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Susan Beckett
Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental. Hello and welcome to the show. Today we have a travelogue for you. Susan and I and Laura Hart and 50 listeners went to not exactly the cradle of democracy, which as we all know is Athens, but the cradle of liberty in America, which is the city of Philadelphia. This trip was one of our, we call it a long weekend. It's like Wednesday night through Sunday and we cram as much stuff in those days as we possibly can. And this particular trip we did just that. Throughout this travelogue you will hear the voices of the travelers that went with us, their experiences, their impressions of the city, the things we learned, the people and the fun we had along the way. Before the official tour starts, Susan and I and Laura Hart get there in advance to do some administrative things and then we have a little free time to do a couple of side quests ahead of when everyone else gets there. And an easy one, an easy walk from our hotel was Christchurch Cemetery. That is where Benjamin Franklin and his wife are buried. Also has a large amount of extremely old colonial era gravestones. And I love walking through a sanitaria. I am very, I mean, it was nice to see Benjamin. Hello, Benjamin. Yeah, I was pretty sad though that a lot of the headstones no longer had letters on it made me profoundly sad and it also made me think that I would like to start doing that. Have you ever seen those YouTube videos of the man who cleans headstones? Oh yes, yes, yes, yes. They're called cemetery conservators. I was actually on my way to my father in law's and found a geocache in an old cemetery in literally the middle of nowhere in Kansas. And every single headstone from the early 1800s was white, was pristine, had no moss. Somebody had been added in a very professional way. That's incidentally, I found the geocache that was hidden there. Yes, cross it off. It was my 300th geocache find. Oh, really? Congratulations. Doing a little curtsy, but nevertheless, when I saw Christchurch Cemetery, I got a little sad for the stories that might be lost. I, I am grateful to the organization that has begun preserving them. But the cemetery had something really interesting to me. It was a grave that was a garden, it had a headstone and a footstone and borders and there was plants, flowers in the middle of it. I thought those were lovely and I never really wanted to be buried, but if I was, I'd want to be buried like that. In addition, throughout the city The Pennsylvania Historical Commission has been very, very good about erecting historical markers throughout the city. And one that was just outside the door of our hotel that I sneaked out to take a photo of was that of the founder of Mother's Day. Her name is Anna Jarvis. We may, in fact, cover her by Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia. She put forth the idea of the honoring of motherhood and family life in 1908. And so mother's Day was finally given federal recognition in 1914. But throughout the city, I kept snapping pictures of the historical markers. We always talk about how, when we're in Europe, people just operate in a. Like a miasma of the crisscrossing pathways of history. And, like, you know, somebody famous. House is now of five guys, because you can't save everything in your original state. And I would say that Philadelphia is the closest to that feeling of people just living their lives, modern lives intertwined with so much underlying history that you might not even know that you're walking by every day. The closest I've ever felt like that in America is in Philadelphia. No, I. I agree. I kind of feel that way about Boston. But now that we've been to Philadelphia, I had been there before my brother went to Villanova, but I never did the city like we did the city. What really struck me was how much public art there was. Murals everywhere, just beautiful pieces of art. I think the next time I go, I'm going to take an art tour, like, a public art tour. And it's not just the Love Statue, which, by the way, is a whole lot smaller than I thought it was going to be. Yep. But it's just these huge murals all over the city, and it's just. It was very striking. There are a couple of traditions that we have before everyone gets there. One is that we get snacks that are from the area or the country in which we're visiting. Now, when we go to France and Italy and Germany, it's a little bit easier to be exotic, isn't it? Because everything's in a, quote, foreign language, and everything's so unfamiliar. Well, when we do these field trips in America, we have to work a little harder. We have to do some research, and we have to look into the history of an area. A listener named Nancy Rossoff was absolutely key to our obtaining the Philadelphia snacks. We chose Tasty Cake, and we chose Goldenberg's Peanut Chews, which, incidentally, were considered army rations in World War I, and hers potato chips, which I was first introduced to when I used to watch the office. If you Remember, the office was set in Scranton, Pennsylvania and their vending machine was stocked with her's potato chips. So thanks to Nancy, we were able to get a lovely selection of local snacks. And then our second tradition is that we go to a local restaurant with our plus ones and Laura Hart and her assistant and friend, whoever she brings along, and in this case Nancy, anyone that helps us in setup comes and we all went to a lovely place called the Dandelion. That has the exact vintage feel of my house. So if you ever want to look up the Dandelion, it looks a lot like my. Yeah, actually you are absolutely. The dark wood, the darkness. Yeah, all the vintage things. Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was a British pub, so they had a lot of British fare. But the food I thought was delicious. Nancy and I are big Pimm's Cups people, so we were so excited when we saw it on the menu. But they came in a coupe glass, so they were Pimm's Coupes instead of. It was delicious, but it was just strange to see it in the little, you know, a coupe, the old timey champagne glasses. For people who don't know, Pym's cup is a little bit like sangria with its pinky up maybe. Yeah, it's got a lot of vegetation in it. It does. It's like a. I love my cocktails with snacks that go like sangria with all kinds of fruit and a Pim's cup. It's got oranges and cucumbers. Strawberries. Cucumbers. Yeah, things. Yeah, Lots of snacks in there. I guess a Bloody Mary is a good drink like that. Although they have those ones where they basically have these little skewers that have trees that have cheeseburgers and stuff. I'm like, we've gone too far. Please. I just want a piece of celery and maybe some tahin around the rim. That's about all. Yeah. On this particular trip I had my friend Carol with me, but also my cousin Debbie had come one. She lives in Connecticut, but like me, she had never done Philadelphia the right way. So she drove and came on this trip as one of the travelers. And so she and I and my friend Carol went around on the first day before the event started and we went to the Liberty Bell. We did all the stuff, you know, the Liberty Bell and the Pennsylvania State House and we did all this stuff, you know, stuff you want to see? One of the things we took care to do before everyone got there is we went to the Philadelphia State House. Now if you're a Hamilton fan, and talk about the room where it happens. We were in the room where it happened. We learned a lot. I didn't know that the tables that the delegations sat in were north to south, basically left to right. And so you had, figuratively, a little bit of a very proper civil war situation happening in the room. The northern states wanted a thing, the Southern states did not want a thing. And then the people in the middle dealt with the. The blows from either side, and everyone had to come to some kind of consensus. But that's the room where all the arguments happened, where all of the concessions were made and the compromises and the future of our country was worked out. I mean, I didn't think I would be as moved as I was, but it really was something to sit in the room where everything got hammered