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Music

• Swiming by Explosions in the Sky
• Walking Song by Kevin Volans and the Netherlands Wind Ensemble
• I Walk on Guilded Splinters by Johnny Jenkins
• Seduction by the Balanescu Quartet
• Lunette by Les Baxter and Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman
• Running Around by Buddy Ross
• September by Giles Lamb

Notes

• This episode was pieced together from a ton of little fragments but I wanted to steer folks to a couple of resources in particular: this excellent article from a few years back in the Toronto Star by Katie Daubs, and this documentary from filmmaker, Amy Nicholson, that primarily uses the Zipper as a way to talk about changes at Coney Island but has some great details from Harold Chance and his sons. 

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Notes

• Read about the change in policy here. And the article that helped prompt the policy change here. 

Music

• Pipeline by H.Takahashi
• Sad Seine by Lambert
• Dance PM by Hiroshi Yoshimura

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Music

• Je ne pas si c’est tout le monde - Theme Comedie from Vincent Delerm’s score to the film of the same, long name.

• Forbin’s Hi Fi from Michel Colombier’s score to Colossus: The Forbin Project

• Boo’s Lullaby by Maria Chiara Agriro and Jamie Leeming

• Helle (Ballade) from the great Phillipe Sarde score to that picture.

• L’Espagne pour memoire from Michel Portal’s score to Un et a la garoupe

• The Rain Never Stops on Venus by Michael Wollney

• Je t’ai meme pas dit by Vincent Delerm.

• From a Dream by Oregon

• A version of Narcisus for Clarinet and Electronics as played by Thea Musgrave.

Notes

• Good sources if you want to know more are Peter Manseau’s book about spirit photography and the spiritualist age (Cutting intersects interestingly with that crea), The Apparitionists, as well as this article by Jerry Ryan about the history of aquariums in Boston.

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Music 

• Inside River, Pt. 1 by Akira Kosuemura. .

• Sonata for Solo Cello 1: Dialogo by Ligeti, performed by Miklos Perenyi.

• All the Land Ablaze by Laura Cannell

• Frost Trees from Lalo Schiffren's score to The Fox.

• And Finding the Flag from Georges Delarue's score to The Day of the Dolphin.

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Music 

• We start with 666 from the score to The Omen.

• Transition to Fremd by Lambert.

• Go to Monster Mash by Bobby "Boris" Pickett.

• Hear some of Leonard Berstein's score to Rebel Without a Cause.

• Hit Denmark by the Portland Cello Project

• And hear some of Musette's On the Green Tape.

Notes

• Bobby's story is covered in a lot of histories of one hit wonders and novelty tunes. But, if you want to really dig in, you should read, Monster Mash: Half Dead in Hollywood, his autobiography.

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Music 

• We start with The Dane by Nihls Frahm.

• Move in and out of Reading a Wave by Arp

• Which mixes briefly with Stephen Gosling and Blair Macmillan playing John Adams' Hallelujah Junction.

• We also here Umitaro Abe play Reperages Pour Piano.

• And Brambles play Such Owls as You.

Notes

• There's a pretty comprehensive book on Bayocean by Bert and Margie Webber called Bayocean: the Oregon Town That Fell Into the Sea

• There's also a terrific website that appears to be regularly updating that's filled with all sorts of stories and resources about Bayocean.

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Music 

• We start with the Opening of Craig Armstrong's score to Far From the Madding Crowd.

• Glass Houses no. 13 from Ann Southern.

• Earring from Julia Wolf.

• Occam II for Violin from Eliane Radigue.

• Rearranging Furniture from Gabriel Yared's score to By the Sea.

• A bit of Movement II from Martynov, "Come in!" by Vladimir Martynov.

Notes

• Plenty written about the Willie D.. I found Roger Branfill-Cook's Torpedo: the Most Revolutionary Weapon in Naval History to be particularly useful.

• I also enjoyed stumbling upon this day-by-day breakdown of F.D.R.'s Presidency.

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Music 

• We hear Vaggvisa by Henrik Lindstrand.

• Then Kestrel, off the album by the same name from Caoimhin O Raghallaigh.

• Ljuva mekaniska jag by 1900.

• A loop from When it's Time to Go, by Buddy Fo & his Group.

• A bit of Movement II from Martynov, "Come in!" by Vladimir Martynov.

• Making Love in the Apartment from Krysztof Komeda's score to Rosemary's Baby.

• And the Mistral Noir, from Daniel Herkedal.

Notes

• There's a lot written about Kelly and his times, none more enjoyable than Bill Bryson's in One Summer: America, 1927.

