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🗓️ 2 March 2023
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If you get one message from today's tour of the Cabinet, it should be that people—and the things they make—are often curious.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm |
0:08.7 | and Mild. |
0:13.0 | Our world is full of the unexplainable. |
0:16.3 | And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, |
0:22.2 | just waiting for us to explore. |
0:25.4 | Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's. |
0:30.0 | Not everyone likes receiving mail. |
0:38.6 | At least not when it has things like pre-approved or final notice printed on the front of the |
0:42.9 | envelope. |
0:43.9 | About receiving a handwritten letter or a postcard in an age of email and text messages, |
0:48.8 | a few things feel that special. |
0:51.3 | Unless you lived in Colford in Gloucestershire, England during the Christmas of 1923. |
0:55.3 | While the residents were opening holiday cards from loved ones, there was something else |
0:59.7 | tucked into their mailboxes. |
1:01.9 | Postcards. |
1:02.9 | But these weren't quickly dashed off scribbleings from friends in exotic locations. |
1:07.1 | They had come from one anonymous source, a person living right under their noses. |
1:12.9 | On these postcards, the sender had written offensive messages, some even included obscene |
1:18.0 | images. |
1:19.0 | According to an article in the Daily British Wig printed at the time, these postcards |
1:23.0 | were described as, and I quote, full of the most horrible, vulgar, coarseness. |
1:28.9 | They'd been arriving since July of that year, and were so grotesque in nature, no paper |
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