Episode 107 (Roots and Branches and Wind-Borne Seeds)

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.

Music

We open with Mary Lattimore's Jimmy V. I love Mary Lattimore.
We hit Hatian guitarist Frantz Casseus' Lullaby from 1954 a few times.
We hear Drifting, by Matthew Robert Cooper.
And A Fool Persists by Infinite Body.
The two piano things are Open Window - For Piano by Yuichiro Fujimoto, and Pale by Akira Kosemura.
We also hear Gareth Dickson's Friday Night Fever for a bit.

Notes

I learned about Ynes while flipping idly through the 1974 edition of Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary (volume II, G-O, incidentally), "prepared under the Auspices of Radcliffe College," as it says on the frontispiece.
By far the most comprehensive thing I read was biography for young readers called Ynes Mexia: Botanist and Adventurer by Durlynn Anema.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the memory palace. I'm Nate DeMoeu.
0:04.1	There's only one dramatic moment in the story.
0:06.9	You will come about halfway through.
0:08.9	The protagonist, the heroine, will fall from a cliff, and it might seem like the turning point,
0:14.2	like the moment where everything hangs in the balance and everything's about to change.
0:18.4	But it's not.
0:20.4	That point will come earlier, just a few minutes from now.
0:23.4	I'll flag it so you don't miss it.
0:25.4	You will examine it for a second before sliding it into a drawer and moving on.
0:30.4	And maybe we'll come back to it at the end, or maybe not.
0:33.6	But we all know it's still there in the drawer if either of us wants to return to it in the future.
0:38.6	I'll make sure to leave it unlocked.
0:42.4	This story starts here in Ernest, 44 seconds in, with the birth of Inez and Requete Juliera Mejé,
0:50.2	in Washington, BC in 1870.
0:52.9	Her father was a Mexican diplomat.
0:55.1	Her mother was a socialite from Philadelphia.
0:57.9	And when she was three, they all moved to Texas, outside Waco.
1:01.4	Where Inez spent most of her time alone.
1:03.8	She liked it for the most part, exploring the ranch where they lived, picking flowers,
1:07.8	watching birds circling above the low hills.
1:10.2	Rabbids start in and out of the Mesquite in the Oahuio.
1:13.1	Green branches dappled pale yellow all spring.
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