Show Notes

Caitlin & Frances Caitlin & Frances

An Awful But Cheerful Grave

In this episode, Caitlin, in keeping with the new format, tells Frances all about the awful, cheerful, amazing, and quite sad life of Elizabeth Bishop. Frances is suitably impressed.

Accessibility Description: A large, rounded square grave on a double-base with some scroll work on the top corners. There is a small collection of rocks on top of the stone and numerous headstones in the background. It reads: Elizabeth Bishop | 1911 - 1979 | All the untidy activity continues | Awful, but cheerful.

Elizabeth Bishop:

Coming Soon…

Bonus:

FindAGrave - Elizabeth Bishop

Land Acknowledgment:

We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.

Links:

North American Indian Center of Boston

Native Land Conservancy

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

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Decadence and Social Degeneracy

In this episode, Caitlin and Francesgrace try out a new show format, in which Frances tells Caitlin all about Gustav Klimt, the artist, and Caitlin is appropriately amused.

Accessibility Description: Square gray headstone, with a bed of ivy at its base that reads, in weird choppy font: Gustav Klimt. There are several cradle graves behind it filled with ivy or flowers. On the left and right of the Klimt grave are birch trees, held straight by wooden frames. There is also a little lantern next to one of the trees.

Gustav Klimt:

Cavallaro, Dani. Gustav Klimt: A Critical Reappraisal. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Inc, 2018.

Di Stefano, Eva. Gustav Klimt: Art Nouveau Visionary. New York City: Sterling Publishing, 2008.

Eisler, Max. Gustav Klimt. Vienna, Austria: Rikola Verlag LTD, 1921.

Rogoyska, Jane and Patrick Blade. Gustav Klimt. New York City: Parkstone International, 2012.

(yes. every single book I used was named Gustav Klimt…This has never happened on the podcast before.)

Bonus:

FindAGrave - Gustav Klimt

Land Acknowledgment:

We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.

Links:

North American Indian Center of Boston

Native Land Conservancy

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

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Portrait of The Artist Who Stalked George Washington

In this episode, Caitlin and Francesgrace try out a new show format, in which Caitlin tells Frances all about Gilbert Stewart, the artist, and Frances makes mildly snarky comments.

Accessibility Description: Gilbert Stuart’s Cenotaph. Reads ‘In Memoriam | Gilbert Stuart | Born Dec 3, 1755 | Died in Boston | July 10, 1828 | — | His Widow | Charlotte Coates | Died Sept 1847 | Aged 77 Years | — | Erected by Friends | 1892.’ The image is on an angle and you can see headstones scattered in the background.

Gilbert Stuart:

Coming Soon

Bonus:

FindAGrave - Gilbert Stuart Grave (sort of)

FindAGrave - Gilbert Stuart Cenotaph

Land Acknowledgment:

We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.

Links:

North American Indian Center of Boston

Native Land Conservancy

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

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A Grave Love Story

In this episode, Caitlin and Francesgrace, in an early celebration of Valentine’s Day, chose their first ever couples in hopes of finding two love stories for the ages. Things did not go as planned in the stories of Heloise and Abelard, though Charity and Sylvia saved the day.

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Heloise d’Argenteuil and Pierre Abelard:

Coming Soon

Bonus:

FindAGrave - Heloise d'Argenteuil

FindAGrave - Pierre Abelard

Accessibility Description:

Sylvia Drake and Charity Bryant:

Cleves, Rachel Hope. Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America. New York: Oxford UP, 2014.

Bonus Link:

FindAGrave - Sylvia Drake

FindAGrave - Charity Bryant

Land Acknowledgment:

We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.

Links:

North American Indian Center of Boston

Native Land Conservancy

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

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It’s a Wonderful Grave

In this episode, Caitlin and Francesgrace, after bonding over a shared hollywood love, delve into the stars of one of America’s most famous Christmas Movies: Donna Reed and Jimmy Stewart from It’s a Wonderful Life.

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James Stewart:

Coming Soon

Bonus:

FindAGrave - Jimmy Stewart

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Donna Reed (DonnaBelle Mullenger):

Fultz, Jay. In Search of Donna Reed. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1998.

Bonus Link:

FindAGrave - Donna Reed

Land Acknowledgment:

We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.

Links:

North American Indian Center of Boston

Native Land Conservancy

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

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Graves in Toyland

In this episode, Caitlin and Francesgrace look toward the holidays and into toy making in New England, which obviously means Hasbro founder Henry Hassenfeld and doll maker Izannah Walker.

Accessibility Description: A large three tiered rectangular headstone that reads: Izannah F. Walker | Born Sept. 25 1817 | Died Feb. 15 1883 | — | Emeline B Whipple | Born Aug 22 1824 | Died March 19 1914. The base on the stone has Emeline’s initials on the left and Izannah’s on the right. There are scatter headstones and obelisks, bushes and curbs behind the stone.

Izannah Walker:

"A Pictorial Directory of Dolls
Featured on the Izannah Walker Chronicles” The Izannah Walker Chronicle. Published Nov 7, 2022. Accessed Dec. 1, 2022. https://www.izannahwalkerchronicles.com/2013/10/a-pictorial-directory-of-dolls-featured.html

Bessette, Monica. “Where Izannah Is Buried” The Izannah Walker Chronicles. Published March 19, 2009. Accessed December 2, 2022. https://www.izannahwalkerchronicles.com/2009/03/where-izannah-is-buried.html?m=0

Lane, Ruby. “In Celebration of Izannah Walker Dolls” The Ruby Lane Group. Published Oct. 22, 2018. Accessed Nov. 29, 2022. https://www.rubylane.com/blog/categories/dolls/in-celebration-of-izannah-walker-dolls/

Redmond, Dixie. “Izannah Walker Reproduction Dolls” Maida Today. Accessed Dec. 3, 2022. https://www.maidatoday.com/2010/05/izannah-walker-reproduction-dolls.html

Walton, Paula. The Izannah Walker Journal. Accessed Nov. 27, 2022. https://izannahwalker.com

Bonus:

FindAGrave - Izannah Walker (Grave)

FindAGrave - Izannah Walker (Cenotaph)

Accessibility Description: A flat grey stone, rectangular and set flush to the ground begins with two lines of Hebrew, followed by: Henry J Hassenfeld | July 15, 1889 - Aug. 4, 1960 | Father.

