This podcast is dedicated to uncovering lives that have been lost to time. My goal is to share the stories of everyday men, women, and children who didn’t make it into the history books. They may have been forgotten, but now they will live again as we explore their lives and say their names. I believe that through the power of story we can build an understanding of the past that will help heal our present and pave the way for a better future. One story at a time. One person at a time.
In Their Shoes with Katy M. Shannon
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This podcast is dedicated to uncovering lives that have been lost to time. My goal is to share the stories of everyday men, women, and children who didn’t make it into the history books. They may have been forgotten, but now they will live again as we explore their lives and say their names. I believe that through the power of story we can build an understanding of the past that will help heal our present and pave the way for a better future. One story at a time. One person at a time.
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3/15/2021
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August 23, 2021
Enslaved Girl, Free Woman of Color, Plantation Owner, and Politician's Wife: Florestine Cortes Boullt
<p>Florestine was born into slavery in Natchitoches, Louisiana. She was the daughter of Victorine, a Creole mulatresse, and Jean Cortes, the white Creole man who owned her, her mother, and grandmother. Florestine's mother was able to buy her own freedom but not her daughter's, so Florestine remained enslaved into adulthood, even after giving birth to three children. David H. Boullt, the children's father, a dentist and government official, purchased and emancipated Florestine and their children. Over the next two decades, David Boullt and Florestine amassed great wealth and ultimately owned a plantation with enslaved laborers. After the Civil War, Florestine's husband and sons became Radical Republicans, active in politics and holding almost every office in Natchitoches parish. After numerous threats of violence from the White League and the Ku Klux Klan, David Boullt fled Natchitoches parish. Years later the Boullts' story would surface again and make national headlines. Ultimately the majority of Florestine's children left Louisiana, chose to identify as white, and did the best to put the past behind them while continuing to support each other and hold fast to family ties.</p>
August 15, 2021
World War II Wife and Mother on the Home Front Part II: Dorothy Mitten Berwager
<p>Episode 8</p> <p>Dorothy Mitten Berwager</p> <p>Today we hear from Dorothy in her own words, in letters she penned to her husband Mark who was a Marine fighting in the Pacific Theater. Dorothy touches upon the Battle of Saipan, her loneliness and longing for Mark, and bringing her baby home from the hospital. She is consumed with worry over a whooping cough outbreak. Her oldest son has whooping cough, and she doesn't want to expose the new baby to it. Dorothy also discusses the religious differences between her family and Mark's and different people's attitudes to having loved ones away at war. She describes how she is trying to make the best of a difficult situation, reflects on her love for Mark, and dreams of a future when he will be home.</p>
July 28, 2021
A Walk Down Toulouse Street in the Old French Quarter
<p>Take a walk with me down Toulouse Street in the 1860s and 1870s. We will start at the corner of Bourbon and Toulouse, the site of the Old French Opera House, and make our way down to Dauphine. The street reflected the diversity inherent in an older section of an urban port city. Within a one block radius, one could find a mansion, private residences, rental apartments, store fronts, the performers’ entrance to the French Opera House, a pawnbroker and loan office, a saloon, a coffeehouse, a leather and shoe shop, the Orleans Institute, a respectable girls’ school, a junk shop and second hand store, and a brothel. Crime was always present, and shady characters frequented the street. Even at such an important and heavily trafficked intersection as that of Bourbon and Toulouse in front of the French Opera House, the street was often rutted, full of mud, and in disrepair. Pickpockets and thieves took advantage of the crowds departing the Opera House in the evenings. Arson, intoxication, robbery, stabbings, shootings, assault, larceny, and disturbing the peace all took place only steps away from elegant mansions.</p>
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