out. No, I completely agree. And it's restored to the original colors, so it looks just like it did back in the 1770s, you know, when they were working out the Constitution and starting our country. What I did miss out on, though, I'm very sad. So, you know Edgar Allan Poe's poem the Raven, you know, nevermore and all that? Okay. That Raven, evidently, was Charles Dickens's Raven, the inspiration for that. And Charles Dickens's Raven itself, literally itself, has taxidermy, obviously, and is in the public library system in Philadelphia. And I just couldn't get there. So next time I go to Philadelphia, how's that for a very niche thing to want to go see? Oh, definitely. Definitely. I was so disappointed that you couldn't go to see that. Yeah. But I mean, I would have liked to have seen it, too. But you, like, did the research on it. I was like, oh, yeah, that's cool. I'm gonna go with you. You know what? I went to a whole taxidermy place in France, too. Something's wrong with me. I don't know. I don't know why suddenly that's rising to the top of my side quest situation. But there you have it. Throughout that Wednesday, everybody was arriving. All of our travelers, people that we knew from other trips, brand new friends that we had yet to meet. And that night, we had our kickoff cocktail party at McGillan's Old Ale House. It's Philadelphia's oldest tavern. Perfect for us. We have a kickoff cocktail party, and then we all get on a bus, an open air bus, and to get a tour of the city at night. This is one of my favorite things that we do everywhere because the city just looks so pretty at night. All the lights and the shadows and. And then you get to see the color the next day. But that first tour, it's just get our bearing set and then ready to go. Hi, this is Debbie. The Philadelphia field trip was a wonderful first experience. Before the party even started, a few of us did a side trip to Independence hall, the Christchurch burial ground, and a quick trip to the Reading Terminal Market. We took a quick break, and then it was onto the party and the bus tour of the city. The rest of the week was well planned and a good view of the women of Philadelphia. Thanks, Susan Beckett, Laura, and all my new friends. I'm Lindsay, and I'm going to talk about Wednesday. So I was really impressed by how many people were just so open and welcoming and everybody came over to talk to my friend and I. Even though it was our first trip, it was just amazing too even just be introduced to everybody and feel like you're automatically a part of this new group of really interesting women who are fascinated by history. And the energy is so strong, and it made just an automatic impression. Additionally, going to the nighttime bus tour with all of the beautiful lights and getting to see the statues on the sides of the buildings in the nighttime with all the shadows. It was gorgeous and a really great introduction to Philadelphia. Okay. Okay. Hi. We're here at McGillen's Old Ale House for our kickoff party. We're having a great time. I'm here. This is Laura. I'm here with. This is Lori, Melissa, the other Susan, Cynthia, and the three six timers are right here. Yes. Our most frequent travelers are here with us. We're having a great time. And you're excited for what's to come. Correct. We'll see you on the bus. It is about this time every year that every cell in my body is yearning for the fall, for coziness, for the smell of cinnamon. And I got a little taste of the fall early. I got my new Lola blanket in the mail. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. My son is a blanket person. My youngest. And he grabbed that thing so fast. He's like, I'm moving into an apartment. I need this. It's stretchy. It's faux fur stretchy. And it's like a hug. I hope that you got your lightsaber out and fought him for it, because I am not giving mine away. In fact, I'm actually having to defend it from the cats. Cats know. Oh. Oh, cats know. This is going to be our fall cocoon level scenario. Nice. It is beautiful. So you can leave it out. It is like the ultimate hug. You need a little mug of Apple cider and a Lola blanket and Gilmore Girls on the tv. And it's almost like if you look up content in the dictionary, that's what you're going to find. Oh, that's. That's really good. Yeah. What color did you get? Noah picked Desert Dune, which is a lovely soft brown. Yeah, it was nice. It was a nice neutral. If I hadn't already given it to him as a gift, this Lola blanket would make an amazing gift. Lola has over 10,000 five star reviews. And honestly, don't you feel it? You are going to know why. Yeah, that it's like next level. It's the number one blanket. It comes in a couple of sizes. I have the extra large, which is massive. Lola itself refers to it as the biggest blanket on the Internet. And it may well be. It's big enough for me, for Chris Graham, and for two, I'm going to say not small cats. I'm very sorry. And they also have weighted blankets. I have a daughter who loves to sleep under a weighted blanket. Maybe she'll get one for Christmas. We like our Lola blankets. I think we do find out what we're talking about. 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But right next to our hotel was a glorious food hall called the Reading Market. Players of Monopoly. Guess what? It's not. It is not the Reading Railroad. For real. It is the Reading Railroad. Who knew? We didn't know. But in. I'm sorry, you didn't know in the Midwest. Correct. We didn't know in the Midwest. Like, why would we know that? You wouldn't. So over There. There was a spectacular. I mean, there are many spectacular food halls, but the one in particular that I wanted to call out is a place called Bassetts that you'll also hear about later. But I went and got a butter brickle ice cream cone and was so happy. It was so beautiful. Waited in that long line, got my ice cream, went to the door and realized, oh, no, it's 99 degrees outside and I have a sugar cone that is a little triangle with a giant. And so I stood there in the doorway of the Reading Market in the air conditioning, trying to become some kind of engineer to lick the ice cream into a pattern so that when it melted, it would collapse inward and not run down my arm. I did not know I was going to have to do advanced mathematics at the ice cream store, but otherwise it was quite delightful. I went there every day. It's kind of a thing in my family. We have ice cream every day when we're on vacation. My dad started it. You got to do it. Amazing. Yeah. So I went there every day, and it was worth it. And I did eat my cone outside. I get a lot of grief in my family because I always get the sugar cone, even when it is 99 degrees outside, because I feel like I can handle it. I just feel like I can't eat fast enough to make that. And, you know, literally, you can see the hotel from the door. Right? But. But I'm like. I can see wearing this whole cone on my arm. So I just stood there in the door and ate my ice cream cone. But it was. It was worth it. It was really good also. Let's see, what else did I get there? A cheesesteak I got. And then I tried repeatedly to go get a Reuben at this one place, but literally. And good for them. They were always sold out. Pastrami sold out by the time I got there. Which is what should happen. You know, you should make the quality product to your standards, and then when it's gone, it's gone. And if you snooze, you lose, et cetera. But it was my first encounter at the Reading Market with a sandwich called the Rachel, which seems to be very common, but I've never heard of it. So the Reuben is, you know, beef and sauerkraut, et cetera. But the Rachel is turkey and coleslaw. But functionally the same sandwich. Hooray. I love the very concept. So I had a lot of Rachel's when I was there. I had a lot of ice cream. I. As far as food goes, I switched it up. I had the cheesesteak from. Ooh, was it George's? I have a picture of it. I'll put it in the show notes. Oh, also, there are a lot of pictures in our show notes and given to us by our travelers. So you can go and see our photographs from. What's a travelogue without photographs? It's a podcast. Correct. That's good. Okay, so as to the Museum of the American Revolution, I do not know