Henry Hassenfeld:

“Obituary - Henry Hassenfeld” FindAGrave. Accessed December 1, 2022. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110121655/henry-joseph-hassenfeld

“The Jewish Community of Ulanow” ANU Museum of the Jewish People. Accessed November 27, 2022. https://dbs.anumuseum.org.il/skn/en/c6/e257608/Place/Ulanow

International Directory of Company Histories, Volume 16. Ed. Tina Grant. London: St. James’ Press, 1996.

Foster, Geraldine. “The Jews in Rhode Island: A Brief History, 1985” Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association. Accessed November 26, 2022. http://www.rijha.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/jewsri-search.pdf

Goodwin, George M. “An Overview of Rhode Island Jewish History” Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island. Accessed December 1, 2022. https://www.jewishallianceri.org/bout-us/history/

Miller, G. Wayne. Kid Number One: Alan Hassenfeld and Hasbro. Pawtucket, RI: Stillwater River Publications, 2019.

Miller, G Wayne. Toy Wars: The Epic Struggle Between G.I. Joe, Barbie, and the Companies That Make Them. New York City: Times Books, 2012.

Moskovich, Wolf. “Kishinev” Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Accessed November 29, 2022. https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Kishinev

Scott, Sharon M. Toys and American Culture: An Encyclopedia. Denver, CO: Greenwood- ABC-CLIO, 2009.

Wuffson, Don. Toys!: Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions. New York City: Henry Holt and Company, 2014.

Bonus Link:

FindAGrave - Henry Hassenfeld

Land Acknowledgment:

We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.

Links:

North American Indian Center of Boston

Native Land Conservancy

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

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Tides of Activism

In this episode, Caitlin and Francesgrace picked two completely unrelated people, neither of whom the other recognized, and learned that Badass Ida Lewis and Take-No-Crap Susan H Wixon have more in common than they realized.

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Ida Lewis:

“Ida Lewis” Coast Guardswomen. Accessed: November 1, 2022.

https://coastguardswomen.wordpress.com/notable-coast-guardswoman/ida-lewis/

“Ida Lewis, The Bravest Woman in America” New England Historical Society. Accessed: November 2, 2022. https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/ida-lewis-bravest-woman-america/

“Ida Lewis: The Grace Darling of America” New-York Tribune. April 12, 1869, Page 7.

Adler, Margaret C. “To the Rescue: Picturing Ida Lewis” Winterthur Portfolio. Vol 41, No 1. Spring 2014.

Baldwin, Debra. “Will the Real Ida Lewis Please Stand Up?: The History Mystery of the Rowboat Heroine” Lighthouse Digest. Accessed: October 31, 2022. http://www.lighthousedigest.com/Digest/StoryPage.cfm?StoryKey=4864

Bonus:

FindAGrave - Ida Lewis

Accessibility Description:

Susan H Wixon:

“Woman Gives Fall River Politicians Cards and Spades and Wins” Boston Post. Boston; Thursday, December 5, 1901.

Bennet, DM. The World’s Sages, Thinkers, and Reformers: Being Biographical Sketches of Leading Philosophers, Teachers, Skeptics ... Etc. New York; The Truth Seeker Company, 1876.

Flynn, Tom. The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief. Prometheus Books; New York, 2007.

Green, HL. The Free Thought Magazine: Volume XVIII.—1900 January to December. Chicago, Illinois; HL Green, 1900.

Medeiros, Dan. “Fall River strong: 10 more local legends, from musicians to soccer stars” The Herald News. Fall River, MA; June 10, 2021.

Old Colony Historical Society. Collections of the Old Colony Historical Society: Papers Read Before the Society, Issues 6-8. Taunton, MA; The Society, 1899.

Proceedings at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Free Religious Association. Boston; Cochrane & Sampson, Printers,1876.

Putnam, Samuel Porter. 400 Years of Freethought. Cambridge, MA; Harvard University, 1894.

The Truth Seeker: Devoted to Science, Morals, Free Thought, Free Enquiry and the Diffusion of Liberal Sentments · Volume 20. (This sourcing is weird because I got it as a PDF from google books, but it looks like it’s really a newspaper that was compiled. Not sure if the publisher is UWisconsin Madison or Liberal Association of Paris), 1893.

Willard, Frances Elizabeth. A Woman of the Century: fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life. Buffalo, N.Y.; Moulton, 1893.

Bonus Link:

FindAGrave - Susan H Wixon

Land Acknowledgment:

We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.

Links:

North American Indian Center of Boston

Native Land Conservancy

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

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Memories of The Memorials

Caitlin and Francesgrace were curious about the stories behind a couple of local memorials and went hunting for stories. They ended up trading stories about Hannah Robinson and Roger Williams.

Accessibility Description: A single rounded marble headstone on a simple base, with a bush in the background on the right, that reads: Rowland Robinson | Died Feb. 8, 1806 | Aged 86 yrs 4 mo. | Anstis Robinson | died Dec 24, 1778 | Hannah Robinson | Died Oct 30, 1773 | Aged 27 yrs. 5 mo. 9 dis | Mary Robinson | Died April 15, 1777 | Aged 25 yrs ??? 21 dis | Hannah C More | Died Nov 8, 1832 | Aged 2 yrs 14.

Accessibility Description:

Hannah Robinson:

Sources to Come

Bonus:

FindAGrave - Hannah Robinson

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Roger Williams:

“Roger Williams” National Park Service. accessed September 15, 2022.

https://www.nps.gov/rowi/index.htm

Nettlehorst, R P. “Roger Williams” The Jerusalem Post. April 23, 2015. https://www.jpost.com/blogs/through-a-glass-darkly/roger-williams-398975

Bonus Link:

FindAGrave - Roger Williams

Land Acknowledgment:

We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.

