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All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories
Hosted by Joe Lex · EN
Brief biographies of permanent residents of Laurel Hill East in Philadelphia and Laurel Hill West in Bala Cywnyd, Pennsylvania. Often educational, always entertaining.
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Colonial Philadelphia and Slavery EARLY RELEASE
1w ago00:32:17Tap to summarizeABC:LHS 089-1 is scheduled for release as an individual episode on August 2. This EARLY RELEASE is because much of it is relevant to what is currently happening at the President's House on Market Street. More than 1500 enslaved people... ...lived in Philadelphia at the time the colonies declared their independence from England. Enslaved people shared the streets with indentured servants, freed Blacks, immigrants, visitors, and more than 50 signers of the Declaration of Independence. Slavery was essential to the economy.
Transcribe →Seo Jae-Pil, aka Philip Jaisohn, MD: The Room Where It Happened
4w ago01:05:29Tap to summarizeBBB:LHWS #058 Seo Jae-pil, aka Philip Jaisohn... ...was the first Korean to become a US citizen, but he never gave up on his lifelong dream to return Korea to its own independence. In 1919, he chaired a Philadelphia meeting that ended with a march through the rain to the room where it happened at Independence Hall and the reading of a new Declaration of Independence.
Transcribe →LTG John C Pemberton: The Loss of Vicksburg
4w ago00:27:22Tap to summarizeABC:LHS #088-2 GEN John Clifford Pemberton ... ... was a Philadelphian who threw his lot with the Confederacy, despite his graduation from the US Military Academy, where he had briefly roomed with George Gordon Meade. Jefferson Davis put him in charge at Vicksburg, where he was forced to surrender to Ulysses S. Grant after a 47-day siege.
Transcribe →MG George Gordon Meade: The Man Who Saved the Union
4w ago00:39:45Tap to summarizeABC:LHS #088-1 Major General George Gordon Meade... ...took command of the Army of the Potomac with almost no warning and promptly led it to victory at Gettysburg. But instead of being remembered simply as the general who stopped Robert E. Lee, he spent much of his life defending what he did next. This is the story of Meade’s command, his caution, and his contested legacy.
Transcribe →July 4, 1863
4w ago01:19:46Tap to summarizeABC:LHS #088 July 4, 1863... ...is the day that the Confederacy knew their days were numbered. At Gettysburg, Philadelphian General George Gordon Meade stopped Pickett's charge and sent Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia back south licking their wounds. On the same day, Philadelphian and Confederate General John Clifford Pemberton surrendered Vicksburg to Ulysses S. Grant after a 47-day siege. The two men, who had briefly roomed together at West Point, will always be remembered for that famed day.
Transcribe →The 1851 Christiana Riots and Laurel Hill
Jun 1900:27:57Tap to summarizeABC:LHS 089-5 Early Release for Juneteenth Research and script by Marty Foley; narrated by Joe Lex
Transcribe →Jeff Lee Johnson: Never "Just a Session Man"
Jun 1800:14:05Tap to summarizeBBB:LHWS #057-3 Jef Lee Johnson... ...played with everyone from Aretha Franklin to McCoy Tyner, primarily because he sounded like no one - except for the comparisons to Lonnie Johnson and Jimi Hendrix.
Transcribe →Winston Samuels: Israelites
Jun 1700:25:42Tap to summarizeBBB:LHWS #057-2 Winston Samuels McGinnis... ...was a Jamaican singer with a moderately successful career until he backed Desmond Dekker on the worldwide hit "Israelites." He became an accountant in New York City while the reggae that he had helped create took over the music world.
Transcribe →Rudolph Hennig: There's Always Room for Cello
Jun 1600:18:42Tap to summarizeBBB:LHWS #057-1 Rudolph Hennig... ...was a German born master of the cello who was the Philaldelphia Orchestra's first cello soloist after he had already been painted by Thomas Eakins. A century after his death, his portrait was again in the news.
Transcribe →Three More Musicians from Laurel Hill West
Jun 1501:07:14Tap to summarizeBBB:LHWS #057 Three More LHW Musicians Rudolph Hennig was the first cello soloist for the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1901; a few years earlier, Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins had represented him in oils as The Cello Player, which was used as a bargaining chip more than a century later. Winston Samuels McGinnis was a moderately successful Jamaican ska and rocksteady performer who sang backup in one of reggae's first worldwide hits "Israelites" by Desmond Dekker. Jeffrey Lee Johnson, or simply JEF was the session guitarist who could apparently sound like anyone but was at his best when he sounded like Jef Johnson. The two usual comparisons are Lonnie Johnson ... and Jimi Hendrix.
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