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Join us as we have conversations with local history authors all across America to learn how local history is national history.

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Join us as we have conversations with local history authors all across America to learn how local history is national history.

    Food, Hope & Resilience During and After the Holocaust

    Food, Hope & Resilience During and After the Holocaust

    This week Jenni and Jonny talk about June Hersh's new title, Food, Hope & Resilience. 
    This book features a collection of stories from Holocaust survivors and recipes that helped those survivors remember their life before World War II during their postwar lives. 
    You can find the book online  at arcadiapublishing.com. A portion of the proceeds from sales of the book will benefit organisations committed to Holocaust education. 

    • 49 min
    The Real Story of the Best Little Whore House in Texas Part 2

    The Real Story of the Best Little Whore House in Texas Part 2

    If you thought part one was crazy wait until you listen to part 2. Undercover newsmen, angry prostitutes, armed cowboys, angry sheriffs, a sketchy media personality and hypocritical politicians make up this week's episode. 
     
    Again this episode is rated "E" for explicit. 

    • 45 min
    The Real Story of the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

    The Real Story of the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

    If you get offended easily or get the "vapors" this one is not for you. If you're wearing pearls you may clutch them while listening. It's our first explicit podcast and a two parter! 
     
    Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch gives a detailed history of the world famous brothel. Jenni and Jonny talk about the book and author. We also tell some of the history of the ranch's rise and fall. 

    • 49 min
    Wizard Clip

    Wizard Clip

    Jenni and Jonny discuss the events surrounding America's first reported poltergeist, The Wizard Clip. 
     
    Wizard Clip had a need, a compulsion to cut clothes in a crescent shape, cut trousers, give a flock of ducks a brutal ending, and demand prayers. Was this a real phenomenon or something else? How was this story used to keep old world beliefs alive during the age of the enlightenment? Find out on this episode of Author Conversations. 

    • 53 min
    The Hoyt-Wallis Murder (It’s a weird one)

    The Hoyt-Wallis Murder (It’s a weird one)

    Step-siblings getting married. A lonely wife on the farm. A love triangle or quadrangle and of course murder! We have a lot to unpack in this one. 

    • 48 min
    Author Conversations is back!

    Author Conversations is back!

    Author Conversations is back and Jonny has a cohost, Jenni!

    • 3 min

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