A Happy Accident
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The two stories on display today illustrate just how much we can learn about something if we spend enough time digging for the truth.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm |
| 0:08.7 | and Mild. |
| 0:13.0 | Our world is full of the unexplainable. |
| 0:16.3 | And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, |
| 0:22.2 | just waiting for us to explore. |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's. |
| 0:36.8 | She wasn't supposed to be Annie, but autocorrect has been causing problems for writers longer |
| 0:41.3 | than any of us realize. |
| 0:43.2 | It was in 1861, and the patriarch of the Riley family, Rubin, left home to join the Union |
| 0:48.6 | Army. |
| 0:49.6 | He became the captain of the first company of Indiana volunteers from Hancock County. |
| 0:54.4 | Rubin was injured during the Battle of Rich Mountain in Virginia and was sent home to |
| 0:58.7 | his family once he recovered. |
| 1:00.7 | Not long after Rubin's return to Greenfield, Indiana, their household grew by one. |
| 1:06.0 | An orphan named Mary Alice Smith came to live with them in the winter of 1861. |
| 1:12.1 | She was about 11 years old, but her early life is a mystery. |
| 1:16.1 | We don't know the circumstances that brought her to the Riley family, but we do know that |
| 1:20.3 | she was born in Liberty, Indiana, and was about the same age as one of the Riley boys. |
| 1:25.6 | James. |
| 1:26.6 | We also know that she wasn't an orphan, at least not in the way that we would think. |
| 1:30.7 | Her parents' death hadn't been the beginning of her troubles. |
| 1:33.8 | They had separated when she was four years old, and she was sent to live with her grandmother. |
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