S2 – INTERVIEW 4: Nancy Rubin Stuart

Unobscured

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History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Our interview with Nancy Rubin Stuart, whose award winning biographies of American women include The Reluctant Spiritualist, our guide to the life of Maggie Fox for this season of Unobscured.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Unobscured, a production of I Heart Radio and Aaron Minky.
0:09.7	Our guest to story in today is Nancy Ruben Stewart.
0:12.9	She's an award-winning author and journalist whose biographies dig deep into the lives
0:17.1	of women who were power players during pivotal moments in American history.
0:21.8	Storytelling is her life's work.
0:23.8	She's the executive director of the Cape Cod Riders Center in Massachusetts, and she's
0:28.1	co-president of the Boston Chapter of the National Book Association.
0:32.8	Researcher Carl Nellis talked with Nancy about her book on Maggie Fox, the reluctant
0:37.2	spiritualist, which retells Maggie's life in dramatic detail.
0:41.6	About halfway through the conversation, a storm rose up around the studio and forced
0:45.6	us to make some changes to the recording setup.
0:48.6	It made us wonder whether Maggie was 100% pleased with the project, but I think that
0:53.3	you'll want to hear Nancy's side of the story anyway.
0:56.2	So we begin with Nancy's perspective on what it took to be a spiritualist in the 19th
1:01.0	century.
1:02.0	This is the Unobscured Interview Series for season 2.
1:05.6	I'm Aaron Minky.
1:27.0	To be a spiritualist in the 19th century, I think would take quite a bit of clock and
1:31.9	bravery.
1:33.4	Depends on where you are, because you would either be revered, adored, admired, or you
1:40.1	would be despised and connected with all the evil things in the world and all of the
1:48.7	fears in religion about communion with the devil.
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