Show Notes
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
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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