30: An Armistice Aries: Happy Birthday Addy

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In the fourth book of the Addy series, our young hero learns that sometimes you do get to have your ice cream and eat it, too. The spring of 1865 finds the Walker family in new circumstances. Poppa has come north, the family has moved out of the garret, and an incomparable sage has come into Addy's life, the darling M'Dear. As Addy struggles with problems as small as learning to jump rope and as big as systemic racism, her story continues to illuminate not just the interior life of a girl, but also a nation in transition. At the end of the book, Addy chooses the end of the Civil War to be her birthday, making her an Aries by destiny if not birth. This episode takes you though the most important April of Addy's life and along the way, sprinkles in the poetry of Maya Angelou, the history of ice cream, a detour into pandemic containment, and commentary on the disastrous decisions of Peter Weber. Wash your hands, find a double dutch partner, and treat yourself to our take on Happy Birthday, Addy.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Mary last week it was finally probably the most important moment for us on a little television show
0:14.8	called Jeopardy? Have you heard of it? Yes. Yeah so as many very kind listeners
0:20.0	told us there was a clue that we've kind of been waiting our whole lives for.
0:24.2	Pleasant Rawlins started this historical brand when she couldn't find suitable
0:28.1	dolls for her nieces. What is American girl? You nailed it. Thank you. I have a question for you. Uh oh. What is the
0:35.8	clue this should have been? American corporate founder drunk on an ego
0:42.3	trip in the form of house hunters cosplay vis a v
0:47.1	buying a town in upstate New York to remake in a false image of the American
0:51.6	past. What is Pleasant, Rowland?
0:54.0	Ding, ding, ding!
0:55.0	Now, that was also a daily double.
0:57.0	And I would love to ask you, you know,
1:01.0	if we had to, if you had a create an ideal clue for perhaps one of our favorite
1:06.1	authors Valerie Tripp you know where does your head go so I know that you don't watch jeopardy because your
1:11.6	clue is very long.
1:12.7	There's usually about 12 words.
1:14.2	No, there's usually about 12 words.
1:17.0	So I would get right to the heart of the matter.
1:20.3	Author Valerie Tripp invented this insatiably power hungry monster who was best described as a horse girl living in 1774.
1:30.0	Oh my God, that was dark. Who is Felicity Merriman I think it's clear neither of us watched
1:36.3	jeopardy he's done but we love Alex Trebek of you. I know we do.
1:44.0	Get well.
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