Stories From History's Dust Bin Podcast
1) Larry Walters: He Set the Standard in Lawnchair Aviation - Episode 109
There's a wonderful animated film about an elderly man who takes flight without ever leaving the comfort of his own home, thanks to thousands of helium balloons that magically spring up out of his hou...Show More
2) Margaret Winkler: She Discovered Walt Disney - Episode 108
Okay, if you’re the kind of person who likes to skip to the end and read the final chapter of a book - and if you happen to own the full series of Dust Bin stories – which of course if available on A...Show More
3) April Fools‘Day: Fool me once, and . . . . - Episode 107
Certain days evoke certain human emotions, such as the warmth of Mother’s Day, the joy of Christmas, the spookiness’ of Halloween, and of course, the spirit of the trickster on April Fools’ Day, a day...Show More
4) Ray Chapman: His Death Changed Baseball‘s Rules - Episode 106
Ray Chapman played 8 seasons of professional baseball in Cleveland until August of 1920 when he died during an "at-bat". It is because of his death that the rules of baseball changed forever......Show More
5) Saint Urho: Finland‘s Fictional Finnish Saint - Episode 105
Saint Urho’s Day is the 1956 brainchild of either Richard Mattson or Kenneth Brist, depending on whose brain you believed conceived the “child” that has become Saint Urho. Either Mattson, a Minne...Show More
6) Collyer Brothers, Homer & Langley: Don‘t Bother Us! - Episode 104
Homer and Langley Collyer grew up under the most favorable of conditions. Their father was a successful gynecologist – their mother a former opera singer – and they lived together in a beautiful home...Show More
7) Soapy Smith: America‘s Slipperiest Con Artist - Episode 103
In the movies, a grifter might be portrayed as someone with beady little eyes and a toothy smile that could charm even the cleverest out of their fortunes. Someone who was able to wheel and deal their...Show More
8) Mary Toft: An odd claim of a woman giving birth to rabbits - Episode 102
Rabbits? Yes, rabbits! Plural! As in “Mary Toft gave birth to more than one rabbit.” Believable? Not these days. But in 1726, it was plausible to many, and Mary Toft, 24, of the village of Godal...Show More
9) Jules Verne: One of the Father‘s of Science Fiction - Episode 101
The story is told that at the age of eleven, Jules Verne secretly hired on as a cabin boy for a trip to the West Indies. Before sailing from France, the ship had to make one last stop to take on supp...Show More
10) Saint Valentine: The Man, the Saint, the Holiday - Episode 100
With this podcast, we celebrate Saint Valentine’s Day – the origin of which – as you will learn – is genuinely heart-rending. There remains some confusion among theologians as to which of two Cat...Show More