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In part 2 of Anne Marie's interview with Tom Carradine, the genius behind Carradine's Cockney Sing-a-Long, Tom shares his personal journey from science major at university to dapper sing-a-long entertainer who has truly embraced his inner vintage dandy.

Since its inception in 2014, Tom's old fashioned music hall style sing-a-long has become a fixture on the UK's thriving vintage scene. He has played sellout dates at London's historic Wilton's Music Hall, Hoxton Hall and he brings his act along with his affectionately named piano, Ol' Joanna, weekly to Mr. Fogg's Tavern where he leads the patron's in a good old fashioned "knees up". During COVID social distancing restrictions, Tom has brought his act "Carradine's Self-Isolation Singalong" to the internet every Thursday where anyone in the world with an internet connection and Facebook can tune in live.

More on Tom Carradine:
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Facebook
Instagram
Twitter

Joolz Guides


Some of the performers and songwriters Tom mentions
Max Bygraves
Dandy Wellington
Chas & Dave
Lonnie Donegan
The Sherman Brothers

Pop culture mentioned in this episode
Herman Hermits cover of "I'm Henery the Eighth, I am"
2001: A Space Odyssey

Misc.
Your Baby has Gone Down the Plug Hole
Nick and Gillian Perry Vintage Shop in Salem, MA

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In this episode Anne Marie talks to Tom Carradine, the genius behind Carradine's Cockney Sing-a-Long. Since its inception in 2014, Tom's old fashioned music hall style sing-a-long has become a fixture on the UK's thriving vintage scene. He has played sellout dates at London's historic Wilton's Music Hall, Hoxton Hall and he brings his act along with his affectionately named piano, Ol' Joanna, weekly to Mr. Fogg's Tavern where he leads the patron's in a good old fashioned "knees up". During COVID social distancing restrictions, Tom has brought his act "Tom Carradine's Self-Isolation Singalong" to the internet every Thursday where anyone in the world with an internet connection and Facebook can tune in live.

More on Tom Carradine:
Website
Facebook
Instagram
Twitter

Joolz Guides
Joolz Guides on Armchair Historians, Part 1
Joolz Guides on Armchair Historians, Part 2

Resources on Victorian Music Hall and some of the musician's Tom references in interview
V&A, Music Hall and Variety Theater
Palaces of Pleasure, Lee Jackson
Canterbury Hall
The Eagle Tavern and Pop Goes the Weasel
Wilton's Music Hall
Hoxton Music Hall
Britannia Panopticon
Leeds City Varieties
London Palladium
London Coliseum
Hackney Empire
Frank Matcham

Some of the musicians Tom mentions
Vesta Tilley
Gus Elan
Mary Lloyd
Champagne Charlie, George Leybourne
Hetty King
Winifred Atwell
Mrs Mills
Harry Champion

Pop culture mentioned in this episode
Good Old Days
Penny Dreadful


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In part 2 of our Homesteading series we talk to Colorado licensed dentist and rancher, Les Maes. As a follow up to our interview with Frank Young, who took us back to the American frontier and the 1862 Homestead Act. If you haven't done so already, I suggest you listen to the series in order so as to get the bigger historical context of part 2. Les shares his personal account of growing up on the family ranch, the history of which is rooted in the early days of the Homestead Act.

The ancestral roots of the Maes family are fixed in New Mexico history. An area originally Inhabited by members of the Clovis culture of Paleo-Indians. Later inhabitants included American Indians of the Mogollon and Ancestral Pueblo peoples cultures. Then, under Spanish colonization, the area became known as Nuevo México (1598–1848), then New Mexico Territory (1850–1912) and finally it was admitted to the Union January 6, 1912.

Les's direct ancestor Juan Anastacio Maes (1863-1937) staked a claim in the second half of the nineteenth century in what is now, Bueyeros, New Mexico. The 3,000 acre Maes Ranch is still owned and run by the descendants of Juan.

The Maes Ranch Photo Gallery

National Archives: Homestead Act

Wikipedia: Bueyeros, New Mexico

Roadside Thoughts: Bueyeros, New Mexico

Homesteading in Pop Culture

IMBD: City Slickers

IMBD: The West, Ken Burns 9 part series on the American West

Yellowstone

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In this episode, Anne Marie talks to Frank Young. Frank is from Bangor, Maine, but currently lives in Silver Plume, Colorado. He has dedicated his career as a steward of the land with the US Bureau of Land Management, Dept. of the Interior in the American West (BLM for short).

In Part 1 of our Homesteading the American West series, Frank explains the history of the great experiment of homesteading the American West.

Resources

Bureau of Land Management

Homestead Act

Movies

Far and Away (1992) Trailer

The Westerner (1940) Trailer

Cimarron (1960) Trailer

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In this episode Anne Marie talks to writer Kristyn J. Miller about her most unusual and hardly known favorite history, the Schleswig-Holstein problem. The most succinct explanation of this can be found on Wikipedia:

The Schleswig-Holstein Question was the name given to the whole complex of diplomatic and other issues arising in the 19th century out of the relations of the two duchies, Schleswig and Holstein, to the Danish crown on one side and the German Confederation on the other.

