Dear America, Did you read The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple?

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

. . . .Well, we seem to have not remembered and this story may have tested our patience.

In this episode, we re-read the first Dear America book, set on and off the Mayflower in 1620-1621. Protagonist/diarist Remember a.k.a."Mem" experiences a lot of hardship and seasickness in this 1996 ribboned classic. She gets jealous when her friend is the "first" to step on Plymouth Rock and that's just the beginning. In our coverage, we talk about life in the 1600s, the limits of historical fiction, and representations of indigenous life in "pilgrim" stories.

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Original air date: September 28, 2020

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to American Girls. This is the podcast where we're reliving the American
0:15.3	Girl series book by book except on our patron where we're reading and watching things
0:21.0	that we imagine to be in the life of this show.
0:24.6	I'm Mary.
0:25.8	I'm Mam, I mean Allison, sorry, this book really took me.
0:30.0	You know, I mean, do you remember?
0:32.6	Do you remember when?
0:34.2	I remember too much.
0:35.8	Damn.
0:36.7	I wish I could say I was patient, but.
0:39.6	Listeners, I have to apologize. I made Mary reread a journey to the new world the diary of
0:47.4	Remember Patience Whipple Mayflower 1620 I thought it would be an interesting 400 year retrospective. It is not and I own that and I am sorry and we won't spend the next, you know, however many minutes punching down on this book because I think there's interesting things to talk about.
1:08.0	I apologize. See travel is not as interesting as I thought when it's not the Titanic. I did not know what I was asking.
1:16.0	Thank you for the apology that I demanded from you. I appreciate that.
1:21.0	Yes.
1:22.0	First of all, I will say there was a part of me
1:24.3	reading this book where I recently drew us
1:27.3	as paper dolls in which you were having me convicted.
1:31.6	Like we were in Salem and you were signing my death
1:34.2	were as a witch. Like that's the scene that I set.
1:37.2	I was. And go ahead. I don't want to say I stand by that. I do think it would have happened that way just based on behaviors I've exhibited during this pandemic.
1:50.0	That said, all the other scenes you drew me in also really tracked.
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