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Chapter 13 - Reclaiming a Heritage
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
After his mother's death, Richard throws himself into his academic work, four jobs, and campus political and social activities. He earns a reputati...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 29:10
Chapter 12 - A Time to Live, A Time to Die
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard learns the value of a liberal education at the College of Wooster, where the study of science and religion are complementary. During Easter...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 25:00
Chapter 11 - Going West!
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard faces the uncertainty of college life and its requirements. And his heavy New York accent marks him as an outsider at the College of Wooster.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 19:47
Chapter 10 - A Turn in the Road
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard is caught between two philosophies of life: his father’s hard work ethic, which saw Richard’s responsibility to help meet the immediate exp...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 15:48
Chapter 9 - Facing a World at War
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Too young for induction into the army, Richard works at Best & Co. and next with Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians in the shipping department. Upo...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 30:34
Chapter 8 - Moving on Over
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Horace Hollister, the devoted choirmaster and youth leader, helps Richard break through the wall of established social cliques at Madison Avenue. R...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 17:42
Chapter 7 - Getting Religion on the East Side
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard's mother enrolls him in Good Will Sunday School, an East Side mission of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. At Good Will, Richard lear...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 21:38
Chapter 6 - A Summer to Remember
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
One summer, through the help of a tenement neighbor, Richard's mother sends him to live with the McCreery family on a farm outside of Stroudsburg, ...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 13:42
Chapter 4 - The Games We Played
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Friendships on New York City streets are made and solidified by the games young Richard plays after school and on Saturdays. Which game is played d...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 18:01
  • Purchases: 1
Chapter 3 - Life Leaves Grooves on Windowsills
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
The tenement windowsill is the instrument of social interaction between neighbors and the social control of children on the street. The front wind...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Feb 03, 2013
  • Length: 16:11
  • Purchases: 1
Chapter 1 - The Making of a Political Consciousness
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard receives an early political education from his Socialist cigar maker grandfather, by hearing over-the-counter conversations at the butcher ...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Feb 02, 2013
  • Length: 24:25
  • Purchases: 1
March 1: Tituba
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Tituba
Tituba (March 1, 1692): A 17th-century slave. She is one of the first to be accused of practicing witchcraft during the Salem Witch trials in 1692.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 02, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 2: Elizabeth Veale Macarthur
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Elizabeth Veale Macarthur
Elizabeth Veale Macarthur (March 2, 1795): Perhaps one of the greatest figures of Australia’s history. Her husband is known as “the father of Aust...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 02, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 3: Sarah Kemple Knight
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Sarah Kemple Knight
Sarah Kemple Knight (March 3, 1705): Since its publication in 1825, Knight's journal, composed as an account of her round trip journey from Boston ...

Bought by Prairie Public, KISU, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 02, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 4: Wetamo and Mary Rowlandson
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Mary Rowlandson
Wetamo and Mary Rowlandson (March 4, 1676): Mary, a Puritan minister's wife, was captured during the war in an Indian raid on Lancaster, Massachuse...

Bought by Radio Catskill, KISU, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 5: Abigail Stoneman
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Abigail Stoneman
Abigail Stoneman (March 5, 1770): Newport Rhode Island's first woman Inn owner and a remarkably ambitious and versatile business person for her day...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 6: Pauline Leon
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Pauline Leon
Pauline Leon (March 6, 1792): She addressed the National Assembly on behalf of Parisian women, suggesting that a female militia be formed so that ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
March 7: Marie Dorion
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Marie Dorion
Marie Dorion (March 7, 1814): the only female member of the Astor Expedition, also known as the Wilson Price Hunt Expedition. Dorion was a member ...

Bought by KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
March 8: Jeanne Baret
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Jeanne Baret
Jeanne Baret (March 8, 1769): a member of Louis Antoine de Bougainville’s expedition on the ships La Boudeuse and Etoile in 1766–1769. Baret is re...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 9: Maria Ann Smith
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Maria Ann Smith
Maria Ann Smith (March 9, 1870): It’s called the “Granny Smith.” Maria noticed a seedling apple growing on her property. The seedling had developed...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, KISU, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 5
March 10: Elizabeth Coxen Gould
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Elizabeth Coxen Gould
Elizabeth Coxen Gould (March 10, 1832): An accomplished artist when she married John Gould in 1829, Elizabeth was the chief artist and lithographer...

Bought by Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 11: Sacagawea
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Sacagawea
Sacagawea (March 11, 1805): From the Lemhi Shoshone tribe, Sacagawea has become an important part of the Lewis and Clark legend in the American pub...

Bought by Prairie Public, KMXT, KISU, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
March 12: Jane Colden
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Jane Colden's drawing
Jane Colden (March 12, 1759): An American botanist described as the "first botanist of her sex in her country.” Contemporary scholarship maintain...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMXT, KISU, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
March 13: Martha Turnstall Smith
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: 1800s Whaling Ship
Martha Turnstall Smith (March 13, 1707): She used her inheritance as the widow of a wealthy landowner to establish a successful whaling business. S...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
March 14: Esther Abrahams Johnston
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Vicki Leon
Esther Abrahams Johnston (March 14, 1802): Abrahams was tried in London in 1786 for stealing lace valued at 50 shillings. Esther was found guilty o...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3

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