Category: DailyShorts

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A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts.

A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.

Anyway...

Music 

• We hear The Icelandic Society of Phallogy from Rob Simonsen score to The Final Member.

• And one of my favorite songs, Every Day a Sunrise, A Summer from The Telegraph Melts. 

Notes

• I read and enjoyed The Golden Age of the Newspaper by George Douglas. 

• I first learned about Moses Yale Beach and the pigeon reporters in an aside in one of the fantastic stories in Banvard's Folly by Paul Collins, a book you should purchase right now. 

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A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.

Music

• Field of Reeds by Leo Svirsky.

• Stellify by Federico Albanese.

• Opening by Nathanial Bartlett.

• Turning 16 by Ben Sollee.

Notes

• I strongly recommend checking out Annelise Orlick's Common Sense and a Little Fire, an exhilarating history of Pauline Newman, Rose Schneiderman and other women at the center of the labor movement in the 20th Century.

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A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.

Music

• Philharmonics (Piano Sessions), from Agnes Obel. 

• Pre-Barok by Mica Levi and Oliver Coates. 

• Space in Between by Federico Albanese.

• Warm Canto by Mal Waldron. 

• Blink by Hiroshi Yoshimura.

Notes

• There are two lovely books I relied on heavily for this story: Something to Prove: A Biography of Ann Lowe, Forgotten Designer by Julia Dockery Smith. 

• And Rosemary Read's The Threads of Time, Fabric of History. 

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts.

A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.

Anyway...

**Music **

• Artifices from Chapelier Fou.

• A smidge of [Equality Under the Law](http://: https://geo.music.apple.com/us/album/equality-under-the-law/569934319?i=569934714&mt=1&app=music) from John Williams score to Lincoln.

• I Can See Your Tracks (Instrumental) from Laura Veirs.

• Bone Collector by Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge

• Some of Increase by David Lang

• [Serenade for Alto Saxophone and Strings: IV Stella’s Dance](http:// https://geo.music.apple.com/us/album/serenade-for-alto-saxophone-and-strings-v-evensong/462122423?i=462122731&mt=1&app=music) by David Liptak

• Johnny Griffin’s version of [Woody’n You](http:// https://geo.music.apple.com/us/album/woodyn-you-instrumental/1443062797?i=1443063227&mt=1&app=music)

• Last Days of Summer by Maria Avos

Notes

• This story started by reading The War Lovers: Lodge, Hearst, Roosevelt and the Rush to Empire, Evan Thomas’ history of the Spanish American War.

• Doris Kearns Goodwin adds more in The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys.

• Lodge’s memoir is here.

• Robert Grant’s is here.

• Henry Adams’ is here.

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts.

A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.

Anyway...

This episode was originally produced for an episode of Radiolab from WNYC, released in August of 2019.

Music

• Cul-de-Sac from Krzysztof Komeda’s Knife in the Water.

• [The Mistral Noir](http:// https://geo.music.apple.com/us/album/the-mistral-noir/973468266?i=973468267&mt=1&app=music) by Daniel Herskedal.

• [Trakors](http:// https://geo.music.apple.com/us/album/tr%C3%A4kors-f%C3%A4ltinspelad/1446106006?i=1446106011&mt=1&app=music) by 1900.

• Eloy by Deaf Center.

• [Leaping Dance](http:// https://geo.music.apple.com/us/album/leaping-dance/265055509?i=265055945&mt=1&app=music) from the Netherlands Wind Ensemble

• And Facing the Obstacles from Rob Simonson’s score to the Final Member.

Notes

• This episode relied heavily on the work and research of Professor Gabriel Rosenberg of Duke, using his article, “No Scrubs: Livestock Breeding, State Power, and Eugenic Knowledge in the Early 20th Century United States” as a guide and jumping off point for other research.

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Music

• First up is Requiem from Nico Muhly’s score to How to Talk to Girls at Parties.

• November by Colleen.

• Edward Hong’s arrangement of Sleep from the Smoke and Mirrors Percussion Ensemble.

• The solo version of Broad Channel by Bing & Ruth

• Won’t Be a Thing to Become by Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld

Notes

• Here’s Shane DuBay and Carl Fuldner’s study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, including Fuldner’s remarkable photographs.

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This episode was commissioned by the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts

A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.

MUSIC

• Amalgamation Waltz 1839 by Joep Beveng

• Now by Goldmund

• Wander On from Joel P West's score to Band of Robbers.

• Tomato Day by Kelpe. 

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts.

Help support this show and the network that makes it possible by making a donation today. Make your mark at Radiotopia.fm/donate

A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.

Music

• Waveland by Noam Pikelny.

Notes

• I relied a lot on the extensive articles on the Monticello historic home's site maintained by the University of Virginia.

• As well as Dining at Monticello: In Good Taste and Abundance by Damon Lee Fowler.