1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Missed in History Class from works 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: dot com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly 3 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: Fry and I'm Tracy V. Wilson. And in our previous episode, 4 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: we shared the first part of our interview with Dr 5 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: Annie Pollen, who is Senior director of Education and Programs 6 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: at the Tenement Museum on New York's Lower east Side. 7 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: And Annie told us in that first episode about the 8 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: discovery of the building that would eventually house the museum 9 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: and the neighborhood there on the Lower east Side as 10 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:37,560 Speaker 1: it developed from the eighteen sixties to the nineteen thirties. Today, 11 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 1: we're gonna learn some more about the ongoing research that's 12 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: happening at the museum, along with programs and plans for 13 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: the museum. We're also going to talk a little bit 14 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: about one of our favorite topics, which is food as 15 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: it relates to telling the story of immigration in New York. Yeah, 16 00:00:54,840 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: there's some really fun stuff coming up. Do you have 17 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 1: a favorite story or stories of some of the residents 18 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: that lived at ninety seven Orchard. That is such a 19 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: hard question because I think for all the family, you know, 20 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 1: every family is fascinating, you know, it's kind of like 21 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: picking who's your favorite child if you had like seven 22 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: children and had to pick one who was the most interesting. 23 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: So well, you know, the one of the woman who 24 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,759 Speaker 1: fascinates me the most is a woman named Goldy lust 25 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: Garden and she and her husband Um ran a kosher 26 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: butcher shop at Orchard from approximately eighteen nine to nineteen 27 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 1: o two. Um she was the mother of six children. 28 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: She raised her children in an apartment right behind the 29 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: butcher store. She probably worked six days a week alongside 30 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: her husband. In fact, we have a picture of the 31 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 1: Lustgarden family UM standing outside of their shop, and all 32 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: of them, every one of them, I believe, is wearing 33 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: an apron, including their little five year old son William. 34 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: So this was a family that worked together. And Um, 35 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,079 Speaker 1: I'm always fascinated by her thinking about how she'd be 36 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 1: raising her family while also helping to run a business. 37 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:22,919 Speaker 1: And the story becomes even more complicated because Um, in 38 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 1: May of nineteen o two, the price of kosher meat 39 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: went up. The wholesalers raised the price, and the retail 40 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: butchers tried to um Big boycotted. They tried to get 41 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: the whole salers to back down because they knew their 42 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:40,639 Speaker 1: customers couldn't afford that steep rent. That's the that's the 43 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 1: price increase, UM. But the wholesalers didn't back down, and 44 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: the retailers many ways really had no choice but to 45 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 1: start selling the meat again because they were in a 46 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 1: vulnerable position. They had to pay rent for their spaces, 47 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: they had to you know, keep their businesses going. So 48 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: they opened up. But the women of the neighborhood UM, 49 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: they organized and they started boycott. And so the women 50 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: in the neighborhood are able to effectively, you know, give speeches, 51 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: rally everyone basically to stop buying meat. They get the 52 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 1: attention of newspaper reporters, both the Yiddish reporters and the 53 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 1: reporters uptown, and so they carry out this really intense, 54 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: really powerful consumer protests and consumer strike and sometimes at 55 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: some point in in UM the protests became violent. And 56 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 1: we know that in May of nine two May seventeen, 57 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: nineteen two UM, someone attacked the List Garden shop because 58 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: we have a picture of orchard with the window broken, UM. 59 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: And so I think about what it was like for 60 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: Goldie Liftgarden two in some ways really understand why the 61 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: women were striking because she herself was a woman who 62 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 1: had to manage the funds and provide for her kids. 63 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 1: And she probably really understood the vision that the Hall 64 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: of Lives were in and protesting that rent increase and 65 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: I'm sorry and then that price increase, but she was 66 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: torn because she had to run her store. So I 67 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 1: I just think that she must have been a really 68 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: um interesting woman and that she had to deal with 69 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: a lot of complicated um subjects. And really she stands 70 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: in for all of these immigrant women who were raising children, 71 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 1: but they were also business people, whether they were running 72 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 1: their own shops or simply managing a family household meant 73 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 1: that you had to be business minded because a lot 74 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 1: of these women, in order to afford the rent for 75 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: the apartments um needed to act as many landladies in 76 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: the sense that they found borders who would rent a 77 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 1: space within the apartment and pay the house life as 78 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:44,720 Speaker 1: the kind of the sub land lady of the apartment. 