• The best academic book that touches on Kelly and his times is Dance Marathons: Performing American Culture in the 1920s and 30s, by Carol Martin.

Here in its tenth year in operation, the Memory Palace just got a star turn in the wonderful podcast and radios show, Radiolab. We couldn’t be more delighted.

So, a word of welcome to new listeners and a call to arms for regular listeners and a story perfect for the end of summer.

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Music 

• Absence by Matti Bye.

Notes

• There are a number of excellent books about Viola Liuzzo. I found Selma and the Liuzzo Murder 

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Music

• On-ness by Tom Rogerson and Brian Eno.

• My Mamma Pinned a Rose on Me by Esmerine.

• Some of Eloy by Deaf Center.

• Saturday Evening by Tomasz Benarczyk

• Solitary Living by The Flashbulb

• A Minor by Kid606

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Music

• Duet for Ghosts by Ed Harcourt tops and tails this one.

• We here the top of Pomeriggio Zenzero from Paulo Conte.

• Some of Thankful by Bill Frissell.

• And Ingo Metzmacher's 6th Study for Player Piano

Notes

• The most comprehensive thing I read on George Melendez Wright is from this supplementary piece to the Burns National Parks documentary, by Susan Shumaker.

As on every year, here is an episode I released a few days after the murders at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida on June 12, 2016.

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This is a special holiday bonus episode, a sequel to Episode 210. You’ll want to listen to that one first.

Music

• The Parisienne by the Henri Crolla Ensemble

• Violette… by Philippe Sarde

• Gift by Makasuta Takagi

• The Sammy Herman Sextet plays The Bells of St. Mary’s

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Music

• We hear both Baracolle and Ice World from Saloli's album, The Deep End.

• We hear Ensemble Recherche do Morton Feldman's Something Wild in the City: Mary Ann's Theme. 

• As well as De Wolfe Music do Moonbird.

• Harry Kalahiki does that Ukelele version of Claire de Lune

• We get a snipped of Eartheater's Peripheral

• And E Ruscha V's The Hostess

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Music

• We hear Concierto Para Piano Y Orquesta En Sol Mayor - Adagio Assi as played by Martha Argerich.

Notes

• Jacob S. Robinson's Journal of the Santa Fe Expedition Under Colonel Doliphan in 1846.

• Hampton Sides' fantastic Blood and Thunder.

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Music

• We start off with a touch of Hills in the Rain, by Simon Rackham.

• Go to a bit of Narkopop 1 by Gas.

• Then gaze in wonder to Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise, as performed by the Cincinatti Pops Orchestra

• We listen to two versions of Trying Something Again, Again by our friends in Lullatone.

• And go out on Jaybird, by Charlie Parr

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Music

• We start off with Chez Thomas, by Charles Delarue

• Go to The Graceful Ghost, one of William Bolcom's 3 Ghost Rags.

• Then Krzysztof Komeda's Ballet Edude II

• A touch of Ellington playing A Single Petal on a Rose.

• Then Concerto no. 5 en la minuer: Allegro ma non molto, as performed by Wilhelm Friedeman Bach and Brigitte Haudbebourg frames...

• Philharmonics - Piano Sessions found on the Deluxe Edition of Agnes Obel's Philharmonics album.

• Then we go to Nathaniel Johnson's gorgeous, Penelope's Theme from the score to the delightful film, The Brothers Bloom.

• Sneeuwland by Oskar Schuster.

• Judith by Jacob David.

Notes

• I read a bunch of articles on Jackie, but if you're looking for one-stop-shopping that can send you off in other research avenues, I'd probably suggest this article by Zack Harold in Lapham's Quarterly.

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Music

• First up is Requiem from Nico Muhly's score to How to Talk to Girls at Parties.

• November by Colleen.

• Edward Hong's arrangement of Sleep from the Smoke and Mirrors Percussion Ensemble.

• The solo version of Broad Channel by Bing & Ruth

• Won't Be a Thing to Become by Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld

Notes

• Here's Shane Dubay and Carl Fuldner's study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, including Fuldner's remarkable photographs.

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Music

• Blink from Hiroshi Yoshimura

• Which comes in and out of Bjolukor Tonlisterakoli Reykjanesbaejar's version of Sigur Ros' Hoppipolla.

• Love Token by Elena Kats-Chernin, performed by Tamara Anna Cislowska

• And Joanna Brouk playing Maggi's Flute - Lifting Off

Notes

• There's
  a ton out there about the sixty starlings, the most comprehensive comes
  from Stephen Marche's book, How Shakespeare Changed Everything.

