18: She's on a Boat: Meet Kirsten

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we talk about the misadventures of not one, but three American girls who have found themselves in the Big Apple. After briefly recounting their experience at the American Girl Store in New York, NY, Mary and Allison launch into Kirsten’s first book, set in 1854. In under 60 pages, Kirsten’s story covers the travails of mid-19c immigration, cholera, steamboats, the thrill of hot train rides, and long walks to new beginnings. As they rediscover Kirsten’s life and times, the hosts also consider other children’s literature on migration and favorite primary sources on historic disease (miasma talk anyone??). In the words of the Larsons - have heart and come along for this next AG adventure.

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0:30.0	Okay, Allison, I have a very important question for you.
0:33.4	Shoot.
0:34.4	If you were forced to rank the greatest historical Kirsten's of all time,
0:40.1	where does Kirsten Larson fit?
0:43.0	I would say from like a zero to a Kirsten Dunst in the 1990s to early 2000s.
0:51.0	There's not a lot of middle, right? There's Gillibrand. Am I missing anybody?
0:55.8	I think the mom on the OC. Okay, okay. How many of them were Spider-Man's girlfriend?
1:02.4	Even more important question, does that matter? How many of them were Spider-Man's girlfriend?
1:02.6	Even more important question,
1:04.3	does that matter to literally anybody?
1:07.0	No, not to me.
1:08.0	Certainly not.
1:09.0	No, definitely not. Welcome back, everybody. We're back for our next adventure in American Girls. This is the podcast where we're reliving the American
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