A weekly podcast about America's largest mass grave, located on a small island in New York.
Talking Hart Island
Claim This Podcastby Michael T. Keene
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40 episodes
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Podcast Overview
A weekly podcast about America's largest mass grave, located on a small island in New York.
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Publishing Since
8/24/2019
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Recent Episodes
May 24, 2020
The Orphan Trains and Charles Loring Brace
Episode 39 “The Orphan Trains and Charles Loring Brace”: Michael T. Keene In 1848 Ireland was gripped by famine. Nearly a million people would die of starvation and typhoid Fever. Desperate for survival a million more Irish would abandon their homeland and come to America. Many settled in the Five Points section of lower Manhattan infamous for its squalor, violence and disease By the end of the Civil War, an estimated 30,000 orphaned and homeless children roamed the streets of New York City. They survived by resorting to petty crime, by begging, and by selling newspapers for a nickel a piece. In response to this crisis the age of orphan asylums began, culminating in one of the most improbable and audacious episodes in American history. Inspired by Charles Loring Brace, it was called the Orphan Train Movement. It endeavored to save these children by heroes who fought for their liberation. Michael T. Keene is the author of Folklore and Legends of Rochester, Murder, Mayhem and Madness, Mad~House, Question of Sanity, and now his new book, NEW YORK CITY’S HART ISLAND: A CEMETERY OF STRANGERS Pre-Order a signed, soft cover copy of the book: New York City's Hart Island, directly from the Author https://michaeltkeene.com/hart-island-soft-cover-book/ *Orders will ship on or after Oct 14, 2019 Learn more about Author / Host / Filmmaker Michael T. Keene https://michaeltkeene.com/about/ Send questions / comments / suggestions to: https://michaeltkeene.com/contact/ Connect with Michael T. Keene on Social Media Twitter https://twitter.com/talkhartisland Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TalkingHartIsland/
May 17, 2020
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 from his practiced nose flute, also played the guitar and sang. “Whistler and his Band” was one of the most famous jug bands of its time. Threlkeld was born in Kentucky and in 1932 moved to Harlem in New York City. He continued performing, but had stopped recording. In May of 1935 he was admitted to Bellevue Hospital with tuberculosis where he died, later that year. He was without family or friends and, like thousands before and since in similar circumstances, was buried on Hart Island. Listen to Professor Douglass Fraser as he takes us on a musical tour of not only jug band music, but also jazz and rock in-roll, which incredibly owed their very origins to this pioneering music. Michael T. Keene is the author of Folklore and Legends of Rochester, Murder, Mayhem and Madness, Mad~House, Question of Sanity, and now his new book, NEW YORK CITY’S HART ISLAND: A CEMETERY OF STRANGERS Order a signed, soft cover copy of the book: New York City's Hart Island, directly from the Author https://michaeltkeene.com/hart-island-soft-cover-book/ Learn more about Author / Host / Filmmaker Michael T. Keene https://michaeltkeene.com/about/ Send questions / comments / suggestions to: https://michaeltkeene.com/contact/ Connect with Michael T. Keene on Social Media Twitter https://twitter.com/talkhartisland Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TalkingHartIsland/
May 10, 2020
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 on Hart Island. Many because they had become disowned by their family and died unclaimed, and many more because there was no one left to take charge of their burials. AIDS was particularly cruel and terrifying during the first few years of its existence, because of the lack of knowledge of what it actually was. Even the medical community was at a loss to explain this new contagion. The book, “AIDS The First Five Years”, is an attempt to explain what happened and why. Michael T. Keene is the author of Folklore and Legends of Rochester, Murder, Mayhem and Madness, Mad~House, Question of Sanity, and now his new book, NEW YORK CITY’S HART ISLAND: A CEMETERY OF STRANGERS Order a signed, soft cover copy of the book: New York City's Hart Island, directly from the Author https://michaeltkeene.com/hart-island-soft-cover-book/ Learn more about Author / Host / Filmmaker Michael T. Keene https://michaeltkeene.com/about/ Send questions / comments / suggestions to: https://michaeltkeene.com/contact/ Connect with Michael T. Keene on Social Media Twitter https://twitter.com/talkhartisland Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TalkingHartIsland/
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