79 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: So everyone took on borders and able to make rent. 80 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: So the housewives were not only taking care of the borders, 81 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 1: they were taking care of their children. And then Goldie 82 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: lust Gardens on top of that is taking care of 83 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: the store. And then she has to kind of deal 84 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: with this political protests. So she's kind of my here 85 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: out in the sense of thinking about someone who's able 86 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: to deal with a lot of um stress. That's such 87 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,479 Speaker 1: an amazing story. She could be a whole episode of 88 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: Ours on her own, it could, you know, and then 89 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 1: the story to kind of and I we don't know 90 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: too much about this, but um, we always like to 91 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: find out what we can about the descendants and um. 92 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,920 Speaker 1: Goldie lust Garden's oldest daughter, her name was Fannie, and 93 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,839 Speaker 1: she got married and she and her husband and Mr. Gribard, 94 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: ran a restaurant for many years on the Lower East Side. 95 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: They had several children, one of whom was a daughter 96 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 1: named Blossom, and Blossom grew up to become a lawyer, 97 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: and she worked for city government and in the fifties 98 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 1: and sixties. So it's kind of amazing to think, like 99 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: a strong woman in nineteen hundred is a housewife and 100 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: maybe running a store, but by within two generations a lawyer. 101 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: And I think that tells the story of American opportunity 102 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: me um, and what American education can do. I love it. 103 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: I love it, um, but do I love it. I 104 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 1: get so excited about those stories. Those are the kind 105 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 1: of stories that Tracy and I both just really glom 106 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:16,840 Speaker 1: onto when we're doing research. So I understand your enthusiasm completely. Yeah, 107 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: and it gives and it's kind of fun to me 108 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 1: in some ways that question what's my favorite story? Sometimes 109 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: my favorite stories are the ones that we find out 110 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: about but we haven't yet been able to interpret. Because 111 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:29,479 Speaker 1: seven thousand people lived at ninety seven Orchard, but we 112 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: can't tell all of their stories right. So it's a 113 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: careful decision process is made about which story to tell 114 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:37,359 Speaker 1: at what time. We want to make sure we're representing 115 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: different immigrant waves and um, different kinds of stories emerged. 116 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 1: We want to be able to tell stories that represent 117 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: the range of occupations. You know, all sorts of considerations 118 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:51,359 Speaker 1: go into selecting a family apartment to interpret. But we 119 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:56,280 Speaker 1: came across recently UM a newspaper article from nineteen ten 120 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 1: that describes a baker who lived at ninety seven Orchard 121 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 1: who was so distraught over his unemployment um and that 122 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:07,040 Speaker 1: he jumped out the window and committed suicide. Now that 123 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: story would be a really hard story to tell for 124 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: a number of reasons, but I think it's an important 125 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: story because it speaks to the levels of stress that 126 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: these immigrants endured. And of course the headline of that 127 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: story was life sails to stop husband's you know, jumped 128 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: to death because the wife had come in and tried 129 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: to stop him from he had like a knife and 130 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 1: she tried she pulled the knife away from him, and 131 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: then he ran to the window and jumped out the window. 132 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: But what that woman then had to deal with after 133 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 1: losing her husband, losing for you know, potential source of income, 134 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: and then you know, even if she had to see 135 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: that newspaper headline that say she was the one that 136 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: present prevented him from from the suicide. Yeah, that's what 137 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: I mean, those sorts of discoveries. I'm sure like that 138 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: you have that combination of this is so cool but 139 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: also really tragic, but also really cool but also really tragic, 140 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: right right eight I mean, and then we also try 141 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: to as much as possible link our stories to contemporary issues. 