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Episode 39 “The Orphan Trains and Charles Loring Brace”: Michael T. KeeneIn 1848 Ireland was gripped by famine. Nearly a million people would die of starvation and typhoid Fever. Desperate for survival a million more Irish would abandon their
Episode 38 “Lloyd “The Whistler” Threlkeld”: with Douglass Fraser,Professor and Musicologist.Lloyd Buford Threlkeld, also known as “The Whistler” for his ability to make sweet melodious sounds emerge from his practiced nose flute, also p
Episode 37 “AIDS-The First Five Years”: with Jean Ashton,Director, New York Historical Society Resources & Programs.It is estimated that during the AIDS epidemic thousands of AIDS victims were buried on Hart Island. Many because they had
Episode 36 “Burial Grounds in a Segregated City”: with Tom Angotti,Professor Emertis, Hunter College.During the period of Dutch and English settlement, New York City was one of the nation’s largest urban centers for the slave trade and s
Episode 35 “AIDS”: with Michael Bronsky,Professor, Harvard University.On a hot midsummer night in June of 1969, a group of police officers stormed into Greenwich Village’s tiny Stonewall Inn, one of Manhattans early gay and lesbian bars.
Episode 34 “Grave Yard of Strangers”: with Norma Jean Gradsky.Leo Birinski was a playwright, screenwriter and director. He worked in Austria-Hungary, Germany and in the United States.Birinski was the screenwriter of many Hollywood produc
Episode 33 “Angels of Mercy”: with William Seraile,Professor Emeritus, Lehman College, City University of New York.The Colored Orphan Asylum was founded, in New York City in 1836, as the nation’s first orphanage for African American chil
Episode 32 “Boroughs of the Dead”: with Marie Carter,Editor, writer, teacher, and tour guide.When detectives and forensic scientists were called to investigate the Hart Island human remains, found littering its beach, none of them could
Episode 31 “Potters Field(s)”: with Andrew Berman,Executive Director, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.By the early 1800’s New York City boasted a population of over 200,000, qualifying it as the largest city in the We
Episode 30 “Six to Celebrate” Simeon Bankoff,Executive Director of Historic District Council.In 2017 the annual “Six to Celebrate” initiative from the Historic Districts Council, highlighted six neighborhoods in New York City, in need of
Episode 29 “Hebrew Free Burial Society”: with Amy Koplow, Executive Director.While many of the young women and men who perished in the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Fire could be identified, many could not. As unclaimed or identified death
Episode 28 “Louisa Van Slyke”: with Author Gail Jarrow.The ship lurched in the heavy North Atlantic swell, its bow plunging deep in the troughs as it pitched sharply, its seasick passengers crammed into its small hold. The young lady, dre
Episode 27 “Greta Garbo”: with Lois Banner,Professor (ret) USC.Leo Birinski was a playwright, screenwriter and director. He worked in Austria-Hungary, Germany and in the United States.Birinski was the screenwriter of many Hollywood pro
Episode 26 “Ghosts of St Vincents”: with Tom Eubanks.Founded in 1849 to care for indigent immigrants in Greenwich Village, St. Vincent’s Hospital was sold in 2010 to create multi-million-dollar homes. In its 161 years of existence, the le
Episode 25 “The Tenement Museum”: with Kevin Jennings, Director.The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, located at 97 and 103 Orchard Street, in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, is a National Historic Site. The M
Episode 24 “Still Born”: with MJ Adams.Fifteen years after a Manhattan hospital sent her stillborn baby to New York City’s potter’s field for burial, MJ Adams heard the name Hart Island for the first time.Adams, then living in New York C
Episode 23 “Leo Birinski”: with Barbara Kosta,Professor, University of Arizona.For a man with a little known history, no legitimate records to prove his place of birth, or even his date of birth, and who would eventually be buried in a m
Episode 22 “The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Greatest Plague in History”: by John Barry,Author and historian.The influenza pandemic is believed to have killed somewhere between 50-100 million people worldwide. It killed more pe
Episode 21 “The Bowery”; Dr. Robert Aronowitz,Physician and medical historian, University of Pennsylvania.“The Bowery is one of the oldest stretches of land in Manhattan, and was once a footpath used by members of the Lenape tribe to tra
Episode 20 “Ruth Proskauer Smith”: with Ian Dowbiggin,Professor at University of Prince Edward Island.Ruth Proskauer Smith, or Ruth P. Smith as she became more commonly known as, was a historic pro-choice reproductive rights, and pro-rig
Episode 19 “Ship Ablaze”: with Edward T. O’Donnell,Professor Holy Cross University.There were few experienced swimmers, among the over 1,300 Lower East Side residents, who boarded the General Slocum on June 15, 1904. It shouldn’t have ma
Episode 18 “Leonard Melfi”: with Edward Berkeley,Professor, The Julliard School.Leonard Melfi was revered by his peers as one of the most respected and creative playwrights of his generation. He is most associated with the offbeat La MaM
Episode 17 “The Great Arrival”: with Diane Vecchio,Professor, Furman University.Most of this generation of Italian immigrants took their first steps on U.S. soil in a place that has now become a legend—Ellis Island. In the 1880s, they nu
Episode 16 “Shelia Terry”: with Larry Powell,Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham.American film actress Shelia Terry was a true Hollywood starlet of the 1930’s, starring in among other films, three with John Wayne before she ended h
Episode 15 “The Manly Arts”: with Elliott J. Gorn,Professor, Purdue University.Well before Hart island became New York City’s potters field, Hart Island, or Hart’s Island as it was then called, became a prime tourist destination for every rog
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