what more can be said. It is a relatively new museum. Everyone there is so passionate about not only the artifacts, but the provenance. You know, where they came from, where they were before they got there. There are pieces of the original bridge that saw the shot heard around the world that started the American Revolution. They have a piece of the original bridge. That's cool. Yeah, all kinds of things like that. They have interactive exhibits where you can feel the cloth that came from abroad versus homespun cloth made at home as a response to the poor treatment the British were giving the colonists. You know, well, then we'll just manufacture our own cloth so you could feel what it felt like and see how people dressed and what their experience was. We learned about the Hessian mercenaries and how a lot of them were simply poor men from home, seizing this as the opportunity to survive to feed their families. They're always painted as horrible dragons and, you know, a lot of their behavior was not good, but they didn't start out as monsters. So, you know, I. I appreciate a museum that shows the 360 degree view of things and the humanity behind the artifacts. No, I agree completely. They did have an exhibit there called Banners of Liberty. And what it was was the original flags of states and of organizations during the revolutionary era. And the coolest thing is it's online, so we will link you up to it in our show notes. We anything we mention a place in this episode, we have a link to it in the show notes. This is from Alicia and Estrella. On day two, my sister and I ventured out into the city to try a Philly cheesesteak. Shout out to Nancy for putting together a list of all the places we should see and try in Philadelphia. On our way, we got caught in the rain in the fashion district. But we were too far from the hotel to turn back. And we had come so far to not try Philly cheesesteak. So to overcome our struggle of getting caught in the rain, we stopped by for ice cream first at Franklin's Fountain, where my sister had a double scoop on homemade waffle cone. And I Had a lightning rod sundae, which was basically just coffee ice cream on top of brownie pieces with little pretzel rod stick for the lightning rod. That was delicious. And the cheesesteak was good too. 10 out of 10 for both things. Hi, I'm Janet. This was my fourth awesome trip with the history chicks. It was short, focused and fun. It is always a pleasure to catch up with old friends and to add new ones that I hope to see again. I was most looking forward to the Museum of the American Revolution. This is a privately funded museum that was truly comprehensive. I could have spent many days there. Our tour was focused on women of the revolution, but the guide mentioned one woman from early colonial days that I did not know about. She is Hannah Callahill Penn, the wife of William Penn. It turns out that William was not the best businessman and would likely have run the colony into the ground. Hannah, on the other hand, was a merchant's daughter and she knew how to get things done. She ran the colony first while William was alive but disabled by strokes, and then while she was proprietress of the colony in her own right for eight years after his death. She served 14 years from 1712 to 1726, basically running Pennsylvania. Wow. That amazed me that a woman had that much power at that time. And of course, I never learned about it in history class. Thank you, Susan Beckett and the indefatigable Laura for another great trip. This is Lindsay. I'm going to talk about Thursday, that day when we went to the Museum of the American Revolution. The tour was fabulous. And it was really surprising how in almost all of the exhibits, women and other minorities are there. They're just in the background. There's tiny details about them and they never sit at the floor were from of any of the information. Even though they were in the camps and they were supporting the men who were fighting and they were trying to go fight with them. And there was a lot of things that they were doing. And those contributions are often really downplayed and really hidden when we talk about history in general. And it really made an impression on me because of what we learned in school and all of these different really notable men. But we don't hear any of the women's stories and what their daily lives were like and see their artifacts and hear their voices. And so this tour meant a great deal to me. Hello, this is Bridget from Phoenix and I'm giving a response for the American Revolution Day. And I want to thank Susan and Beckett for sparking such an amazing community of fun Travelers and people who want to learn about history. And for Laura's organization and trip planning specialty, I really enjoyed the Museum of the American Revolution. I was inspired by the roles played by women as camp followers, providing needed humanitarian relief and support to the soldiers and the wives who chose to follow their husbands to war, including some high society ladies, which was really surprising to me. Then the impact of seeing George Washington's tent, seeing the short movie, hearing about his commitment to his men, staying with them over the long eight years when he could have been in other housing that was more solid, he chose to stay in the tent and be accessible to his men. And then when the screen lifted to reveal the actual tent that's over 200 years old, the reality of history came to life in quite surprising and emotional way. And just my thanks for real people who sacrifice so much, the camp followers, you know, we've heard a lot of times a myth that they were all women, how do you call it? Women of women of negotiable affection, which is not the case here. It was, it was wives, it was people coming along with their families and helping out with nursing, with cooking, with laundry. They were the support staff for these army regiments also. And this is something I hadn't thought about until I saw the movie Last of the Mohicans. Oh, yeah, exactly. But you know what? When the men go to war, who is at home unprotected? Yeah, they're a vulnerable population at home. Some of the families chose to accompany their soldiers for safety, for protection. They were better off near a battlefield than they were alone at home. And that's something to think about, something I really hadn't really considered. Hi, this is Nancy R. I live just a bit west of Philadelphia, but joined the tour to get a history chick's perspective on the city. I hadn't been to the Museum of the American Revolution before this tour, but we'll go back. Seeing the reveal of George Washington's 248-year-old tent was very moving, as was the display about women having then losing the right to vote in New Jersey. What struck me most about this trip was the chance to reconnect with friends from other trips and to make new friends. There is an ever growing group of folks who have traveled with the History Chicks, which is testament to the planning and execution of these wonderful experiences. Thanks so much to Laura and Jamie of Like Minds Travel and to Beckett and Susan for being such amiable and generous hosts. Oh, and I was really glad that so many of the folks on the trip followed my recommendation to get Bassett's Ice Cream at Reading Terminal. Hope you enjoyed it. Hi, it's Deanne Todd. Today we went to the Museum of the American Revolution, and my favorite thing and a wow moment I will never forget was seeing George Washington's tent, his actual tent from the Revolutionary War. So much history took place inside that tent, not to mention several scenes from a Broadway musical that would be produced 240 years in the future. It was literally the tent where it happened. Hungry Root takes the stress of out of my meal times. Here's what they do. They fill my cart with personalized picks and they plan an entire week of meals. Here's the thing, just like me, it gets smarter every day. Lol. The thing is, they learn from your interaction with them. And there's over 15,000 recipes you can choose from each week. There's a lot that are ready in just 15 minutes or less. 