142 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 1: So the Baldiezie family, Um came to America in the 143 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: nineteen twenties. Um Delpho came in worked as a carpenter, 144 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: and then he sent for his life Rosaria and she 145 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: comes over. But yet there's no documentation for her because 146 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: by the time he sends for her, those laws have 147 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 1: been passed the National Origins Act. I'm sorry that the 148 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: Johnson Read Act makes it really difficult for Italians to 149 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 1: get in. But yet we know she gets here, even 150 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,200 Speaker 1: though there's no record for her in Alice Island. We 151 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:40,199 Speaker 1: know she gets here because they have children um in 152 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 1: ninety eight and a year later, and so um Rosaria 153 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: we can tell undocumented immigrants. And so it's interesting to 154 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,560 Speaker 1: kind of tell that story and be in the home 155 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 1: of the Baldiezies Um and then have visitors kind of 156 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 1: bring up their questions about the topic today. So we 157 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 1: don't want to preserve history just to kind of lock 158 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 1: it away in a box, or to think about our 159 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,959 Speaker 1: building as a kind of dollhouse that's quaint and nice 160 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,079 Speaker 1: to look at. Rather, we want, um, you know, the 161 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 1: richness of the layers within our building to be paired 162 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: with really intricate, thought provoking stories based on primary sources 163 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 1: UM and told through UM, engaging stories that really get 164 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: visitors to make connections between their own lives and the stories, 165 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:29,080 Speaker 1: and between past and present. That might be the answer 166 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: to the next questions I was going to ask you, 167 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: which is since you run programs and education, like, what 168 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 1: is the most important takeaway for visitors for you? Like 169 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:42,320 Speaker 1: what is your priority and goal for your education and 170 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 1: tour programs. I think there are a couple of goals, right, 171 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:48,439 Speaker 1: I mean, I think we want first of all, we 172 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 1: want people to engage with history. We want people to 173 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:55,640 Speaker 1: be exposed to the richness of the details and history. 174 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 1: We want people to hold primary sources in their hands 175 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: and trying to analyze them and to let them know 176 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 1: that they too are historians, right that with the proper documents, 177 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 1: with the proper information, with you know, knowing what other 178 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 1: historians have said about general trends, we all are able 179 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 1: to interpret and analyze history. So history is not just 180 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 1: um something historians should do. It's something that we all 181 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 1: can engage with. So that's one thing I would think. 182 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 1: Another thing is to really think about the idea of 183 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 1: maybe applied history. Once we know this history, what do 184 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 1: we do with it? And it's not up for the 185 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:32,560 Speaker 1: museum to say, now that you know this history, you 186 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:35,199 Speaker 1: should vote this way or do this thing. But now 187 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 1: you know the story, you know that there are many 188 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: sides to a story. You know that stories are complicated 189 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: and apply that way of thinking to everything that you 190 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:44,559 Speaker 1: engage with in in society. So kind of teaching people 191 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: to look at things from a variety of perspectives is 192 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 1: I think another goal. UM. I think you know another 193 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:56,319 Speaker 1: thing that we don't. It's hard to describe, but our 194 00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:00,200 Speaker 1: museum is very unique because rather than have pep will 195 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,079 Speaker 1: walk around on their own, we have them take tours 196 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: with others. They're they're led by educators, and I think 197 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 1: that's one of the most you know, in addition to 198 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 1: the building, it's the educators that are our most valued 199 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: um asset at the museum because our educators are the 200 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 1: ones that bring the story to life, but our educators 201 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 1: are also the ones that help people forge connections to 202 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: one another. So the tours are like a community. You know, 203 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 1: all of a sudden you have to like be in 204 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 1: a group with fourteen other strangers, UM, and you're going 205 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: to learn history together. And how how often are adults 206 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 1: put into positions where they're with other strangers and they're 207 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: going to learn together. And I think there's something really 208 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,960 Speaker 1: valuable about that you can't really plan it, UM. And 209 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:44,440 Speaker 1: I think that's that kind of spontaneity and