• I also found Kim Todd's [Tinkering with Eden,](http://%22Tinkering%20With%20Eden:%20A%20Natural%20History%20of%20Exotic%20Species%20in%20America) particularly useful.

On the 80th Anniversary of the night 20,000 Americans attended a Nazi Rally in the heart of Manhattan, the Memory Palace is teaming up with Radio Diaries. We’ll hear their new story about that rally after we listen back to a Memory Palace episode that took place on that same evening, in which some Nazis get punched.

Learn more about this evening at www.radiodiaries.org.

For info on the original Memory Palace episode, head here.

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Music

• Sarah in Bath from Krysztof Komeda's score to the Fearless Vampire Killers. 

• Adagio for Glass Harmonica, K617a as performed by Vienna Glass Armonia Duo.

• Mr. Death Angel Flanders from John Barry's score to Boom!

• And a bit of Imaginary Building from Elana Katz-Cherwin and Tamara-Anna Cislowska

Notes

• There's a great American Heritage article on the history of Delmonico's.

• There's a nice write up on the Swan Dinner in American Phoenix: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, by Sarah S. Kilborne 

• Society as I Have Found It, Ward McAllister's memoir of the Gilded Age is appropriately bonkers. 

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Music

• Only in the Dark by Ben Lukas Boysen

• Dream House III: After Dust by Mary Ellen Childs and Ethel

• Cello Gonzalez by Chilly Gonzalez

Notes

• A Brief History of Teratology to the Early 20th Century by Mark V. Barrow

• Environment and Birth Defects by James G. Wilson

• Six Principals of Teratology by James G. Wilson

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Music

• I Believe in the Night by Keith Kenniff

• Improvisations sur les folies d’Espagne (extraits) from Marin Marais and Jordi Savall

• Finally by Lambert

• Voltige by Marin Lizotte

• Violin Solo no. 1 by Peter Broderick

• Fratres fur violin und klavier by Avro Part as played by Ursula Schloch and Marcel Worms

• Dungen by Henrik Lindstom

Notes

• There are plenty of places to go to read about Smoky and Bill but why would want to go anywhere else than his book, Yorkie Doodle Dandy?

Each year for the last three years, Nate picks his personal favorite. Here’s 2018. See you in 2019.

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Music

• We start off with an absolute banger from my old friends in Lightning Bolt, their track King Kandy.

• Then an old favorite, Blues to Elvin from the unstoppable, Coltrane Plays the Blues.

• We move to Everything is an Illusion by Kaada

• Hear Rolling by Collectress

• And finish out on The Dog by Group Listening.

Notes

• I read quite a bit for this one but nothing was more helpful (or more charming) than Save Womens Lives History of Washing Machines by Lee Maxwell, who bills himself on the cover as "Collector of Old and Unusual Washing Machines." God bless Lee and his patient wife.

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Notes
* There are a gajillion things that you can and should read about this period. I’m almost loathe to tell you where to begin. So: some of the details for this story were found in this remarkable article by Claude Sitton.

Music
* We hear a segment of Holding Pattern, by Loscii.
* Secrets you Could Sift, by Mr. Maps.
* And Requiem on Frankfort Ave, by Eluvium.

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Music

• We hear both Easter and The Attachment by Michael Price.

• Some of DNA by Akira Kosemura.

• Piano & Violoncello 1 by Irena and Voltech Havel.

• Zucht 2 by Machinefabriek

• The Walk from the score to Tender is the Night.

• Rendez-vous from Allesandro Cicognini's score to The Indiscretion of an American Wife.

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Music

• We start with the very English, Voluntary No. 4 in b-flat Minor, by Margaret Phillips.

• Hear Nero's Nocturne from Chilly Gonzales.

• Some of The Stars vs. Creatures by Colleen.

• Abide with Me from the Thelonious Monk Septet off his Monk's Music album.

• Walzer fur Robert by Anne Muller off of Erased Tapes Volume 5.

• Evening at Eight by Keith Kenniff.

• and Berceuse by Alexandra Streliski.

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Music

• We hear Waltz from the score to Angels & Insects.

• Movements IV and II from David Liptak’s Serenade for Alto Sax and Strings.

• A bit of Violin Solo no. 1 from Peter Broderick.

• Some of Zucht 2 from Machienfabrik.

• A bit of Origami Tulips from Lullatone.

• Unseen Forces from Justin Walter.

• Midnight Moon from Annalisa Tornfelt and Gideon Freudman

• Ida Lupino from Paul Bley’s Changes album from 1965.

• And Lost Fur (Reprise) from the score to Where the Wild Things Are.