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I have a list in my phone that is so long of hints we got while traversing the city. Our guides, both of them, were exceptional. It was Joey and Rebecca of beyond the Bell Tours, and they were fantastic. Their whole approach was to, of course, to focus on the women of Philadelphia, but it was extraordinarily inclusive. They took us to LGBTQ neighborhood. What was it called? The gayborhood. Yeah. And talked about women who had helped in the movement and in that neighborhood and showed us some of these murals again throughout the city on our walking tour. It was a really hot day, but I wouldn't have missed a moment of it. It was so good. During the tour, we learned a little bit about a group of four women who called themselves the Red Rose Girls. Illustrators, most of them, including Jesse Wilcox Smith, who's the one I'm the most familiar with, and Violet Oakley, who evidently in her time, was way more famous. So interesting that I had never heard of her. They do have very similar styles. Anyway, a group of young women who, you know, violated convention and similar to the Golden Girls of TV fame, created their own household and their own sense of community and support for each other's work endeavors. And I was so intrigued by them. Um, we. I have a list. Literally, it's just like, oh, no. I have the same list on my phone. We encounter somebody. I mean, Hannah Penn came up over and over and over again. We. She might even take up a full episode. I mean, who else did I write? A Gopal Joshi. We stopped at a hospital and learned about all of the international women students who studied in Philadelphia. The first class of women to be so invited to learn how to be doctors. They came from all over the world and went back to their home countries and became the firsts. The first. The firsts, you know, in their own countries. It was amazing how international it was, how inclusive it was. The tour could not have been crafted better. I loved it very much. No. And it's a tour that anybody can take. I was thinking for a while that it was made just for us, but it's not. It's on their website, which, of course, we will link you To. I'm Rebecca from Maryland, and I loved the Philly field trip. One of the highlights was the badass women's walking tour. I learned so much about the power of women, beginning with Hannah Callowhill Penn, who made the colony of Pennsylvania profitable all the way through the Red Rose Girls and to modern day women who made a difference for LGBTQ women, women of color in Pennsylvania. Our guide was extremely knowledgeable and totally into powerful women. I really enjoy traveling with other history buffs because they ask great questions and I learn even more. Highly recommend getting on one of these tours. Hi, this is Thursday and my name is Meg, and my sister Monica and I came on the Philadelphia women's trip, and Thursday afternoon we took the Women of Philadelphia Historical Tour. Not only did we learn about the historical women of Philadelphia that we already know about, such as Martha Washington and Ona Judge, but we also learned about important contemporary women, such as the LGBTQ advocate Loria Charez, who trailblazed community acceptance of that community in the city. It was so wonderful learning that the City of Love truly embraces diversity, equity, inclusion, and acceptance, and that all of the women that we learned about truly helped to make the city what it is. Monica and I are so looking forward to the rest of the week and learning about all of the other important women of this area. Hi, this is Jill from Illinois, and I just want to say that even on Thursday, the first full day of our tour here in Philadelphia, I feel such a sense of community among all the people in this group. Everyone here is just so eager to learn about the women and the history, and it's just been such a pleasure to be amongst all of the. Of the people in this group learning about history and in particular, the women of Philadelphia and a time period that I've just been so interested in, but have never been able to travel to the sites and the places that it took place in. And I also really wanted to thank Susan for lending me her umbrella during our Women of Philadelphia walking tour so I wouldn't get sunburnt as a pale redhead. Everyone has just been so nice and welcoming, and it is clear that we're all here ready to learn about the women and the history, and we all have the same goals in mind, and it's just. It's so great. Everyone is so lovely, and the history chicks are awesome. Day two was a big one. We took a little field trip on the bus. We always love the bus. It's where all the camaraderie happens. You should hear how loud the bus is. It's amazing. These are really reminiscent. We call them field trips before we even went on one. But that's exactly what they are. They have that feeling of a field trip, especially on the bus. I mean, they're singing, there's talking, there's laughing. It's like being on a children's bus. There's miscreants in the back row. No, I'm just teasing you, June. Just teasing you, April. Xoxo I was once sitting in the back row too, in Vienna. I was cool once. So we went to the Alice Paul center, the home of subject Alice Paul, who along with others, created and pushed the world into accepting the 19th Amendment, giving women in America, at least white women. More on that. Listen to that episode. Giving white women the vote in America. So we went to her birthplace, the original room where it happened, supposedly, and we got a talk from one of the curators and a tour from the other ones. I, like, always find museum curators are the most passionate, knowledgeable people you will ever meet. They were gratified to get intelligent questions, which is a hallmark of our field trips, by the way. We always ask the questions that they know the answers to and have never been asked before. There's excitement in the air. So we had a great time there, touring around. We will let the travelers tell you more about that, but we're going to plug again if you have the opportunity to go see the musical suffs in your community. Kansas City. I'm sorry, so far, not us. Go see the musical stuffs. They will blow your mind. It's amazing. They are on Tour beginning in September 2025 this year, so seek that out if you can. Definitely. And we had just covered Alice Paul right before we went on this trip. So she was still fresh in my heart and just walking in through the front door and realizing this is where she would have walked and like dropped her suitcase when she walked in her satchel and screamed, mom, I'm home. Or, you know, mother, I have arrived. Are they around? Yes. Very formal. Yes. But it just always gives me chills and excitement to go to the places where our subjects have stood. I mean, they're real to us. By the time we finish their episode, they're extraordinarily real. But it's a whole other level when you stand in their foyers and look around and say, oh, those are the stairs. She forgot her something and had to run up to get it before her train left or whatever. I just, I just thought that was just so moving for me. Do you want to hear something? Nerdy Whenever I am somewhere, I do this at Mount Vernon. I do this at Versailles. Anytime I'm at a stairway or I. I always touch the underside of the handrail. Oh. Because I figure in hundreds of years of cleaning, I don't know that I've ever cleaned the underside of a handrail in between the spindles. I mean, I'm telling you, I don't think I ever. Yeah. Either. And so I. I assume. Okay, if George Washington or Martha Washington ever touched this part of the stairway, I might be. One degree of separation. Right. Yeah. I think there are a lot of handrail touchers in our group because I do the same thing. And when we were at Mount Vernon, Laura Hart was walking right in front of me, and she stopped on the stairs and she was. Just. Had her hand on the. On the railing and just was like. Had a moment. I didn't want to interrupt her, but I could just tell what she was doing because I had done the same thing two seconds before. I think there's something intimate about a stairway. Yeah. You know, it's seen everything. Yeah. Upstairs, downstairs. Another thing I do at a lot of places, and I probably shouldn't admit this, but is I. I get seed pods from. Everyone knows