129: Happy Birthday, America: Julie's Journey

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

When your country is celebrating its 200th birthday, what kind of party do you throw? In the summer of 1976, Julie Albright wasted no time in getting herself involved in a complex bicentennial celebration. Along with her sister, Julie joins her cousin's family on a covered wagon trip to honor their country and Pony Express- riding- ancestor. On this "journey," Julie gets to meet a number of trinket-selling hucksters---and an elderly man who is descended from a signer of the Constitution. Julie also struggles with wanting to be a horse girl AND has some deep anxiety about being thrown off a horse. Last but maybe least, this book also includes a cameo by President Gerald Ford. We talked about which bicentennial events we would have wanted to attend and plans for the upcoming 250th.

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0:00.0	Okay, so sadly, you and I missed the country's bicentennial by a few years.
0:05.0	That is very sad but true.
0:07.0	And we are looking at just a few more years and we will be at the semi-Quincentennial and we will have to say that word many times. So question for you, out of the
0:17.6	following modes of transport, which would you be most interested in to
0:22.4	celebrate America's 250th birthday?
0:25.0	Would you like to travel around by train, retro, by submarine? I'm not going to tell
0:32.0	you where you're going, by hot air balloon in a rocket owned by a
0:36.5	billionaire or in a portable cake but sponsored by Dolly Parton. Well I am sitting here drinking out of my what would Dolly do mug so I think I have to pick the Dolly whatever that option might be but you know I do get claustrophobic and I'm afraid of heights.
0:55.2	So the hot air balloon and submarine are out.
0:57.3	Second choice would be train because I do love train travel.
0:59.8	How about you?
1:00.8	I'm choosing an option I didn't list because I already chose it which is a time
1:04.8	machine and I'm just going to go back to the centennial. I'm going to go like 1876 vibes.
1:10.0	I refuse to do pre-Penicillin time travel,
1:12.7	but I celebrate that for you.
1:14.1	That's really brave.
1:15.0	Thank you. Welcome to dolls of our lives. This is the show where we're reliving the
1:29.7	American Girl Series book by book. I'm Mary. I'm Allison. And Allison we gather here today to
1:36.5	celebrate and give thanks for truly one of the most out-of-pocket books these
1:41.2	eyes have read and that's Julie's Journey her book five. If I didn't
1:46.1	know any better I would think that we ghost wrote Julie's Journey we didn't
1:50.5	Megan McDonald wrote this book but this is a book that definitely speaks to a lot of bigger themes in American Girl. And this had me thinking back to Rebecca, which was kind of like the more modern, like second wave of historical girls who nonetheless
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