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Episode 495
ABC:LHS #087
Even in death, some people don’t rest easy. Someone always wants to dig them up and move them. Though Laurel Hill East opened in 1836, s…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
George Gerbner: The Man Who Counted Fear
Episode 494
BBB:LHWS #056 George Gerbner...
...was a Hungarian refugee and combat survivor who grew up through the start of European Fascism during the 1930s. …
5 months ago
Take Me to the River: A Virtual Tour
Episode 488
River Section starts at the BODE plot
Join me on an audio guided tour of the River Section of Laurel Hill West, one of the original four segments wh…
5 months ago
The Drew / Barrymore Clan at Mount Vernon: Laurel Hill's Next-door Neighbors by Thomas Keels
Episode 486
ABC:LHS #086-4 Drews and Barrymores...
...are among the best-known acting families in the United States. Although many of them started in an alter…
5 months, 1 week ago
BARMOUTH to PENCOYD
Episode 49
With the warm weather here, you can take advantage of Laurel Hill's location as part of the Trails System that connect the Cynwyd Heritage Trail to t…
5 months, 1 week ago
PENCOYD to BARMOUTH
Episode 61
With the warm weather here, you can take advantage of Laurel Hill's location as part of the Trails System that connect the Cynwyd Heritage Trail to t…
5 months, 1 week ago
The Potter - Vanuxem Clan
Episode 485
ABC:LHS #086-3 William Potter & Frederick Vanuxem...
... were brothers-in-law and best friends. Potter served as President of Thomas Jefferson Unive…
5 months, 1 week ago
Charles & William Kindred: Go West, Young Men
Episode 484
ABC:LHS #086-2 Charles & William Kindred...
...became rich men in railroad land speculation. There is a town named for them in North Dakota. They b…
5 months, 1 week ago
Francis Sully Darley: The Best Organist in the City
Episode 483
ABC:LHS #086-1 Francis Thomas Lilly Sully Darley...
...was the grandson of the famed portrait painter and married the daughter of locomotive manufa…
5 months, 1 week ago
A Few Loose Ends: Cleaning Out Some Old Files
Episode 487
ABC:LHS #086 for May 1, 2026
I was tied up with preparing some new tours and could not finish the podcast on the Bible Riots of 1844. I scrounged aro…
5 months, 2 weeks ago