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Sad Seine by Lambert. Titan's Island by Ancient Ocean Flowering Jasmine as performed by Georgs Pelicis and Gidon Kremer Malpensa by Julia KentNotes
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.Episode 118 (On the Shores of Assawompset)
Episode 117 (Elizabeth)
Episode 116 (Hoover)
Episode 115 (A Brief Eulogy for a Commercial Radio Station)
Sometimes the Rain Just Doesn't Stop
Two Small Sculptures (The Met Residency Episode 8)
Orbes Cintilantes - A special summer episode
"Relics": A Special Bonus Episode
A Scavenger Hunt (The Met Residency Episode 7)
Episode 113 (Elmer McCurdy Rides Again and Again)
Episode 112 (The Taking of Tom Sawyer's Island)
A White Horse, re-released on the second anniversary of the shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando.
Episode 111 (Cipher, or Greenhow Girls)
If You Have to be a Floor (The Met Residency Episode 6)
Episode 110 (Lost Camels)
Episode 109 (The Year Hank Greenberg Hit 58 Home Runs)
Notes on a Plaque, Still Imagined
Episode 108, Met Residency #5: Temple
Episode 107 (Roots and Branches and Wind-Borne Seeds)
Episode 106 (A Washington Monument)
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