Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFrom Beagling to Barbaro: Horses, Hounds, the Main Line, and Laurel Hill
Episode 532
BBB:LHWS #061 EARLY RELEASE Horses and foxhunting...
... can be traced from medieval hunting forests to the horse country of Philadelphia’s Main Li…
12 hours ago
Frank Whiteside: An Incident on Waverly
Episode 528
ABC:LHS 091-5 Frank Reed Whiteside...
...was an artist and instructor at PAFA who was inexplicably assassinated when he answered his front door on…
4 days, 7 hours ago
Jacqueline & Emily Powell: When a Mother Kills
Episode 526
ABC:LHS 091-4 Jacqueline Powell...
...was only 10 years old when her mother Emily Lippincott Powell shot her in sleep and then tried to take her o…
5 days, 7 hours ago
George Boehm: Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘em
Episode 529
ABC:LHS 091-3 George Boehm...
...was a workman on the Baldwin floor in 1870 when a quarrel with a co-worker led to his own death from a crushed sk…
6 days, 7 hours ago
Roy Wilson White: Three Wrongs Don't Remake Roy White
Episode 527
ABC:LHS #091-2 Roy Wilson White...
...was a gifted young UPenn law instructor who in 1900 was robbed and killed near the campus. Drawing on contem…
1 week ago
S. Morris Waln: Red Dog Meets His Maker
Episode 525
ABC:LHS 091-1 Samuel Morris Waln...
...was a wealthy Philadelphian who spent his free time in the "wild west" each summer until he and his compan…
1 week, 1 day ago
Murder Most Foul, Part 2; Five More Slain Philadelphians
Episode 531
ABC:LHS #091 Murder was part of the background noise in some areas of Philadelphia.
S. Morris Waln, born into one of Philadelphia’s founding fami…1 week, 2 days ago
(BONUS) A Cabinet of Memory: When a Museum Closes
Episode 530
Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences...
...was open to anyone who wished to meet dinosaurs, birds, shells, fossils and the people who studied t…
1 week, 4 days ago
From the Silver Streak to Baby Nukes
Episode 524
BBB:LHWS 060 Edward G. Budd and Rupen Eksergian...
...were design and structural engineers who forced the Age of Steam into the Modern Era with th…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Thomas E. Murphy: A Piece of the 1930s Phillies
Episode 519
ABC:LHS 090-5 Thomas E. Murphy ...
... knew virtually nothing about baseball, but found himself owning hundreds of shares of the Phillies during …
1 month ago