Tour Guide Tell All

“The Pilgrims are zealots, you used the correct word. We don’t like to discuss that because the Pilgrims give us warm and fuzzies, but the truth is they’re basically religious zealots. They idea we have is that the Pilgrims came here for religious freedom, not really so much, no. I mean they wanted to worship according to their own beliefs, that part is true, but they also came here to isolate themselves too. They wanted isolation from all other religious inputs”

 

Happy Thanksgiving!  Tour Guide Tell All is taking you back to the First Thanksgiving and discussing all things related to your favorite food-based holiday. We get into the reason for the season by discussing the Pilgrims, and why that is not a name that they would have recognized or even liked, the Mayflower and its difficult trans-Atlantic journey, and the Native Americans they encountered when they arrived.

 

Grab some Pumpkin pie and join us for a romp through America’s oldest holiday. Or is it???

 

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Article From Washington Post

Their rough journey

Mayflower Compact 

Books:

Mayflower by Rebecca Fraser

Mayflower by Nathanial Philbrick

1491 by Charles Mann

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan King

Technical & Admin Work Done During Toddler Naptime: Canden Arciniega

Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

“So she and Oscar Wilde, her new friend, spend a day at the beach and they get to talking and sharing and Alice reveals how much she used to love art, the art studies she did as a young woman, and how she misses it."

Tour Guide Tell All digs into the scandalous life of Alice Pike Barney, one of the Gilded ladies of Embassy Row. Learn about her unconventional lifestyle, her wild daughters, her Sheridan Circle mansion, and why we love to talk about this New Woman on our Dark Side of Dupont Circle Tour.

 

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Dark Side of Dupont Circle Tour - DC By Foot

Embassy Row Self Guided Tour - DC By Foot

Alice Pike Barney - Smithsonian American Art Museum

Alice Pike Barney - Brooklyn Museum

Natalie Barney (The Dinner Party) - Brooklyn Museum

"The Private and Public Stages of Alice Pike Barney" - The Washington Post

Alice Pike Barney Studio House - Smithsonian Archives

"The House is Queer" - The Gilded Age in America

"A Natalie Barney Garland" - The Paris Review

Natalie Clifford Barney - Ohio History Center

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner & Becca Grawl

The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan King

Technical & Admin Work Done During Naptime: Canden Arciniega 

Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

“We are going to talk about the election of 1912, which is a doozy. There’s a lot going on, and some of our favorite and least favorite characters in American history are going to play starring roles in what we are about to talk about.”

 

Tour Guide Tell All celebrates Election Day…. Our Way!! We are bringing you the nitty gritty of one of the wildest and most tumultuous elections in US history, an election full of fascinating characters, feuds and even an assassination attempt on a candidate!  We are going back in time to 1912 to talk all things Teddy Roosevelt, Taft and Woodrow Wilson.  

 

Join Becca and Rebecca as we dig into the elements that make this such watershed moment in American political history.  

 

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State by state election break down, just like modern day! 

PBS discusses the election 

Bull Moose/Progressive Party Platform

Wilson House in DC

Wilson Grave in DC 

Taft Grave

 

Some previous Tour Guide Tell All context:

Our William Jennings Bryan episode which is particularly relevant

Henry Clay 

 

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan King

Technical & Admin Work Done During Toddler Naptime: Canden Arciniega 

Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

“My supposition is that Rose O’Neal Greenhow had sex appeal. I think she had the kind of thing you can’t capture in a photo, particularly at the time. There is obviously something beguiling in her manner because she is so good at this. She has numerous friendships that people just give her information, there’s got to be something about her that helps with that, I feel like.”

Tour Guide Tell All ends our scandalous and dark October with a rollicking spy yarn. We go back to the Civil War to discuss one of the most infamous spies of the era, Rose O’Neal Greenhow. Greenhow was a well placed and dedicated Confederate spy with great connections in the Union government and she played a pivotal role in one of the earliest episodes of the Civil War.Come along as we wrap up our October with a wily and resourceful woman and her scandalous exploits.

Get a signed copy of Canden's book, Wild Women of Washington from our merch store!

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If you’re interested in in more information, we find these sources helpful:This is Rose’s Wikipedia page which is really useful because it has several of famous photos of her, some of which we talk about on the pod:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_O%27Neal_Greenhow

Her spy cipher: https://www.wdl.org/en/item/2706/

Her archival papers at Duke:https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/greenhow/

National Archives has her seized letters!!https://www.archives.gov/research/military/civil-war/greenhow

Her death: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rose-greenhow-dies

Her grave in Wilmington, NChttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1772/rose-o%27neal-greenhow

The book that she writes about her exploits:https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/greenhow/menu.html

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca GrawlThe Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Canden Arciniega Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

“Now as I always say to my friends and family when they visit London, and to my tour guests, if you are standing in a park, a garden, a square, or a market, look around; because the only reason it’s there is because it’s a plague pit”

 

“If you are thinking about bloodletting, the first place that people’s minds often go to is to leeches. But if you thought about that, maybe in a past life, you were very wealthy. Because in order to afford leeches, in London, in the 17th century,  you would have had to get them from a very posh leech importer, and if so, you would have displayed them in a beautiful container. You may even have a plated silver or gold leech container that you kept in your pocket, and you might bring that leech container out, when you want to show off… You might fondle that leech container when you are talking to someone you fancy.”

