All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

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April 06, 2025 ADM George W. Melville: The Doomed Jeannette Expedition
ABC:LHS #073-5 George W. Melville...
...was the MacGyver of his day. He could seemingly create anything out of nothing when the situation called for it. As an engineer he was unsurpassed. He was one of only a few survivors of the ill-fated attempt to reach the North Pole by the ship Jeannette, captained by George DeLong. He then went back to recover the bodies of those who had been left behind. He has a statue at the Naval Yard and was twice painted by Thomas Eakins.
42 min
April 05, 2025 ADM Sylvanus Godon: Hanging "Lucky Nat" Gordon
ABC:LHS #073-4 Admiral Sylvanus William Godon...
...spent his life in the Navy. The high point was probably the capture of the USS Erie with its cargo of 897 enslaved Africans. The captain of that ship, Nathaniel "Lucky Nat" Gordon, went to the gallows for his crime.
27 min
April 04, 2025 COM David Conner: Amphibious Landing at Vera Cruz
ABC:LHS #073-3 Commodore David Conner...
...was responsible for the successful amphibious landing of 12,000 men at Vera Cruz during the Mexican American War. His presentation sword and two medals are on display in the Cincinnati Room of the Hill - Physick - Keith House, along with a fine portrait.
25 min
April 03, 2025 COM Isaac Hull and Old Ironsides (script by Russ Dodge)
ABC:LHS #073-2 Isaac Hull...
...was a lifelong sailor from a family of sailors. He is best remembered today for being commander of the USS Constitution when it captured HMS Guerriere during the War of 1812. Fellow tour guide Russell Dodge wrote this script about the life of this great seaman.
30 min
April 02, 2025 Introduction to the 19th Century US Navy
ABC:LHS #073-1 The United States...
...tried very hard to not have a Navy. It wasn't until the early 19th century that congress realized the need for a fighting force on the water. Capture of American merchant ships by the Barbary pirates and corsairs with letters of marque forced congress to release funds to fortify the Navy. Eventually the United States Navy was second only to the Royal Navy of England.
17 min
April 01, 2025Four Naval Heroes
ABC:LHS #073 Philadelphia has always been a Navy town...
Isaac Hull led USS Constitution to victory against HMS Guerriere in the early days of the War of 1812. Fellow tour guide Russ Dodge wrote this script but declined the opportunity to narrate it.
David Conner worked with Winfield Scott to arrange the largest amphibious assault of the 19th century at Vera Cruz during the Mexican American War.
While serving in the African Squadron, Sylvanus Godon captured the slave ship Erie, which led to the return of nearly 900 Africans to their home continent, and the hanging of “Lucky Nat” Gordon, the only man to be executed by the Government for buying and selling human beings.
George W. Melville was a genius engineer and Arctic explorer who was among the survivors of the doomed USS Jeannette Polar mission in 1879-1881.
2 hr 44 min
March 20, 2025 Dorothy Burr Thompson & Pamela Burr: Prides of Bryn Mawr College
BBB:LHWS #042-5 Dorothy Burr Thompson ("DBT")...
...was acknowledged as one of the best archeologists of her day. Her work of Hellenistic terra cottas has never been surpassed.
Her younger sister Pamela Burr wrote a play while at Bryn Mawr that featured her classmate, Katharine Hepburn.
11 min
March 19, 2025 Anna Brown Burr: Prodigious Author
BBB:LHWS #042-4 Anna Robeson Burr Brown...
...was an American writer of novels, poetry, stories, essays, and biographies. Her The Autobiography: A Critical and Comparative Study (1909), was the first book on the subject.
11 min
March 18, 2025 Henry Armitt Brown: Finest Orator of His Generation
BBB:LHWS #042-3 Henry Armitt Brown...
...became the finest orator of his generation, frequently compared to Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. His life was cut short only weeks after his greatest triumph. You can read his words today at the Valley Forge Memorial Arch.
12 min
March 17, 2025 Frederick Brown: Druggist, Cemetery Co-Founder
BBB:LHWS #042-2 Frederick Brown...
...was a very successful druggist and a founder of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. When his friend John Jay Smith invited him to be a founder at Laurel Hill Cemetery, he accepted the offer.
17 min

About All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

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Hundreds of brief biographies of permanent residents of Laurel Hill East in Philadelphia and Laurel Hill West in Bala Cywnyd, Pennsylvania. Often educational, always entertaining.