Notes

• Many of my favorite things I read for this piece were contemporary newspaper tributes upon her death in 1911. They’re easy to find.

• By far the most useful thing I read was Lenore Skomal’s *The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter: The Remarkable True Story of American Heroine, Ida Lewis. *It’s very well researched and highly readable.

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Music

• The music on this one comes from High Aura'd, a project from my old friend, John Kolodij. The main drone piece is All the Spirits that Dance. The beginning and end were composed specifically for this episode.

Notes

• I read a lot of articles from a lot of sources on this one, but the linchpin here is Jeffrey Lockwood's book that, to my mind, convincingly solves the mystery of the vanishing locusts.

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Music

• We start with Penguins from Michael Hurley.
• Hit Lullaby (the 1st) by the legendary, Lauren Connors, twice.
• Hear Gentle Threat, from Chilly Gonzalez.
• Equality Under the Law from John Williams' Lincoln score.
• Start talking Philadelphia with Sun Ra's Arkestra doing The Lady with the Golden Stockings.
• Maggi's Flute - Lifting Off, by Joanna Brouk
• In an 18th Century Drawing Room from Raymond Scott.
• And Evelop from Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Music

* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score. * The opening loop is from Mr. Knight from Coltrane Plays the Blues, which you should own. * The violin piece is Occam II for Violin, a piece by Silvia Tarozzi, played by Pauline Oliveros. * Next up is Mikuro’s Blues from the mighty David S. Ware’ mighty Go See the World. * The amazing orchestral pieces is Triumph by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Carlos Nino from Fill the Heart- Shaped Cup * Finally, there’s 13 Ghosts II by Nine Inch Nails from Ghosts I-IV

White Heat, White Lights

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Music

• We move between three different pieces from Camille Saint-Saens': Suite, Op. 90: II Menuet, and two from Carnival of the Animals:Aviary and the Cuckoo in the Heart of the Woods.

• We hit Juneau from Danny Bensi and Sander Jurriaans' score to Wildlike.

• And The Waltz from their score to 5 to 7.

• And there's a total gem from George Mukabi called Dila Ni Dila in there too.

Notes

• Do yourself a favor and read Frances Hamerstrom's autobiography, My Double Life: Memoirs of a Naturalist.

• Do your kids a favor and Jeannine Atkins take on Frances in her book Girls Who Looked Under Rocks.

• And then watch Frances teach David Letterman how to cook a snake.

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Music

• The Bundt Diaries from Ludwig Goransson's score to Everything, Everything.
• Kola (Lighthouse Version) by Amiina.
• Snow Canon by Group Listening.
• The Morning After by the Chico Hamilton Quintet. (Man, I just watched The Sweet Smell of Success recently; the Chico Hamilton Quintet makes the best, sustained appearance in a great, great movie).
• Colleen's Geometria del Universo.
• Bug's Walk by Peter Storby Jutbring.
• Touch Me & Die by Kara-Lis Coverdale
• The Last Tears of a Deceased by the inimitable Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou.

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Music

• Drunken Aviator by Ida.
• Back to Paris by Cyril Morin.

Notes 

• There's a great resource of old ads and articles, including the one referenced in the piece here.
• The definitive work on this subject is Help Me to Find My People by Heather Andrea Williams.

This piece was originally released a few days after the shooting deaths of 49 people at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. It is re-released here on the second anniversary of the event. 

If you are so moved, please donate to any of these charities:

Equality Florida.

Human Rights Campaign.

Everytown for Gun Safety.

Trans Lifeline

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Music

• White Light by Chihei Hatekeyama
• Between the Trees by Akira Kosemura
• Clockwork Toccatta, Op. 68 from Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet.
• End of Summer Part 3 by Hildur Gudnadottir and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
• A Gathering to Lead Me When You're Gone by Brian McBride

Notes

• While the most comprehensive and useful thing I read for this piece was The Year Without a Summer: 1816 and the Volcano that Darkened the World and Changed history by William and Nicholas Klingaman, my favorite thing was this video of a news report on the work of Vermont historian, Howard Coffin.

