All Episodes

ABC:LHS #053-4   Charles Baily...
...played his final hole on the 4th green of Merion East in 1933

ABC:LHS #053-3   George Clifford Thomas Jr. ...
...designed the original course at Whitemarsh Valley Country Club, outside Philadelphia, and more than twenty courses in California, including Riviera in Pacific Palisades and Red Hill in Rancho Cucamonga.

ABC-LHS #053-2   Hugh Wilson...
...was one of six golf architects called "The Philadelphia School".  He designed the classic Merion East Course, as well as the final four holes at Pine Valley. 

ABC:LHS #053-1   Ida Dixon...
...was the first woman golf course architect in the country.  Among her work is the Springhaven Club which is still in use.  

ABC:LHS #053   Philadelphia...
...has been an epicenter for golf since the 1890s.  There are dozens of golf courses within an easy drive of the city, and a few in the city itself. 
Ida Dixon is recognized as the first woman golf course architect in the United States.
Hugh Wilson and Charles Thomas were two of the six architects who made up what is called The Philadelphia School.  They helped build 4 of the top ranked courses in the country.
Charles Baily met his final destiny on the 4th green of Merion East. 
Plus, you’ll learn about cleeks and condors, heroic holes and featheries, Randolph Scott, Mary Queen of Scots, and a golf hole called the “Mae West.”

BBB:LHWS #022   Justus Clayton Strawbridge and Isaac Hallowell Clothier...
...were Quaker merchants who joined forces and opened a small fabric store on the corner of 8th and Market in 1868.  By the end of the century, there were thousands of employees and they had expanded severalfold and became the biggest dry goods store in the country. 

ABC:LHS #052-4   Sarah Lee Lippincott...
...whose first husband was television pioneer Dave Garroway (See ABC:LHS #013) was a beloved professor of astronomy and astrometry at Swarthmore University. 

ABC:LHS #052-3   William Rau...
...was tapped to be a photographer for the 1874 worldwide evaluation of the Transit of Venus, but most people involved in that venture would admit that photography was not quite ready to capture new information. 

ABC:LHS #052-2   Hannah Mary Bouvier Peterson...
...was a popular author whose work Familiar Astronomy was the best-selling astronomy textbook in the 19th century. 

ABC:LHS #052-1   David Rittenhouse...
...was recognized in the colonies as being not only the finest astronomer in the land, but the finest builder of delicate, accurate astronomical equipment. 

ABC:LHS #052 Reach for the Sky!
Man has been fascinated by the sky for as long as he has walked on earth.  Star gazing has been the hobby – and the profession – of millions of people from around the world. 
One of America’s Founding Fathers David Rittenhouse was recognized in the colonies as being not only the finest astronomer in the land, but the finest builder of delicate, accurate astronomical equipment.
Hannah Mary Bouvier Peterson was a popular author whose work “Familiar Astronomy” was the best-selling astronomy textbook in the 19th century. 
Photography pioneer William Rau was tapped to be a photographer for the 1874 worldwide evaluation of the Transit of Venus, but most people involved in that venture would admit that photography was useless in capturing new information.
Sarah Lee Lippincott, whose first husband was television pioneer Dave Garroway, became a beloved professor of astronomy and astrometry at Swarthmore University.  

BBB:LHWS #021
America's first railroads were built with the blood, tears and sweat of Irish immigrants.  An estimated 50,000 died in the process. 
In the 3-mph world of 1832, 57 fresh-off-the-boat Irishmen were hired by their countryman Philip Duffy.  They were taken to live in a shantytown and work at mile 59 of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad.  Cholera arrived a short time later and within a few weeks all of Duffy’s workers were dead and secretly buried near the Main Line, although ghostly sightings were reported by locals. 
180 years later, through the tenacity of two brothers, some of their remains were recovered and identified and relocated to a plot near the gate at Laurel Hill West.  Some of the recovered skulls showed evidence of severe trauma.  What happened to the Duffy’s Cut 57? 

ABC:LHS #051-4   LT James Hansell French...
...was killed in the San Mateo Mountains of New Mexico territory in 1880 as the Buffalo Soldier troops under his command pursued the great Apache chief Victorio and his warriors. 

ABC:LHS #051-5   Jonathan Williams Biddle... 
...whose father Henry Biddle had been killed in the Civil War, lost his life in the Battle of Bear Paw in 1877 against Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce. 

ABC:LHS #051-3   Benjamin Hubert Hodgson... (by Thomas Keels)
...was killed during the 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana against Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors.