the memory palace

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Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habita Jan 13, 2018

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The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.

Music

We move between three different pieces from Camille Saint-Saens': Suite, Op. 90: II Menuet, and two from Carnival of the Animals: Aviary and the Cuckoo in the Heart of the Woods.
We hit Juneau from Danny Bensi and Sander Jurriaans' score to Wildlike.
And The Waltz from their score to 5 to 7.
And there's a total gem from George Mukabi called Dila Ni Dila in there too.

Notes

Do yourself a favor and read France Hamerstrom's autobiography, My Double Life: Memoirs of a Naturalist.
Do your kids a favor and Jeannine Atkins take on Frances in her book Girls Who Looked Under Rocks.
And then watch Frances teach David Letterman how to cook a snake.

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Nate's Episode of the Year: If You Have to be a Floor Dec 26, 2017

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Show Notes

Nate DiMeo is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Artist in Residence for 2016/2017. He is producing ten pieces inspired by the collection and by the museum itself. This is the sixth episode of that residency.

This residency is made possible by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Chester Dale Fund.

This episode is written and produced and stuff by Nate DiMeo with engineering assistance from Elizabeth Aubert. Its Executive Producer is Limor Tomer, General Manager Live Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Special thanks to Jimmy LaValle and Mark Kozelek.

The Art Discussed

Gallery 719, the Alexandria Ballroom.

Music

The piece features excerpts of two, instrumental outtakes from Ceiling Gazing from Mark Kozelek and Jimmy LaValle's album, Perils from the Sea.
California Dawn and Mountain Path from WMD.
An instrumental version of Retune by The Range.

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Episode 119 (John C. Calhoun from the Opposite Side of the Line that Divides the Living from the Dead) Dec 16, 2017

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The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.

Music

Sad Seine by Lambert.
Titan's Island by Ancient Ocean
Flowering Jasmine as performed by Georgs Pelicis and Gidon Kremer
Malpensa by Julia Kent

Notes

I first came upon the Calhoun bit while re-reading Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism by Barbara Weisberg.
Which us, among other places to J.H. Fowler's New Testament "miracles" and Modern "miracles"
And to the delightfully named, The Ordeal of Life: Graphically Illustrated in the Experiences of Fifteen Hundred Individuals Promiscuously Drawn from All Nations, Religions, Classes, & Conditions of Men Alphabetically Arranged and Given Psychometrically, Through the Mediumship of John C. Grinnell, In the Presence of the Compiler, Thomas R. Hazard.

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Episode 118 (On the Shores of Assawompset) Nov 20, 2017

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The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.

Music

Musica Seqenza play Schreza Infida
Frederico Durand plas Lluvia de Estrellas
The Martin Hayes Quintet plays The Boy in the Gap
East Forest by Provenance
There's a bit of Madame Ovary from Bensi and Jurriaans and Christine
It finishes on Three Dances: II. Pavane from Chromo Tuba Quartet

Notes

Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday by James W. Baker and Peter J. Gomes sent me first down a Charlotte Mitchell rabbit hole.
History of Plymouth, Norfolk, and Barnstable Counties, Massachusetts by Elroy S. Thompson
History of the Town of Lakeville, 1852-1952 by Gladys De Maranville (which you probably own all ready but, here it is anyway).
Indian History, Genealogy, Pertaining to the Good Sachem, Massasoit and his Descendants by Ebenezer Weaver Pierce.
The great, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, by Jill Lepore.
Massasoit of the Wamponoags: With Commentary on the Indian Character, by Alvin Gardner Weeks
"Baby Pilgrims, Sturdy Forefathers, and One Hundred Percent Americanism: the Mayflower Tercentenary of 1920," by Christine Arnold-Lourie in the Massachusetts Historical Review.
"The Daughter of a King," by Mike Maddigan in Southcoast Today.
"The Last of the Wamponoags," by Charles T. Scott in New England Magazine, vol. 33.
I also looked at a number of news paper articles, most found at Newspapers.com through the expected search terms.

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Episode 117 (Elizabeth) Nov 07, 2017

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The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.

Music

Up Niek Mountain by Peter Broderick
El cascabel de plata by Federico Durand
We hear just a little bit of imgs/ r by Kara-Lis Coverdale
Dissolving Clouds by Biosphere
Nebula by Julianna Barwick
Only in the Dark by Ben Lukas Boysen

Notes

Bittersweet: Diabetes, Insulin, & the Transformation of Illness by Chris Feudtner
Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of A Medical Miracle by Thea Cooper and Arthur Ainsberg
I'd also recommend searching the New York Times archive for Elizabeth Hughes and Diabetes. It's remarkable to go back and watch the story unfold.

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Episode 116 (Hoover) Oct 23, 2017

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The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.

Music

Afkald by Bremer/McCoy
Peace by Oliver Coates.
Day One Four by F.S. Blumm and Nils Frahm
Displacement by Rafael Anton Irisarri

Notes

Some sources for this one were The Glory and the Dream by William Manchester.
Herbert Hoover: A Life by Glen Jeansonne
Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of The Presidency, by Charles Rappleye
The Life of Herbert Hoover, Humanitarian, by George H. Nash

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Episode 115 (A Brief Eulogy for a Commercial Radio Station) Oct 04, 2017

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The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.

Music

Sunrise Through the Dusty Nebula by Hannah Peel
Keep by Nils Frahm
Horizon Variations by Max Richter
She cycles through: Where or When by Hal Kemp & His Orchestra, Smarty (You Know it All) by Fats Waller, Dear Mr. Gable: You Made Me Love You by Judy Garland, Hellhounds on My Trail by Robert Johnson, and The Big Apple by Tommy Dorsey and his Clambake Seven.
Future Waves by Uther Moads.
And Vapour Trail by Ride, forever.

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Sometimes the Rain Just Doesn't Stop Sep 15, 2017

Show notes

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.

SPOILERS AHEAD

Music

Memory as Mist by C. Diab
Low Sudden by Daniel Lanois and Rocco DaLuca
Beyond Romance by Lubomyr Melnyk

Notes

By far the most comprehensive resource I found was Florida's Hurricane History by Jay Barnes. If you're looking to learn more, I'd definitely start there.

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Two Small Sculptures (The Met Residency Episode 8) Sep 05, 2017

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Show Notes

Nate DiMeo was the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Artist in Residence for 2016/2017. He produced 8 episodes inspired by the collection and by the museum itself. This is the eigth episode of that residency.

This residency is made possible by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Chester Dale Fund.

Artwork Discussed

Hiawatha, Edmonia Lewis, 1868.
Minnehaha, Edmonia Lewis, 1868.

Music

L'oree Du Bois, by Sylvain Chauvau.

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Orbes Cintilantes - A special summer episode Aug 21, 2017

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In lieu of your standard end-of-summer re-run, here is a very special re-run. No! Wait! I mean it. It's pretty cool. Here's the thing: Todavia, a new literary publisher in Brazil has just put out a book of Memory Palace stories translated into Brazilian Portuguese. (Purchasable world-wide through this site, if you happen to be interested),

This very special re-run has all sorts of Brazil-related bonus content, including a full episode of Helen Zaltzman's, The Allusionist. Subscribe to that fine podcast, here.

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