Jamestown: Utopia for Whom

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History, Arts, Leisure, Home & Garden, Design

4.4 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Most people today know the story of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, from the story of Pocahontas and John Smith, and especially from the 1995 Disney animated film. A gripping recounting of the true story of how the settlement failed and recovered, and the toll it took on the English and Native Americans, shows how failure can be a transformative experience, and also how the stories we tell ourselves about the failures inform the way we live today. EDITOR'S NOTE -- one instance of explicit language. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's another bird's just chatting it up?
0:07.3	The Huntington Library in San Marino, California is like heaven by any metric.
0:14.3	It just smells like a million flowers in the air.
0:17.5	It has a thicket of palm trees that greet you as you walk in, and meandering paths that
0:22.0	weave around water fountains and fiery aloe vera plants taller than you.
0:27.3	The paths fork all over the campus.
0:29.9	To the Chinese garden, the Japanese garden, the botanical center, multiple art galleries,
0:33.8	a cafe where they make fresh scones every day, and the library.
0:39.1	Oh my god, the library.
0:42.2	A lot of Hollywood movies and television shows use the library as a stand-in for the White
0:46.6	House crowns.
0:47.8	Iron Man, the West Wing, Charlie's Angels, Scandal.
0:51.4	But this library houses the grand collection of railway magnet Henry Huntington.
0:57.0	He loved books.
0:59.4	My name is Olga Tsapina.
1:00.4	I'm the Norris Foundation Curator of American History here at the Huntington.
1:04.6	Just to give people an idea of the collection here at Huntington, what's the scale that
1:08.9	you're working with?
1:09.9	How much time you've got?
1:12.2	Henry Huntington amassed the core of this library, which now has over 11 million items,
1:17.8	including manuscripts, rare books, prints, letters from Abraham Lincoln and Susan B. Anthony.
1:22.9	There's a Gutenberg Bible, drafts of Thurough's Walden, Jack London's White Fang, Octavia
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