excitement. Also, UM, 210 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: is part of the tour. So I guess one of 211 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: the goals of our tours is to kind of think 212 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 1: of ourselves as members of a society and listen to 213 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: each other with respect and um learn and learn from 214 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 1: each other and the stories that we all have to 215 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: recognize that each individual has a story, which is kind 216 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: of a nice mirror of really what was probably going 217 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 1: on in the tenement building, like that people that did 218 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 1: not know each other were suddenly there together figuring things out, 219 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 1: absolutely right. So now, yeah, that's the great thing. We're 220 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:18,439 Speaker 1: not going to make you move into the three hund 221 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 1: foot space with one another, and we're not going to 222 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 1: collect rent from you, but we're going to give you 223 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: the ability to like be in a room with a 224 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:28,959 Speaker 1: bunch of strangers that maybe came from different parts of 225 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,679 Speaker 1: the world, just like you know, people living in the 226 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 1: tournament would have been exposed to people of different cultures. 227 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 1: That's going to also happen on the floor. That's a 228 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:51,559 Speaker 1: really good point. What sorts of ongoing research projects is 229 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: the museum involved in. I know you're constantly researching the 230 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: people that lived there, uh and sort of those stories, 231 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:02,319 Speaker 1: but what else do you guys branch out into So yeah, 232 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 1: So you know, we've been talking a lot about ninety 233 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:07,880 Speaker 1: seven Orchard, but ninety seven Orchard is only one venue 234 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 1: in a way, for the for the stories that we tell, 235 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 1: we now offer five walking tour, So we not only 236 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 1: research our building, but we research different sites in the neighborhood, 237 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:20,719 Speaker 1: and we tell UM an array of stories based on 238 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: the built environment that surrounds us the Lower east Side. 239 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 1: So there's a way in which you could say the 240 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 1: Lower east Side is our is our playground as well 241 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,200 Speaker 1: at least our interpretive space UM. And so we have 242 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: UM and I think one of the best ways to 243 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: experience the museum is to go on a building tour 244 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 1: and then go on a walking tour, so that you're 245 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 1: able to kind of put those two things together. Because 246 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 1: even the people who lived in the tenements in nineteen hundred, 247 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 1: or in nineteen twenty or in eighteen eighty, none of 248 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: those people would have spent their whole life in the 249 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 1: in the tenement, right, especially when it's so crowded, you're 250 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 1: gonna want to get outside. So our walking tours UM 251 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 1: give us the opportunity to kind of trace the steps 252 00:13:57,200 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 1: of some of the people who might have lived in 253 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 1: ninety seven Orchard to see the civic societies or the 254 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 1: newspaper buildings, or the synagogues or the churches, or the 255 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 1: schools or the movie theaters that they would have spent 256 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:09,199 Speaker 1: time in as well. And UM. One of the nice 257 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: things about the Lower east Side that you ours is 258 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,320 Speaker 1: not the only historic building. There are many historic buildings 259 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 1: on the Lower east Side and you can get a 260 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: sense of the street scape. UM and so you can 261 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: kind of use the Lower east Side to imagine the past. 262 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 1: But at the same time, and this really kind of 263 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 1: builds into our mission of connecting past to present. We 264 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: can tell stories of UM contemporary immigrants who are in 265 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 1: the neighborhood today, UM and contemporary shop keepers who are 266 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 1: in the neighborhood today. So it becomes a really dynamic 267 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 1: experience when you're walking through the neighborhood and you learn 268 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: about the past, but you're also observing the present. And 269 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: I would say the last them in another frontier of 270 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 1: our research is that we are going to be interpreting 271 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: UM one oh three Orchard, which is a building UM 272 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 1: the Museum owns on the corner of Orchard in Deoliancy 273 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: and it's UM been serving as our shop and it's 274 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 1: been serving as a place for classrooms where fifty school 275 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: children aren't able to learn UM. But we are now 276 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 1: doing research on the third floor of that building UM, 277 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: and we're researching stories of people who lived in that 278 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 1: building UM post World War two years. So, you know, 279 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: seven