Episode 73 (Notes on an Imagined Plaque to be Added to the Statue of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Upon Hearing that t

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Episode 8 of the 2015 Summer Season

Music

* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.

* First up (and returning at the end) is Sandra's Theme, from Heather McIntosh's fantastic score to Compliance, a very good, very disturbing movie.

* We hit Frank Glazer leading Charles Ives' Largo for Clarinet, Violin and Piano a couple of times, framing...

* Runaway from Olafur Arnalds.

Notes:

*The key to researching this episode turned out to be an article in The Journal of Southern History from 2001 by Court Carnay called, "The Contested Image of Nathan Bedford Forrest.".

* Also particularly useful was Nathan Bedford Forrest: a Biography, by Jack Hurst.

* As was Lynching in America: A History in Documents, compiled by Christopher Waldrep.

* Much of my information about the contents of the ceremony and speeches was gathered from this, the digitized journal and scrapbook of Charles Henry Niehaus, the sculptor of the monument. It's an extraordinary resource.

* And let us all read Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases, by Ida B. Wells. And let's put her on the $10 while we're at it.

Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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
0:33.1	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'm super excited about this.
0:43.0	Find links to those events at the memorypalice.us slash event. And if you are interested in coming
0:48.6	to the New York or Chicago events, you might want to act quickly on those because spots are
0:53.2	limited.
1:02.6	This is the Memory Palace. I'm Nate DeMaio. Notes on an imagined plaque to be added to the statue of General Nathan Bedford Forrest upon hearing that the Memphis City Council has voted to
1:07.3	move it and the exhumed remains of General Forrest and his wife, Marianne Montgomery Forrest, from their current location in a park downtown to the nearby
1:16.0	Elmwood Cemetery.
1:19.2	First, it should be big, the plaque.
1:21.5	Not necessarily because there's so much to say, though there is so much to say, but big enough
1:26.2	to be noticed on the side of this rather grand monument
1:28.7	after they move it and the bodies beneath it across town to the cemetery.
1:33.7	And not just big for the sake of bigness,
1:35.9	it needs to stick out,
1:37.3	as something off,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Nate DiMeo, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Nate DiMeo and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.