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ABC:LHS #024-3   Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen...
...came from a family of collectors.  Most of her massive collection including works by Picasso and Matisse was left to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

ABC:LHS #024-2   Katharine McBride, PhD...
...did her graduate thesis on aphasia and was headed for a life of research and teaching. But her "people skills" led her to be tapped the 4th President of Bryn Mawr College.  She stayed for 28 years, where she was a fierce advocate for her students and progressive causes.

ABC:LHS #024-1   Christine Wetherill Stevenson...
...came from the Wetherill Paint family.  Among other things, she helped to found The Hollywood Bowl, Plays & Players Theater on Delancey Street, and the Art Alliance on Rittenhouse Square. She died tragically young. 

ABC:LHS #024   Women's History Month for 2021 features...
Christine Wetherill Stevenson, who came from a prominent family and made her mark in Philadelphia, where she founded the Philadelphia Art Alliance, as well as in California, where she founded the Hollywood Bowl. 
Katharine Elizabeth McBride, PhD, a brilliant researcher in neuropsychology who is mostly remembered today for her 28 years as president of Bryn Mawr College; she brought it into recognition as one of the top institutions in the nation. 
Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen, who came from a family of collectors and at one time had one of the finest private collections in the United States while serving many roles for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 
Ruth Dietz Eni, who joined the family business as a young woman and stayed with it for more than 60 years; she enjoyed late-life recognition as the company’s spokesperson, the beloved Momma Dietz of Dietz & Watson.   

ABC:LHS #023-4   Theodore "Teddy" Pendergrass...
...started as a drummer and background singer with Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, but his distinctive voice soon earned him a solo contract. He became one of the biggest selling artists in history.  A car crash cut his career painfully short.

ABC:LHS #023-3   Grover Washington Jr. ...
...was from Buffalo, New York, where he started playing local clubs as a teenager.  After going through his Coltrane phase, he settled back into a warmer, friendlier sound that developed into "smooth jazz".  His horn became the Sound of Philadelphia. He died far too young.  

ABC:LHS #023-2   Billy Paul...
...was the stage name that Paul Williams took when he started to perform. He was one of the first acts signed to the new Philadelphia International label. His biggest hit "Me and Mrs. Jones" was inescapable in 1972.  

ABC:LHS #023-1   Hyman "Hy" Lit...
...was a voice known to every Philadelphian during his 50 years on the air, mostly during the 1950s and 60s as one of the WIBG "Good Guys", when he drew an otherworldly market share of '70'.  His style was unforgettable.  

ABC:LHS #023   The Philadelphia Sound
One of the highwater marks of Philadelphia music was in the 1970s when Gamble and Huff started Philadelphia International Music and stole thunder from both Motown and Memphis.  Two of their biggest stars were Billy Paul and Teddy Pendergrass. 
Another Philadelphian, Grover Washington Jr., became one of the top-selling jazz artists in history and is credited with laying the groundwork for what became known as “smooth jazz.”
And where did you hear the latest sounds?  On the radio, of course, where Hy Lit was one of the top names on-the-air for five decades.   
All four of these music pioneers are buried at Laurel Hill West in Bala Cynwyd. 
 
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ABC:LHS #022  Ornithologists & Entomologists
John Cassin described 194 new species of birds in his lifetime and has five species of North American birds named in his honor
Titian Ramsay Peale, son of Charles Willson Peale was a meticulous illustrator of wildlife whose artworks are as highly sought as those of John James Audubon
Titian’s older and less-well-known half-sister Sophonisba Angusciola (Peale) Sellers was America’s first woman ornithologist.
Witmer Stone worked for more than 50 years in the Ornithology Department at the Academy of Natural Sciences.
But even birdwatchers may not know about the father and son oölogists Joseph Parker Norris Sr. and Jr., who had the largest collection of bird eggs in the United States.
And since the show is called The Birds and the Bees, I’ll talk about Dr. John Lawrence LeConte, who was responsible for naming and describing approximately half of the insect taxa known in the United States during his lifetime, and his younger partner Dr. George Henry Horn.
And physician / naturalist and entomologist Thomas Bellerby Wilson, who spent his personal fortune buying collections from around the world for the Academy of Sciences.
Even if you’ve never lusted after a pair of Vortex Diamondback HD binoculars, you’ll enjoy this episode of “All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories – The Birds and the Bees.”

ABC:LHS #021-4   Samuel Winpenny...
...was one of many from the Winpenny family who had varying success in the textile mills.  There were plenty of misadventures among the 3rd and 4th generations.

ABC:LHS #021-3   Sevill Schofield...
...was a British immigrant who started small and ended up with a massive factory and warehouse which you can see to this day on the Schuylkill River Trail.

ABC:LHS #021-2   Joseph Ripka...
...was a Silesian immigrant who eventually became the largest employer in Manayunk.  He treated his workers as little more than enslaved people.  

ABC:LHS #021-1   Philadelphia had taken over...
...from Massachusetts as the Textile Capitol of the country by the mid-19th century.  Thousands Philadelphians made their salaries laboring at the mills. It was not a pleasant life. 

ABC:LHS 021   Me and My Machine
While the textile business in the United States started in New England, it did not take Philadelphia long to catch up and pass our northern neighbors.  Three people who immigrated to Manayun