All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

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Brief biographies of permanent residents of Laurel Hill East in Philadelphia and Laurel Hill West in Bala Cywnyd, Pennsylvania. Often educational, always entertaining.

Episode Date
Raymond Pace Alexander & The Arsenic Murders
Oct 06, 2025
Victor "Babe" Andreoli: Kill and Be Killed
Oct 05, 2025
Willie Lanzetta & His Infamous Brethren
Oct 04, 2025
"Little Petey" Bisciotti & The Flag Day Massacre
Oct 03, 2025
Evolution of Philadelphia Crime
Oct 02, 2025
Thugs & Gangsters of Laurel Hill
Oct 01, 2025
John Henry Fow: Foghorn for the Talk, Ducky for the Walk
Sep 14, 2025
LTC Edgar Loftus: Facing Down a Nazi Ace
Sep 06, 2025
Jacques Louis Francine: I Bombed Japan
Sep 05, 2025
Holger "Hold Your Horses" Hoiriis: Barnstorming, Crossing the Atlantic, and Fighting Nazis in the Catskills
Sep 04, 2025
Philadelphia Fliers: Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, Hobey Baker, Benjamin Lee II
Sep 03, 2025
Lincoln's Air Force: Defying Gravity in the 19th Century
Sep 02, 2025
Look! Up in the Sky! Laurel Hill Pilots, part 1
Sep 01, 2025
Sara Oberholtzer and Philadelphia Thrift
Aug 14, 2025
Antoinette Westphal: Drexel Forever!
Aug 05, 2025
Joseph Wharton: The Law without Morals Is Useless
Aug 04, 2025
Henry Biddle: Educating the Freedman
Aug 03, 2025
Charles Macalester: Inventing Glengarry & Torresdale
Aug 02, 2025
Some College Namesakes, Part 1 (complete)
Aug 01, 2025
Robert A. Groff, MD: Cutting Brain
Jul 12, 2025
BG Henry Naglee: Civil War Hero, Famed Vintner, Scoundrel
Jul 06, 2025
Louis Bossle: The Best Rat Catcher in the Land
Jul 05, 2025
Mabel Tinley, alias Lasca Vega, alias Mrs. John Van Ness Roberts
Jul 04, 2025
MAJ Wakeman Griffin Gribbel: Unsuccessfully Dealing with the Aftermath of War
Jul 03, 2025
Morton McMichael Hoyt: Third Time's Not a Charm, Either
Jul 02, 2025
A Handful of Eccentrics
Jul 01, 2025
Milton C. Work: America's Bridge Master
Jun 15, 2025
Clarence Wiener: Laurel Hill's Baron Munchausen
Jun 06, 2025
Princess Olga Demidoff Stoever: A Princess with Attitude
Jun 05, 2025
Marquis d'Esken de Frenoys & Baron Michael von Suttka
Jun 04, 2025
Countess Santa Eulalia, aka Libbie Shindler Stetson
Jun 03, 2025
The United States and Peerage Titles
Jun 02, 2025
Laurel Hill Nobility, Part 1
Jun 01, 2025
Jack Merriam & Dream Garden
May 14, 2025
2LT Elisha Kent Kane Wetherill: Gassed!
May 06, 2025
MAJ Alfred Reginald Allen, MD: The Choices a Man Makes
May 05, 2025
CPT Alan Wood Lukens: Lost in the Fog of War
May 04, 2025
1LT Dillwyn Parrish Starr: From Groton to Gallipoli and The Somme
May 03, 2025
Philadelphia and the Great War
May 02, 2025
The Killing Fields of France, Part 1: Dillwyn Parrish Starr; Alan Wood Lukens; Alfred Reginald Allen; Elisha Kent Kane Wetherill
May 01, 2025
Timothee Adamowski: The Idol of the Boston Pops
Apr 15, 2025
ADM George W. Melville: The Doomed Jeannette Expedition
Apr 06, 2025
ADM Sylvanus Godon: Hanging "Lucky Nat" Gordon
Apr 05, 2025
COM David Conner: Amphibious Landing at Vera Cruz
Apr 04, 2025
COM Isaac Hull and Old Ironsides
Apr 03, 2025
Introduction to the 19th Century US Navy
Apr 02, 2025
Four Naval Heroes: Isaac Hull, David Conner, Sylvanus Godon, and George W. Melville
Apr 01, 2025
Dorothy Burr Thompson & Pamela Burr: Prides of Bryn Mawr College
Mar 20, 2025
Anna Robeson Brown Burr: Prodigious Author
Mar 19, 2025
Henry Armitt Brown: The Finest Orator of His Generation
Mar 18, 2025
Frederick Brown: Druggist and Cemetery Co-Founder
Mar 17, 2025
Charles Brockden Brown: America's First Major Novelist
Mar 16, 2025
Five Generations at Laurel Hill
Mar 15, 2025
Katherine Rotan Drinker and The Radium Girls (encore)
Mar 06, 2025
Sarah Logan Wister Starr: The Iron Fist Who Saved the School
Mar 05, 2025
Charlotte Yhlen & Marie K. Formad: Strangers in a Strange Land
Mar 04, 2025
William J. Mullen: The Prisoner's Friend and Female Medical College
Mar 03, 2025
Founding the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania
Mar 02, 2025
ABC072 Women's Medical College: Some Selected Stories
Mar 01, 2025
John W. Forney: Gadfly, Chameleon, Provocateur
Feb 15, 2025
Jack Jones: Pioneering TV Anchor
Feb 05, 2025
Judge Doris May Harris: Pioneer in Children's Court
Feb 04, 2025
Florence DaVida Johnson-Reid: Reaching a Pinnacle in Black Education
Feb 03, 2025
Lynwood Blount: Bootstraps Judge, Hospital Director
Feb 02, 2025
ABC#071 Black History Month for 2025: Four More Stories
Feb 01, 2025
Herb Lusk: The Praying Tailback
Jan 18, 2025
Nate Ramsey: #24 for the Eagles
Jan 17, 2025
M. Roy "Slab" Jackson: Football, Dogs, Horses, and a Rockefeller
Jan 16, 2025
Hut!Hut! Hut!: Three Professional Football Players
Jan 15, 2025
COL Richard Henry Rush: From West Point to Lancers
Jan 14, 2025
Henry Charles Lea: He Expected the Spanish Inquisition
Jan 06, 2025
John Roh: Death by Inferno
Jan 05, 2025
Laura Matilda Towne: Teaching the Least Fortunate
Jan 04, 2025
Edwin Fitler: The Emperor of Rope
Jan 03, 2025
Thomas Craycroft: For Love of His Fellow Man
Jan 02, 2025
Happy 200th Birthdays!
Jan 01, 2025
Rev. Henry Winter Syle: Deaf Scholar, Preacher, Episcopal Saint
Dec 15, 2024
Charlotte Drake Cardeza: The Best Suite on the Ship (by Lora Lewis)
Dec 06, 2024
Gretchen Longley: The Prettiest Girl on the Ship
Dec 05, 2024
Lily & Olive Potter: Mother-Daughter Survivors (by Savanna Fisher)
Dec 04, 2024
Eleanor Widener Rice: She Lost Her Husband and Son (by Lora Lewis)
Dec 03, 2024
Introduction to The Deep Blue
Dec 02, 2024
Six Women of the R.M.S. Titanic
Dec 01, 2024
Waldo E. "Bill" Nelson & The Green Bible of Pediatrics
Nov 15, 2024
Thomas Leiper: Entrepreneur, Soldier, Inventor, Statesman
Nov 04, 2024
Thomas McKean: Last to Sign the Declaration
Nov 03, 2024
Charles Thomson: Wegh-wu-law-mo-end - The Man Who Tells the Truth
Nov 02, 2024
Friends of Thomas Jefferson, Part 2: Charles Thomson, Thomas McKean, Thomas Leiper
Nov 01, 2024
John T. Greble: First of Thousands to Die
Oct 15, 2024
H.H. Furness, the Seybert Commission, and Grilling Mediums
Oct 03, 2024
Walter Hubbell & The Great Amherst Mystery
Oct 01, 2024
William, Edward, & George Vare: The Dukes of South Philadelphia
Sep 15, 2024
