB #002: Harold H. Knerr and ”The Katzenjammer Kids”

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/11/12

Harold Hering Knerr came from a family of physicians, but rather than joining them he became an illustrator and cartoonist. For 35 years he drew one of the most popular comic strips in the United States, The Katzenjammer Kids. He is the topic of this second episode of "Biographical Bytes from Bala."

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01:02:03

ABC #032: Teen Angels

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/10/24

Annie Inglis spent her brief life in a wheelchair, but her dying wish was to make her prized possession, a one-dollar gold piece, into something which would help others. Joseph Jurciukonis Jr. was a gifted young cellist whose life was cut short by a bullet. May Bibighaus was described as a good, church-going girl who developed a narcotic habit as a teenager; it would be her undoing. And several members of a Philadelphia social club chose the wrong time for a casual summer cruise and paid with

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22:24

BBB #001: Alan Calvert and the Science of Weightlifting

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/10/13

Alan Calvert was a Philadelphia body-builder who found that available equipment did not meet his needs, so he invented what we now recognize as the modern bar-bell and the science of progressive resistance. His innovations have now become a standard around the world.

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01:09:42

ABC #031: Play Ball!, Part 2

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/09/23

Wes “The Icicle” Fisler scored the first run in major league history but lay in an unmarked grave at Laurel Hill for more than 90 years. Lon Knight threw the first pitch in major league history, yet still has an unmarked grave. Harry Luff was an awful human being who nonetheless played eight positions for six different teams in four major leagues before finally doing jail time. And Orator Shafer was confined to right field because of his constant chatter but he still holds the Major League Record

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59:57

ABC #030: The Saturday Courier: Joseph Clay Neal,...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/08/25

Joseph Clay Neal, whom many called “the American Dickens,” started his writing career with an evening newspaper “The Daily Courier,” and ended up fostering the career of a teenage girl who became one of the primary woman authors of the 19th century. Louis Antoine Godey, whose “Lady’s Book” was struggling until he had the good sense to hire an Episcopalian woman from Boston as his editor, and turned his magazine into one of the most widely circulated in the country. And Morton McMichael, who was

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01:02:51

ABC #029: Olympiad II - Paris 1900

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/07/23

Future Laurel Hill and West Laurel Hill residents went to Paris in 1900 to compete in Olympiad II. Meredith Colket was a Penn scholar who placed 2nd in the pole vault. Bascom Johnson was a Yale pole vaulter who failed to compete, but went on to an amazing career in public health. Edward Bushnell was a middle-distance runner whose name eventually became synonymous with sports at the University of Pennsylvania. John F. Cregan was another middle-distance man but from Princeton. And rower James

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01:39:39

ABC #028: Bad Science: Dr. Samuel G. Morton, George...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2021/06/23

Dr. Samuel George Morton was a pioneer of American anthropology and the father of American invertebrate paleontology, but he was also a compulsive skull collector whose measurements and conclusions were used to justify enslavement and eventually racial cleansing. George Robbins Gliddon taught Americans more about ancient Egypt than anyone up to his time, but he got caught up in Morton’s scientific racism, as well as the thrill of robbing graves for their heads and mummified remains. James Ernst

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