FALL FAMILY SPECIAL: THE LAST LEAF by O.HENRY A GREENWICH VILLAGE STORY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 19 July 2023
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FALL FAMILY SPECIAL: THE LAST LEAF by O.HENRY
New York City in Greenwich Village around 1910 was a haven for aspiring artists and anyone looking for work in a growing new city. Sue and Johnsy were two young female artists living on hope and not much else. When Johnsy got sick Sue was told by the doctor that Johnsy didn't have long to live- but Sue never gave up- as far as she was concerned they were family. Its a "masterpiece" from O.Henry!
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome everyone to another 1, one classic short stories and tales. |
| 0:34.6 | This one for one of my favorite authors, O Henry, and it's called The Last Leaf. |
| 0:39.7 | In a little district west of Washington Square, the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called places. |
| 0:51.0 | These places make strange angles and curves. |
| 0:55.0 | One street crosses itself a time or two. |
| 0:58.0 | An artist once discovered a valuable possibility in this street. |
| 1:02.0 | Suppose a collector with a bill for... a valuable possibility in this street. |
| 1:03.0 | Suppose a collector with a bill for paints, paper, and canvas should, |
| 1:08.0 | and traversing this route, suddenly meet himself coming back, |
| 1:12.0 | without a cent having been paid on account. |
| 1:15.0 | So to quaint old Greenwich Village, the art people soon came prowling, hunting for |
| 1:20.2 | north windows and 18th century gables and Dutch Attics and low rents. |
| 1:26.1 | Then they imported some pewter mugs and a shaping dish or two from 6th Avenue and became a colony. At the top of a squatty three-story brick, Sue and |
| 1:36.9 | Johnsy had their studio. Johnsy is a version of the name Joanna. One was from Maine, the other from California. They had met at the |
| 1:46.5 | table note of an 8th Street Del Montecos and found their taste in art, chickory salad, and bishop sleeves so congenial that the joint studio resulted. |
| 1:58.2 | That was in May. In November, a cold, unseen stranger whom the doctors called pneumonia, stalked about the colony, |
| 2:07.0 | touching one here and there with his icy fingers. |
| 2:10.0 | Over on the east side, this ravager strode boldly, smiting his victims by scores, but his feet trod slowly through the maze of the narrow and moss-grown places. |
| 2:22.0 | Mr pneumonia was not what you would call. and moss-grown places. |
| 2:23.0 | Mr pneumonia was not what you would call a chivalric old gentleman. |
| 2:27.0 | A might of a little woman with blood-thinned by California zephers |
| 2:31.0 | was hardly fair game for the red-fisted short-breathed old duffer. |
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