Links:

North American Indian Center of Boston

Native Land Conservancy

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

Read More
Caitlin & Frances Caitlin & Frances

Lizzie Took An Axe

Caitlin and Francesgrace bring in the new season with a bang, by trading rhymes and stories about Emma and Lizzie Borden, of axe-wielding fame.

Accessibility Description: Flared pillar that reads: Children of | Andrew J and Sarah A Borden | Alice Ester | 1856-1858 | Lizbeth Andrews | 1860-1927 | Emma Lenora | 1851-1927. On the right side of the pillar from this angle, A.J. Borden is visible on the base. There is scrollwork between the base and the center of the column and the top of the column is also decoratively carved. The monument is surrounded by green grass and there are small headstones in the background.

Accessibility Description: A rectangular grave marker that simply reads “Emma” in block letters. Someone has placed a small rock and a crucifix on the stone and it’s surrounded by grass and twigs.

Emma Borden:

“Emma Borden Biography.” The Famous People, accessed Sept. 2, 2022. ttps://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/emma-borden-43224.php

“FEW AT BORDEN BURIAL; Plans for Funeral of Woman Tried for Murder Kept Secret.” The New York Times. June 6, 1927. Accessed Aug. 30, 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/1927/06/06/archives/few-at-borden-burial-plans-for-funeral-of-woman-tried-for-murder.html

“The Unusual Life Story of Emma Borden.” Facts Ninja, accessed Sept. 1, 2022. https://www.factsninja.com/the-unusual-life-story-of-emma-borden.html

“SISTERS ESTRANGED OVER NANCE O’NEILL” San Francisco Call, Volume 98, Number 7. June 7, 1905. Accessed Sept 1, 2022. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19050607.2.65&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1

Conforti, Joseph. “Why 19th-Century Axe Murderer Lizzie Borden Was Found Not Guilty.” Smithsonian Magazine, July 23, 2019. Accessed Aug. 29, 2022. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-19th-century-axe-murderer-lizzie-borden-was-found-not-guilty-180972707/

Linder, Douglas O. “The Borden Trial: Biographies of Key Figures.” Famous Trials. accessed Sept. 8, 2022. https://famous-trials.com/lizzieborden/1436-biographies

Bonus:

FindAGrave - Emma Lenora Borden

Accessibility Description: A rectangular grave marker that simply reads “Lizbeth” in block letters. Someone has placed a small rocks and coins on the stone. There is an artificial blue flower below the stone and it’s surrounded by grass and twigs.

Lizzie Borden:

Allard, Deborah. “New photos surface of former Lizzie Borden maid after murders” Wicked Local. wickedlocal.com, April 9, 2012. Accessed Aug. 30, 2022. https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/archive/2012/04/09/new-photos-surface-former-lizzie/38187951007/

Brown, Arnold. Lizzie Borden: The Legend, the Truth, the Final Chapter. Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, 1991.

Kent, David; Flynn, Robert A, eds. The Lizzie Borden Sourcebook. Wellesley, Massachusetts: Branden Books, 1992.

Porter, Edwin H. The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders. Fall River, Massachusetts: Geo. R. H. Buffinton, Publisher, 1893.

Radin, Edward. Lizzie Borden: The Untold Story. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961.

Bonus Link:

FindAGrave - Lizzie Andrew Borden

Land Acknowledgment:

We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.

Links:

North American Indian Center of Boston

Native Land Conservancy

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

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In the Cemetery…Season Finale!

In this season’s finale, Caitlin and Francesgrace zoom out a little and discuss cemeteries themselves. Caitlin, at North Burial Ground, goes back to where it all began and Francesgrace, at Ancient Little Neck Cemetery, is unclear about whether she’s in Rhode Island or Massachusetts.

Accessibility Description: The stone wall/staircase at one of the side entrances to North Burial Ground. A black wrought iron fence and a large brick building behind it. A thin strip of garden and a information plaque in front of it.

Accessibility: A gravel pathway in NBG disappearing into the distance. It is overhung with autumn branches, turning orange, and graves run up and down either side.

North Burial Ground:

Editors. “Roger Williams” History.com. October 29, 2009. https://www.history.com/topics/reformation/roger-williams#:~:text=The%20political%20and%20religious%20leader,first%20Baptist%20church%20in%20America

“North Burial Ground” ProvidenceRI.gov. City of Providence, July 9, 2022. https://www.providenceri.gov/providence-parks/north-burial-ground/#:~:text=History,with%20more%20than%2040%2C000%20gravestones

Valletta, Michelle. “North Burial Ground Project” North Burial Ground. Rhode Island College, July 10, 2022. https://w3.ric.edu/northburialground/history.html

Bonus:

FindAGrave - North Burial Ground

Accessibility Description: A large boulder that reads: Ancient Little Neck Cemetery | Est. 1655. There are rhododendron on either side and graves scattered behind.

Accessibility Description: A double tiered, metal sign that reads: Rhode Island Historical Cemetery East Providence 5 (followed by the state symbol of the anchor and a bunch of tiny writing about vandalism being illegal) | Cemetery Acreage 6.2 Plat 58 Lot 314.

Ancient Little Neck Cemetery:

Admin. “Little Neck Cemetery.” Sowams Heritage Area. July 11, 2022. http://sowamsheritagearea.org/wp/little-neck-cemetery/

Chall, Brian. “Little Neck Cemetery” Atlas Obscura. January 5, 2011. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/little-neck-cemetery\

The Scrap Book Volume 9, January-June, 1910. The Frank A. Munsey Company, Publishers: New York 1910.

Walsh, William S. A Handy Book of Curious Information Comprising Strange Happenings in the Life of Men and Animals, Odd Statistics, Extraordinary Phenomena, and Out of the Way Facts Concerning the Wonderlands of the Earth. J. B. Lippincott Company: Philadelphia,1913.

Whittock, Martyn. Mayflower Lives. Pegasus Books: New York, 2019.

