Show Notes
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.
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.
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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.
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:
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.
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Missing Stones
In this episode, Caitlin and Frances trade stories about the lives and impoverished deaths of H.P. Lovecraft, the writer, and Sissieretta Jones, the singer.
HP Lovecraft:
de Camp, L. Sprague. Lovecraft: A Biography. New York: Doubleday, 1975.
Faig, Kenneth W. "The Parents of Howard Phillips Lovecraft". In Joshi, S. T.; Schultz, David E. (eds.). An Epicure in the Terrible: A Centennial Anthology of Essays in Honor of H. P. Lovecraft. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991.
Joshi, S.T. I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2010.
Lovecraft, H.P. Selected Letters. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1965.
Macrobert, Franch A. "Cosmic Dread: The Astronomy of H. P. Lovecraft,” The FreeLibraryByFarlex. February 1, 2015. https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Cosmic+dread%3A+the+astronomy+of+H.P.+Lovecraft.-a0396766826
Schweitzer, Darrell. Discovering H. P. Lovecraft. Holicog, PA: Wildside Press, 2001.
Touponce, William F. Lord Dunsany, H. P. Lovecraft, and Ray Bradbury: Spectral Journeys. Studies in Supernatural Literature. Scarecrow Press, 2013.
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Sissieretta Jones:
Chideya, Farai. News & Notes. “History's Unsung Opera Star.” June 11, 2007. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10948095
Cooper, Michael. “Overlooked No More: Sissieretta Jones, a Soprano Who Shattered Racial Barriers.” Aug. 15, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/obituaries/sissieretta-jones-overlooked.html
GoLocalProv Features Team.“RI Music Hall of Fame Announces 2013 Inductees.” January 21, 2013. https://www.golocalprov.com/lifestyle/new-ri-music-hall-of-fame-announces-2013-inductees/
Hudson, R. “From Opera, Minstrelsy and Ragtime to Social Justice: An Overview of African American Performers at Carnegie Hall, 1892-1943.” BlackPast. September 3, 2007. Accessed Jan. 06, 2022. https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/opera-minstrelsy-and-ragtime-social-justice-overview-african-american-performers-carneg/
Lee, Maureen D. Sissieretta Jones: “The Greatest Singer of Her Race," 1868-1933. Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina Press, 2012.
Jess, Tyehimba. “Sissieretta Jones” Olio. Seattle, WA: Wave Books, 2016.
Jess, Tyehimba. “My Name is Sissieretta Jones” Olio. Seattle, WA: Wave Books, 2016.
Story, Rosalyn M. And So I Sing: African American Divas of Opera and Concert. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 1990.
Unladylike2020. “Sissieretta Jones was a Trailblazing Black Opera Singer” Directed by Charlotte Mangin and Sandra Rattley. (2020: PBS) https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/first-black-woman-headline-concert-carnegie-hall-wtx97f/14930/#
Bonus Links:
FindAGrave - Sissieretta Jones
Support Grace Church Cemetery Restoration Efforts
Memory Medallion Page Attached to Sissieretta's Grave
Land Acknowledgment:
We’d like to acknowledge that both HP Lovecraft and Sissieretta Jones are buried and 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: