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All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

by Joe Lex

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  • From Beagling to Barbaro: Horses, Hounds, the Main Line, and Laurel Hill

    October 9, 2026 · 1 hr 56 min

    BBB:LHWS #061   Horses and foxhunting... ... can be traced from medieval hunting forests to the horse country of Philadelphia’s Main Line. Discover how hounds, riders, breeders, and civic-minded families shaped the Devon Horse Show and…

  • Frank Whiteside: An Incident on Waverly

    October 6, 2026 · 23 min

    ABC:LHS 091-5    Frank Reed Whiteside... ...was an artist and instructor at PAFA who was inexplicably assassinated when he answered his front door one evening. Despite many maddeningly tempting clues, his case remains unsolved nearly a…

  • Jacqueline & Emily Powell: When a Mother Kills

    October 5, 2026 · 33 min

    ABC:LHS 091-4    Jacqueline Powell... ...was only 10 years old when her mother Emily Lippincott Powell shot her in sleep and then tried to take her own life. Emily spent the rest of her life in Friends Hospital.

  • George Boehm: Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘em

    October 4, 2026 · 26 min

    ABC:LHS 091-3    George Boehm... ...was a workman on the Baldwin floor in 1870 when a quarrel with a co-worker led to his own death from a crushed skull and his assailant's trial and imprisonment. This segment walks you through the…

  • Roy Wilson White: Three Wrongs Don't Remake Roy White

    October 3, 2026 · 36 min

    ABC:LHS #091-2    Roy Wilson White... ...was a gifted young UPenn law instructor who in 1900 was robbed and killed near the campus. Drawing on contemporary newspapers and archival research, the podcast traces how racial panic, sensational…

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  • S. Morris Waln: Red Dog Meets His Maker

    October 2, 2026 · 26 min

    ABC:LHS 091-1     Samuel Morris Waln... ...was a wealthy Philadelphian who spent his free time in the "wild west" each summer until he and his companion were murdered in their sleep by their cook and guide. A cross stands in his memory in…

  • Murder Most Foul, Part 2; Five More Slain Philadelphians

    October 1, 2026 · 2 hr 45 min

    ABC:LHS #091   Murder was part of the background noise in some areas of Philadelphia.  S. Morris Waln, born into one of Philadelphia’s founding families, was murdered by his guide and cook during an annual journey west. His stone at…

  • (BONUS) A Cabinet of Memory: When a Museum Closes

    September 28, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

    Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences... ...was open to anyone who wished to meet dinosaurs, birds, shells, fossils and the people who studied them. Now its public doors are closed, and I have come to Laurel Hill East to break that…

  • From the Silver Streak to Baby Nukes

    September 15, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min

    BBB:LHWS 060    Edward G. Budd and Rupen Eksergian... ...were design and structural engineers who forced the Age of Steam into the Modern Era with their iconic Silver Zephyr Diesel Electric car in 1934. Eksergian took his skills further…

  • Thomas E. Murphy: A Piece of the 1930s Phillies

    September 6, 2026 · 39 min

    ABC:LHS 090-5     Thomas E. Murphy ... ... knew virtually nothing about baseball, but found himself owning hundreds of shares of the Phillies during their horrible years of the 1920s and 1930s. He is remembered more as a yachtsman and a…

  • OPTIONAL: What's in a (Nick)Name: Casual Othering in Baseball Nicknames

    September 5, 2026 · 26 min

    ABC:LHS #090-6    Many early baseball players ... ... were given nicknames that would never be tolerated today. We can never know how these players felt about being saddled with monikers like Chief, Three-Finger, Chico, Dummy, and Richie…

  • Joseph Howard Berry, Jr.: Penn's Greatest Athlete with a Problematic Nickname

    September 5, 2026 · 31 min

    ABC:LHS #90-4    Joseph Howard Berry, Jr. .... ...excelled at baseball, football, track and field, and life. He is in two Halls of Fame. He is little remembered today, partially because of a vile nickname that he carried from his days at…

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About the show

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