“EP0005” Ancient Little Neck Burial Ground. Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission. July 9, 2022. http://rihistoriccemeteries.org/newsearchcemeterydetail.aspx?ceme_no=EP005

“Hebrew: רֶוַח” Strong's Concordance, Hebrew Dictionary. Quotes Cosmos. July 8, 2022. https://www.quotescosmos.com/bible/bible-concordance/H7305.html

“Historic Resources of East Providence, Rhode Island: Partial Inventory” National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form. National Register of Historic Places. October 31, 1984. https://preservation.ri.gov/sites/g/files/xkgbur406/files/pdfs_zips_downloads/national_pdfs/east_providence/eapr_historic-resources-of-east-providence.pdf

“Little Neck Cemetery.” East Providence Historical Society. July 11, 2022. http://ephist.org/historic-sites/little-neck-cemetery/

Bonus Link:

FindAGrave - Ancient Little Neck Cemetery

Land Acknowledgment:

We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.

Links:

North American Indian Center of Boston

Native Land Conservancy

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

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When You Wish Upon A Grave

In this episode, Caitlin and Francesgrace welcome podcaster Dan Miceli, their second ever guest, to talk about that towering shadow of Walt Disney.

Accessibility Description: A plaque set into a pale, fake-brick wall that reads: Walter Elias Disney | Lillian Bounds Disney | Robert R. Brown | Sharon Disney Brown Lund | Ashes Scattered In Paradise. The plaque is surrounded by thick vines of what appears to be star jasmine.

Accessibility: Photo of Walt Disney, who has brown eyes, reddish brown hair, and a trimmed mustache. He’s in a blue suit with a slightly brighter blue tie.

Walter Elias Diseny:

Sources available upon request.

Bonus Link:

FindAGrave - Walter Elias Disney

Land Acknowledgment:

We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.

Links:

North American Indian Center of Boston

Native Land Conservancy

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

Read More
Caitlin & Frances Caitlin & Frances

Remember the Ladies

In this episode, Caitlin and Francesgrace wandered through the cemetery and almost literally stumbled onto the lives and extraordinary times of Mary Lemist Titcomb and Annie Smith Peck.

“I long to hear that you have declared an independency -- and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.”

Abigail Adams to her Husband, March 31, 1776

Accessibility: A tall rectangular stone with a slightly curved top, dark grey, which reads: Mary Lemist Titcomb | Born May 16, 1852 | Died June 5, 1932 | Founder of the | Bookmobile in the | United States.

Accessibility: A black and white, grainy photograph of Mary Lemist Titcomb, in a white suffragist outfit and holding a newspaper

Mary Lemist Titcomb:

"Before 1876 - About ALA", American Library Association, dynamically generated page. http://www.ala.org/aboutala/before-1876 (Accessed June 20, 2022)

“Mary Titcomb” Western Maryland Historical Library Collection. http://www.whilbr.org/itemdetail.aspx?idEntry=232

“Miss Titcomb Dies After Long Illness” The Morning Herald. (Hagerstown, MD) June 06, 1932.

“Titcomb Dedication” The Friends of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. https://www.friendsofsleepyhollow.org/titcomb.html (Accessed June 21, 2022)

“The First Bookmobile - Washington County Free Library, Maryland”Western Maryland Historical Library Collection. http://www.whilbr.org/itemdetail.aspx?idEntry=232 (Accessed June 20, 2022)

Glenn, Sharlee. Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America’s First Bookmobile. New York: Abrams Books For Young Readers, 2018.

Bonus Link:

FindAGrave - Mary Lemist Titcomb

"Library on Wheels" - Children's Book about Mary Lemist Titcomb

Obituary Announcement

Accessibility Description: The gravestone is a large slab, rectangular with sharp corners. At the top, it reads: Annie S Peck | Daughter of | George B and Ann S Peck | Born October 15, 1850 | Died July 18, 1935. At the bottom, it says: Tribute of Dr John H Finley | At the Celebration of | Her 80th Birthday: | You have brought uncommon glory to women of all time.

Accessibility: A black and white photo portrait of Annie Peck in mountaineering clothing (including her famously scandalous baggy pants). She is leaning on a pickax and there is rope hanging from her belt.

Annie Smith Peck:

Kimberly, Hannah. A Woman’s Place is At The Top: A Biography of Annie Smith Peck, Queen of Climbers. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2017.

Peck, Annie Smith. A Search for the Apex of America: High Mountain Climbing in Peru and Bolivia Including The Conquest of Huascaran with Some Observations on the Country and People Below. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1911.

Polk, Milbry. “Annie Smith Peck” Living On Earth Today. https://loe.org/series/story.html?seriesID=13&blogID=2

Scialdone-Kimberly, Hannah. “Woman at the Top: Rhetoric, Politics, and Feminism in the Texts and Life of Annie Smith Peck.” Dissertation, Old Dominion University, 2012.

Sutton, Brook. “Climber Annie Smith Peck Shocked the World—By Wearing Pants” Adventure Journal. June 7, 2021. https://www.adventure-journal.com/2021/06/historical-badass-annie-smith-peck/

Bonus Info:

Mountains Climbed:

  • Mount Shasta (14,179 ft/4321.8 meters)

  • Mount Washington (6,288.3 ft/1,916.7 meters)*

  • Mount Madison (5,367 ft/1,636 meters)

  • Matterhorn (14,692 ft/4,478 meters)

  • Pico de Orizaba (18,491 ft/5636 meters)

  • Popocatepetl (17,802 ft/5426 meters)

  • Cristallo (10,568 ft/3,221 meters)

  • Jungfrau (13,642 ft/4,158 meters)

  • Fünffingerspitze (9825 ft/2996 meters)

  • Illampu (20,892 ft/6,368 meters)

  • Aconcagua (22,837 ft/6,960.8 meters)

  • Huascaran (22,205 ft/6,768 meters)

Bonus Link:

FindAGrave - Annie Smith Peck

Land Acknowledgment:

We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.

