243: Shore Thing: A History of the Beach

BackStory

History, Education

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Spring Break is here and BackStory has gone to the beach. Ed, Joanne, and Brian dip their toes into four tales from America’s shoreline. We’ll talk about race, health, and daringly provocative woolen swimsuits. And the hosts will add their own experiences of the beach as a weird, magical place.

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0:00.0	Major funding for Backstories provided by an anonymous donor, the National
0:04.4	Dama for the Humanities, and the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation.
0:12.0	From Virginia Humanities, this is Backstory.
0:21.0	Welcome to Backstory, the American History Podcast. I'm Joanne Freeman.
0:25.0	I'm Brian Ballot, and I'm Ed Ayers.
0:29.0	Well, I want to start with a really interesting article that I have right on hand here,
0:33.0	and I want to share it with you guys.
0:34.0	Great. Yeah, I've read it already.
0:39.0	I doubt that, Brian. I do. I have to say...
0:41.0	Come on. Have a little faith in me.
0:44.0	Have you read the August 6, 1905 edition of the Chicago Inter-Ocean?
0:48.0	Well, you got me there, Joanne. I can't say I've read it.
0:52.0	I read the Weasel 4, but I was just a nox.
0:55.0	Oh, dang.
0:57.0	Well, I did not think anyone would have read it, and I've even found someone to do a dramatic reading of it for you.
1:03.0	You think of everything, Joanne.
1:05.0	I do.
1:08.0	Miss Annette Kellerman, the Australian swimmer who last week made an unsuccessful,
1:12.0	but nevertheless heroic attempt to swim across the English Channel, is receiving considerable attention.
1:18.0	The so-called athletic American girls who are visiting her have given Miss Kellerman little rest.
1:23.0	They are constantly asking her what they should and should not do to become great swimmers.
1:28.0	Miss Kellerman's reply invariably is...
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