All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories
By Joe Lex
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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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Introduction to the 19th Century US Navy
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Four Naval Heroes: Isaac Hull, David Conner, Sylvanus Godon, and George W. Melville
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Dorothy Burr Thompson & Pamela Burr: Prides of Bryn Mawr College
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Anna Robeson Brown Burr: Prodigious Author
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Henry Armitt Brown: The Finest Orator of His Generation
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Frederick Brown: Druggist and Cemetery Co-Founder
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Charles Brockden Brown: America's First Major Novelist
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Five Generations at Laurel Hill
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Katherine Rotan Drinker and The Radium Girls (encore)
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Sarah Logan Wister Starr: The Iron Fist Who Saved the School
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Charlotte Yhlen & Marie K. Formad: Strangers in a Strange Land
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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William J. Mullen: The Prisoner's Friend and Female Medical College
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Founding the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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ABC072 Women's Medical College: Some Selected Stories
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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John W. Forney: Gadfly, Chameleon, Provocateur
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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Jack Jones: Pioneering TV Anchor
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Judge Doris May Harris: Pioneer in Children's Court
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Florence DaVida Johnson-Reid: Reaching a Pinnacle in Black Education
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Lynwood Blount: Bootstraps Judge, Hospital Director
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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ABC#071 Black History Month for 2025: Four More Stories
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Herb Lusk: The Praying Tailback
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Nate Ramsey: #24 for the Eagles
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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M. Roy "Slab" Jackson: Football, Dogs, Horses, and a Rockefeller
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Hut!Hut! Hut!: Three Professional Football Players
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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COL Richard Henry Rush: From West Point to Lancers
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Henry Charles Lea: He Expected the Spanish Inquisition
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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John Roh: Death by Inferno
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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Laura Matilda Towne: Teaching the Least Fortunate
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Edwin Fitler: The Emperor of Rope
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Thomas Craycroft: For Love of His Fellow Man
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Happy 200th Birthdays!
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Rev. Henry Winter Syle: Deaf Scholar, Preacher, Episcopal Saint
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Charlotte Drake Cardeza: The Best Suite on the Ship (by Lora Lewis)
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Gretchen Longley: The Prettiest Girl on the Ship
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Lily & Olive Potter: Mother-Daughter Survivors (by Savanna Fisher)
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Eleanor Widener Rice: She Lost Her Husband and Son (by Lora Lewis)
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Introduction to The Deep Blue
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Six Women of the R.M.S. Titanic
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Waldo E. "Bill" Nelson & The Green Bible of Pediatrics
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Thomas Leiper: Entrepreneur, Soldier, Inventor, Statesman
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Thomas McKean: Last to Sign the Declaration
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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Charles Thomson: Wegh-wu-law-mo-end - The Man Who Tells the Truth
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Friends of Thomas Jefferson, Part 2: Charles Thomson, Thomas McKean, Thomas Leiper
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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John T. Greble: First of Thousands to Die
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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H.H. Furness, the Seybert Commission, and Grilling Mediums
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Walter Hubbell & The Great Amherst Mystery
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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William, Edward, & George Vare: The Dukes of South Philadelphia
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Emory R. Johnson and the Panama Canal
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Charles Day and the Panama Canal
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Lewis M Haupt and the Panama Canal
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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John Cresson Trautwine and the Panama Canal
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Rudolph Hering & Reversing the Chicago River
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Frederick Graff and Watering Philadelphia
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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ABC066 Frederick Graff, Rudolph Hering, John C. Trautwine, Lewis Haupt, Charles Day, Emory R. Johnson: Pushing Water, Part 1
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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WALKING TOUR OF LAUREL HILL WEST from Barmouth to Pencoyd
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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WALKING TOUR OF LAUREL HILL WEST from Pencoyd to Barmouth
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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William M. Meredith: U.S. Poet Laureate
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Richard Burr: Poster Child for Wartime Embalmers
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Anna Lukens and the She Doctor Panic of 1869
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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Thomas Story Kirkbride: An Architect for Madness
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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John Rhea Barton and Surgical Innovation
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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ABC065 John Rhea Barton, Thomas Storey Kirkbride, Anna Lukens, Richard Burr: Fathers and Mothers of American Medicine, Part 4
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Katherine "Kitty" Hershey: Temporary Residency
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Franklin Baker: Sublime with the Coconut
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Henry Oscar Wilbur: Buds vs. Kisses
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Henry Oscar Wilbur, Franklin Baker, Katherine "Kitty" Hershey: Sweet Tooth, part 1
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Donald Fithian Lippincott: Surprising Medalist at Stockholm
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Ted Meredith: The Fastest Schoolboy in the Country
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Jervis Watson Burdick and the Stockholm Games
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Lawson "Robbie" Robertson: Coach Extraordinaire
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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ABC#064 Four More Olympians from 1904 to 1912
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Abram Winegardner Harris: A Forgotten Educator
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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George Henry Boker: The Playwright Who Fixed Everything
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Robert Taylor Conrad: Mayor and Playwright
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Robert Montgomery Bird: Edwin Forrest & The Gladiator
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Richard Penn Smith: Inventing Davy Crockett
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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ABC#063 Richard Penn Smith, Robert Montgomery Bird, Robert Taylor Conrad, George Henry Boker: Curtain Up! Four Early Philadelphia Playwrights
