All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

ABC:LHS 092-1   Hugh Mercer’s...
...life took him from Culloden to Princeton, across an ocean and through two rebellions. A Scottish physician driven into exile, he rebuilt his life on the Pennsylvania frontier and in Virginia before becoming one of George Washington’s trusted generals. This episode separates the man from the legends, following Mercer as doctor, soldier, and Revolutionary martyr. It also traces his afterlife in monuments, paintings, place-names—and the Laurel Hill memorial that became the logo of All Bones Considered.

ABC:LHS 092     Thomas Jefferson ...
... had enough connections in Philadelphia that more than a score are buried at Laurel Hill.
General Hugh Mercer, MD, was a good friend to Washington, but his influence on all the Founding Fathers was inescapable. He died from the Battle of Princeton.
Jonathan Williams was not a military man, yet Jefferson trusted him to establish a United States Military Academy that would not be a threat to the government.
Thomas Ustick Walter shared a first name and a passion for classical architecture. Walter's massive Capitol Dome has become an iconic symbol of our nation.
Ferdinand Hassler was the Swiss immigrant whose passion for precision made him the perfect developer of two essential services - the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations and the Bureau of Weights and Measures. 
Four stories of determination and persuasion in the early days of the Republic. 
 

BBB:LHWS #061   Horses and foxhunting...
... can be traced from medieval hunting forests to the horse country of Philadelphia’s Main Line. Discover how hounds, riders, breeders, and civic-minded families shaped the Devon Horse Show and the region’s enduring equestrian culture. Along the way, meet the Laurel Hill figures whose stories connect centuries of sport, society, and stewardship—culminating in the unforgettable legacy of Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro.

ABC:LHS 091-5    Frank Reed Whiteside...
...was an artist and instructor at PAFA who was inexplicably assassinated when he answered his front door one evening. Despite many maddeningly tempting clues, his case remains unsolved nearly a century later.

ABC:LHS 091-4    Jacqueline Powell...
...was only 10 years old when her mother Emily Lippincott Powell shot her in sleep and then tried to take her own life. Emily spent the rest of her life in Friends Hospital. 

ABC:LHS 091-3    George Boehm...
...was a workman on the Baldwin floor in 1870 when a quarrel with a co-worker led to his own death from a crushed skull and his assailant's trial and imprisonment. This segment walks you through the justice system of 1870s Philadelphia.