the memory palace
the memory palace
Episodes
Podcast: the memory palace: Episode 130 (Independence Hall 2: The Legend of Walter Knott)
So Walter Knott went from nothing to owning a 170 acre safety net. As he took the road west, he tried his luck in Orange County. He started growing Berries on another rented lot in a town called Buena Park and sold them in a stand by the road.
Podcast: the memory palace: Episode 95 (Haunting)
It's not a mandolin, or a capoed banjo. Someone had the idea that it was the inside of a piano, but it doesn't really sound like that. It's hard to picture how you could drag that thing around the back roads of the American south in the 1920s. In the 1960s, in Britain, a musicologist heard these sounds; heard the 18 songs written by a man named Washington Phillips. . .
Podcast: the memory palace: Episode 75 (The Ballad of Captain Dwight)
The finale of the 2015 Summer Season. "The nation deserves an accounting -- a full accounting -- of what really happened in Ed Dwight's case. And so does every Negro boy and girl who ever aspired to the stars." -- Ebony, 1965 [more inside]
Podcast: the memory palace: Episode 67: Every Night Ever
“It was the same night, over and over…” A true story of the time it wasn't, from Lithium Springs, Georgia in 1953. [more inside]
Podcast: the memory palace: Episode 65: Two-Dimensional Projectile Motions Problems
Podcast: the memory palace: Episode 64 (The 7th Story)
Nate takes a look at a cold case. [more inside]