this about you. I've outed you on every travelog. I. You are. I am telling you this because it's an. It's different. I did not get any seed pods from this trip. Not one. Not one. I don't know. I don't. I. And I always put them in Altoid containers because I always have, like, a little Altoid container in my purse, and so I put them all in there. So I have a little stack of Altoid containers from different places. Watch you come back from Italy, and the customs guy is a listener and goes right for your Altoid container. Stay tuned. I will update you with her location. That's funny. Hi, this is Ella. I loved the entire tour, but my favorite part was definitely Ella's Paul's house. She was just such an incredible woman, and I love to hear more about where she grew up and what her life was like because I recently graduated from high school and I never learned about her in school even one time. And I really think that's terrible because she did so much that impacts women today in such a big way. Like her, with so many other people, went through unimaginable torture in these prisons just so that one day things could be different for people like me. And that just. That really impacted me so much because I think people take having the right to vote for granted a lot now. And now, well. Cause I couldn't vote in the last election, but in this next one, I definitely won't take that for granted. So it was just such a cool stop on the tour. Thank you. Hi. It's Friday, and this is Meg. Today we got to go to the home, the childhood home of Alice Paul, the suffragist. Now, this was really important to me because I grew up in New Jersey and I lived in Mount Laurel for a time, and I never knew the story of Alice Paul and what she did to ensure that women not only got the right to vote, but also to help with all gender equality. As a history teacher also, I thought that it was important to really embrace and learn everything that I could about Alice Paul, because that is going to help to inform me in my classroom this upcoming year. And I've decided that I'm going to completely change how I teach about the 19th Amendment. In the past, my lesson has been all about Woodrow Wilson and how he had endorsed it at the end of World War I. And then it got passed. And oh, by the way, there were these women, including Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, who helped along the way. Not gonna happen. Moving forward, I'm gonna completely flip the script. And my lesson plan moving forward is going to be all about what Alice Paul did, what Lucy Burns did, and what they endured to be able to make Wilson sign and endorse the 19th amendment. It was a fantastic day. It was a beautiful, beautiful property, and we just had a glorious time. This is Lindsay, and I want to talk about the Alice Paul Center. When we arrived, I didn't know very much about Alice Paul. I didn't know what to expect. And as. As the guide was telling us more of her story, and as it continued, it became really clear that even though these women were trying so hard to just get people to know how important women voting was, they went through so many trials and so many tribulations to get that. And they kept. Kept on going. They kept going out and standing in the cold and standing there peacefully and not engaging with the people who came to harass them. And they continued to get arrested and they continued to get tortured. And when they got let out, they went and did it again, and they did it for us. And it really brought to the forefront that none of these things that we have right now were easily gotten. And even in this moment of history, it's really poignant and it's really, really heavy to realize that we have to keep fighting their fight because the things they started. It's not over yet. We have to keep going. Hi, this is Dori from Dallas, Texas. I'm here with my mama chick and this is our first History Chicks field trip. We are so excited to be here. Today is Friday, Alice Paul Day. And what really resonated with us about the Alice Paul center is the fact that despite Alice being portrayed in Suffs as being very bold and loud, she was actually a very shy and reserved person in real life. 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In the afternoon we went to the National Constitution Center. We walked through the suffrage exhibition. They had a special feature on the 19th Amendment. Are you sensing a theme here? Everyone tried on the sashes and took their selfies and we learned about all the workers in the movement. Not just of course Alice Paul and not just of course Mary Church Terrell or Ida B. Wells or Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Susan B. Anthony, but like all the people who perhaps have been more unsung and how each state voted and what the road was to suffrage in America was revolutionary. Yeah. When you stop and think how many years and how many people worked for this one amendment, for our right to vote being recognized is really what it is. It wasn't that they gave us the vote. It was that it was recognized that we as Americans had the right to vote. You know, it took so long and in some cases the entirety of a woman's lifespan. Yeah. My story is for Friday from Alicia and Estrella. We visited the National Constitution center where we believe we made the museum worker there laugh or giggle or possibly chuckle while we were visiting the Senators hall. And that has life size statues of the 42 men who were signing the Constitution. We were cracking jokes about how if the center went all night at the museum in its after hours, the founding fathers would still be debating. I joked that I can never get my hair bow to look as fluffy as Alexander Hamilton's. But what I think made the museum worker laugh was our debate over the men's various heights. We established that Our future partners shall be taller than James Madison, but George Washington's height is preferred. Susan and I took a side quest to Elfrith's Alley. It is a block, really a city block full of houses that were built from the 1720s all the way to the 1830s. At first the alley had, it was more like a artisan alley. And then there was, halfway down the block, a pub and general store was the original, like mixed use alley. It's still there. Later it became the home of working class immigrants who had, for example, sewing stores in their ground floor and they lived in the room above. You'd be shocked at the population density in this alley. I, I, at one point there was a house that probably had three rooms in it and didn't have like 27 people living there, something like that. But they began to understand what they had in about 1930 and began heavily preserving this remnant, this first and most continuously occupied block in America. It is, it's the oldest residential neighborhood in the United States. And it looks just like it did back in the 1700s. There's only 32 houses on it. And these houses are, they're townhomes, you know, a couple floors, but they're so narrow that they're only like a thousand square feet. One of them sold in 2018. It was a thousand square feet. It sold for $900,000. There's one currently for sale for well over $1.3 million. Yeah, it is the one on the end. I don't know if that makes a difference. And there is a museum in the middle in one of these houses. And they have recreated what the house would have looked like. They had a tailor shop in there, I think. But just the size of it, they put filled it with the things Beckett and I walked up the stairs and the narrowest stairway going down that twisted that I think I've ever been on. I know there wasn't really space for your feet, but there was a tailor shop on the ground floor and a bake shop at a later period in the back and everyone lived upstairs. That night there was an event organized by the people on the tour who play trivia through our private Facebook group, the History Chicks Lounge. And it has been going on continuously since 2020, since March of 2020 when Sarah came to us and said, can I do a weekly trivia over zoom? And we said, sure, go ahead. Now it's once a month. It's down to once a month, but they're welcome anybody to come and play. Beckett and I have both played trivia with this group. And it's just for fun. There