Kristyn is a writer and casual literary critic with a passion for the intersection of Germanic language, cultural history, and literature. She graduated magna cum laude from University of Redlands with departmental honors for her critical essay on Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian epic literature. Since then, she founded a blog focused on linguistics, literature and cultural history, which updates on Tuesdays.

Blog: Kristyn J. Miller

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Resources:

Schleswig-Holstein Question, Wikipedia Page

Second Schleswig-Holstein War

Danish Series
1864, Series Trailer
186, Series Wikipedia Page

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Our guest today is author Laurie Marr Wasmund. Laurie loves the American West and has written five novels having ties to it including My Heart Lies Here, A Novel of the Ludlow Massacre; Clean Cut, A Romance of the Western Heart; and three books in the White Winter Trilogy, To Do Justice, To Love Kindness and To Walk Humbly, which chronicle America's involvement in the First World War and the aftermath in the 1920’s.

Today Laurie talks about her favorite history which is anchored in turn of the century Colorado, WWI and the taking down of the infamous Denver Bunco Ring by Philip Van Cise who, it is believed, the award winning 1970's movie The Sting, starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman is based on.

For more on Laurie:

https://lauriemarrwasmund.com/

https://lauriemarrwasmund.com/white-winter-trilogy-to-do-justice/

https://lauriemarrwasmund.com/white-winter-trilogy-to-love-kindness/

https://lauriemarrwasmund.com/white-winter-to-walk-humbly/

For more on Philip Van Cise and the KKK in Colorado in the 1920s:

https://www.westword.com/news/phil-van-cise-scourge-of-denvers-underworld-5097432

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/photos-ku-klux-klan-in-colorado-in-the-1920s#id9

http://www.blongerbros.com/VanCise/bio.asp

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Part 2: Savor & Yore's Melanie Hamilton tells us about the harrowing story of American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement Ida B. Wells. Melanie, a native Texan and writer by trade, lives with her husband, Brett, and "dog-child" in Tbilisi, Georgia (the country not to be confused with the state) where she writes about history, food and culture.

In part 2 of this interview, Melanie shares the journey that led her to Tbilisi, Georgia, becoming a freelance writer and much more!

The story of Ida B. Wells is timely as we are in the midst of Black Lives Matter protests throughout the US, and indeed the world, in the wake of the George Floyd murder at the hands of police officer Derek Chauvin while other officers looked on. In the 1890's Well's documented the lynching of African American men throughout the South and exposed the unjust barbaric practice by whites for what it was.

Savor & Yore

Melanie's Instagram

Melanie's Facebook

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases

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Savor & Yore's Melanie Hamilton tells us about the harrowing story of American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement Ida B. Wells. Melanie, a native Texan and writer by trade, lives with her husband, Brett, and "dog-child" in Tbilisi, Georgia (the country not to be confused with the state) where she writes about history, food and culture.

The story of Ida B. Wells is timely as we are in the midst of Black Lives Matter protests throughout the US, and indeed the world, in the wake of the George Floyd murder at the hands of police officer Derek Chauvin while other officers looked on. In the 1890's Well's documented the lynching of African American men throughout the South and exposed the unjust barbaric practice by whites for what it was.

Savor & Yore

Melanie's Instagram

Melanie's Facebook

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases

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In this powerful episode Anne Marie talks to 13-year-old Emerald from Idaho Springs, Colorado. Emerald shares a history that has weighed heavily on her mind for a long time, a history she finds fascinating, WWII. Find out about some of Emerald’s conclusions about this history and why, she believes, It’s important to shine the light on for today.

Resources:

The Twins of Auschwitz

Between Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys

Jojo Rabbit

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Part 2 of Anne Marie's interview with podcaster, writer, and New Yorker 4 ever, Anik Gee. Her comedy interviews podcast, The Chillary, is a place to chill and talk about adulting which "is like folding a fitted sheet and nobody talks anymore. We post, we tweet, we text. Come "pull up" with me, one adult to another as we explore, review, analyze and just simply chat about all things adult."

Anik is mother of three and author of two children's books, Sophia the Sensational and The Perfectly Perfect First Grader: The Day My Classroom Stood Still. She writes under the pseudonym Gee Williker. Anik finds inspiration for her stories easily in the normal day to day routines as a New Yorker and mother of three. With a spirit of joy and as a lover of life, Gee's purpose and goal for these children books is to help children cope and celebrate life.

In this interview we talk about her favorite history, first African American female millionaire Madam C. J. Walker, former first lady Michelle Obama, the podcaster's life, big families and much more.


The Chillary Podcast

The Chillary YouTube channel

Anik Gee Instagram

Books:

Sophia the Sensational

The Perfectly Perfect 1st Grader

More on Madam C.J. Walker:

Two Dollars and a Dream: The True Story of Madam C.J. Walker: I love the personal stories in this documentary! Worth the watch!

Wikipedia

Self Made, Netflix Series

Madam Walker, the First Black American Woman to Be a Self-Made Millionaire, PBS website

Podcast Anik Gee is listening to right now:

The Kirk Minihane Show
Barstool Sports

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