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Ben Franklin's World is a production of the Yomohandro Institute and is sponsored by

the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

Hello and welcome to a special bonus episode of Ben Franklin's World.

The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our

American past have shaped the present-day world we live in.

And I'm your host, Liz Kovar.

A couple of weeks ago, in episode 318, we spoke with Claire Casey, who's an

interpretive ranger at the St. Genevieve National Historical Park.

Now after Claire and I finished our formal conversation about St. Genevieve's very

interesting colonial history in the heartland of North America, Claire mentioned

that she actually had some more information about St. Genevieve's transition from

a French colony to an American settlement under the governance of the United

States.

Now in combination with Claire's extra information, I also had several of your

questions that we couldn't quite get to in the course of our full length conversation.

So Claire stayed on with me and we created this short bonus episode.

Now during our brief conversation, Claire answers your questions about challenges

Claire and her National Park Service colleagues face and trying to tell the story

of French and Spanish colonization here in North America and about the relationships

between St. Genevieve's inhabitants and the settlement's Indigenous neighbors

and how that relationship changed over time.

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