In episode 6, there are many reasons to hang on to this episode from Kelly and Beth's ramblings to Annie Edson Taylor's trip of a lifetime. If you want to hear the actual Strange Country story of Annie Taylor, skip ahead to minute 29, but we will also take you down a trail of rat kings, civil war widows and of course many unrelated things.
Strange Country Ep. 4: Crazy Luce
Maybe you’ve seen the red historical marker near Cazenovia Lake or been an avid reader of the Chips & Shavings column in the Mid-York Weekly so you already know the story of Lucy Dutton. Listen as Strange Country takes you on a journey along the roads in Madison and Onondaga counties as “Crazy Luce” trudges through snowdrifts and heatdrifts, her heart a-broken and her face a-lined. Kelly and Beth talk about their own experiences with mental health because nothing since comedy podcast more than deep depression.
Citing our Sources...of course:
Walter, George, Chips and Shavings http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2017/Morrisville%20NY%20Mid-York%20Weekly/Morrisville%20NY%20Mid-York%20Weekly%201947-1956/Morrisville%20NY%20Mid-York%20Weekly%201947-1956%20-%200033.pdf
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMW5RG_Crazy_Luce_Cazenovia_NY
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyccazen/Histories/Hammond1872Caz.html
Strange Country Ep. 1: The Fox Sisters
In their inaugural episode, Beth and Kelly talk about Maggie and Kate Fox, two young sisters who claimed they could communicate with the dead. The girls were eventually credited with founding the Modern Spiritualism movement.
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Sources used in the making of the podcast:
Weisberg, Barbara. Talking to the dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the rise of spiritualism. San Francisco, HarperSanFrancisco, 2005.
Abbott, Karen. “The Fox Sisters and the Rap on Spiritualism.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 30 Oct. 2012, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-fox-sisters-and-the-rap-on-spiritualism-99663697/. Accessed 30 July 2017.
“One of the Fox Sisters Arrested.” New York Times, timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1888/05/05/106321124.html?pageNumber=5. Accessed 30 July 2017. Article originally published in print on May 5, 1888.
“One of the Fox Sisters Dead.” New York Times, timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/07/03/104139081.html?pageNumber=5. Accessed 30 July 2017. Article originally published on July 3, 1892.
“Death of Margaret Kane Fox.” New York Times, timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/03/10/106862739.html?pageNumber=8. Accessed 30 July 2017. Article originally published on March 10, 1893.