is no competition, there's no prize other than, you know, a moment of glory and a round of applause. But two of the regulars for trivia, Nancy and Susan B. Organized a trivia game for us and opened it up to anybody who was in the area. We had about 30 people combined between people that were on the tour and people that just lived in the area that came to play trivia the other Susan had written up. All of the questions kind of centered around history chicks, which they are not always this way, but they had chicks who have been covered. Chicks who have not been covered. Yes, Eleanor Roosevelt was an answer on there field trips. Chicks and children's lit and general not chick related information. It was like pub trivia, but not in a pub. It was just very fun. It was a fun evening. I am so glad that Nancy and Susan put that together. On the next day we went to Valley Forge. How could we be in the Philadelphia area and not go to Valley Forge? It is a beautifully well maintained national park. There are the quarters that the soldiers would have stayed in that you can go into. There's reenactors there to show you how they operated. George Washington's house is there, which I can tell you is nothing like his tent. Right? You're thinking, oh, the man sacrificed so much. This is a beautiful house. But you get to tour through that. It's just. It's a nice park if you live in the area. It's just a good place to go for the day and go bike riding or. Or whatever. The day we went, it was extraordinarily warm, you know, it was summer. So we soldiered on. Sorry. On the bus ride, we did see all of the monuments. Each state was invited to create their own monument, as I recall. Massachusetts took that and went, you know, everyone else has a very restrained, dignified monument in Massachusetts, like laid it all out there. Significant fundraising efforts in Massachusetts. What I remember the most from Valley Forge actually had very little to do with Valley Forge itself. And the fact that someone heard as they were touring with their family, they heard the name history chicks. And this woman perked up and said, oh, history chicks, I love them. And a listener said, do you want to meet them? Follow me. And brought this woman down to meet us. And it was very nice to meet her. She was simply on vacation with her family. Her sister's like, go, I'll watch the kids. And she came and met all of us down at George Washington's house. Those encounters in the wild are Always welcomed. So yeah, I mean if you hear Susan, that's what I'm saying. I have proof. Have I told this story before. We were in the middle of Kensington palace and not only was Kensington palace open, but they had a Met gala based on history in the Georgian Era exhibition. So all the fashion people were also there. It was chalk a block with humanity. And over the furor and den what happened, but someone recognized Susan's voice and came to meet her. So I'm just saying empirical evidence says that if you hear us in the wild, it will be Susan's voice that you hear. I can't refute that. But in this case it was neither of us as we were completely in a different part of the property. This was someone that heard the word history ticket and came to see us. So anytime, you know, anytime you're out and you hear us come say hi. And that was our last organized activity. This is a long weekend. So we had our last tour of something historical. And then we went to one more historical place, the Betsy Ross house for our last night party. And this event we also open up to anybody that's in the area that would like to come and join us. There's dinner, there's an open bar, there's a dj, there's a lot of dancing. This time they had the Betsy Ross house open for us to go on self guided tours. And it was set up as it would have been when she was there and had an upholstery shop there. They had a lot of artifacts and explained the business of upholstery and Betsy Ross's life. But we could do that. There was a Betsy Ross reenactor on the grounds for us while we were partying. We could ask any questions. Is her gravestone right there? No. There was a memorial stone there. Yes. Yeah, I don't, I. At first I thought it was, but no, no, because I'm thinking she just heard Justin Timberlake maybe for the first time in her whole life. Yeah, we do love a good dance party, don't we? And there were some people there that had come in. There was these women from Rhode Island. Oh, they were a delight. They had taken a girls weekend down in Philadelphia with this being one of the things they wanted to do. And so they came and they partook of the party. Hi, this is Jamie. I work with Laura at Like Minds Travel. And this trip was extra special for me because I lived in Philadelphia for three years. So it was kind of a going home. But I also did and learned some new things that I Didn't know while living there. One event that stands out to me in particular was our final night party at the Betsy Ross house. It was so much fun. We were set up in the little courtyard of the house. We got to go in the house. We even got to talk to Betsy Ross herself and get our picture taken. But the best part of the night was the dance party. We. I think the DJ was actually rather surprised that these history lovers could really bust a move like we did. In fact, at one point in time, he was videoing the group because we were just that much fun. But it's always a good time to dance the night away with friends new and old. It's a night where some of our past travelers and fans of the show can also come and join in for some of the fun. And it was just. It was just everything. So that probably goes down as my favorite night of the. Of the whole trip. And once again, thank you, Susan and Beckett, for an outstanding group and for Laura for putting it all together. Hey, y', all, it's Jackie from Mississippi. Shout out to Susan, Beckett and Laura for curating another wonderful trip. I had the best time meeting new friends and catching up with old friends from previous trips. I feel better about the rest of my year knowing I got to see my people for a long weekend. Couple of standout highlights for me include the women's walking tour of Philly even though it was so hot outside, learning more about Alice Paul, who was conspicuously absent from Mississippi history books. Imagine that. And trivia with Nancy and Susan B. Which was a lot of fun. And the top highlight was the Betsy Ross dance party. I mean, who would have thought in elementary school social studies that I'd have a dance party at Betsy's house with the Backstreet Boys? One of the things that has stuck with me the most is I was passing by the remains at the President's house on a solo outing. And as I was looking at the door frames, being really struck by the fact that this is where Ona judge fled from. From that very spot she left for freedom during dinner. The amount of bravery and sheer will amazes me. Being from somewhere that is still struggling heavily with its past and finding the bright spaces encourages me to keep trying to make my corner of the South a better place. So thanks, history chicks. Bye. So this is from Alice and Estrella. And our final story comes from our final night at Betty Ross's house. We had the pleasure of sitting with other ladies from the area. We had a lovely time and our discussions were so Lively. Our conversations ranged from the sad fact that George Washington never got to try good Chinese food to the stalls that can be found at Reading Terminal Market to discussing how Betty Ross would have felt about all of us having a dance party at her house. And we settled on the fact that she would be proud of. And nothing would bring her more joy than seeing a lot of women talking about history and dancing the night away. And we had such a lovely time with these ladies, me and my sister. Both are so glad we got to meet each and every one of you. This is Lindsay. I'm going to talk about Saturday. There are almost no words to describe how amazing it was to get to talk to Betsy Ross and ask her questions and be in her garden and be with such an amazing group of excited, impassioned women dancing to Madonna and the B52s and just having the best time. And it's one of those memories that is going to stick with me for the rest of my life. And I'm going to remember this with such great joy and gratitude. Thank you all so much for letting me come and be a part of this. And I cannot wait to see all of you on the next trip because I'm definitely coming again because this was monumental and I can't imagine not continuing to be a part of this fabulous group of women. Thank you so much for everything. There literally is nothing like partying at Betsy Ross's house at night. Thank you. Hi, this is Laura Hart. I'm sitting here at the Betsy Ross house on a beautiful night in Philadelphia and we are having our farewell dinner. But it's also just a big party where anybody could come and join us and it's so much fun. We have had people from, I think every tour that we have done with the history chicks show up at this and it's so much fun to be at these parties where we do invite anybody to come because it's like these mini tour reunions going on all over. We have a London from 2022 reunion photo. 