 

Join Tour Guide Tell All for this mini-episode as we feature special guest Jessica O’Neil, a tour guide with our sister outfit Free Tours by Foot London, as she gives us the creepiest content for our creepy October/Halloween-themed pods.  Find out all about how the bubonic plague affected London, how they disposed of the dead, and how there are still designated “plague pits” scattered throughout London today.  

 

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Various visual aids for this creepy episode:

YouTube clip of various pictures of Charterhouse, London

Pictures of Plague Doctors

Historic UK Interactive Plague Pit Map

 

You’re Listening To: Jessica O’Neil

The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan King

Technical & Admin Work Done During Toddler Naptime: Canden Arciniega 

Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

“I've never stayed the night in the Capitol, I have never personally seen a ghost but I would not be surprised and I trust anyone who says they've had these encounters, because so many people have died in the U.S. Capitol Building."

Tour Guide Tell All digs into the various rumored hauntings in one of our oldest buildings - the United States Capitol Building.  While there have been various deaths that have occured inside this grand structure, our guides highlight their five favorite deaths, ranging from shootings to bathtubs to fighting against bigotry and more.  In honor of October and the spooky season of Halloween, we've been exploring sites in D.C. that have hauntings, scandals, and dark history lurking in its shadows.  

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Capitol Hill Scandals Tour - DC By Foot

Washington D.C. Ghost Tours- DC By Foot

Guide to Visiting Capitol Hill - DC By Foot

The Death of Rep John Q. Adams - US House of Representatives

Morris Michael Edelstein - Jewish Virtual Library

The Shooting of Congressman William Taulbee - US House of Representatives

Henry Wilson - US Senate

Mystery of the Senate Bathtubs - US Senate

John Lenthall - National Archives, Jefferson Papers

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner & Becca Grawl

The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan King

Technical & Admin Work Done During Toddler Naptime: Canden Arciniega 

Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

“Out of the town car pour 5 individuals, 2 men and 3 women. One of the women, in evening dress, immediately takes off running toward the tidal basin and jumps into the water. They fish her out, she tries it again, they finally handcuff her to prevent her from trying it a third time. It’s kind of a motley crew, you’ve got 3 women in evening dress, all 5 of them look a little worse for the wear. And then someone recognizes one of the gentlemen.”

 

Tour Guide Tell All continues its scandalous and dark October with a truly Capitol scandal. Days before an election, police in DC pull over a swerving town car late at night. Out tumbles an 18-term Congressman and a stripper nicknamed “The Argentine Firecracker.” Neither of their careers would ever be the same. 

 

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If you’re interested in in more information, we find these sources helpful:

WaPo article from the time

More recent WaPo article

Article from The Strand Magazine

 

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner

The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan King

Technical & Admin Work Done During Toddler Naptime: Canden Arciniega 

Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

“It is really like a country club for the after life...you have this cemetery that is specifically seeking out in its early years important Washington D.C. names, it grows as a very prestigious cemetery.  So today, when you're walking around you certainly will see names you recognize but you are also going to see a lot of wealth on display." 

Tour Guide Tell All digs into one of our favorite local cemeteries, Oak Hill Cemetery in historic Georgetown.  In honor of October and the spooky season of Halloween, we've been exploring sites in D.C. that have hauntings, scandals, and dark history lurking in its shadows. Join us as we talk wealthy families, tragic losses, insistent ghosts, and more.

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Visit Oak Hill Cemetery - DC By Foot

Washington D.C. Ghost Tours- DC By Foot

Historic Georgetown Self-Guided Tour - DC By Foot

Oak Hill Cemetery

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

"'Lincoln in the Bardo' novel has people flocking to a Georgetown Cemetery" - The Washington Post

Memorial to Joseph Pozell - Metropolitan Police Department

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner & Becca Grawl

The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan King

Technical & Admin Work Done During Toddler Naptime: Canden Arciniega 

Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

One local of Georgetown, a descendent of of some people buried here described what the cemetery was once like: "one could see bodies sticking out of the side of Mount Zion. Soil erosion was such a problem that corpses were often exposed and unearthed from the grounds."

 

Disturbed graves were not a new thing for Mt Zion - and the disturbance was not always caused by natural forces. Canden talks about this historic cemetery in our continuation of Spooky October stories.

 

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Sources we used and think you might be interested in:

Historical Data from the Library of Congress

Mt Zion-Female Union Band Society Historic Cemetery Website

While you may just enjoy the fact that there is a three day weekend coming up, let us explain why there are a number of reasons that it should NOT be a day celebrating Christopher Columbus. There is nothing to celebrate about this man. Becca and Rebecca tell us why.

 

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Sources we used and think you might be interested in:

Books we used, which are amazing and can’t recommend highly enough for a lot of reasons:

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Lies my Teacher Told me by James Loewen

 

https://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/coard-five-facts-proving-columbus-was-one-of-historys-worst-monsters/article_016313a3-3e44-58c7-a815-a890292aff5c.html

 

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2014/10/13/6957875/christopher-columbus-murderer-tyrant-scoundrel

 

DC Statues:

Isabella: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Isabella_I_of_Castile

Columbus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Fountain

 

Modern take on the Columbus statue removal:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/local/while-statues-topple-columbuss-visage-at-union-station-is-largely-ignored/2020/07/06/4a89d0aa-bfa0-11ea-b4f6-cb39cd8940fb_story.html%3foutputType=amp