Links:

North American Indian Center of Boston

Native Land Conservancy

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

Read More
Caitlin & Frances Caitlin & Frances

Quiet Lives of Desperation

In this episode, Caitlin and Francesgrace got a little lost in the woods and in the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

Accessibility: A tall rectangular stone that lists six members of the Thoreau family with their dates: John, Cynthia, John Jr, Helen, Henry, and Sophia. The wide base of the stone reads: Thoreau, in block letters. It’s in the trees atop Author’s Ridge.

Accessibility: A small grave marker in an almost spade shape, rounded point at the top. It reads simply, Henry. There is a small, synthetic poppy in front of it and a patch of moss on top.

Henry David Thoreau:

Coming Soon…We’re having technical difficulties.

Bonus Link:

FindAGrave - Henry David Thoreau

Accessibility Description: The gravestone is literally a giant marble rock with a copper plaque on it. To our right is Ellen Tucker Emerson, his first wife. To our left is Lidian Emerson, his second wife.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Allen, Gay Wilson. Waldo Emerson: A Biography. Viking Press; New York, 1981.

Bull, Lawerence. Emerson. Harvard UP; Cambridge, MA, 2003.

Cramer, Jeffrey S. Solid Seasons: The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Counterpoint; Berkeley, CA, 2019.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Modern Library Classics; New York, 2000.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature. Independently Published; The Internet, 2020.

Gura, Philip F. American Transcendentalism. Hill and Wang; New York, 2007.

Marcus, James. "Thoreau in Love” The New Yorker. October 11, 2021

Richardson, Robert D. Emerson: The Mind on Fire. U California Press; Berkeley, CA, 1995.

York, Maurice and Rick Spaulding. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Infinitude of The Private Man. Wrightwood Press; Chicago, 2008.

Bonus Link:

FindAGrave - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Land Acknowledgment:

We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.

Links:

North American Indian Center of Boston

Native Land Conservancy

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

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Unanswerable Questions, Unquestionable Answers

In this episode, it’s 1692 and Caitlin and Francesgrace find themselves on opposite sides of the sharp divide between the Witches and the Hanging Judge. Welcome to Salem.

Accessibility: A large stone bench, roughhewn, reads: John Proctor | Hanged | August 19, 1692. On top of the bench, there are decaying flowers and a painted stone.

The Witches:

“Historic Burying Grounds” April 6, 2016. https://www.salem.org/blog/historic-burying-grounds/

Aronson, Marc. Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials. New York: Atheneum, 2003.

Baker, Emerson W. A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014.

Brooks, Rebecca Beatrice. “The Salem Witch Trials Victims: Who Were They?” August 19, 2015. https://historyofmassachusetts.org/salem-witch-trials-victims/

Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP 1974.

Swift, Adams. “Where were the Salem Witch Trial victims buried? Peabody researchers have an idea.” Itemslive.com. November 9, 2017. https://www.itemlive.com/2017/11/09/salem-witch-trial-victims-buried-peabody-researchers-think-know/

Taylor, Betsy. “Documents Shed New Light On Witchcraft Trials” The Salem Evening News. (Salem, MA) Nov. 4, 1999.

Trask, Richard B. The Devil Hath Been Raised: A Documentary History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Outbreak of March 1692. Wichita, KS: Yeoman Press, 1997.

Upham, Charles. Salem Witchcraft. Mineola, NY: Dover Publication, 2000.

Bonus Link:

FindAGrave - Salem Trials Memorial

Accessibility Description: A green field bisected by a white walking path. On both sides of the path, there are old gravestones. there are trees and buildings in the background.

The Magistrates:

Baker, Emerson W. A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014.

Foulds, Diane. Death In Salem: The Private Lives Behind The 1692 Witch Hunt. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot, 2010.

Martin, Lois. The History of Witchcraft. Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books, 2007.

Norton, Mary Beth. In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. New York: Vintage Books, 2002.

Schiff, Stacy. The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem. Boston: Little Brown, 2015.

Upham, Charles. Salem Witchcraft. Mineola, NY: Dover Publication, 2000.

Bonus Link:

FindAGrave - John Hathorne

FindAGrave - Rev. John Hale

Land Acknowledgment:

We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.

Links:

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Native Land Conservancy

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

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One Grave To Rule Them All

In this episode, Caitlin and Francesgrace are overjoyed to welcome their first official guest to the show. Jesse makes them both cry.

Accessibility: A large granite marker, speckled, rounded at the top, reads: Edith Mary Tolkien | Luthien | 1889-1971 | John Ronald | Reuel Tolkien | Beren | 1892-1973. Up the left side of the stone is a climbing plant, at the bottom of which sits a tiny stuffed lamb. On the right is a red flower.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkein:

Sterling, Grant. “The Gift of Death: Tolkien's Philosophy of Mortality”Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 21 : No. 4 , Article 3 (1997).

Tolkien, JRR. The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien. eds. Carpenter, Humphrey; Tolkien, Christopher. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1981.

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings. HarperCollins, 1991.

Tolkien, JRR. JRR Tolkien: A Biography. eds. Carpenter, Humphrey; Tolkien, Christopher. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977.

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Silmarillion. HarperCollins, 1991.

Bonus Link:

FindAGrave - JRR Tolkien

Accessibility Description: Jesse kneels to the side of the above described grave. This picture makes it clear that the grave is a cradle grave. There are several shrubs and a small tree planted in the stone cradles that covers where the coffin is buried. In the background you can see other headstones and several more cradle graves.

Land Acknowledgment:

We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.

Links:

North American Indian Center of Boston

Native Land Conservancy

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

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Caitlin & Frances Caitlin & Frances

Missing In Action

In this episode, Caitlin and Francesgrace wade their way through the absolute quagmire that is Institutional Cemeteries in New England.

Accessibility: A large granite marker, vaguely rock shaped with a rough surface. In the center, there is a smooth rectangle that reads: The Danvers State Hospital | Cemetery| The Echoes They Left Behind. It is surrounded by greenery and a few small logs.

Danvers State Hospital:

“An Excerpt From A Patient Abuse Report 1992” Disabled Persons Protection Commission: Boston, 1992. https://www.danversstatehospital.org/patient-abuse-report 

“Cregg Probes Mystery Death, Danvers Hospital” The Telegraph (Nashua, NH), September 28, 1934.