Emory R. Johnson and the Panama Canal
Sep 07, 2024
Charles Day and the Panama Canal
Sep 06, 2024
Lewis M Haupt and the Panama Canal
Sep 05, 2024
John Cresson Trautwine and the Panama Canal
Sep 04, 2024
Rudolph Hering & Reversing the Chicago River
Sep 03, 2024
Frederick Graff and Watering Philadelphia
Sep 02, 2024
ABC066 Frederick Graff, Rudolph Hering, John C. Trautwine, Lewis Haupt, Charles Day, Emory R. Johnson: Pushing Water, Part 1
Sep 01, 2024
WALKING TOUR OF LAUREL HILL WEST from Barmouth to Pencoyd
Aug 25, 2024
WALKING TOUR OF LAUREL HILL WEST from Pencoyd to Barmouth
Aug 25, 2024
William M. Meredith: U.S. Poet Laureate
Aug 15, 2024
Richard Burr: Poster Child for Wartime Embalmers
Aug 05, 2024
Anna Lukens and the She Doctor Panic of 1869
Aug 04, 2024
Thomas Story Kirkbride: An Architect for Madness
Aug 03, 2024
John Rhea Barton and Surgical Innovation
Aug 02, 2024
ABC065 John Rhea Barton, Thomas Storey Kirkbride, Anna Lukens, Richard Burr: Fathers and Mothers of American Medicine, Part 4
Aug 01, 2024
Katherine "Kitty" Hershey: Temporary Residency
Jul 18, 2024
Franklin Baker: Sublime with the Coconut
Jul 17, 2024
Henry Oscar Wilbur: Buds vs. Kisses
Jul 16, 2024
Henry Oscar Wilbur, Franklin Baker, Katherine "Kitty" Hershey: Sweet Tooth, part 1
Jul 15, 2024
Donald Fithian Lippincott: Surprising Medalist at Stockholm
Jul 05, 2024
Ted Meredith: The Fastest Schoolboy in the Country
Jul 04, 2024
Jervis Watson Burdick and the Stockholm Games
Jul 03, 2024
Lawson "Robbie" Robertson: Coach Extraordinaire
Jul 02, 2024
ABC#064 Four More Olympians from 1904 to 1912
Jul 01, 2024
Abram Winegardner Harris: A Forgotten Educator
Jun 15, 2024
George Henry Boker: The Playwright Who Fixed Everything
Jun 05, 2024
Robert Taylor Conrad: Mayor and Playwright
Jun 04, 2024
Robert Montgomery Bird: Edwin Forrest & The Gladiator
Jun 03, 2024
Richard Penn Smith: Inventing Davy Crockett
Jun 02, 2024
ABC#063 Richard Penn Smith, Robert Montgomery Bird, Robert Taylor Conrad, George Henry Boker: Curtain Up! Four Early Philadelphia Playwrights
Jun 01, 2024
Philadelphia's Jazz Lodestar: Dennis Sandole
May 15, 2024
J.B. Lippincott: Lippincott's Magazine
May 04, 2024
Charles Jacob Peterson and Peterson's Magazine
May 03, 2024
George Rex Graham and Graham's Magazine
May 02, 2024
ABC#062 Three More Philadelphia Magazines: Graham's, Peterson's, and Lippincott's
May 01, 2024
Gladys Hall & Russell Ball: Glamourizing Early Hollywood
Apr 15, 2024
Pete Childs: No, Not That One
Apr 05, 2024
Jack McFetridge: Super Amateur, So-So Pro
Apr 04, 2024
Cub Stricker: A Hot-Tempered Infielder
Apr 03, 2024
Walter "Slick" Schlichter: Pioneer in Black Baseball
Apr 02, 2024
ABC#061 Play Ball! Part 3: Four More Baseball Pioneers at Laurel Hill
Apr 01, 2024
Grayce Nottage Nicholas: Black Is Beautiful
Mar 15, 2024
Anna J Magee: Enabling the Disabled
Mar 04, 2024
Elizabeth Duane Gillespie: The Woman Who Saved the Centennial
Mar 03, 2024
Esther DeBerdt Reed: From Tory to American Patriot
Mar 02, 2024
ABC#060: Three More Women Who Changed Philadelphia
Mar 01, 2024
MOVE and Laurel Hill
Feb 16, 2024
Winifred "Winnie" Harris: A Perfect Next-Door Neighbor
Feb 04, 2024
Samuel L Evans: The Godfather of Black Philadelphia Politics
Feb 03, 2024
Sarah A. Anderson: Quietly Making Changes
Feb 02, 2024
ABC#059 Three More Black Pioneers
Feb 01, 2024
The Philadelphia Orchestra & Laurel Hill West
Jan 15, 2024
Robert McNeil: Making Tylenol a Household Name
Jan 05, 2024
William Warner: Partnering with Lambert
Jan 04, 2024
John & Frank Wyeth: Compressing Pills
Jan 03, 2024
Powers & Weightman: Making Millions in Quinine
Jan 03, 2024
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy: In the Beginning
Jan 02, 2024
ABC#058 Big Pharma & Laurel Hill: The Beginnings
Jan 01, 2024