#663 David Maraniss - Jim Thorpe Story: A Path Lit By Lightning
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 106 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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David Maraniss - Jim Thorpe Story: A Path Lit By Lightning
Smithsonian Associates Not Old Better Show Interview Series
Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates interview series on radio and podcast. I'm Paul Vogelzang, and for all of us in The Not Old Better Show audience, we will remember 'the greatest athlete of all time." Not Babe Ruth, not Wilt Chamberlain, and not Jim Brown, but Jim Thorpe.
Thank you so much for listening. We've got a great guest today, whom I'll introduce in just a moment…But, quickly, if you missed any episodes, last week was our 662nd episode, and we spoke to historian and genealogist Jenny Ashcraft about new headlines and what they teach us about ancestry from Newspapers.com. Two weeks ago, I spoke with Smithsonian Associate Dr. Marc Seifer about his new book, TESLA: Wizard at War, about Nikola Tesla's war efforts and technology… Wonderful stuff…If you missed those shows, you can go back and check them out along with my entire back-catalog of shows, all free for you there on our website, NotOldBetter.com…and if you leave a review, we will read it at the end of each show…leave reviews on Apple Podcasts for us.
Our guest today is Smithsonian Associate Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss. David Maraniss will be appearing at Smithsonian Associates coming up, and you can check our website in the show notes today for more details. The title of David Maraniss's presentation is Jim Thorpe: Outracing the Odds. We will be talking with David Maraniss today about his new book, 'Path Lit By Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe.'
That, of course,
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Not Old Better Show Smithsonian Associates interview series on Radio and |
| 0:09.8 | Podcast. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Paul Vogelsang. |
| 0:11.8 | Today's music, Ho-Way, He-Yo, is from Smithsonian Folquais and is particularly relevant. |
| 0:17.8 | It comes from harp beat, voices of first nations, women from the ceremony on social songs |
| 0:22.5 | traditionally sung by women of the Seneca Cherokee, Creek, Dine tribes, and other music |
| 0:29.1 | now performed by women in material that combines traditional and contemporary themes in musical |
| 0:34.5 | forms. |
| 0:35.5 | And for all of us in the Not Old Better Show audience, we will remember the greatest |
| 0:39.1 | athlete of all time, not Babe Ruth, not Will Chamberlain, and not Jim Brown, but Jim |
| 0:43.8 | Thorpe. |
| 0:44.8 | Thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:47.2 | We've got a great guest today whom I will introduce in just a moment, but quickly, |
| 0:51.8 | if you missed any episodes last week was our 660 second episode and we spoke to historian |
| 0:58.3 | and genealogist Jenny Ashcraft about new headlines and what they teach us about ancestry |
| 1:03.6 | from newspapers.com. |
| 1:05.0 | Two weeks ago, I spoke with Smithsonian Associate Dr. Mark C. for about his new book Tesla, wizard |
| 1:11.4 | at war about Nikola Tesla's war efforts and technology wonderful, wonderful stuff. |
| 1:16.6 | If you missed those episodes, you can go back. |
| 1:20.0 | Check them out along with my entire back catalog of shows all free for you there on our website |
| 1:26.7 | Not Old Better.com. |
| 1:29.1 | And if you leave a review, we will read it at the end of each show. |
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