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Unscheduled non group activities that people set out on their own to check off their individual lists. So rather than sprinkle them on the day in which they occurred. We thought we would let the travelers tell you in their own words about some of their own side quests on the Philadelphia weekend. Hi. This is June. This was my fit History Chicks field trip, and they just keep getting better and better. I'd like to thank Beckett, Susan, and of course, Laura Hart for organizing such a wonderful tour. I had been to Philadelphia several times, so I was looking for something new and took a side quest to Philadelphia's Magic Garden. It started as a street art mosaic by Isaiah Zagar in 1986 and now has grown to be a major attraction, covering two lots and attracting thousands of visitors per year. It's eclectic, different, and a true example of organic arts bringing from the community. All right, so this is from Alicia N. Estrella, and this is our story on our decision to come on this History Chicks Philadelphia field trip was because my sister and I had one goal in mind and that was to visit all the major stops from the first national treasure movie. And we managed to make it to most of them. We started with the Ben Franklin Institute, followed by Independence hall, and we believe we also visited the grave site where Ben Gates was shot at. And we found the area where Abigail lost the Declaration of Independence. We even took an impromptu trip to New York to see the Trinity Church. And I would like to take this moment to apologize. If at any moment you heard me and my sister giggling or laughing, it's because we were quoting lines from the movie. Our favorite ones were families from Iowa, little kids on their eighth grade field trip. Whenever we were at museums or surrounded by different little families, those were the quotes that we would tend to make most of all. So if you heard us, that's what we were giggling about. This is Dorie and Valerie from dfw and we just wanted to share how much we've enjoyed our trip to Philadelphia. From the planned excursions to the side quests that we enjoyed. A couple of highlights include our bakery crawl in the Reading Terminal Market as well as our trip to the American Jewish History Museum on Saturday afternoon. It's been a wonderful experience for our first History Chicks field trip and we can't wait for more. Thank you so much, Susan Beckett and Laura for a wonderful trip. And you can count on us to stay tuned for other future trips to look forward to. What a highlight for me to spend this wonderful time with my daughter and to meet such lovely women from all over and share our love of history and adventure. Thank you, Susan Beckett and Laura. We can't wait for the next one. This is Bridget from Phoenix and I just want to say this was one of the most transformational tours I've been on and I wanted to share with people and listeners who may be wondering, should I go on a field trip? Is this for me? What if I don't know anyone and I'm just here to tell you? Do it. It is amazing. This was my first trip and I met so many amazing people, women and men who have shared love of history but also were just so kind and inclusive. I didn't know a single person on this trip before I stepped off that plane. But when I got there and even before we had a WhatsApp group that everybody was already starting to connect and a couple people reached out to invite me to a side trip dinner that was being planned. And then along the way I met up with others and we did lunches, dinners, side trip excursions. And then after the tour ended, Melissa and I rented a Zipcar and we had a brand new experience that neither one of us had ever done. Traveled about an hour out to see Fonthill Castle and the Mercer Museum which was the most unique museum. Hi, this is Laurie, I'm one of the six timers. It's Saturday and we just returned from Valley Forge. It's so great to be on a history chicks tour and see the places we learned about in school. I want to talk for a minute about a side quest. Cynthia, also a six timer and I took this morning. I have coffee with my 87 year old gym instructor and her husband every week. The husband Jerry told me he's from Philly and his family has a bakery here named Stocks. He really wanted me to visit them and even gave his niece the owner a call letting them know I was coming. So I was committed. Stock's bakery is famous for their pound cake. I wasn't sure how I could get one home on the plains so I purchased cookies and they're delicious. We had a nice conversation with Chris, the owner and we were able to experience a Philadelphia working class neighborhood. If you are in the Port Richmond area of Philly and have a sweet tooth, be sure to swing by. Hi, this is Susan and we are sitting on the corner of Walnut and Washington Square and we just finished a ghost tour of Philadelphia. From what company? City Ghost Tours and this was Ghost to Philadelphia and Claire was our guide and she took us on a lovely two hour walk through the city and we all got pictures of orbs, orbs and some great stories and it was just a great experience for great way to spend our Thursday night here. In Philadelphia, we heard about a ghost cat murdered Ghosts. Yeah. Alexander Hamilton. Ghost Step. Benjamin Franklin's ghost. Washington's ghost. Yeah. Tom and Dan and Tom and dad. That's right. And the bridesmaids. I have something to add to this, and it's one of those things people say are they're really ghosts. When you think about the contribution that the people that you just named Kick contributed to society and how they have left an imprint on our country, surely their spirit resonates on that will do it for us. Susan and I, on this travelogue, we will let the travelers take you out, but we just want to say again how much we adore the transition between being the friends in your ears and the friends in real life. We loved meeting each and every one of you, or in the case of return travelers, the updates on your personal life, the heartfelt bear hugs, and all of the new adventures we went on with you to that end. Speaking of return travelers, we have a couple of exciting announcements. Isn't this like the Easter egg? We always try to hide in the travelogue. We can safely announce that we will be going back to London in April, April 19th through the 27th. And then our next. It's going to be another one of these long weekends. It will be in June, and it will be to Chicago. I know we all thought of the same event in Chicago. We did. It was about time. Chicago's been raising its hand for some time. Like, hello, don't you talk about me. Every episod. And we're like, I know, I know. We really do. Chicago. And it's kind of funny because, you know, they were battling to get the World's Fair with New York specifically, you know, back and forth and in this battle to host the fair. And we went to New York, so it's definitely time to go to the place where the fair happened. The fair. Like, there's not one every 10 years. The fair. If you're interested in joining us on those, we would love for you to come. Solo travelers. A lot of solo travelers come by themselves because they realize that they might travel there alone, but they