“Danvers State Hospital” National Parks Service. Accessed April 5, 2022. https://www.nps.gov/places/danvers-state-hospital.htm

“Danvers State Hospital – An Abandoned Psychiatric Hospital” World Abandoned. Accessed April 6, 2022. https://www.worldabandoned.com/danvers-state-hospital

“Danvers State Hospital - Arkham and Beyond: Patients and Cemeteries” Simmons Library. Accessed April 4, 2022. https://simmonslis.libguides.com/c.php?g=832589&p=5946257

“Fireman Fight Blaze At Danvers State Hospital” The Lewiston Daily Sun (Lewiston, ME), August 14, 1936.

Brooks, Rebecca Beatrice. “History of Danvers State Hospital” History of Massachusetts Blog. September 19, 2012. Accessed April 3, 2022.  https://historyofmassachusetts.org/history-of-danvers-state-hospital/

DeLong, William. “Why Danvers State Hospital Ranks Among History’s Most Infamous Asylums” All That’s Interesting. April 30, 2018. Accessed April 7, 2022. https://allthatsinteresting.com/danvers-state-hospital

Dickey, Colin. “The Stain: An excerpt from Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places, by Order member Colin Dickey.” The Order of the Good Death. October 31, 2016. Accessed April 7, 2022.https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/the-stain/

Dylan, “Danvers State Hospital” Atlas Obscura. October 31, 2014. Accessed April 4, 2022.https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cemetery-danvers-hospital-criminally-insane


Bonus Link:

FindAGrave - Danvers State Hospital Cemetery

Reddit Thread - Lore

Reddit Thread - Sarah Eustace

Lore Podcast - Danvers Ep

Accessibility Description: Large green field full of several hundred small concrete and rebar markers that only have numbers on them. At the front there are 6 signs on steel posts that name this RI State Institution Cemetery #2 or Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Cranston #63. There is woods in the background, bare of leaves, and a small granite marker in the ground under the signs.

The Bodies Under Route 37:

“A Chronology of Rhode Island Hospitals” Rhode Island Medical Journal: Providence, January 2017.

“State Potters Field Cemeteries Project Final Report 2009” Released by The Rhode Island Department of Mental Health, Retardation, and Hospitals. Released 2009.

Adams, Jay. “Rehabilitation of Rhode Island’s Route 37 Unearths Long-Forgotten Cemetery” ConstructionEquipementGuide.com Northeast Edition December 10, 2009.

Hall, Jason. “Nearly 1,000 Bodies Found Under New England Highway” KFI AM640, Oct 20, 2021.

McDermott, Jennifer. “Graves of some who died at R.I. institutions lie under highway” The Providence Journal: Providence, Oct. 20, 2021

Miller, G. Wayne. “Potter’s Fields and the Forgotten Mentally Ill” G Wayne Miller Blog. April 17, 2016. http://gwaynemiller.blogspot.com/2016/04/potters-field_17.html

Jackson, Jon. “Hundreds of People From Rhode Island Institutions Buried Beneath Busy Highway” Newsweek: October 20, 2021.

Perry, Amos. Rhode Island State Census, 1885. Rhode Island Census Board. EL Freeman, Printers of The State: Providence, 1887.

Taylor, Tolly. “Expert: 2 to 4 bodies per grave in state cemetery under Route 37” WPRI, December 8, 2021.

Bonus Links:

FindAGrave - RI State Institution Cemetery #3

Additional Reading - Cranston Herald

Land Acknowledgment:

We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.

Links:

North American Indian Center of Boston

Native Land Conservancy

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

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Caitlin & Frances Caitlin & Frances

Rest In Pieces

In this episode, Caitlin and Francesgrace trade stories of the lives and deaths of Mercy Brown, Rhode Island’s most famous vampire, and Mary Greene Clapp, a woman who may or may not have been murdered.

Accessibility: A rectangular gravestone in pale gray with a rounded top that reads: Mercy L. | Daughter of | George & Mary E. | Brown | Died Jan. 17, 1892 | Aged 19 years. In front of the stone is a collection of small stones, knickknacks, and artificial flowers.

Mercy Brown:

 “Cemetery tales” Providence Journal (Providence, RI), November 28, 2017.

“Exhumed the Bodies” Providence Journal (Providence, RI), March 19, 1892.

“MonsterQuest: VAMPIRE SCARE IN NEW ENGLAND” (S2, E10) History Channel. October 14, 20120.

Bell, Michael E.  Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England’s Vampires. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001.

Cranston, Tim. “Mercy on the Browns: The sad tale of Mercy L. and Edwin A. Brown” South County Life Magazine (Wakefield, RI), September 29, 2017.

Klein, Christopher. “The Last American Vampire” History.com, September 2018.

Raven, Rory. Haunted Providence: Strange Tales from the Smallest State. Charleston, SC: Haunted America, 2008.

Rondina, Christopher. Vampire Legends of Rhode Island. North Attleboro, MA: Covered Bridge Press, 1997.

Simister, Florence Parker. A Short History of Exeter, Rhode Island. Exeter, RI: Exeter Bicentennial Commission, 1978.

Spiers, Richard. “MERCY BROWN–A REAL RHODE ISLAND VAMPIRE” UnderworldTales.com. 2004.

Tucker, Abigail. “The Great New England Vampire Panic” Smithsonian Magazine (Washington, DC), October 2020. 

Bonus Link:

FindAGrave - Mercy Brown

Exhume The Bodies

Accessibility Description: The dark gray stone has a rounded top with little flares on the sides. There is a winged face carved into the top (unclear whether it’s a Death’s Head or a Cherub) and scrollwork down both sides. The stone reads: In Memory | of Mary ye Wife | of Silas Clapp | daughter of John | Greene Esqr | who died July | 3rd, 1760 in ye 38th | year of her age..