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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Philadelphia's Jazz Lodestar: Dennis Sandole
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May 15, 2024 |
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J.B. Lippincott: Lippincott's Magazine
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May 04, 2024 |
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Charles Jacob Peterson and Peterson's Magazine
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May 03, 2024 |
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George Rex Graham and Graham's Magazine
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May 02, 2024 |
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ABC#062 Three More Philadelphia Magazines: Graham's, Peterson's, and Lippincott's
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May 01, 2024 |
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Gladys Hall & Russell Ball: Glamourizing Early Hollywood
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Pete Childs: No, Not That One
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Jack McFetridge: Super Amateur, So-So Pro
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Cub Stricker: A Hot-Tempered Infielder
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Walter "Slick" Schlichter: Pioneer in Black Baseball
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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ABC#061 Play Ball! Part 3: Four More Baseball Pioneers at Laurel Hill
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Grayce Nottage Nicholas: Black Is Beautiful
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Anna J Magee: Enabling the Disabled
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Elizabeth Duane Gillespie: The Woman Who Saved the Centennial
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Esther DeBerdt Reed: From Tory to American Patriot
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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ABC#060: Three More Women Who Changed Philadelphia
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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MOVE and Laurel Hill
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Winifred "Winnie" Harris: A Perfect Next-Door Neighbor
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Samuel L Evans: The Godfather of Black Philadelphia Politics
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Sarah A. Anderson: Quietly Making Changes
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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ABC#059 Three More Black Pioneers
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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The Philadelphia Orchestra & Laurel Hill West
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Robert McNeil: Making Tylenol a Household Name
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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William Warner: Partnering with Lambert
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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John & Frank Wyeth: Compressing Pills
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Powers & Weightman: Making Millions in Quinine
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Philadelphia College of Pharmacy: In the Beginning
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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ABC#058 Big Pharma & Laurel Hill: The Beginnings
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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BONUS: Anna Weightman Penfield and the Fioretta Follies
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Jack Rose: An Old Soul Guitarist
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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C Morgan Knight: Death of a Good Samaritan
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Archibald McCurdy: Death of a Night Watchman
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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George Haas: Shot by a Disgruntled Employee
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Mahlon Hutchinson Heberton, Singleton Mercer, and The Monks of Monk's Hall (by Thomas Keels)
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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George K Smith & The Molly Maguires
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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ABC#057: Murder Most Foul, Part 1
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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BG Isidor S. Ravdin, MD: The Surgeon Is a General -
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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The Pew Family & Sun Oil
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Pennsylvania and Oil
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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ABC#056: J. Newton Pew and Sun Oil - Philadelphia and Oil
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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William Wagner: Free Science for All
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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William Schaffer: A Five O'Clock Club Stalwart
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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James Tyndale Mitchell: An Ideal Judge
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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George Sharswood: Blocking Women's Suffrage
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Robert C. Grier & Dred Scott: "I concur"
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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ABC#055: Robert Cooper Grier, George Sharswood, James Tyndale Mitchell, & William Irwin Schaffer - The Supremes - Justices at Laurel Hill
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Glenna Collett Vare: The Female Bobby Jones
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Richie Barrett...and "Some Other Guy"
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Phebe Blessington: Covering Some of Your Favorites
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Brenda Payton & The Tabulations
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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William Kirkpatrick & Away in a Manger
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Septimus Winner: Of Mockingbirds, Indians, and Little Dogs
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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ABC#054 Hey! I Know That Song! - Composers and Interpreters
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Henry Plumer McIlhenny: Philadelphia’s First Gentleman
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Charles Baily's Last Round
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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George Thomas & Whitemarsh Country Club
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Hugh Wilson & Merion Golf Club
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Ida Dixon: The First Woman Golf Architect
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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ABC#053: Ida Dixon, Hugh Wilson, Charles Thomas, & Charles Baily - Suited to a Tee - Golf Course Pioneers
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Shop Until Thou Droppest - Strawbridge & Clothier: The Early Years
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Sarah Lee Lippincott & 20th Century Star-Gazing
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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William Rau & Capturing the Transit of Venus
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Hannah Bouvier Peterson & Teaching the Stars
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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David Rittenhouse
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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ABC#052: Reach for the Sky - Astronomers of Laurel Hill
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Duffy’s Cut: Blood on the Tracks at Mile 59
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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LT James Hansell French and Victorio's Apache
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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LT Jonathan Biddle Battles Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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Lt Benjamin Hodgson at Little Big Horn (by Thomas Keels)
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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LT George M Harris and Battling the Modocs in the Lava Beds
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Philadelphia Meets the Indigenous Owners of the City
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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ABC#051: ”Killed by Indians” - Four Philadelphians Who Died in Battles with Indigenous People
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Charles Benjamin Dudley: Helping Standardize the World
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May 15, 2023 |