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Episode 504
ABC:LHS #088 July 4, 1863...
...is the day that the Confederacy knew their days were numbered. At Gettysburg, Philadelphian General George Gordon M…
3 months, 1 week ago
Jeff Lee Johnson: Never "Just a Session Man"
Episode 496
BBB:LHWS #057-3 Jef Lee Johnson...
...played with everyone from Aretha Franklin to McCoy Tyner, primarily because he sounded like no one - except f…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Winston Samuels: Israelites
Episode 498
BBB:LHWS #057-2 Winston Samuels McGinnis...
...was a Jamaican singer with a moderately successful career until he backed Desmond Dekker on the worl…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Rudolph Hennig: There's Always Room for Cello
Episode 497
BBB:LHWS #057-1 Rudolph Hennig...
...was a German born master of the cello who was the Philaldelphia Orchestra's first cello soloist after he had a…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Three More Musicians from Laurel Hill West
Episode 501
BBB:LHWS #057 Three More LHW Musicians
Rudolph Hennig was the first cello soloist for the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1901; a few years earlier, Ph…3 months, 4 weeks ago
Rev William Smith: Penn's Forgotten Founder
Episode 493
ABC:LHS #087-5 Rev. William Smith...
...was a Scottish-born Anglican who impressed Benjamin Franklin with his ideas about higher education and set …
4 months, 1 week ago
Hilery Baker: Philadelphia's First "Officer Down"
Episode 492
ABC:LHS #087-4 Hilery Baker...
...was a German immigrant who became two-term mayor during the time when the city was also the nation's capital. He e…
4 months, 1 week ago
Alexander Murray: A Forgotten Commodore
Episode 491
ABC:LHS #087-3 Alexander Murray...
... came from a family that was part of the Scottish diaspora to the New World after the Jacobite Rebellion in the…
4 months, 1 week ago
Thomas Godfrey: A New Way to See the Horizon
Episode 490
ABC:LHS #087-2 Thomas Godfrey...
...was one of the New World's first native inventors. While working as a glazier, he was intrigued by the reflection…
4 months, 1 week ago
Invitation to an Exhumation
Episode 489
ABC:LHS #087-1
The concept of "celebrity corpses" to attract customers to a cemetery was nothing new. People had been digging up other people for yea…
4 months, 1 week ago