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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Josephine Baker’s Chateau (Classic)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Writer and travel educator Tracey Friley tells the story of the glamorous life of entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist, Josephine Baker and the pilgrimages women still make to her chateau. Learn more: www.traceyfrileytravel.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, quick reminder, we would love to hear from you about your best summer travel stories.

0:07.2

Give us a call and tell us about the places you went, the people that you have met, the

0:12.3

things that you learned while traveling.

0:15.1

You can record a voice memo and email it to us at helloatatlasobscura.com or call us

0:22.4

and leave a message at 315-992-7902.

0:28.2

Looking forward to hearing from you.

0:36.4

The first time I went out to Josephine Baker's shadow toe, it was 2012.

0:43.6

As you're driving up the single lane road, you can see the shadow from the distance.

0:49.1

There was these two beautiful castle doors that you walk inside.

0:59.8

And I went by myself, no one else was in the shadow toe but me.

1:05.5

And I remember being up some stairs and in a row and I was just, I was crying a little

1:11.6

bit, I couldn't believe it.

1:14.0

And then I heard a lady's voice.

1:20.4

And I turned around, I looked in the room that I was in, and I didn't see anybody else

1:24.3

I call.

1:25.3

That's weird.

1:26.3

And so I walked through all the rooms where I was.

1:30.0

And then I started to feel tingly, you know, that's a weird word, isn't it?

1:38.4

But I started to feel like I wasn't by myself.

1:44.6

I thought, oh, you're being weird, Tracy, you know, maybe some, there's some back door,

1:49.7

you know, you try to justify.

1:52.9

But after I gave myself permission to feel what I was feeling, I did feel like the spirit

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