Fiction, Nonfiction, and Art
Listen here. Full transcript: The audience held their collective breath as Annie Edson Taylor’s barrel fell over Niagara’s Horseshoe falls and disappeared into the mist. Then nothing, waiting, before Captain …
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I recently sent this letter to the Takoma Park Maryland Library. After reading this, please consider tweeting “Free @theodorecarter2” to @takoma. Dear Takoma Park Maryland Library, Recently, I tried to …
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Listen here. Full transcript: Annie Edson Taylor, a Victorian-era dance and etiquette teacher, strode gracefully toward the riverbank in her long black dress and wide-brimmed hat. She did her best …
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Listen here. Full transcript: This is Yuniko Harada, and this is “The Blondin March” composed by Albert Poppinberg: Blondin March Plays The betting odds had been stacked against him, and …
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Listen here. Full transcript: It’s 1862 in Sheffield, England, a city of less than 200,000 people and you are one of thousands, maybe as many as 80 thousand people, assembled …
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Listen here. Full transcript: Sam Patch, the Jersey Jumper, the Yankee leaper, reached celebrity status in the early nineteenth century for his death-defying leaps from great heights including two jumps …
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Listen here. Full Transcript: Before Evil Keneval or Harry Houdini, before P.T. Barnum’s circus, Sam Patch drew crowds of thousands who came to watch his dangerous leaps from the rooftops, …
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In the process of writing my next novel, I became enamored with the stranger-than-fiction tales of the daredevils of Niagara Falls. This fall, I’ll release a well-researched 20-30 min episode …
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Several months ago, I found a discarded “Laugh” sign, the kind sold at home goods stores that looks almost as if it were constructed out of old barn wood. It’s …
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The new year is coming, and I’ve decided to record my five favorite fiction and nonfiction books read in 2022. Below is my nonfiction list in no particular order.* Hell’s …
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