Podcast Episodes

Joseph Lapsley Wilson: The Trooper as Horticulturalist

Episode 441

ABC:LHS #080-4   Joseph Lapsley Wilson...

...is better remembered today for his arboretum than his troop membership. It still exists today as the Bar…

11 months ago

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A. Loudon Snowden: The Man Who Did Everything

Episode 439

ABC:LHS #080-3   Archibald Loudon Snowden...

...was a polymath who served as Captain of the Troop, as well as postmaster for the city, supervisor of …

11 months, 1 week ago

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Fairman Rogers: Horseman Extraordinaire

Episode 438

ABC:LHS #080-2   Fairman Rogers...

...lived a life of elegant wealth but made himself useful as an expert in many aspects of science, especially civi…

11 months, 1 week ago

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1st City Troop: The First 150 Years

Episode 437

ABC:LHS #080-1   The First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry...

...or "First City Troop", was organized in 1774 as the Light Horse of the City of Phila…

11 months, 1 week ago

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Happy 250th to the First City Troop

Episode 440

ABC:LHS #080   First City Troop, Philadelphia...

...celebrated its semiquincentennial before the country did.

Part 1: brief history of the Troop's F…

11 months, 1 week ago

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Hell Hath No Fury

Episode 436

BBB:LHWS #049-4  Oscar Rosier...

...had married the prettiest salesgirl in town, who soon bore him a child. But Oscar had a roving eye which was app…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

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The Viper and the Vampire

Episode 435

BBB:LHWS #049-3   Captain Clayton Erb...

...decided to marry and produce an heir at age 50 and selected a young divorcee to serve as mistress of his…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

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John Hobbs: Victim of an Obsession

Episode 434

BBB:LHWS #049-2   John Hobbs...

...knew he was being stalked and told his brother that if he didn't leave town soon, he would be a dead man. He was p…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

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Wives Who Kill, Edwardian Edition

Episode 433

BBB:LHWS #049-1   Intimate Partner Violence...

...dates to pre-biblical times and violence against women was sanctioned by laws until only recently.…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

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Mariticide for Beginners

Episode 432

BBB:LHWS #049    Wives Kill for varying reasons

John Hobbs was stalked and shot at a railway station in 1891 by a spurned lover. CPT Clayton Erb wa…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

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