All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

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All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories episodes

August 01, 2021ABC #029: Meredith Colket, Bascom Johnson, Edward Bushnell, John F. Cregan, & James Juvenal - Olympiad II - Paris 1900 - The Zany Games
Future Laurel Hill and West Laurel Hill residents went to Paris in 1900 to compete in Olympiad II.
Meredith Colket was a Penn scholar who placed 2nd in the pole vault.
Bascom Johnson was a Yale pole vaulter who failed to compete, but went on to an amazing career in public health.
Edward Bushnell was a middle-distance runner whose name eventually became synonymous with sports at the University of Pennsylvania.
John F. Cregan was another middle-distance man but from Princeton.
Rower James Benner Juvenal won gold with the Vesper Boat Club three years after he eloped to New York City on a tandem bicycle.
In perhaps the most disorganized Olympics ever, several of our residents excelled. And find out why they were "The Zany Games," all in this episode of "All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories."

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1 hr 3 min
July 01, 2021ABC #028: Dr. Samuel G. Morton, George R. Gliddon, & John Worrell Keely - Bad Science
Dr. Samuel George Morton was a pioneer of American anthropology and the father of American invertebrate paleontology, but he was also a compulsive skull collector whose measurements and conclusions were used to justify enslavement and eventually racial cleansing.
George Robbins Gliddon taught Americans more about ancient Egypt than anyone up to his time, but he got caught up in Morton’s scientific racism, as well as the thrill of robbing graves for their heads and mummified remains.
James Ernst Worrell Keely was either a supergenius whom science has not caught up with more than 120 years after his death, or one of the great hucksters of the nineteenth century.
Morton and Gliddon are interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery, while Keely is a permanent resident at West Laurel Hill. All three have astonishing stories.

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1 hr 40 min
June 01, 2021ABC #027: Charles Euchariste de Medici Sajous, Chevalier Quixote Jackson, Hilary Koprowski, Irena Koprowska - Fathers (and Mothers) of American Medicine, Part 2
Charles Euchariste de Medici Sajous was a prolific author and editor who specialized in "glandular secretions;" he is remembered today as the Father of American Endocrinology ... and the last of the de Medicis.
Chevalier Quixote Jackson mastered the skill of retrieving foreign bodies from the lungs and esophagus; he is the Father of American Endoscopy.
Hilary Koprowski was a Polish-born virologist who beat Salk and Sabin to the development of an effective polio vaccine, but who is little remembered today.
His wife, cytopathologist Irena Koprowska, was a co-developer of the Pap smear.
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1 hr 13 min
May 01, 2021ABC #026: William Wood, Mary Ann Lee, Frank Mayo and Wedgwood Nowell - Encore!
William Wood started as an actor but soon moved to managing Philadelphia theaters.
Many people consider Mary Ann Lee to be America’s first professional ballerina.
Frank Mayo was an actor who became beloved through more than 3000 performances as Davy Crockett.
Wedgwood Nowell produced or acted in more than 300 plays before moving to Hollywood and acting in more than 300 movies over his long career.
59 min
April 01, 2021ABC #025: Five Wister Men: William Rotch Wister, John Wister, BG Langhorne Wister, Rodman Wister, John Caspar Wister
It is very easy to get lost in the Wister family. Anyone familiar with Philadelphia History probably knows about Caspar Wistar, who founded the Wistar Institute, and author Owen Wister, who wrote the first Western novel The Virginian and is buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery. But this was a large family. There are 40 Wisters and 30 Wistars buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery, along with 3 Wisters at West Laurel Hill.
Today I am going to talk about four Wister brothers and one of their sons buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery.
William Rotch Wister was lawyer and founder of the Germantown Cricket club.
John Wister was founder and manager of a major iron works and a bank.
GEN Langhorne Wister was a colonel with the Bucktail Regiment during the Civil War, shot through the mouth at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Rodman Wister ran away from home to become a drummer boy.
John Caspar Wister, son of William Rotch, was considered the dean of horticulturists in the United States.
1 hr 9 min
March 01, 2021ABC #024: Christine Wetherill Stevenson, Katharine Elizabeth McBride, Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen, Ruth Dietz Eni - Four Remarkable Women You Should Know
Christine Wetherill Stevenson came from a prominent family and made her mark in Philadelphia, where she founded the Philadelphia Art Alliance, as well as California, where she founded the Hollywood Bowl.
Katharine Elizabeth McBride was a brilliant researcher in neuropsychology but is mostly remembered today for her 28 years as president of Bryn Mawr College; she brought it into recognition as one of the top institutions in the nation.
Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen came from a family of collectors and at one time had one of the finest private collections in the United States while serving many roles for the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
And Ruth Dietz Eni joined the family business as a young woman, staying with it for more than 60 years and enjoying a late-life recognition as the company’s spokesperson, the beloved Momma Dietz of Dietz & Watson.
58 min
February 05, 2021 Teddy Pendergrass and the Soul of Philadelphia
All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #022, The Philadelphia Sound, Part 4
Theodore "Teddy" Pendergrass started as a drummer and background singer with Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, but his distinctive voice soon earned him a solo contract and he became one of the biggest selling artists in history. A car crash cut his career painfully short.
20 min
February 04, 2021 Grover Washington Jr.: Taking the Jazz World by Storm
All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #022, The Philadelphia Sound, Part 3
Grover Washington Jr. was from Buffalo, New York, where he started playing local clubs as a teenager. After going through his Coltrane phase, he settled back into a warmer, friendlier sound that developed into "smooth jazz". His horn became the Sound of Philadelphia. He died far too young.
18 min
February 03, 2021 ABC022, Part 2: Billy Paul, Mrs. Jones, & The Philadelphia Sound
Paul Williams needed a new professional name, so he chose "Billy Paul." He was a popular local performer and was one of the first acts signed to the new Philadelphia International label. His biggest hit "Me and Mrs. Jones" was inescapable on the radio for months in 1972.
21 min
February 02, 2021 ABC023, Part 1: Hy Lit and the Philadelphia Sound
Hyman "Hy" Lit was a voice known to every Philadelphian during his 50 years on the air, mostly during the 1950s and 60s as on of the WIBG "Good Guys", when he drew an otherworldly market share of '70'. His style was unforgettable.
13 min

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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.