Episode 3: West "By God" Virginia
I Was Never There
Acast Creative Studios
4.6 • 759 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
We go back to Marsha’s early days as a suburban housewife and independent bookstore owner in New Jersey. We follow her and her cohort of Back-To-The-Landers to rural West Virginia, where she built a commune called the Mudd Farm, and gained a new name: Marsha Mudd.
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I Was Never There is a Wonder Media Network production. It's hosted by Jamie Zelermyer and Karen Zelermyer. It's produced by Allie Wollner, Lindsey Kratochwill, Adesuwa Agbonile, and Liz Smith. It's edited by Jenny Kaplan and Liz Smith. Our executive producers are Jenny Kaplan, Jamie Zelermyer and Karen Zelermyer. Production assistance by Alesandra Tejeda. Our music supervisor is Sarah Tembeckjian. The theme music is "Take Me Home, Country Roads" performed by Brandi Carlile, courtesy of Elektra Records / A Low Country Sound, written by John Denver, Taffy Nivert, William Thomas Danoff.
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| 0:00.0 | Right after Marcia disappeared, there were a lot of people who thought maybe she just left. |
| 0:08.3 | Marsha always talked about disappearing. |
| 0:10.9 | She always talked about it. |
| 0:11.9 | It's hard to disappear in America, and one day I'm just not going to be here. |
| 0:15.6 | One day I'm just not going to be here, you know, over and over again, until finally one day she's just not there. |
| 0:21.2 | Someone had said that she wanted to write a handbook for outlaws on how to disappear |
| 0:26.5 | when she turned, what, 50? |
| 0:29.3 | Was it 50 or 55? |
| 0:31.1 | And it's perfect. |
| 0:33.5 | I mean, instead of telling other people how to disappear, just disappear your damn self and be gone. |
| 0:40.3 | She was definitely ready to move when we had discussed how we could, what she called, divest herself from Morgantown. |
| 0:48.9 | Marcia even talked about it with a psychic sometime in the weeks before she disappeared. |
| 0:56.2 | Deputy Chief Scott gave us a copy of the tape. It's kind of hard to understand, but it's one of the last recordings we have of |
| 1:04.7 | her voice. I'm going to move myself out of you, do something else. It's a good choice for you. |
| 1:12.1 | My problem right now is divesting myself from this scene than I'm in. |
| 1:16.4 | I've worked for almost six years. |
| 1:20.4 | It's quite a scene. |
| 1:22.1 | This bar that I have in the music scene and the whole community of people. |
| 1:26.8 | It depends on it. |
| 1:28.3 | I feel a little guilty about moving myself. |
| 1:32.3 | But I don't really need me anymore. |
| 1:34.3 | I hopefully made myself off sleep, which is what I should do. |
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