Episode 231: On Dexter Avenue
the memory palace
Nate DiMeo
4.8 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.
During mid-May, 2025, I'm doing a Midwestern book tour, with stops in Minneapolis, Cincinatti, Indianapolis, and Chicago. Find out more at www.thememorypalace.us/events.
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Music
- That Moment by Antonymes
- Nocturne by Sololi
- Watching it Unfold by Lawrence English
Notes
- You can access the self-produced history of the Sophie Bibb Chapter of the UDC here.
- The Alabama Encyclopedia site does a nice job with some of this stuff.
- You might want to check out Caroline Janney's book, Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Mermorial Associations and the Lost Cause.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, before we get started with this episode, I wanted to let folks know about some upcoming |
| 0:04.6 | appearances in the Midwest and New York City. I'm doing four Midwestern book events in May, |
| 0:10.2 | one on Monday the 12th. I will be in Minneapolis at Moon Palace Books. On the 13th, I will be in the |
| 0:15.9 | Cincinnati area right over the border in Erlander, Kentucky at the Central Library. On the 14th, the Golden Hour Books in Indianapolis. |
| 0:23.1 | And then on the 15th in Chicago, it's city-lit books. |
| 0:26.1 | And in June, on June 13th, I will be doing a special one-time-only live show at the Tribeca Audio Festival. |
| 0:34.5 | This is going to be based around my audiobook and it's going to include performances |
| 0:37.7 | from two of its readers, Carrie Coon and Lily Taylor. I am super excited about this. Find links to |
| 0:43.8 | those events at the memory palace.us slash event. And if you are interested in coming to the |
| 0:49.2 | New York or Chicago events, you might want to act quickly on those because spots are limited. |
| 0:55.0 | This is the Memory Palace. I'm Nate DeMayo. A postcard from the road out of Montgomery, Alabama, |
| 1:02.0 | spring 2025. I didn't know a thing about Sophie Bibb until I googled her while pumping gas at a truck stop off Highway 65, maybe an hour |
| 1:12.1 | outside a mobile. And so I leaned against a silver-rented Hyundai and read a bit about her life and her work. |
| 1:18.9 | In the way they served, it seems, as an inspiration to many women throughout the first several decades |
| 1:23.7 | of the 20th century and guided what they chose to spend a good part of their lives doing as members of the Montgomery chapter of the United Daughters of the 20th century and guided what they chose to spend a good part of their lives doing |
| 1:28.4 | as members of the Montgomery chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, named in her |
| 1:33.8 | honor in a unanimous vote at its first meeting in 1895, 30 years after the South lost the Civil |
| 1:39.8 | War, and nearly a decade after the flag at the Alabama State House flew at half-mast to commemorate her |
| 1:46.6 | death. Sophie Bibb was so honored by both the women of the U.C. and by the state of Alabama. |
| 1:53.6 | For the nearly three decades, she herself spent working tirelessly to honor the men who fought |
| 1:58.5 | and died to preserve the right to own other men and women and children. |
| 2:04.1 | She and her husband, a prominent judge, owned an estate that at the time of the war was valued at $250,000, |
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