Mary Greene Clapp:

Adams, Hannah. A Summary History of New-England From the First Settlement at Plymouth, to Acceptance of the Federal Constitution. Comprehending a General Sketch of the American War. Dedham, MA: H. Mann and J.H. Adams, 1799.

Arnold, James Newell. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 16356-1850: First Series, Births, Marriages, and Deaths. A Family Register for the People. Volume 1: Kent County. Providence, RI: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, 1891.

Clapp, Ebenezer. Record of the Clapp Family In America: Containing sketches of the original six emigrants and a genealogy of the their descendants bearing the name with a supplement and the proceedings of two family meetings. Boston: David Clapp & Son, Publishers, 1876.

Cole, JR. History of Washington and Kent counties, Rhode Island, including their early settlement and progress to the present time; a description of their historic and interesting localities; sketches of their towns and villages; portraits of some of their prominent men, and biographies of many of their representative citizens. New York: W.W. Preston & Co, 1889.

Clarke, Louise Brownell and George Sears Greene. The Greenes of Rhode Island: With Historical Records of English Ancestry, 1534-1902. New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1903.

Fuller, Oliver Payson. The History of Warwick, Rhode Island, from Its Settlement in 1642 to the Present Time Including Accounts of the Early Settlement and Development of Its Several Villages; Sketches of the Origin and Progress of the Different Churches of the Town, &c., &c. Providence, RI: Angell, Burlingame, & Co, Printers, 1875.

Greene, John. “Warwick (RI) Probate Court Wills, 1745-1797; John Greene” Rhode Island Historical Society Archive. 

Tillinghast, Samuel. The Diary of Capt. Samuel Tillinghast of Warwick, Rhode Island, 1757-1766. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011.

With some consolation of the history of fashion and undergarments, via Google, but without proper documentation. I should be ashamed of myself. My apologies.

Also, special thanks to the Rhode Island Historical Society for letting me root around in both their archives and their brains for anything available on Mary Clapp

Bonus Links:

FindAGrave - Mary Greene Clapp

Land Acknowledgment:

We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.

Links:

North American Indian Center of Boston

Native Land Conservancy

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

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Caitlin & Frances Caitlin & Frances

For Whom The Opening Bell Tolls

In this episode, Caitlin and Francesgrace examine about the lives, deaths, graves, and legacies of Isabella Stewart Gardener, the philanthropist, and Mary Ann Lippitt, the oralism advocate.

Accessibility: Large rectangular gravestone with a rounded top. Photo is slightly grainy to make the stone easier to read. It says: Charles H Dow | Nov. 6, 1851-Dec 4, 1902 | With Malice Toward None With Charity To All (as an aside: I think Edward Jones might disagree…) | Lucy M. Dow | March 22, 1848 -July 16, 1918.

Charles Dow

Public Domain Photograph

Charles Henry Dow:

“Charles Dow” New World Encyclopedia. February 2, 2017. https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Charles_Dow 

“Humble Beginnings of the Dow Jones: How a Sterling Farmer Became the Toast of Wall Street” Connecticut History. April 17, 2014. https://connecticuthistory.org/humble-beginnings-of-the-dow-jones-how-a-sterling-farmer-became-the-toast-of-wall-street/ 

Geisst, Charles R. Encyclopedia of American Business History. Infobase Publishing: December, 2005.

Harris, Karen. “Charles Henry Dow: The Man Who Created Modern Economics” History Daily. https://historydaily.org/charles-henry-dow 

Bonus Link:

FindAGrave - Charles Dow

Charles' Book: Newport, The City By the Sea

Charles' Book: A History of Steam Navigation Between New York & Providence

Book: Dow Theory Unplugged

Accessibility Description: Photo is grainy (to help make it easier to read the small metal plaque near the bottom that reads: Edward Davis Jones | October 7, 1856 | February 16, 1920. The stone is tall and narrow, with a rounded top that has some small scroll craving on the sides. Clara Alice Jones, Aug 15, 1858- Oct. 27, 1880 is carved into the side of the stone above Edward’s plaque.

Edward D. Jones

Photo taken from the record of the Forrest Jones Papers at the Boulder Colorado Public Library.

Edward Davis Jones:

Brown Alumni Monthly. Vol XX, No. 8. Brown University Press: March 1920.

Conley, Patrick. The Leaders of Rhode Island's Golden Age. Contributions from The Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. The History Press: Charleston, SC, 2019.

"Dow Jones History” Dow Jones and Co. 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060807214105/http://www.dowjones.com/TheCompany/History/History.htm

"Edward Davis Jones: Inducted: 2006.” http://riheritagehalloffame.com/Edward-Jones/

“Edward Jones” Forest Jones Collectionhttps://snaccooperative.org/view/61243585#resources

Ponsi, Ed. Technical Analysis and Chart Interpretations: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Established Trading Tactics for Ultimate Profit. Wiley Publishing: Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

Bonus Links:

FindAGrave - Edward D. Jones

FindAGrave - Charles Milford Bergstresser

Providence Morning Star Newspaper

Providence Evening Star Newspaper

Land Acknowledgment:

We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.

Links:

North American Indian Center of Boston

Native Land Conservancy

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

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Caitlin & Frances Caitlin & Frances

The Sound of Silence

In this episode, Caitlin and Francesgrace examine about the lives, deaths, graves, and legacies of Isabella Stewart Gardener, the philanthropist, and Mary Ann Lippitt, the oralism advocate.

Accessibility:

Isabella Stewart Gardner, about 1850

Taken from the website for the Gardner Museum (see link below)

Isabella Stewart Gardner:

Hawley, Anne, Robert Campbell, and Alexander Wood, "A sketch of the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner" in Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Daring by Design. New York City: Skira Rizzoli Publications, 2014. 

“ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER - AN UNCONVENTIONAL LIFE” Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Accessed February 17, 2022. https://www.gardnermuseum.org/about/isabella-stewart-gardner

“Isabella Stewart Gardner” Boston Women’s Heritage Trail. Accessed February 23, 2022. https://bwht.org/isabella-stewart-gardner/

“LEARN ABOUT THE THEFT” Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Accessed February 17, 2022. https://www.gardnermuseum.org/about/isabella-stewart-gardner

This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist. Directed by Colin Barnicle. Los Gatos, CA: Netflix, 2021.

