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🗓️ 20 May 2025
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Massachusetts has a shadow on its history, that of the Fernald School in South Boston, an institution designed to provide children with intellectual disabilities skills that they would be able to have a better life. A mission that changed over time, instead of providing skills ans support, the children were treated as lab rats, with some even tested with radiation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, delicious friends and welcome to Who Dead What Now, the history podcast that's not |
| 0:13.0 | your history class with me your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlot and Reader of Books. |
| 0:19.5 | So I'm not long back in Ireland after being in the US and Canada. |
| 0:24.8 | And I had somebody say to me today like, how far away from you from Dublin? I'm like three and a half |
| 0:30.3 | hours. So, well, three and a half hours in a car. If I try and get a bus, it will take me longer. But if anyone wants to give me a lift |
| 0:41.9 | from Donegal to Dublin, not going to say no. But yeah, that's, it's not too far. Like, I can get there. |
| 0:48.7 | It's not a huge imposition. You know what I mean? And so I'm working on a few bits and pieces and I am excited to |
| 0:58.0 | just get things going because like oops I'm in Canada tour for next year so if you have suggestions |
| 1:05.0 | for little places like I'll I'll go up to Winnipeg because that's in Canada and I'll do it right I would have |
| 1:14.0 | some border towns for the US for people who want to like cross over I want to just like go from |
| 1:19.9 | one side of Canada to the other and like I can basically do it in two week blocks so there's |
| 1:26.7 | nothing to stop me taking two weeks going going on for one part of Canada, |
| 1:30.7 | and then going home for two weeks, and then flying back to Canada, and then doing another two weeks. |
| 1:35.7 | You know, I can do that. It's fine. |
| 1:38.6 | So we're going to see how that goes. |
| 1:40.8 | I'm really excited to go just like visit places. |
| 1:44.6 | And I know this is going to sound silly, |
| 1:47.0 | but I really want to see... |
| 1:48.4 | I tell of it all the time. |
| 1:49.7 | I want to see the world's largest ball of twine, right? |
| 1:53.7 | It's in my head. |
| 1:55.3 | It's been in there since childhood. |
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