Episode 205: Alice Ramsay

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.

Music

Pollen and Photosynteses by H. Takehashi
Ediacaran Moonrise by Barry Walker, Jr.
To the Cellar from Krzysztof Komeda’s wonderful score to The Fearless Vampire Killers.
Blue Sutura from Piero Piccioni’s score to Il medico della mutua.
3-Sized PF and Let’s Go Crazy!, both by Takahiro Kido
Emerald Ash by Golden Brown
Merry-Go-Round by Domenique Dumont
Aquel Senor by the mighty, Frankie Reyes
Tesko Me Ja Zaboravit Tebe by Banko Mataja

Notes

You can read the article by Katherin Parkin here.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the memory palace.
0:01.5	I'm Nate de Mau.
0:02.7	The call to adventure came in the form of a rumbling engine.
0:07.6	Alice Ramsay was riding a horse along Country Road.
0:10.5	It was a new hobby for a new life.
0:13.1	Just a few short years before she was a 16-year-old girl living in her parents' modest
0:16.6	home when a man took interest in her.
0:19.9	He was a prominent one there in Hackensack, New Jersey.
0:22.7	A well-to-do banker and owner of a brick factory, a future congressman, which her parents
0:28.0	could know at the time, but surely seemed like the kind of thing that was ahead for a man
0:31.2	like him.
0:32.9	He was the perfect suitor, except that he was in his mid-40s, too old for their teenage
0:38.3	daughter.
0:39.6	And so Alice went off to Vassar College and threw herself into her studies and loved them.
0:46.0	And then her parents pulled her out of college when she was old enough to marry the Middle-Age
0:49.0	Banker Guy.
0:50.6	So at 21 years old, married to a man more than twice a age, and now the mother of a young
0:56.2	son.
0:57.2	The newly minted Mrs. Ramsey began taking long horseback rides in the countryside.
1:02.1	She would be away from her husband and child for hours at a time.
1:06.8	She seemed to like it that way.
1:09.5	One day she and her horse were trotting along some dappled country road when, to her surprise,
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