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Colonial Era to Present Day History Buff
Hosted by Kirk Monroe · EN
History 101. Book and Trip Reviews.
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Discovering SS Atlantic’s Opulence Including Her Tragic Fate
4d ago01:11:38Tap to summarizeLearn about the first known commercial shipwreck that occurred on Lake Erie’s waters. Discover what the organization known as CLUE encompasses. Discover if any recent shipwreck discoveries have taken place on Lake Erie as of this current year. Get to know some fundamental facts about what made Steamboat Atlantic so unique for her time after getting built in 1848. Explore differences between costs involving access to high end state rooms versus what the average individual could attain when boarding a ship like SS Atlantic. Learn where SS Atlantic was bound for come evening of August 19,1852. Agree if it’s fair to admit that Atlantic’s cabins were totally full including both steerage and decks nearing capacity come August 19,1852. Determine if Atlantic went about making other stops behind picking up additional passengers after departing Buffalo. Get an understanding of just how big the passenger count onboard Atlantic had become prior to August 19 ending. Get introduced to Propeller Steamship Ogdensburg including where she was positioned in relation to SS Atlantic. Learn what Ogdensburg’s First Mate Degrass McNeil detected in the near distance involving Atlantic’s current positioning. Get an in depth analysis behind what took place come 2:30AM on August 20 involving both ships. Learn how one ships captain had thoroughly assessed the damage to his ship’s bow whereas crew from other ship initially assumed damage was minimal. Discover if the crew whom didn’t accurately assess damage to their ship make any attempts in notifying their passengers behind what happened. Learn if the captain whom thoroughly assessed damage to his ship’s bow could go as far as coming to the rescue to passengers stranded onboard the opposing vessel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Presence of Gale Storms Occurring In Non Prime Season
1w ago01:16:33Tap to summarizeDiscover exactly what Erie itself actually means. Get an understanding behind some general things to know regarding Lake Erie. Learn just how many shipwrecks Lake Erie is home to including the overall number which have been discovered. Discover what a gale itself is all about including whether they’re prevalent along Great Lakes Waters come November. Get introduced to SS Margaret Olwill whom was first constructed in 1887 including what her owners signed contract wise come year 1894. Go behind the scenes and explore what takes place come June 28,1899, involving SS Margaret Olwill most notably around late evening. Find out if any passengers including crew onboard Olwill survived the horrific ordeal. Agree whether or not in a matter of short time would some bodies lost from SS Margaret Olwill appear along Lake Erie’s surface. Get introduced to George Brown along with learning how he’s connected to the Olwill sinking. Learn whether or not SS Margaret Olwill ever got discovered by divers and explorers. Go behind the scenes and figure out when exactly the 1909 navigation season was to have ended on Great Lakes Waters. Stumble upon December 8,1909, and how Lake Erie’s winds were so heavy that they contributed to strong seas crashing over the deck of a 240 Foot Wooden Steamer in SS Clarion. Discover what Alfred Welch, SS Clarion’s Engineer and First Mate Jim Thompson detected as being suspicious. Determine what happened immediately to SS Clarion right after First Mate Jim Thompson went down below deck to check things out. Understand Captain E.J. Bell’s thinking strategy wise behind trying to save the ship’s crew. Besides having a lifeboat, what else did SS Clarion get equipped with boat feature wise. Determine whether or not SS Clarion was equipped with Wireless Communication. Explore the roles in ships H.P. Bope, the Munro, and SS Leonard C. Hanna behind their efforts to rescue those crewmen still onboard SS Clarion. Learn exactly where the Clarion’s 6 Survivors went after completing their recovery stint in Cleveland. Understand the storms significance including how many boats and sailors were lost. Learn if any missing bodies from SS Clarion were recovered following ship’s sinking including how many bodies never surfaced. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →From French Establishment of New France To Exploring America’s Inland Waterways
