16a: Bone Hill - Act 1

Family Ghosts

Sam Dingman

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Martha's family has their land stolen, and then their identity. More than a hundred years later, Martha wants to set the record straight.

"In the still of our hollows, we hear the calling of our Lord. Black coal is running through our veins." - Martha Redbone

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0:00.0	Before we begin, a quick warning.
0:03.0	This story contains violence, references to sexual assault, and racial epithets.
0:08.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:10.0	Spoke Media
0:14.0	Hello, Ghost Family.
0:17.0	Welcome to Family Ghosts.
0:20.0	Folks, today's story is special for a couple of reasons.
0:31.0	First off, it's our season two finale, and as you probably noticed when you refreshed your
0:35.0	feed, it's a two-parter.
0:37.0	That's because today's story is a big story.
0:40.0	It starts in the 1830s and goes all the way up to the present day.
0:44.0	But it's also a completely different kind of story than we've ever told.
0:49.0	And that's because of the artist who's going to tell it.
0:57.0	Her name is Martha Redbone.
1:00.0	I laid me down upon a bed.
1:10.0	Well, lovely, sleeping.
1:18.0	I heard among the rushes day.
1:27.0	Weeping, weeping.
1:37.0	Martha is a singer and songwriter based here in Brooklyn.
1:42.0	And that's an excerpt from a record she released in 2012 called Garden of Love, Songs of William Blake.
1:48.0	The album is a fusion of the poetry of William Blake and various forms of roots music.
1:54.0	Martha wrote the William Blake album with her husband, the pianist Aaron Whitby.
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