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Music
Sarah in Bath from Krysztof Komeda's score to the Fearless Vampire Killers.
Adagio for Glass Harmonica, K617a as performed by Vienna Glass Armonia Duo.
Mr. Death Angel Flanders from John Barry's score to Boom!
And a bit of Imaginary Building from Elana Katz-Cherwin and Tamara-Anna Cislowska
Notes
There's a great American Heritage article on the history of Delmonico's.
There's a nice write up on the Swan Dinner in American Phoenix: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, by Sarah S. Kilborne
Society as I Have Found It, Ward McAllister's memoir of the Gilded Age is appropriately bonkers.
Episode 119 (John C. Calhoun from the Opposite Side of the Line that Divides the Living from the Dead)
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)
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