2w ago00:45:50Tap to summarizeAgree if it’s easy to assume whenever hearing about European Explorations in the New World that many people think immediately of the first permanent English Settlement at Jamestown,Virginia,1607. Discover how England wasn’t alone amongst rival European Nations behind seeking vast riches in the New World. Get introduced to French Explorer Samuel de Champlain and what he achieved come July 3,1608, one year after the English Settlement at Jamestown. Go further seven years after 1608 in 1615 where Champlain and Etienne Brule became the first two explorers to navigate Lakes Huron and Ontario. Discover some unique accomplishments made by Champlain himself involving Lakes Huron and Ontario. Figure out if North America’s Great Lakes make up the entire largest body of freshwater in the world. Learn exactly how the Great Lakes themselves became freshwater bodies based upon what took place 10-15,000 years prior. Explore what Canada had done beginning in 1824 to compete with her neighbor to the south from a transportation standpoint which involved connecting Great Lakes Waterways. Determine just how many shipwrecks per ballpark figure numbers there’ve been along the Great Lakes. Learn about the first European Sailing Ship to navigate Great Lakes Waterways come August 1679 including what happened come one month later. Discover how our new Book Report Topic Series will explore shipwrecks from all 5 Great Lakes, but more importantly the stories which await us per our next endeavor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Nelly Custis’s Final Years
3w ago00:53:22Tap to summarizeUnderstand exactly what made Audley so special for Nelly. Discover what came about in 1846 involving Nelly’s daughter Frances Parke Lewis. Learn what else happened in 1846 involving Woodlawn. Determine if Nelly herself ultimately felt more comfortable at Mount Vernon versus Woodlawn. Discover what tragic misfortune took place in 1847 involving Nelly’s only surviving son. Find out what Nelly got to embark upon at age 70 come year 1849. Discover what happened in America come July 9, 1850 including what takes place involving Nelly not long afterwards. Get an understanding as to just how bad of condition Mount Vernon itself was in by early 1850’s. Learn what John Augustine Washington III tried doing to prevent Mount Vernon from going into total disrepair. Agree if Woodlawn, Nelly’s 2,000 acre estate, is still around. Get an understanding behind what Nelly herself strove to preserve. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Nelly’s Journey Behind Navigating Internal Family Dynamics
3w ago01:04:19Tap to summarizeLearn how America in 1819 entered into a severe economic depression. Explore how state banks went beyond their boundaries as well as understanding how agricultural prices got impacted. Discover just how deeply impacted Virginia was during the 1819 Financial Panic. Agree if Lawrence Lewis, Nelly’s husband, was never truly a successful planter. Determine if Lawrence Lewis had been constantly grappling with some form of ill health. Find out if any of Nelly’s letters to her best friend Elizabeth Bordley Gibson mentioned anything about husband Lawrence. Learn where Nelly’s son Lorenzo resided including its proximity to Woodlawn, located in Alexandria. Discover why Woodlawn, Nelly’s home, never attained same level of visitors that Mount Vernon always maintained. Explore how Nelly’s brother, George Washington Parke Custis, went about compiling information which resulted in his writing a series of biographical essays regarding George Washington. Determine if it’s very likely that Nelly and her brother George were extremely close to one another. Learn if Nelly went south to Louisiana not long after her husband’s passing. Discover if Nelly was dealt any setbacks involving family members while staying in Louisiana. Get a timeline of Washington Family Events from 1829 up till 1858 involving Mount Vernon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Nelly Custis Getting Reunited With A Former Revolutionary War Officer
4w ago01:22:07Tap to summarizeDiscover exactly how many of Nelly and Lawrence Lewis’s children survived into adulthood. Get a better understanding as to why Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart, Nelly’s mom, couldn’t raise all of her children together from first marriage. Be surprised to find out how Nelly went about turning to her grandfather for various personal inquiries. Go behind the scenes and explore various reasons into why Marquis de Lafayette came to the United States in 1824. Learn how Nelly herself had the exact same feelings for Marquis de Lafayette as she did with her grandfather, George Washington. Discover how Nelly and George Washington Lafayette shared a great deal in common including gifts the two gave one another keeping loved one’s spirits alive. Find out if in fact Lafayette’s coffin got sprinkled with American Soil. Explore how Nelly was aware of education deficiencies facing the American South during the Nineteenth Century. Understand how the year 1839 brought a great state of sadness to Nelly Custis Lewis and her family. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Mastering The Duties Behind Being A Successful Plantation Mistress