Orchard, we can only tell the stories of families 280 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 1: who lived there UM before five, because after nineteen thirty 281 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 1: five no families lived there, although there were stores. But 282 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 1: the story of family, immigrant and migrant life picks up 283 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 1: right at one three Orchard. And that's what we're trying 284 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 1: to do, is extend our narrative to be able to 285 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 1: tell the story as we move into more you know, 286 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 1: more recent decades. We're also able to diversify the stories 287 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 1: that we tell. So we're able to tell the story 288 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: of a family UM who survived the Holocaust and came 289 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: here to start a new life. We're able to tell 290 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: the story of Puerto Rican migrants UM, and also the 291 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 1: story of Chinese immigrants who came after nineteen sixty five. 292 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 1: After the quota laws from the nineteen needs we're taken 293 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: away and UM America again became a much more welcoming place. 294 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 1: You have a lot on your plate. I know I'm 295 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 1: getting stressed talking to you, but it's so like to 296 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 1: go back to my desk, but it's so exciting, Like 297 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 1: I I love the idea of seeing like the post 298 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 1: World War two stuff develop and where that's going to go. 299 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 1: Do you have any other exciting future plans or does 300 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: that that's plenty to talk about our Well, you know 301 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 1: one other thing I wanted to talk about, just to 302 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 1: give a little bit like a little bit more kind 303 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 1: of like an angle on how people experience the museum. 304 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 1: One of the I think in New York today of 305 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: the population is immigrants, and if you include immigrants and children, 306 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 1: you get closer to So we're really aware, especially the 307 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: work that we do with our school children, that immigration 308 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: is a story that is really important now. And UM 309 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 1: we have a program that we're working on with UM 310 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: school children where they tell us their immigrants story as well, 311 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 1: and we're creating a website in a virtual tour of 312 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 1: all of these objects, so the students come, they experienced 313 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:11,160 Speaker 1: the museums through the tours. We then send educators back 314 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:15,879 Speaker 1: into their classrooms and we review how they learned about 315 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,679 Speaker 1: immigrant history through objects of the family, and then we 316 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 1: transition into the students sharing objects are trying to brainstorm 317 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 1: objects that tell their own family histories UM and so 318 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 1: kids come up with the most exciting and unusual things. 319 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,120 Speaker 1: Last year in a school in Brooklyn, you know, one 320 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: classroom had students from UM, Barbados and Malaysia and China 321 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:43,959 Speaker 1: and Russia and Poland, UM and Bangladesh and Pakistan and 322 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 1: as well as UM students who are the descendants of Irish, 323 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:50,399 Speaker 1: Italian and Jewish immigrants. And they come up with an 324 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: array of objects, including, you know, an Ecuadorian sheep whistle 325 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:56,879 Speaker 1: that was used to call feet together from the girl's 326 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 1: father had done this. A Polish girl brought in an 327 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,880 Speaker 1: easter basket that that she had brought over I think 328 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 1: as wow. UM. A teacher brought a teacup that his 329 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 1: UM grandmother had brought over from Italy. UM people brought 330 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,440 Speaker 1: in lockets, people brought in picked her Someone brought in 331 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:16,360 Speaker 1: an airplane ticket because that immigration story was so recent 332 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: that that ticket told their story. People also brought in recipes, 333 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 1: UM recipes for sweet potato pie from North Carolina to 334 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:28,159 Speaker 1: include the migration story. UM people brought in prayer mats, 335 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 1: so Muslim prayer mats that were that are used for 336 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:32,880 Speaker 1: prayer or five times a day, and the boy said 337 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: that when they use it, they can sometimes smell the 338 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: grandparents that had used it before coming from Banglades. So 339 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 1: really like tactile um OECTs an array of them and 340 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:48,880 Speaker 1: it's fascinating because you start to see these individual stories 341 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:51,640 Speaker 1: that the students have, but when you put them all together, 342 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 1: you kind of see that no matter where people came 343 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,159 Speaker 1: from or what time period they arrived, that there's a 344 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 1: lot of commonality in themigrant experience because a lot of 345 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: it is dealing with, you know, adapting to America, thinking 346 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 1: about how to preserve traditions, thinking about how to become American. Um. 347 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,360 