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ABC:LHS #040-3   COL William Drayton...
...was a Unionist from South Carolina and a veteran of the War of 1812.  His father, a Carolina plantation owner, exchanged dozens of letters with Jefferson on many topics, especially agriculture. 

ABC:LHS #040-2   William Duane...
...was a radical patriot and publisher of the Philadelphia Aurora which helped get Jefferson elected President against Federalist John Adams in 1800. 

ABC:LHS #040-1   William Short...
...received the first appointment to public office that was conferred under the Constitution of the United States.  Jefferson thought so much of Short that he happily called him “my adoptive son.”  

ABC:LHS #040   Thomas Jefferson...
...made many friends during his time in Philadelphia. Several of them ended up at Laurel Hill Cemetery
William Short was the first appointment to public office conferred under the Constitution of the United States.  Thomas Jefferson thought so much of him that he happily called him "my adoptive son." 
William Duane was the radical publisher of the "Philadelphia Aurora" who helped get Jefferson elected President against Federalist John Adams in 1800. 
Colonel William Drayton was a veteran of the War of 1812 and a Unionist from South Carolina whose father had exchanged dozens of letters with Jefferson on many topics, especially agriculture. 

BBB:LHWS #009   Helen Bradford Thompson...
...turned the understanding of gender roles on its head.  Her groundbreaking work at the turn of the 20th century, summarized in her PhD thesis "The Mental Traits of Sex," exploded on the psychology scene like nothing that had come before it.  And yet the name Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley was little remembered for decades, only recently being rediscovered because of the blossoming of feminist studies. 
 

ABC:LHS #039-4   Daniel Archer...
...was a local haberdasher who liked to hang around a local bar and flirt with actresses who were performing in a nearby theater. A beer pitcher was his downfall. 

ABC"LHS #039-3   Louis Bergdoll was one of the most respected brewers in the country, but his surname became reviled because of a grandson who was the most hated draft dodger during the Great War. 

ABC:LHS #039-2   Brewerytown...
...has always had a Brewerytown section. Now it's a place where people live in what used to be breweries.  The 1876 Centennial brought millions of people to the city who learned about the delights of Philadelphia Beer.

ABC:LHS #039-1
How did breweries start in our green country town?  Where were they located?  Who drank the product?  And how did one brewery stay in one family for ten generations?  Here are your answers.

ABC:LHS #039   In Heaven There Is No Beer
Beer has a long history in our country, and Philadelphia has played a surprisingly strong role in its development.  There's even a neighborhood called Brewerytown, and hundreds of Philadelphians live in apartments that used to be breweries.
 
This episode talks about beer from different perspectives. How did breweries start in our green country town? Where were they located? Who drank it? How did one brewery stay in one family for ten generations? What happened at the Centennial Exposition to spread the word about Philadelphia beer? Even though Louis Bergdoll was one of the most respected brewers in the country, why did his surname become reviled because of one of his grandsons? And we'll finish with the story of a legendary Philadelphia bar fight and its aftermath. All this – and more – in the June edition of All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories – In Heaven There Is No Beer.

BBB:LHWS #008   Loren Eiseley...
...grew up in a troubled family on the plains of Nebraska and drifted across the American West on trains during the Great Depression.  Yet during his life he earned 36 honorary degrees and was one of the most respected researchers, educators, and writers in the country.  He was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History of Science, and the curator of the Early Man section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum.  Like Henry David Thoreau, his writings on man and nature are treasured to this day.  When Eiseley died in 1977, many people felt as though they had lost a close personal friend, even if they never met him.  Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury remarked that he "is every writer's writer, and every human's human ... One of us, yet most uncommon ..."  

ABC:LHS #038-4   Charles Soulas...
...has one of Laurel Hill's more striking grave memorials - a woman who looks like she's ready to take your meal order.  Soulas ran a restaurant near city hall where local movers and shakers met over mock turtle soup.

ABC:LHS #038-3   Arthur Burdett Frost...
...was a highly respected Philadelphia illustrator and lithographer whom Lewis Carroll selected to provide illustrations for his poetry book Rhyme & Reason.  They had a falling out when Carroll requested some unusual photographs from Frost.  

ABC:LHS #038-2   Morris Longstreth Parrish...
...was a picky book collector.  Everything had to be perfect, enough so that some book dealers created a new category just for him - "Parrish condition." He also coveted "Alice."   

ABC:LHS #038-1   Eldridge Reeves Johnson...
...made millions of dollars with his Victor Talking Machine Company. Some of it he used to purchase the original Lewis Carroll manuscript of Alice in the Underground from bookseller extraordinaire A.S.W. Rosenbach.  He kept the manuscript on his yacht.