Someone Lived Here

In this episode we follow the life of Jack Kirby starting in his childhood apartment on Suffolk Street in the Lower East Side. The tenement is no longer standing, but the characters he created over his decades in the comic book industry are still everywhere you look.

This season, host Kendra Gaylord, is exploring homes that are no longer standing by learning their stories, all while staying self-isolated in her apartment in Brooklyn.

In this episode, we remember the homes where Harriet Jacobs lived both in Edenton, North Carolina and where she wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in upstate New York. In her book she told her own story as an enslaved woman, later generations would assume her editor Lydia Maria Child was the author.

This week, we explore Woody Guthrie's Coney Island apartment at 3520 Mermaid Avenue. By examining the place he lived we learn more about him and the time and world he lived through. In the second season of Someone Lived Here, Kendra is virtually visiting homes that are no longer standing from self-isolation.

In the second season of Someone Lived Here, Kendra explores homes that are no longer standing from self-isolation. This week, we explore Maudslay State Park, formerly the Maudsleigh Estate. The park was once the country home of Frederick Strong Moseley and his family. In 1904, he commissioned the architectural landscape design of Martha Brookes Hutcheson. Her designs still stand and her life story is the focus of this episode.

The new season of Someone Lived Here will be coming to you starting April 6, 2020, with new episodes every other Monday. This season of Someone Lived Here we will be exploring homes that are no longer standing.

Hey everyone it’s me Kendra Gaylord, the host of Someone Lived Here. The upcoming season is going to be a bit different than what we initially planned, we have delayed all travel due to Coronavirus. So for this season we will be staying inside and telling the stories of homes that are no longer standing. It’s still Someone Lived Here, the podcast about the places cool people called home, but this time from the comfort of my own apartment. It also means it will be coming to you earlier than expected.

New episodes will start April 6th and will come out every other Monday. The hope is to transport you to learn about a remarkable person whose home is no longer there, but whose story lives on. And if you haven’t listened to the entire first season we have 8 episodes which let you experience a location without having to leave your home. The upcoming season is coming next Monday.

Learn the real life story of Little Women.

In this bonus episode of Someone Lived Here, Kendra takes you to Orchard House, the home of Louisa May Alcott in Concord, Massachusetts. This home is where Louisa wrote and set her book, Little Women. This home was recreated for the recent Little Women film, directed by Greta Gerwig and nominated for an Oscar.

In this episode, we unravel the real lives of Anna, Louisa, Elizabeth, and May. By walking through the rooms and items they owned, we better understand the real people, in both their happiness and hardships.

Thank you to Jan Turnquist and the entire staff at Orchard House. The home is open to visitors almost every day. You can learn more about the home and take a virtual tour on their website.

Music credit: Tim Cahill

In this episode of Someone Lived Here, Kendra brings you to Steepletop in Austerlitz, New York. The farmhouse was the home of Edna St Vincent Millay.

While walking through her home and property, we better understand Edna St. Vincent Millay's poetry and life. Vincent would die in the home and her sister would be it's steward for decades.

If you have any suggestions or ideas for the show please reach out to [email protected]. Thanks to Tim Cahill for music and Ben Kirk for artwork.

In this episode of Someone Lived Here, Kendra brings you to the Edgar Allan Poe cottage in the Bronx. The cottage was the final home of Poe and his wife.

While learning the story of the troubled and complicated Poe, we learn more about his wife and cousin Virginia, who died in the home of tuberculosis.

If you have any suggestions or ideas for the show please reach out to [email protected]. Thanks to Tim Cahill for music and Ben Kirk for artwork.

In this episode of Someone Lived Here, Kendra brings you to Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, New York. The home was owned by a mayor, a businessman, a robber baron, and two sisters who knew it was worth saving.

While we walk through the art gallery, library, and bowling alley we learn more about Helen and Anne Gould. Two sisters who led extremely different lives, but both valued the same thing, their childhood home.

If you have any suggestions or ideas for the show please reach out to [email protected]. Thanks to Tim Cahill for music and Ben Kirk for artwork.

In this episode of Someone Lived Here, Kendra brings you to the Pollock-Krasner House in Easthampton, Long Island. The home and studio of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are explored and their lives uncovered. We also learn more about the other key characters in Easthampton, like Alfonso Ossorio and Ted Dragon.

While we walk through the home and studio, we learn more about Lee and Jackson's work, their relationship, and Jackson Pollock's death. The episode ends in the studio Jackson used for 11 years, and Lee used for nearly 30.

If you have any suggestions or ideas for the show please reach out to [email protected]. Thanks to Tim Cahill for music and Ben Kirk for artwork.