Jun 801:15:27Tap to summarizeFind out whether Nelly & Lawrence Lewis still remained at Mount Vernon in the wake of her grandmother’s death. Agree if Martha Washington was never the same person after George had passed away. Discover who in the Washington Family would officially inherit Mount Vernon following Martha’s death. Learn what Nelly and her three siblings inherited from the Mount Vernon Estate. Get a better understanding behind Martha’s inheritance from her first marriage to Daniel Parke Custis regarding the number of enslaved people she owned. Find out the number of enslaved people George Washington noted per his 1799 Will including what happened to them in 1801, one year before Martha’s death. Agree if it’s fair to say that Nelly had grieved heavily following her grandparents passing. Determine just how long it took for Nelly & Lawrence’s estate in Woodlawn, three miles from Mount Vernon, to get built. Get an in depth analysis behind the endless array of duties which Nelly Custis Lewis performed as plantation mistress at Woodlawn. Compare and contrast the achievements between planter and that of plantation mistress. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Mount Vernon Estate’s Well Being Upon Washington’s Return
Jun 301:15:38Tap to summarizeDiscover just how glad Nelly Custis herself was to be back at Mount Vernon after her grandfather’s presidency ended. Determine how bad of shape Mount Vernon was in by time Washington returned home for good. Learn how one of Washington’s overseers went about appeasing British Forces whom made their way onto Mount Vernon’s premises. Get introduced to Lawrence Lewis, George Washington’s nephew. Learn about Lawrence Lewis’s parents most notably the sacrifices they made behind helping finance the Revolutionary War. Agree if Washington himself turned to nephew Lawrence as a personal assistant. Discover if Lawrence himself had any military experience. Go behind the scenes and learn how Lawrence Lewis and Nelly Custis became acquainted with one another to eventually getting married. Understand exactly why Lawrence and Nelly ended up residing at Mount Vernon after getting married. Get a timeline of events spanning less than twenty days from November 27-December 14,1799. Discover the changes taking place in America right after the Nineteenth Century began. Understand why Nelly Lewis including Martha Washington both despised Thomas Jefferson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Custis Grandchildren Adjusting From Small Port City To Thriving Big Metropolises
May 2801:10:34Tap to summarizeDiscover what George Washington got nominated to do come November 1786. Learn firsthand how George Washington got nominated in becoming Constitutional Convention President. Explore some key reasons behind why Washington chose to attend Constitutional Convention. Figure out what Washington advocated the most while convention took place. Receive a brief timeline summary of events taking place between February 4-April 14,1789 involving Washington’s rise to greater power. Explore how the move from Mount Vernon to New York impacted the Custis Grandchildren. Find out where in New York the President’s House stood. Agree if New York City was home to many opportunities for education most notably young women like Nelly. Get an in depth analysis behind 1790 Residence Act. Find out whom Nelly Custis became friends with around age12. Learn how a health crisis went about engulfing Philadelphia like never before come early August 1793. Determine if young Nelly shared most if not all of her step grandfather’s political views. Discover the importance behind what took place around March 4,1797. Learn whom would be a house guest of George Washington’s per presidential mansion in Philadelphia including Mount Vernon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Getting Introduced To Young Nelly Custis’s Family
May 2201:16:54Tap to summarizeLearn what year Eleanor “Nelly” Parke Custis was born. Discover where General George Washington stopped at come September 9, 1781. Figure out how many step grandchildren General Washington had by 1781. Learn for whom Eleanor aka “Nelly” was named after including her father’s service during Revolutionary War. Explore significance behind what took place on October 17,1781 including a tragic family ordeal General Washington and wife Martha faced afterwards. Get introduced to Martha Washington’s brother Bartholomew Dandridge including his profile status. Go behind the scenes and learn about Martha’s first marriage to Daniel Parke Custis. Determine the logical reasoning behind why George & Martha Washington adopted their two youngest grandchildren from Eleanor Custis Stuart. Discover what famous French Officer came to visit Mount Vernon during Summer & Fall Seasons of 1784. Learn if young Nelly remembered meeting the French Officer including purpose behind his visit to Mount Vernon. Get introduced to Tobias Lear including his relationship with George Washington and extended family. Determine ballpark percentage where women’s literacy rates hovered around during latter half of 18th Century Virginia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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