All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories
Hundreds of brief biographies of permanent residents of Laurel Hill East in Philadelphia and Laurel Hill West in Bala Cywnyd, Pennsylvania. Often educational, always entertaining.
Episodes
ABC:LHS 090-5 Thomas E. Murphy ...
... knew virtually nothing about baseball, but found himself owning hundreds of shares of the Phillies during their horrible years of the 1920s and 1930s. He is remembered more as a yachtsman and a co-founder of Jupiter Island, Florida.
ABC:LHS #090-6 Many early baseball players ...
... were given nicknames that would never be tolerated today. We can never know how these players felt about being saddled with monikers like Chief, Three-Finger, Chico, Dummy, and Richie, based on being "othered."
ABC:LHS #90-4 Joseph Howard Berry, Jr. ....
...excelled at baseball, football, track and field, and life. He is in two Halls of Fame. He is little remembered today, partially because of a vile nickname that he carried from his days at Wharton through the rest of his life. His interment location is well hidden.
ABC:LHS 090-3 Frank Bettger... (by guest host Rich Wilhelm)
...was a mediocre infielder for the Cardinals who blew out his shoulder and took to selling insurance, at which he was initially less than mediocre. He rebuilt his personality and his life to become one of the best motivational speakers of his day, often compared to Dale Carnegie.
ABC:LHS #090-2 Frank Fleer...
...did not invent the gum that today carries his name, but his name has become synonymous with the pink chewy glob coveted by children of all ages worldwide.
ABC:LHS #090-1 Francis Richter ...
...was a sportswriter who championed the new game through his newspaper work and the ubiquitous weekly Sporting Life, which was an essential read in the early 20th century. Richter is in the Baseball Hall of Fame ... sort of.
ABC:LHS #090 We start with three ballpark Franks...
...Francis Richter, whose writing helped to make the game respectable; he is in the Baseball Hall of Hame.
...Frank Fleer, the man who ALMOST invented the pink gum that's accompanied baseball cards for nearly a century.
...Frank Bettger, who went from failure to success after he blew out his throwing arm in Chicago (prepared and presented by fellow guide Rich Wilhelm)...
BBB 059, part 3 Jáni Szántó...
...was a masterful violinist and instructor who escaped the Nazis with the help of Pope Pius XII and settled in Philadelphia as instructor. One of his old instruments was the "Lord Borwick" Stradivarius, built in 1702.
BBB:LHWS 059-2 Wilhelm von Wymetal ...
... was an Austrian emigree with a dueling scar who took his expertise with opera to Hollywood, where he directed stars like Nelson Eddy & Jeannette McDonald, and to Pittsburgh, where he shepherded the Civic Light Opera through its early days of success.
BBB:LHWS 059-1 Oscar "Papa" Schwar ...
... was a German timpanist whom Leopold Stokowski praised as the best in the business. His rumblings and poundings on kettle drums kept the Philadelphia Orchestra on its toes for more than 40 years. You'll hear lots of drumming in this one.
BBB:LHWS 059 An estimated 1500 musicians ...
...fled central Europe's political turmoil in the 1930s and 1940s.
- Tympani player Oscar “Papa” Schwar came from Germany; Leopold Stokowski considered him the best kettledrum player he had ever heard.
- Wilhelm von Wymetal came from Austro-Hungary, dueling scar and all, to New York City, where he introduced and produced more than a dozen new operas at the...
ABC:LHS #089-6 OPTIONAL COUNTERFACTUAL...
...history of the United States when I asked CoPilot to create a country that abolished slavery at its beginning and then limited immigration. It gave me a startling picture of an unrecognizable country.
This section is almost exclusively generated by CoPilot.
ABC:LHS 089-5 In 1851, Lancaster County ...
... had become home to many self-emancipated formerly enslaved people. When slave hunters showed up to reclaim their "property," the people of Christiana gathered to protect their own. What resulted was the largest treason trial in United States history.
ABC:LHS 089-4 Robert Stewart Ralston...
...was attacked and severely wounded by his servant who had been his enslaved valet. The result was destruction of Black neighborhoods.
ABC:LHS 089-3 Stephen Duncan...
...was a Pennsylvanian who became a Natchez planter. Over a 50-year career, he accumulated tens of thousands of acres of land and more than 2200 enslaved human beings. But he firmly believed that slavery worked best under the US legal system and would only be destroyed by secession.
ABC:LHS 089-2 John Bohlen...
...and his brother Bohl made a world for themselves in the colonies as merchants whose offerings including liquor and people. German-speaking immigrants were common in the colonies, but especially in Pennsylvania.
ABC:LHS 089-1 More than 1500 enslaved people...
...lived in Philadelphia at the time the colonies declared their independence from England. Enslaved people shared the streets with indentured servants, freed Blacks, immigrants, visitors, and more than 50 signers of the Declaration of Independence. Slavery was essential to the economy.
This segment was released early as a separate podcast but included in the full r...
ABC:LHS #089
...slavery was an essential part of the colonial economy. The enslaved people of President George Washington have been in the news recently.
John and Bohl Despite Philadelphia's northern location...Bohlen were German immigrants who made their fortunes in the New World dealing with "gin and slaves," according to their relatives.
Stephen Duncan was simultaneously a Pennsylvania businessman and a N...
BBB:LHWS #058 Seo Jae-pil, aka Philip Jaisohn...
...was the first Korean to become a US citizen, but he never gave up on his lifelong dream to return Korea to its own independence. In 1919, he chaired a Philadelphia meeting that ended with a march through the rain to the room where it happened at Independence Hall and the reading of a new Declaration of Independence.
ABC:LHS #088-2 GEN John Clifford Pemberton ...
... was a Philadelphian who threw his lot with the Confederacy, despite his graduation from the US Military Academy, where he had briefly roomed with George Gordon Meade. Jefferson Davis put him in charge at Vicksburg, where he was forced to surrender to Ulysses S. Grant after a 47-day siege.
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