are never going to be lonely on these trips. But like this particular trip, there was fathers and daughters, mothers and daughters, couples friend groups, sisters. There was a couple sister groups. Anyway, whoever or if nobody you would like to come on these trips, we will announce it at the beginning of the show when the registration opens. That will happen at Lake Minds Travel. But don't go there now because it's not opened yet. But it will be very soon. We just tantalized you with something that you can't do yet. But make a note. Make a note to go back and we promise we'll put it at the very beginning of an episode. We'll even give you a second to push pause and go to Like Minds Travel during that episode. We promise. So without further ado, let's let the listeners take us to the end of the show. That is a goodbye from Susan and I and we will be back soon with another biographical episode. Thanks for listening. Bye. Cynthia Harrelson Philadelphia Field Trip Some of my takeaway Museum of the American Revolution was amazing. Some of the best exhibits as far as the use of technology. The flow of traffic was well designed. I enjoyed the bronze statues of all the signers of the Constitution in the Signers hall of the National Constitution center, the presentation in the Theater in the round and the 19th Amendment exhibit, which fit in very well with the tour of Alice Paul's house and her history. Touring Alice Paul's home was enlightening and I followed it up by listening to part one of the History Chicks podcast. Then later in the week, Elizabeth Candy Stanton and early Suffragists I feel all of this has lit a fire in my heart which I hope will not be easily extinguished. I feel a battle coming to retain the rights women have gained over the years for which these women fought so hard and which were difficult in coming. We the People is not and should never be an exclusive club. I was very impressed by the visible conversations around slavery and inclusion in general in many of the places we visited. The walking tour highlighting women around Philadelphia was interesting and enjoyable, and even though it was quite warm humid during the walk, finishing up with viewing some of the city's artist murals along with the guide's personal input was great. So this is from Alicia N. Estrella. As a fun experiment, my sister and I decided to rank our top three tour guides from our trip, starting with number three with our tour guide from the American Revolution Museum. He was very informative and he made sure to point out the women of Valley Forge and the women of the Revolution like Elizabeth Freeman and Phillis Wheatley. Number two was our nighttime city bus tour guide. He was very lively and animated and we appreciated his sense of humor. Our honorable mentions go to the female park ranger we met dressed as a Revolutionary War soldier. She gave us so much insight about the women in Valley Forge. And our second honorable mention goes to Magdalenette. She was the park ranger by George Washington's house in Valley Forge. She was fun and charismatic and answer all of our very niche questions. For our number one was our tour guide from our walking tour. Tour guide was Rebecca. My sister and I loved her sense of humor. She was very fun, energetic, and lively. We loved the way that she presented women in Philadelphia. Just the way that she was very good at telling the stories of these women. Hi, this is Carla. And my favorite thing about the Philly field trip had to be the people I got to see. My friends from Austria and Paris. Some of my favorites were the welcome party at the pub. The double decker bus tour, as always, is so much fun, but that last night at the Betsy Ross house was magic. Can't wait to see everyone in Italy. Hi, I'm Melissa. This is my second trip with the History Chicks and I look forward to more. I learn new things every day. But what truly makes these trips unique is the little advantages of traveling with people that have similar interests. These moments, while small, are golden. For example, the WhatsApp chat. It allowed Meg to share a video created by Sumo publishing, an educational video of Lady Gaga's bad romance rewritten to teach us about women's suffrage. After visiting the Alice Paul house. This video gave me goosebumps because I was able to understand the nuances of the video that I would not have understood before the trip. Another example of the advantage of traveling with like minds is the advice new friends give for side trips. They're usually spot on. And June encouraged me to go to the Mercer Castle and museum. Boy, am I ever glad she did. That was absolutely amazing. And in addition to getting to see an amazing museum, I was also able to make a special connection with my new friend, Bridget. There are countless moments like these that I consider special bonuses of these special group travel adventures. This is Lindsay, and this is my last chance to say overall thoughts. It was so amazing to meet the two of you. I really enjoyed talking with you and getting to know you, Susan and Beckett, and you're amazingly funny and thank you so much for all of that time. This trip meant so much to me. Being able to be around such excited women who come from such a variety of backgrounds and getting to listen to their lives, their stories, and hearing them be really open and genuine and welcoming to me and my friends who are first timers. And that warmth and kindness just melts my heart. And it means so much to me being able to, you know, walk around the city and see other history chicks and go, hey. And see people at breakfast and go, good morning. And the camaraderie and just the absolute feeling of overwhelming happiness Energy loving history, wanting to be together. It was brilliant. Hi, this is Tom from Southern Oregon. History is a tricky thing. It doesn't always rely on verifiable facts and certified documentation. Often it is told by victors or oppressors, or at least the current ruling class. And their versions are usually different from what others in society might observe, record, and later teach. My takeaway from Philadelphia, I kept imagining the notion of an alternate universe. One in which America was not founded and led almost entirely by prosperous white men. Or an economy built on the backs of enslaved peoples and indentured servants toiling in abject poverty. What if somewhere there was a version of America that from the very outset was founded and nurtured by a diverse coalition of peoples? Old white dudes, sure, but also women, indigenous tribes, paupers, people of color. How very different would our history be? One thing is certain. They'd have to change a lot of exhibits, plaques and monuments over hundreds of years, much progress has been made. May we continue to learn from our past, build upon it, open things up. We can yearn for something better. And I saw that yearning in the members of our group. And that is something worth fighting for. Thanks, Tom. We couldn't have said it better ourselves. If you were intrigued by what you heard today, or if you're a newcomer who would like to be introduced to our usual mission and format, just page back on your podcatcher app for 14 years worth of women's biographies. Or go to thehistorychicks.com and find someone that might inspire you. We hope to see you all someday on a field trip somewhere in the world. World, we'll see you next time. The song at the end is Daughters of History by Morning Spy. Take back the daughters of history. Take back the soft edges of sin. The fruit and the vine, the dangerous time. You can keep me honest. Only you can keep me honest. Make way for the daughters of history. Stand back for all of their majesty. I'm not the one who's having the fun. You have kept me honest. Only you have kept me honest. Sam. It's the devil in the whiskey. It's the devil in the whiskey, not me. It's the devil in the whiskey. It's the devil in the whiskey, not me. We're in love with a face like the moon. Eyes like the skies over Delaware. We fell in love by two. History. I'm in love with your daughters. I'm in love with your daughter. It's the devil in the whiskey. It's the devil in the whiskey, not me. It's the devil in the whiskey. It's the devil in the whiskey, not me, Sam.