Speaker 1: So this project is really really fun and so we'll 348 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 1: be able to exhibit it on our website. We're calling 349 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:16,639 Speaker 1: it Your Story, Our Stories. I love that whole idea 350 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,200 Speaker 1: because one of the things that's important to me is 351 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:22,479 Speaker 1: we're all making history all the time, right And I 352 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:26,399 Speaker 1: feel like this this project and it's time consuming, and 353 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:28,399 Speaker 1: you know, it takes a lot of like you know, 354 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,679 Speaker 1: multi sessions, and that I mean the children have this 355 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: time to develop their story, they're able to write about it, 356 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 1: so it meets curriculum needs, they're able to upload it, 357 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 1: they're able to take a photo of it, and they 358 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 1: kind of become historians UM. And then we have on 359 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:46,320 Speaker 1: an exhibit at the end where the students are able 360 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:48,959 Speaker 1: to exhibit their work and their parents come and then 361 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,160 Speaker 1: their parents are able to see their story as part 362 00:19:51,200 --> 00:20:06,440 Speaker 1: of an American curriculum. That's so cool. If we have 363 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:09,160 Speaker 1: a free program. We have a free program at night 364 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,399 Speaker 1: called Tenement Talks, and a Tenement Talks were able to 365 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 1: take a lot of the issues that come up in 366 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 1: the Tenement during the day with our visitors and explore 367 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 1: them in more detail. So we have tonight, for example, 368 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 1: what we have UM people talking about immigrants, food ways, 369 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:27,159 Speaker 1: we have people talking about New York architecture. We have 370 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 1: UM authors talking about their new books. So this is 371 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 1: UM Tenement Talks and the public program absolutely free, and 372 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 1: we invite you to check us out, all of you 373 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: New Yorkers, and for those of you who aren't in 374 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: New York. UM the recordings of the UM of the 375 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 1: Tenement Talks are also online on our website. And I 376 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 1: come UM and come to those and I think there's 377 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: been a have there been more than one about food 378 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 1: because that's in my wheelhouse for sure. Yeah, you know 379 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,679 Speaker 1: what we have. We just finalized one for the season. 380 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: We've done ones on food. UM. My favorite one was 381 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:05,679 Speaker 1: we did there was a Yiddish cookbook author um, and 382 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: we looked at her cookbook and then from nineteen o 383 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,640 Speaker 1: one and it was we cooked some of the recipes 384 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:14,400 Speaker 1: from that as well. But there's one coming up this 385 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 1: season on June three, in which we have a cookbook 386 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: that's been newly translated from the Yiddish. It's the Vilna 387 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,919 Speaker 1: Vegetarian Cookbook written in ninety eight UM. And the recipes 388 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 1: are astounding because it's being you know, this one was 389 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:33,359 Speaker 1: using like silariac and she was using on Jerusalem artichokes 390 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: in her food. And so we're gonna discuss. We're going 391 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,400 Speaker 1: to discuss and explore the history with the woman who 392 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 1: translated the book. But then we also have Amanda Cohen 393 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:46,159 Speaker 1: who's the owner of Dirt Candy, which is this amazing 394 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 1: vegetarian restaurant on the Lower East Side. So we'll be 395 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:52,199 Speaker 1: looking at vegetarian food, the women who cook it and 396 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 1: the women who write about it. Um, all together, past 397 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: and present. I love it. We have lots of listeners 398 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:00,920 Speaker 1: that love our food episodes, so I knew they will 399 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 1: be interested in that, and we have. We have Jennifer 400 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,880 Speaker 1: eight Lee and her new documentary, and Jennifer and her 401 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 1: new documentary and I'm general Too's chicken on April one, 402 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,199 Speaker 1: So that's another great food story. I think I have 403 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: heard her speak about that. She did a Ted talk 404 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,680 Speaker 1: about it, didn't she Yes, she's great, It's excellent. It's 405 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 1: so good if you're into again food at all. It's 406 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:25,879 Speaker 1: just fascinating on the history of how that came to be. 407 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 1: So I'm sure that is going to be an awesome 408 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 1: uh little uh my brain just exploded. I literally got 409 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:41,439 Speaker 1: so excited thinking about chicken. Uh. So that's gonna be 410 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 1: an awesome and delectable little bit of info. I'm sure. 411 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 1: And I know that you kind of think in these terms, 412 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 1: um all the time. I read an interesting article that 413 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 1: you wrote for Huffington Post last year about what a 414 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 1: tenement museum that opened in four would look like and 415 00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:00,640 Speaker 1: how it would reflect today's immigration, which is a great read. 416 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,920 Speaker 1: I recommend it to all of our listeners if they're 417 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 1: even marginally interested in this. It's a really good way 418 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,680 Speaker 1: to kind of look at it and contextualized. Like I said, 419 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 1: we are making history all the time, every day. Um Annie, 420 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 1: this is such a delight. Thank you so much for 421 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: sharing all of your information with us. You're like an encyclopio. 