All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #042: Robert Patterson, James Snowden & Augustus Goodyear Heaton – Mint Condition: Laurel Hill’s Coinage Connections, part 1

If you live in Philadelphia, you know about the Philadelphia mint at 5th and Arch.  This is our 4th mint in Philadelphia.  The first opened in 1792 just a few hundred feet away from the current one.  Literally billions of coins have been pressed in its highly efficient, highly secure building.  Thousands of Philadelphians have worked at the mint, and many of them served as either Director or Superintendent.

The United States Mint has been in Philadelphia since 1792.  It has produced billions of coins, from half-pennies to 20-dollar gold double eagles.  Many of the early officers were Philadelphians.  In this podcast, you will hear about doubloons and trimes, Peter the eagle, the California gold rush and Colorado's Comstock lode, greenbacks, Gresham's law, and more.  And you will hear some bad poetry.  

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Biographical Bytes from Bala: Laurel Hill West Stories #011

This is a story about mutual love and respect among four women at the turn of the 20th century.  All students of art know of the Red Rose Girls - illustrators Jessie Willcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green and muralist Violet Oakley.  They became masters of their craft because of a fourth woman, Henrietta Cozens, who served as their mother, wife, nurse, gardener, cook, and muse.  She is interred at Laurel Hill West.  Without her, it is unlikely the Red Rose Girls would have existed.

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This is a story about mutual love and respect among four women at the turn of the 20th century.  All students of art know of the Red Rose Girls - illustrators Jessie Willcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green and muralist Violet Oakley.  They became masters of their craft because of a fourth woman, Henrietta Cozens, who served as their mother, wife, nurse, gardener, cook, and muse.  She is interred at Laurel Hill West.  Without her, it is likely the Red Rose Girls would not have been. 

This is a story of mutual love and trust of four Philadelphia women at the start of the 20th century.  Muralist Violet Oakley and illustrators Jessie Willcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green are known to all students of art as some of the finest artists during the Golden Age of Illustration.  These three women were freed from other activities to spend time on their artwork because of the fourth member of their group, Henrietta Cozens, who served as mother, wife, gardener, nurse, cook, and muse to the other three.  Together, they were known as the Red Rose Girls.  Without Henrietta, they possibly would not have existed; she is interred in the Merion Section at Laurel Hill West.  

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #041: Harry, Cecil & Kitty – Three Remarkable Drinkers, part 3

Catherine "Kitty" Drinker Bowen made a career writing award-winning history books and biographies, despite a lack of training in history or in literature.  She was also a superb violinist.

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #041: Harry, Cecil & Kitty – Three Remarkable Drinkers, part 2

Cecil Kent Drinker, MD, was founder of the Harvard School of Public Health and with his wife Dr. Katherine Rotan Drinker became primary investigator of the "Radium Girls". 

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #041: Harry, Cecil & Kitty – Three Remarkable Drinkers, part 1

Henry Sandwith “Harry” Drinker was a lawyer extraordinaire, amateur musician par excellence, and rescuer of the von Trapp family.  His collection of choral music is available for whomever wants to borrow it from the Philadelphia Library. 

• Henry Sandwith "Harry" Drinker was a brilliant Philadelphia lawyer and a famed musicologist who befriended the von Trapp family when they arrived at Ellis Island.  His wife Sophie Hutchinson Drinker was one of the founders of women's musicological and gender studies.

Three more members of the Drinker family for you know, all buried together on a hillside at Laurel Hill West.  Plus, you will learn about the iron lung, the Philadelphia origins of the Book-of-the-Month Club, and an amateur choir of 150 voices that gathered every Sunday evening for 30 years without ever performing in public.  It's another jam-packed episode of All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories.

Biographical Bytes from Bala: Laurel Hill West Stories#010

In the mid-19th century, Philadelphia-born Herman Haupt was probably the top railroad engineer in the country - and he knew it.  During the Civil War, his mastery of the rails provided the Union Army with thousands of tons of supplies, saved hundreds of lives, and may have preserved the Union’s victory at Gettysburg.  Except to railroad buffs, he is little remembered today.