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Music

• We start with Waveland by Norm Pikelny.
• Then a smidge of N.Y.C. from the original Broadway cast recording of Annie.
• The Stars vs. Creatures by Colleen.
• Wiese by Roedelius & Arnold Kasar.
• Then there's some chaos built out of Missing Piece from the score to Broken City, Fog Tropes by Ingram Marshall, Spindrift by Colin Stetson, and Longing for a Frozen Sky by Ernst Reijseger.
• That heads into Wake by Aaron Martin & Machinfabriek.
• Galaxies Like Grains of Sand by Hampshire & Foat.
• Finishing on Minuet for Cheap Piano by Winged Victory for the Sullen

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• We hear Ferris Wheel by Gabor Szabo from one of his better late sixties records.
• Herman's Malt from Jeff Russo's score to Fargo Season 2.
• David Goes Hunting from Larry Groupe's score to Straw Dogs.
• Double Portrait by Double Edge from the album, U.S. Choice.
• A snippet of Idea of Order at Kyson Point from an album Brian Eno did with Tom Rogerson.
• Bicycles and Flasks by Dan Romer.
• A bit of Il Tamoure dei Bambini from Piero Umiliani's score to Le Isole Dell'amore
• A Naga Swaram-Snake Charmers Melody from Folk Music of India
• Finishes out on Completely Gone from Ludwig Goransson's score to Everything Everything.

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Music

• We start off with Theme de Simon from Georges Delerue.
• Go to Alpine Sketch from Christian Loffler's Young Alaska.
• Hear some of Three Dances: II Pavane arranged for the Chromos Tuba Quartet.
• The Plum Blossom from Yusuf Lateef's great Eastern Sounds record.
• Juve & Fandor by amiina.
• The Unquestioned Answer by Laura Spiegel.
• Etude by Joep Beving.
• Rainfall by David Darling and Michael Jones.

A quick update and a brief little bonus episode. 

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Music

• We hear Valentine My Funny by Nils Frahm and F.S. Blumm from the album Tag Eins Tag Zwei.

Notes

• This idea came to me a long time ago while researching an old episode. I read an extraordinary article from the 1890s that hung with me, particularly the notion of folks writing in to try to become sideshow attractions.

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This special episode was originally made for a live episode of The West Wing Weekly. To hear a live version of this story (and the rest of a particularly delightful TWWW episode), visit thewestwingweekly.com. 

Music

• Moonbow by aAirial
• Two from scores by Marcelo Zavros: Wipe the Slate Clean, from The Beaver and Awkward Ride from his score to Please Give.
• Justine and Sami from Nathan Johnson's lovely score to The Day I Saw Your Heart.

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• Dave Pajo/Aerial M does Plastic Energy Man

• Patricia Rossborough played To a Wild Rose

• Mal Waldron plays Warm Canto

• We hear Muff Gets a Share from Joel P. West’s score to Band of Robbers

• We hear another song I absolutely love, Turned Out I Was Everyone, by Sasami

• We finish on Popcorn and Life from Ben Sollee’s lovely score to Maidentrip.

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Music

• We start with Facing the Obstacles, from Robert Simonson's score to The Final Member.
• Nice Breeze Isn't It? by Simon Rackham
• The Things Left Unsaid, by Caleb Burhans.
• View from a Balcony by Isorinne.
• 1979 by Deru.
• The Julianna Barwick remix of This Will Destroy You's The Puritan.

Notes

• I found this article by Chelsea Lenhart particularly useful.
• As I did this one by Edward Lawler, Jr.
• And this one by Kathryn Gehred.
• As well as W.E.B. DuBois' The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study.
• Fritz Herschfield's George Washington and Slavery, A Documentary Study. 

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Music

• We hit two sections from Bernard Herrmann's score to Tender is the Night: The Embrace and The Breakdown.
• A bit of Sambolero by Luiz Bonfa.
• Labyrinth II by Caitlin Aurelia Smith.
• Walter Meets the Beaver from Marcel Zavros' score to The Beaver.
• Two tracks, "1" & "2" from AAESPO's album, Layers.
• Maria Arvos' Last Days of Summer.
• And Time Times Three by Palm.

Notes

• The most comprehensive article I encountered on Doug Davis is here.
• I found this biographical essay on Otto Schnering particularly useful.
• The Oxford Companion to American Food & Drink, edited by Andrew F. Smith.

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Music

• We move between three different pieces from Camille Saint-Saens': Suite, Op. 90: II Menuet, and two from Carnival of the Animals: Aviary and the Cuckoo in the Heart of the Woods.
• We hit Juneau from Danny Bensi and Sander Jurriaans' score to Wildlike.
• And The Waltz from their score to 5 to 7.
• And there's a total gem from George Mukabi called Dila Ni Dila in there too.

Notes

• Do yourself a favor and read France Hamerstrom's autobiography, My Double Life: Memoirs of a Naturalist.
• Do your kids a favor and Jeannine Atkins take on Frances in her book Girls Who Looked Under Rocks.
• And then watch Frances teach David Letterman how to cook a snake.