422 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 1: Oh I loved it, UM. And I know the Tenement 423 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 1: Museum website, which we will link to in our show notes, 424 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 1: has no joke. I'm not exaggerating when I say a 425 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: wealth of information. You guys have so much educational material there. 426 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 1: There is a podcast there that people can listen to 427 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 1: if they want to. Uh, where can they find you online? 428 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 1: What are great ways to kind of contact the Tenement 429 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 1: Museum and you if you want that, uh and kind 430 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:57,400 Speaker 1: of so UM. Our website is www Tenament dot org. UM. 431 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,119 Speaker 1: And what you also should do with stay tuned for 432 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 1: late we'll be putting up a virtual tour and that 433 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 1: your story our stories UM exhibit will be online as well, 434 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,200 Speaker 1: so keep checking back. But our website is a great 435 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,160 Speaker 1: place UM to find information. And I think the best 436 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,119 Speaker 1: way to experience the tournament is to come visit us. 437 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,679 Speaker 1: If you want to contact me, UM, my email is 438 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: a pollend at Tenement dot org. And we're interested in 439 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 1: your immigration and migration stories as well or not just 440 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 1: collecting the stories of the students. They want to hear 441 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 1: your stories too, so you can be in. If you 442 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,880 Speaker 1: have a story you'd like to contribute, UM, you can 443 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:40,240 Speaker 1: email me that as well. Fantastic UM. Again, thank you 444 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,879 Speaker 1: so much for spending time with us today. And like 445 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:44,479 Speaker 1: I said, you're a busy woman. You've got a lot 446 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: going on, so I really appreciate you. So I I 447 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,920 Speaker 1: think I was out of the office when you did this, 448 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 1: uh interview. Yeah, I got to listen to it with 449 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,679 Speaker 1: totally fresh ears as though I were a podcast listener, 450 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,399 Speaker 1: and I really really enjoyed it, and I hope everyone 451 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 1: else did also. Annie's amazing. She just she's such a 452 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 1: wealth of information and because history is her background, like 453 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,919 Speaker 1: you can just hear the passion of of sort of 454 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,359 Speaker 1: all of their projects when she speaks. I really had 455 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 1: a great time talking to her. And now I have 456 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,679 Speaker 1: some listener mail. This is from our listener Amber and 457 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:30,679 Speaker 1: it is about our Leo Bakeland episode. She says, recently, 458 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 1: I was listening to your podcast about the father of plastics. 459 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 1: Fascinating fellow. I think I would have liked to have 460 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 1: met him me too. Uh. And finally, I had something 461 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 1: worth your time. She's earlier in the email, she mentioned 462 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 1: she had yet to find the perfect thing to write 463 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 1: to us about. She said, I am enclosed a picture 464 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 1: of something which I inherited, my great grandmother's nineteen fifties 465 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: bake light radio. It's fully restored and in perfect working order. 466 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 1: The gentleman who did the restoration said it was quite 467 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:57,880 Speaker 1: rare to find a colored piece and to be very 468 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 1: careful when cleaning it. When I first received it, I 469 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,239 Speaker 1: was rather nonplussed, But now it is one of my 470 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:07,400 Speaker 1: most cherished possessions. Having an understanding of the historical importance 471 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 1: and having it in working order has changed it in 472 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,680 Speaker 1: my mind from an ugly pink radio to an amazing 473 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,439 Speaker 1: bit of technology that cannot be replaced. I hope this 474 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,199 Speaker 1: reaches you. Well, uh, that's such a cool thing. She 475 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,880 Speaker 1: sent us this picture, and it's a lovely little kind 476 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,359 Speaker 1: of pale pink radio. It is very exactly what you 477 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 1: think of when you think of nineteen fifties styling. And 478 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,879 Speaker 1: I'm so sort of blown away that it's working and 479 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 1: she's had it, you know, looked at, and that it's 480 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 1: it's uh not just a perfectly preserved piece of history, 481 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 1: but a perfectly preserved and working piece of history. I 482 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,919 Speaker 1: love it. 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