Talking Hart Island Podcast
1) The Orphan Trains and Charles Loring Brace
Episode 39 “The Orphan Trains and Charles Loring Brace”: Michael T. KeeneIn 1848 Ireland was gripped by famine. Nearly a million people would die of starvation and typhoid Fever. Desperate for surviva...Show More
2) Lloyd “The Whistler” Threlkeld with Douglass Fraser
Episode 38 “Lloyd “The Whistler” Threlkeld”: with Douglass Fraser,Professor and Musicologist.Lloyd Buford Threlkeld, also known as “The Whistler” for his ability to make sweet melodious sounds emerge ...Show More
3) AIDS-The First Five Years with Jean Ashton
Episode 37 “AIDS-The First Five Years”: with Jean Ashton,Director, New York Historical Society Resources & Programs.It is estimated that during the AIDS epidemic thousands of AIDS victims were buried ...Show More
4) Burial Grounds in a Segregated City with Tom Angotti
Episode 36 “Burial Grounds in a Segregated City”: with Tom Angotti,Professor Emertis, Hunter College.During the period of Dutch and English settlement, New York City was one of the nation’s largest ur...Show More
5) AIDS with Michael Bronsky
Episode 35 “AIDS”: with Michael Bronsky,Professor, Harvard University.On a hot midsummer night in June of 1969, a group of police officers stormed into Greenwich Village’s tiny Stonewall Inn, one of M...Show More
6) Grave Yard of Strangers with Norma Jean Gradsky
Episode 34 “Grave Yard of Strangers”: with Norma Jean Gradsky.Leo Birinski was a playwright, screenwriter and director. He worked in Austria-Hungary, Germany and in the United States.Birinski was the ...Show More
7) Angels of Mercy with William Seraile
Episode 33 “Angels of Mercy”: with William Seraile,Professor Emeritus, Lehman College, City University of New York.The Colored Orphan Asylum was founded, in New York City in 1836, as the nation’s firs...Show More
8) Boroughs of the Dead with Marie Carter
Episode 32 “Boroughs of the Dead”: with Marie Carter,Editor, writer, teacher, and tour guide.When detectives and forensic scientists were called to investigate the Hart Island human remains, found lit...Show More
9) Potters Field(s) with Andrew Berman
Episode 31 “Potters Field(s)”: with Andrew Berman,Executive Director, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.By the early 1800’s New York City boasted a population of over 200,000, qualif...Show More
10) Six to Celebrate Simeon Bankoff
Episode 30 “Six to Celebrate” Simeon Bankoff,Executive Director of Historic District Council.In 2017 the annual “Six to Celebrate” initiative from the Historic Districts Council, highlighted six neigh...Show More