Bonus Link:

FindAGrave - Isabella Stewart Gardner

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Stealing Rembrandts - This is the book we referenced, by the head of Security at the Gardner, Anthony Amore.

Accessibility Description:

Mary Ann Balch Lippitt

Photo taken from the Lippitt Museum website (see link below).

Mary Ann Lippitt

“Mary Ann Lippitt” accessed February 16, 2022. https://www.preserveri.org/history-lippitt-house-museum

“Mary A Lippitt Dead” Boston Herald (Boston, MA), Monday September 2, 1889.

“Mrs. W.B.Weedan Rites Tomorrow” The Providence Journal (Providence, RI), Tuesday October 1, 1940.

“Municipal Court - Tuesday, Oct. 8” The Evening Bulletin (Providence RI), Wednesday, October 9, 1889.

American Biography: A New Cyclopedia · Volume 26ed. William Richard Cutter. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1926.

Brown, John Howard, and Rossiter Johnson. The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans VI Jack-Lock. Boston: The Biographical Society, Boston 1904.

Capace, Nancy. Encyclopedia of Rhode Island. St. Clair Shores, MI: Somerset Publishing, Inc, 2001.

Census Bureau. US Census Records 1860. Scanned by GeneologyBank.com. Accessed Feb. 23, 2022.

Census Bureau. US Census Records 1880. Scanned by GeneologyBank.com. Accessed Feb. 23, 2022.

City Documents for the year 1876. Ed. Providence. Providence, RI: Providence, Angell, Burlingame & Co. Printers to the City, 1877.

Cordery, Stacy A. Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts. New York City: Penguin Books, 2013.

Dennison; George M. The Dorr War: Republicanism on Trial, 1831–1861. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1976.

Gowdey, Mary A. “#271 Angell Street…brick” Providence Preservation Society Records. Providence, RI: Unknown, 1969.

Laxton, Glenn. Hidden History of Rhode Island: Not-to-Be-Forgotten Tales of the Ocean State. Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing Inc., 2009.

Lippitt, Jeanie. “Travel Journal 1882.” Manuscript. Research Collections in Women’s Studies Microfilm. Collection ed. Anne Firor and Ellen F Fitzpatrick. Providence, RI: Rhode Island Historical Society. 

Johnston, Elizabeth Bryant. Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Volume 2. Harrisburg PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co, 1890.

Mohr, Ralph S. Governors for Three Hundred Years, 1638-1959: Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. London: Oxford Press, 1959.

Nichols, Edith A. “Grand Old Lady of 88 Conqueror of Handicap” in The Evening Bulletin (Providence, RI), January 24, 1904. 

Soules, Rebecca. “"Her Mother's Triumph",” Rhode Tour, accessed February 28, 2022, https://rhodetour.org/items/show/2.

Bonus Links:

FindAGrave - Mary Ann Balch Lippitt

Lippitt House Museum

RI School for the Deaf

Land Acknowledgment:

We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.

Links:

North American Indian Center of Boston

Native Land Conservancy

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

Read More
Caitlin & Frances Caitlin & Frances

The Hitchhiker’s Manifesto

In this episode, Caitlin and Francesgrace swap stories about the lives, deaths, and strange graves of Karl Marx, the philosopher, and Douglas Adams, the writer.

Accessibility: A large rectangular marble tomb with a large bronze bust, which reads: Workers of All Land | Unite| Karl Marx | The Philosopher have only | Interpreted the world in | Various ways. The point however is to change it.

The words are etched in gold. There are bouquets of flowers at the base and it is surrounded by trees.

Karl Marx:

Barnett, Vincent. Marx. New York City: Routledge, 2009.

Berlin, Isaiah. Karl Marx: His Life and Environment Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963. 

Heinrich, Michael. Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society: the Life of Marx and the Development of His Work. Volume I: 1818–1841. New York City: Monthly Review Press, July 2019.

Lenin, Vladimir. “Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism” Collected Works. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/granat/index.htm

McLellan, David. Karl Marx: His Life and Thought. New York City: Harper & Row, 1973.

McLellan, David. Karl Marx: A Biography. Fourth edition. Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006

Mehring, Franz. Karl Marx: The Story of His Life. New York City: Routledge, 2003.

Nicolaievsky, Boris and Otto Maenchen-Helfen. Karl Marx: Man and Fighter. Translated by Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher. New York City: Penguin Books, July 1976.

Wheen, Francis. Karl Marx. London: HarperCollins UK, June 2012. 

Bonus Link:

FindAGrave - Karl Marx

Marx's Illness (hidradenitis suppurativa)

Accessibility Description: Up close of a plain grey headstone reads Douglas Adams | Writer | 1952-2001. On top are a small of shells, button-pins, and other knickknacks. It is surrounded by green plants and grass.

Next to the grave: several towels, a petunia pot (flowerless) with a small dolphin figurine in it. Also surrounded by plants, objects on top of grass.

Douglas Adams:

“BBC Background: Last Chance To See.” BBC. Revised 2014. https://www.bbc.co.uk/lastchancetosee/sites/about/last_chance_to_see.shtml

Adams, Douglas and Mark Carwardine. Last Chance To See. New York City: Crown Publishing Group, 1991.

Adams, Douglas. TED Talk: Parrots, the universe and everything. Recorded May 2001. https://www.ted.com/talks/douglas_adams_parrots_the_universe_and_everything 

Gaiman, Neil. Don’t Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Updated Edition. New York City: Titan Books, September 2009.

Simpson, M.J. Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams. Boston: Justin, Charles & Company Publishers, 2003.

Webb, Nick. Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams. New York: Random House Publishing Group, March 2005.

Bonus Links:

FindAGrave - Douglas Adams

Assorted BBC Radio 4 Hitch-hiker's Links

Land Acknowledgment:

We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.

Links:

North American Indian Center of Boston

Native Land Conservancy

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

Read More