Episode 164: Dora Salter

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts.

A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.

Music

Illusion Perdida by Juan Bautista Guido y Su Orquesta Tipico
Manny Returns Home and Fingerprints from Bernard Herrmann's score to The Wrong Man.
Niggun for Solo Bassoon Phillipe Hersant
Rearranging Furniture by Gabriel Yared
Viona's Lullaby by Peter Sandberg

Notes

The archives of the Kansas Historical Quarterly were very useful, particularly this article.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the memory palace.
0:04.1	I'm Nate DeMau.
0:07.6	In those days, a man can really make a go of things in Kansas.
0:11.6	And so Oliver Kinsey packed up his family and headed west from Ohio.
0:15.6	But 80 cheap good acres in the Car Valley.
0:18.4	You could still get 80 good acres back then in the 1870s without it costing you an arm or
0:22.5	a leg or your firstborn.
0:25.2	In his firstborn, a daughter named Dora, went to the one room schoolhouse in the nearby town.
0:31.6	Did well enough to go off to state college in Manhattan, Kansas, the Manhattan of Kansas.
0:36.8	And though she never graduated, she took ill in her last semester.
0:41.0	She did meet a fella, which was all a father could hope for for his daughter.
0:45.4	And quite a fella turned out.
0:47.4	Name was Lewis Salter.
0:49.2	He was the son of a former lieutenant governor.
0:52.0	And was a college graduate.
0:53.6	He managed not to get sick before the end.
0:56.1	Had his mind set on becoming a lawyer.
0:58.1	Just a driven young man going places.
1:00.7	First place was a little town called Argonia, a newly incorporated settlement, about 500
1:05.7	souls.
1:06.7	Good place for he and his bride to raise a family.
1:10.1	You set up a hardware store.
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