Show Notes
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:
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.
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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.
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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.”
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
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.
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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:
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Bonus Link:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
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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:
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:
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:
Charles' Book: Newport, The City By the Sea
Charles' Book: A History of Steam Navigation Between New York & Providence
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 - 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:
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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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.
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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:
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.
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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.
Accessibility: Plain headstone reads Lovecraft with his birth-death dates and the phrase ‘I am Providence’. Stone is square with an angled front face, possibly made of granite. on the base of the stone, are coins, seashells, and scraps of paper. In front of it are what looks like palm fronds and a rubber monster finger puppet. On top, more shells, more coins, a green blobby thing, and other nicknacks.
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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Accessibility Description: Large grey marble, rectangular headstone that reads: Sissieretta Jones | January 5, 1868-June 24, 1933 | The Greatest Singer Of Her Race | Known as Black Patti | This international celebrated Soprano was | The highest paid African American Female | vocalist and one of the first black women | to preform at Carnegie Hall in a career | spanning 28 years. She sang for four US presidents | British royalty and millions in the United States, | Europe, West Indies and Canada | for 85 years she laid in an unmarked grave | Until this stone was erected to mark the 150th | anniversary of her birth.
In the top right of the headstone is a small headshot of Sissierettta Jones in color. There is snow at the base of the stone and covering the leaves littered around it. It is bright sun out with a blue sky and scattered clouds. In the background are trees, other headstones, and buildings.
The Back of the Headstone. It reads: Here too lies Sissieretta Jones Mother | Henrietta Everett Joyner Jones Crenshaw | Birth Date unknown | Born in North Carolina | Died March 17, 1924 | Providence, RI.
There is snow at the base of the stone and covering the leaves littered around it. It is bright sun out. In the background are trees, other headstones (some of which are clear in extreme disrepair), and buildings.
The Seattle Republican (Seattle, WA). March 8th, 1907. Library of Congress.
Photo of Sissieretta Jones, sitting in a high-backed chair. She is wearing an ornate dress with a lace train and very belled sleeves. There are ruffles and roses decorating the scooped neckline. Roses are scattered across her lap and down to the ground. Her hair is up with a feather in it. She is wearing a necklace and almost smiling. The picture is in black and white.
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.
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